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Cognitive processes are robust to early environmental conditions in two lizard species.
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- Heads and tails of individual differences: the role of environmental complexity in cognitive development of juvenile lobsters.Animal cognition · 2026Article
- Prenatal conditions do not affect brain physiology and learning in a lizard.The Journal of experimental biology · 2025Article
- Cognitive processes are robust to early environmental conditions in two lizard species.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
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Abstract
Animals must acquire new information through learning to adjust their behavior adaptively. However, learning ability can be constrained by conditions experienced during early development, when the brain is especially susceptible to environmental conditions. For example, temperature can result in phenotypically plastic adjustments to growth, metabolism, and learning in ectotherms. In vertebrates, thermal conditions can increase the production of glucocorticoid (GCs) - 'stress' hormones. Maternal GCs can be transmitted to offspring during development, potentially impacting their learning abilities. GCs and thermal environments are, therefore, predicted to have interactive effects on the development of learning in ectotherms. Here, we investigated the combined effects of prenatal corticosterone (CORT) - the main GC in reptiles-and incubation temperature on associative learning using two species of lizards,
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