ArticleThe Journal of experimental biology2020
Brain size does not predict learning strategies in a serial reversal learning test.
Article in The Journal of experimental biology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.
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- Insights from the judgement bias paradigm: social group and tank size do not affect mental state in female guppies.Journal of fish biology · 2025Article
- Brain morphology correlates of learning and cognitive flexibility in a fish species (Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2022Article
- Brain size does not predict learning strategies in a serial reversal learning test.The Journal of experimental biology · 2020Article
- Flexible learning in complex worlds.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
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Abstract
Reversal learning assays are commonly used across a wide range of taxa to investigate associative learning and behavioural flexibility. In serial reversal learning, the reward contingency in a binary discrimination is reversed multiple times. Performance during serial reversal learning varies greatly at the interspecific level, as some animals adopt a rule-based strategy that enables them to switch quickly between reward contingencies. A larger relative brain size, generating enhanced learning ability and increased behavioural flexibility, has been proposed to be an important factor underlying this variation. Here, we experimentally tested this hypothesis at the intraspecific level. We used guppies (
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