ArticleAnimal cognition2023
Repeated testing does not confound cognitive performance in the Western Australian magpie (Cracticus tibicen dorsalis).
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- Inhibitory control tests in non-human animals: validity, reliability, and perspectives.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2025Review
- Social Interactions Are Related to Cognitive Development in Western Australian Magpie Fledglings.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Experimental playback of urban noise does not affect cognitive performance in captive Australian magpies.Biology open · 2024Article
- Investigating the relationship between physical cognitive tasks and a social cognitive task in a wild bird.Animal cognition · 2024Article
- Aggressive interactions influence cognitive performance in Western Australian magpies.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Article
- Heritability of cognitive performance in wild Western Australian magpies.Royal Society open science · 2024Article
- Does trappability and self-selection influence cognitive performance?Royal Society open science · 2022Article
- Long-term repeatability of cognitive performance.Royal Society open science · 2022Article
- Response to intruder number is related to spontaneous quantity discrimination performance in a wild bird.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
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Abstract
A robust understanding of cognitive variation at the individual level is essential to understand selection for and against cognitive traits. Studies of animal cognition often assume that within-individual performance is highly consistent. When repeated tests of individuals have been conducted, the effects of test order (the overall sequence in which different tests are conducted) and test number (the ordinal number indicating when a specific test falls within a sequence)-in particular the potential for individual performance to improve with repeated testing-have received limited attention. In our study, we investigated test order and test number effects on individual performance in three inhibitory control tests in Western Australian magpies (Cracticus tibicen dorsalis). We presented adult magpies with three novel inhibitory control tasks (detour-reaching apparatuses) in random order to test whether experience of cognitive testing and the order in which the apparatuses were presented were predictors of cognitive performance. We found that neither test number nor test order had an effect on cognitive performance of individual magpies when presenting different variants of inhibitory control tasks. This suggests that repeated testing of the same cognitive trait, using causally identical but visually distinct cognitive tasks, does not confound cognitive performance. We recommend that repeated testing effects of cognitive performance in other species be studied to broadly determine the validity of repeated testing in animal cognition studies.
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