dc.contributor.author | Cauchoix, M | |
dc.contributor.author | Chow, PKY | |
dc.contributor.author | van Horik, JO | |
dc.contributor.author | Atance, CM | |
dc.contributor.author | Barbeau, EJ | |
dc.contributor.author | Barragan-Jason, G | |
dc.contributor.author | Bize, P | |
dc.contributor.author | Boussard, A | |
dc.contributor.author | Buechel, SD | |
dc.contributor.author | Cabirol, A | |
dc.contributor.author | Cauchard, L | |
dc.contributor.author | Claidière, N | |
dc.contributor.author | Dalesman, S | |
dc.contributor.author | Devaud, JM | |
dc.contributor.author | Didic, M | |
dc.contributor.author | Doligez, B | |
dc.contributor.author | Fagot, J | |
dc.contributor.author | Fichtel, C | |
dc.contributor.author | Henke-von der Malsburg, J | |
dc.contributor.author | Hermer, E | |
dc.contributor.author | Huber, L | |
dc.contributor.author | Huebner, F | |
dc.contributor.author | Kappeler, PM | |
dc.contributor.author | Klein, S | |
dc.contributor.author | Langbein, J | |
dc.contributor.author | Langley, EJG | |
dc.contributor.author | Lea, SEG | |
dc.contributor.author | Lihoreau, M | |
dc.contributor.author | Lovlie, H | |
dc.contributor.author | Matzel, LD | |
dc.contributor.author | Nakagawa, S | |
dc.contributor.author | Nawroth, C | |
dc.contributor.author | Oesterwind, S | |
dc.contributor.author | Sauce, B | |
dc.contributor.author | Smith, E | |
dc.contributor.author | Sorato, E | |
dc.contributor.author | Tebbich, S | |
dc.contributor.author | Wallis, LJ | |
dc.contributor.author | Whiteside, MA | |
dc.contributor.author | Wilkinson, A | |
dc.contributor.author | Chaine, AS | |
dc.contributor.author | Morand-Ferron, J | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-18T09:57:40Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2018-08-13 | |
dc.description.abstract | Behavioural and cognitive processes play important roles in mediating an individual's interactions with its environment. Yet, while there is a vast literature on repeatable individual differences in behaviour, relatively little is known about the repeatability of cognitive performance. To further our understanding of the evolution of cognition, we gathered 44 studies on individual performance of 25 species across six animal classes and used meta-analysis to assess whether cognitive performance is repeatable. We compared repeatability (R) in performance (1) on the same task presented at different times (temporal repeatability), and (2) on different tasks that measured the same putative cognitive ability (contextual repeatability). We also addressed whether R estimates were influenced by seven extrinsic factors (moderators): type of cognitive performance measurement, type of cognitive task, delay between tests, origin of the subjects, experimental context, taxonomic class and publication status. We found support for both temporal and contextual repeatability of cognitive performance, with mean R estimates ranging between 0.15 and 0.28. Repeatability estimates were mostly influenced by the type of cognitive performance measures and publication status. Our findings highlight the widespread occurrence of consistent inter-individual variation in cognition across a range of taxa which, like behaviour, may be associated with fitness outcomes. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | PKYC is supported by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (PE1801); JOvH was funded by an ERC consolidator grant (616474). MC and this research was supported by a grant from the Human Frontier Science Program to ASC and JM-F (RGP0006/2015). | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 373 (1756). Published online 13 August 2018. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1098/rstb.2017.0281 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/33476 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Royal Society, The | en_GB |
dc.relation.source | We provide access to the information of general methods (ESM) and primary data (https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.6431549.v1). | en_GB |
dc.rights | © 2018 The Author(s). Published by the Royal Society. All rights reserved. | |
dc.subject | cognitive repeatability | en_GB |
dc.subject | evolutionary biology of cognition | en_GB |
dc.subject | individual differences | en_GB |
dc.subject | learning | en_GB |
dc.subject | memory | en_GB |
dc.subject | attention | en_GB |
dc.title | The repeatability of cognitive performance: a meta-analysis | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.identifier.issn | 0962-8436 | |
dc.description | This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from The Royal Society via the DOI in this record. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.journal | Philosophical Transactions B: Biological Sciences | en_GB |