期刊
BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES
卷 141, 期 -, 页码 161-171出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2017.02.001
关键词
Numerical cognition; Fish; Shoal choices; Operant conditioning; Continuous quantities; Training procedure
资金
- FIRB grant Futuro in Ricerca from 'Ministero dell'Istruzione, Universita e Ricerca' (MIUR, Italy) [prot.: RBFR13KHFS]
The ability to utilize numerical information can be adaptive in a number of ecological contexts including foraging, mating, parental care, and anti-predator strategies. Numerical abilities of mammals and birds have been studied both in natural conditions and in controlled laboratory conditions using a variety of approaches. During the last decade this ability was also investigated in some fish species. Here we reviewed the main methods used to study this group, highlighting the strengths and weaknesses of each of the methods used. Fish have only been studied under laboratory conditions and among the methods used with other species, only two have been systematically used in fish spontaneous choice tests and discrimination learning procedures. In the former case, the choice between two options is observed in a biologically relevant situation and the degree of preference for the larger/smaller group is taken as a measure of the capacity to discriminate the two quantities (e.g., two shoals differing in number). In discrimination learning tasks, fish are trained to select the larger or the smaller of two sets of abstract objects, typically two-dimensional geometric figures, using food or social companions as reward. Beyond methodological differences, what emerges from the literature is a substantial similarity of the numerical abilities of fish with those of other vertebrates studied. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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