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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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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. |
spellingShingle | Ecology 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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