虎皮鹦鹉的认知表现及关联  

Different Cognitive Performances and their Correlations in Budgerigars(Melopsittacus undulatus)

作　　者：解博雅 李怡晴 邹瑀琦 方昀[1] 孙悦华[1] XIE Bo-Ya;LI Yi-Qing;ZOU Yu-Qi;FANG Yun;SUN Yue-Hua(Key Laboratory of Animal Ecology and Conservation Biology,Institute of Zoology,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing 100101;University of Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing 100049;School of Life Sciences,Hebei University,Baoding 071002,China)

机构地区：[1]中国科学院动物研究所,动物生态与保护生物学院重点实验室,北京100101 [2]中国科学院大学,北京100049 [3]河北大学生命科学学院,保定071002

出　　处：《动物学杂志》2022年第4期571-578,共8页Chinese Journal of Zoology

摘　　要：许多研究认为,不同个体的认知能力存在差异,同一个体的多种认知表现之间可能存在关联。然而,目前对动物认知表现关联的研究结果存在诸多矛盾和争议。本研究以虎皮鹦鹉(Melopsittacus undulatus)为研究对象,通过自我控制、联想学习和反转学习三项认知实验,探究三项表现的联系。实验结果发现,在虎皮鹦鹉中,联想学习表现越好,反转学习亦表现越好。个体对实验装置的新异恐惧(对新环境或新事物的恐惧)越弱,自我控制表现越好。雌、雄个体在三项认知实验中的表现没有显著差异。综上所述,虎皮鹦鹉的一些认知能力存在关联,这暗示了虎皮鹦鹉中可能存在一般认知能力(“g”)。新异恐惧与自我控制表现的强烈相关,说明了勇敢程度可能会影响认知表现。[Objectives]Previous studies proposed differences in cognitive performances among different individuals,and there may be associations between multiple cognitive performance in the same individual.However,the correlations of cognitive performances in animals are still controversies.We would like to explore the associations between the performance of the different cognitive experiments.[Methods]In this study,we used self-control,associative learning and reversal learning experiments to investigate the correlations among these cognitive performances in the Budgerigars(Melopsittacus undulatus).A detour reaching task was used to measure the individuals’self-control ability,with a transparent open cylinder(6.5 cm in length and 6.5 cm in diameter;Fig.1a)in which a food reward was placed in the center.Trials were conducted at one-minute intervals for a total of ten times,all trails were performed on the same day if possible.The trial was considered as successful if the subject inhibited the initial response of pecking the transparent cylinder and went around to the open ends of the cylinder to obtain the food reward.Subjects were considered complete the self-control task once they had successfully circled the open ends of the cylinder without pecking at the transparent cylinder walls three times in a row.The number of successful trials was considered as the self-control ability.A color-discrimination task was designed by using a wooden foraging grid(16 cm×6 cm×3 cm)with two wells(2 cm diameter,1 cm deep;Fig.1b)to test the associative learning ability of Budgerigars.In each trial,the wells were covered by a dark-green lid and a light-green lid.In associative learning,light-green was assigned as the rewarded color.In the first experiment,individuals were able to observe two wells and they could find that only light-green well with a food reward.In all subsequent trails,individuals were only allowed to open well once before the task was removed.Individuals were considered to have completed associative learning if they c

关 键 词：认知 自我控制 联想学习 反转学习 关联 

分 类 号：Q958[生物学—动物学]