Measures of inhibitory control correlate between different tasks but do not predict problem-solving success in a fish, Poecilia reticulata

Montalbano, Giulia; Bertolucci, Cristiano; Lucon‐Xiccato, Tyrone

doi:10.1016/j.intell.2020.101486

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“…These findings confirm individual differences in inhibition of action found in guppies using a variant of the detour-reaching task [30] and in pheasants using a response inhibition task [33]. Montalbano et al [32] demonstrated individual differences in guppies and showed positive covariation between two different measures of inhibition of action (the tube task and the cylinder task). However, another study in pheasants did not demonstrate a stable individual variation using common tasks of inhibitory control (detour-reaching task and reversal-learning task [35]).…”

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“…Inconsistent effect of age and sex could also be due to our small sample size. However, studies looking specifically at individual differences in guppies had a sample size going from 22 to 28 individuals [30][31][32]37,101]. A low sample size, a common limitation when working with primates, might have decreased the power of our analysis [112].…”

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“…Montalbano et al . [ 32 ] demonstrated individual differences in guppies and showed positive covariation between two different measures of inhibition of action (the tube task and the cylinder task). However, another study in pheasants did not demonstrate a stable individual variation using common tasks of inhibitory control (detour-reaching task and reversal-learning task [ 35 ]).…”

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“…When all the sessions were taken together, males were more distracted by the pictures. In the literature, better inhibitory control skills in females were also found in the go/no-go task [ 52 , 53 ] and in other tasks of inhibition of an action such as the cylinder task [ 32 ] and the tube task [ 31 , 32 ]. Similar findings were also found in a task of cognition inhibition, the reversal-learning task [ 37 ].…”

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“…For instance, in guppies (Poecilia reticulata), researchers reported individual differences in two measures of inhibition of action. In these tasks, subjects needed to inhibit reaching directly for a prey through a transparent glass tube [30][31][32] or through a transparent cylinder [32]. Similarly, pheasants (Phasianus colchicus) displayed a great individual variability in a response inhibition task in which the subjects were required to adjust their movement while pursuing a moving target [33].…”

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Heterogeneity of performances in several inhibitory control tasks: male rhesus macaques are more easily distracted than females

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Inhibitory control, the ability to override a dominant response, is crucial in many aspects of everyday life. In animal studies, striking individual variations are often largely ignored and their causes rarely considered. Hence, our aims were to systematically investigate individual variability in inhibitory control, to replicate the most common causes of individual variation (age, sex and rank) and to determine if these factors had a consistent effect on three main components of inhibitory control (inhibition of a distraction, inhibition of an action, inhibition of a cognitive set). We tested 21 rhesus macaques ( Macaca mulatta ) in a battery of validated touchscreen tasks. We first found individual variations in all inhibitory control performances. We then demonstrated that males had poorer performances to inhibit a distraction and that middle-aged individuals exhibited poorer performance in the inhibition of a cognitive set. Hence, the factors of age and sex were not consistently associated with the main components of inhibitory control, suggesting a multi-faceted structure. The rank of the subjects did not influence any inhibitory control performances. This study adopts a novel approach for animal behaviour studies and gives new insight into the individual variability of inhibitory control which is crucial to understand its evolutionary underpinnings.

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Inhibitory control in teleost fish: a methodological and conceptual review

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Inhibitory control (IC) plays a central role in behaviour control allowing an individual to resist external lures and internal predispositions. While IC has been consistently investigated in humans, other mammals, and birds, research has only recently begun to explore IC in other vertebrates. This review examines current literature on teleost fish, focusing on both methodological and conceptual aspects. I describe the main paradigms adopted to study IC in fish, identifying well-established tasks that fit various research applications and highlighting their advantages and limitations. In the conceptual analysis, I identify two well-developed lines of research with fish examining IC. The first line focuses on a comparative approach aimed to describe IC at the level of species and to understand the evolution of interspecific differences in relation to ecological specialisation, brain size, and factors affecting cognitive performance. Findings suggest several similarities between fish and previously studied vertebrates. The second line of research focuses on intraspecific variability of IC. Available results indicate substantial variation in fish IC related to sex, personality, genetic, age, and phenotypic plasticity, aligning with what is observed with other vertebrates. Overall, this review suggests that although data on teleosts are still scarce compared to mammals, the contribution of this group to IC research is already substantial and can further increase in various disciplines including comparative psychology, cognitive ecology, and neurosciences, and even in applied fields such as psychiatry research.

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Measures of inhibitory control correlate between different tasks but do not predict problem-solving success in a fish, Poecilia reticulata

Cited by 13 publications

References 44 publications

Heterogeneity of performances in several inhibitory control tasks: male rhesus macaques are more easily distracted than females

Heterogeneity of performances in several inhibitory control tasks: male rhesus macaques are more easily distracted than females

Intraspecific variation in invertebrate cognition: a review

Inhibitory control in teleost fish: a methodological and conceptual review

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