ArticleNature communications2020
Kea show three signatures of domain-general statistical inference.
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- Experiencing statistical information improves children's and adults' inferences.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2022Article
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- Are parrots naive realists? Kea behave as if the real and virtual worlds are continuous.Biology letters · 2021Article
- Kea (Nestor notabilis) fail a loose-string connectivity task.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- More than the sum of its parts: Exploring the development of ratio magnitude versus simple magnitude perception.Developmental science · 2021Article
- Play behaviour, not tool using, relates to brain mass in a sample of birds.Scientific reports · 2020Article
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- Macphail's Null Hypothesis of Vertebrate Intelligence: Insights From Avian Cognition.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Review
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Abstract
One key aspect of domain-general thought is the ability to integrate information across different cognitive domains. Here, we tested whether kea (Nestor notabilis) can use relative quantities when predicting sampling outcomes, and then integrate both physical information about the presence of a barrier, and social information about the biased sampling of an experimenter, into their predictions. Our results show that kea exhibit three signatures of statistical inference, and therefore can integrate knowledge across different cognitive domains to flexibly adjust their predictions of sampling events. This result provides evidence that true statistical inference is found outside of the great apes, and that aspects of domain-general thinking can convergently evolve in brains with a highly different structure from primates. This has important implications not only for our understanding of how intelligence evolves, but also for research focused on how to create artificial domain-general thought processes.
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