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Little evidence that Eurasian jays protect their caches by responding to cues about a conspecific’s desire and visual perspective

Eurasian jays have been reported to protect their caches by responding to cues about either the visual perspective or current desire of an observing conspecific, similarly to other corvids. Here, we used established paradigms to test whether these birds can – like humans – integrate multiple cues ab...

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Autores principales: Amodio, Piero, Farrar, Benjamin G, Krupenye, Christopher, Ostojić, Ljerka, Clayton, Nicola S
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8536255/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34505575
http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.69647
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author Amodio, Piero
Farrar, Benjamin G
Krupenye, Christopher
Ostojić, Ljerka
Clayton, Nicola S
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description Eurasian jays have been reported to protect their caches by responding to cues about either the visual perspective or current desire of an observing conspecific, similarly to other corvids. Here, we used established paradigms to test whether these birds can – like humans – integrate multiple cues about different mental states and perform an optimal response accordingly. Across five experiments, which also include replications of previous work, we found little evidence that our jays adjusted their caching behaviour in line with the visual perspective and current desire of another agent, neither by integrating these social cues nor by responding to only one type of cue independently. These results raise questions about the reliability of the previously reported effects and highlight several key issues affecting reliability in comparative cognition research.
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spelling pubmed-85362552021-10-25 Little evidence that Eurasian jays protect their caches by responding to cues about a conspecific’s desire and visual perspective Amodio, Piero Farrar, Benjamin G Krupenye, Christopher Ostojić, Ljerka Clayton, Nicola S eLife Ecology Eurasian jays have been reported to protect their caches by responding to cues about either the visual perspective or current desire of an observing conspecific, similarly to other corvids. Here, we used established paradigms to test whether these birds can – like humans – integrate multiple cues about different mental states and perform an optimal response accordingly. Across five experiments, which also include replications of previous work, we found little evidence that our jays adjusted their caching behaviour in line with the visual perspective and current desire of another agent, neither by integrating these social cues nor by responding to only one type of cue independently. These results raise questions about the reliability of the previously reported effects and highlight several key issues affecting reliability in comparative cognition research. eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2021-09-10 /pmc/articles/PMC8536255/ /pubmed/34505575 http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.69647 Text en © 2021, Amodio et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited.
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Amodio, Piero
Farrar, Benjamin G
Krupenye, Christopher
Ostojić, Ljerka
Clayton, Nicola S
Little evidence that Eurasian jays protect their caches by responding to cues about a conspecific’s desire and visual perspective
title Little evidence that Eurasian jays protect their caches by responding to cues about a conspecific’s desire and visual perspective
title_full Little evidence that Eurasian jays protect their caches by responding to cues about a conspecific’s desire and visual perspective
title_fullStr Little evidence that Eurasian jays protect their caches by responding to cues about a conspecific’s desire and visual perspective
title_full_unstemmed Little evidence that Eurasian jays protect their caches by responding to cues about a conspecific’s desire and visual perspective
title_short Little evidence that Eurasian jays protect their caches by responding to cues about a conspecific’s desire and visual perspective
title_sort little evidence that eurasian jays protect their caches by responding to cues about a conspecific’s desire and visual perspective
topic Ecology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8536255/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34505575
http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.69647
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