The detour paradigm in animal cognition.

Comparative psychology; Detour behavior; Inhibitory control; Route planning; Animals; Behavior, Animal/physiology; Learning; Psychology, Comparative; Spatial Behavior; Cognition; Problem Solving; Behavior, Animal; Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

Abstract :

[en] In this paper, we review one of the oldest paradigms used in animal cognition: the detour paradigm. The paradigm presents the subject with a situation where a direct route to the goal is blocked and a detour must be made to reach it. Often being an ecologically valid and a versatile tool, the detour paradigm has been used to study diverse cognitive skills like insight, social learning, inhibitory control and route planning. Due to the relative ease of administrating detour tasks, the paradigm has lately been used in large-scale comparative studies in order to investigate the evolution of inhibitory control. Here we review the detour paradigm and some of its cognitive requirements, we identify various ecological and contextual factors that might affect detour performance, we also discuss developmental and neurological underpinnings of detour behaviors, and we suggest some methodological approaches to make species comparisons more robust.

Disciplines :

Animal psychology, ethology & psychobiology

Author, co-author :

Kabadayi, Can ; Department of Cognitive Science, Lund University, Helgonavägen 3, 22100, Lund, Sweden. can.kabadayi@lucs.lu.se

Bobrowicz, Katarzyna ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de Psychologie > Mémoire et langage ; Department of Cognitive Science, Lund University, Helgonavägen 3, 22100, Lund, Sweden

Osvath, Mathias; Department of Cognitive Science, Lund University, Helgonavägen 3, 22100, Lund, Sweden

Language :

English

Title :

The detour paradigm in animal cognition.

Publication date :

January 2018

Journal title :

Animal Cognition

ISSN :

1435-9448

eISSN :

1435-9456

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Springer Verlag, Germany

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Pages :

21 - 35

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http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10071-017-1152-0/fulltext.html

Funders :

Sverige Vetenskapsrådet

Funding text :

commenting on the manuscript. This work was funded by the Swedish Research Council Grants 2012-1235 and 2014-6402, later conjoined with Marie Sk\u0142odowska Curie Actions, Cofund, INCA 600398.

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