caa a22 4500 605541507 CHVBK 20210128100916.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10071-014-0787-3 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10071-014-0787-3 Individual differences in learning speed, performance accuracy and exploratory behaviour in black-capped chickadees [Elektronische Daten] [Lauren Guillette, Allison Hahn, Marisa Hoeschele, Ann-Marie Przyslupski, Christopher Sturdy] Cognitive processes are important to animals because they not only influence how animals acquire, store and recall information, but also may underpin behaviours such as deciding where to look for food, build a nest, or with whom to mate. Several recent studies have begun to examine the potential interaction between variation in cognition and variation in personality traits. One hypothesis proposed that there is a speed-accuracy trade-off in cognition ability that aligns with a fast-slow behaviour type. Here, we explicitly examined this hypothesis by testing wild-caught black-capped chickadees in a series of cognitive tasks that assessed both learning speed (the number of trials taken to learn) and accuracy (post-acquisition performance when tested with un-trained exemplars). Chickadees' exploration scores were measured in a novel environment task. We found that slow-exploring chickadees demonstrated higher accuracy during the test phase, but did not learn the initial task in fewer trials compared to fast-exploring chickadees, providing partial support for the proposed link between cognition and personality. We report positive correlations in learning speed between different phases within cognitive tasks, but not between the three cognitive tasks suggesting independence in underlying cognitive processing. We discuss different rule-based strategies that may contribute to differential performance accuracy in cognitive tasks and provide suggestions for future experimentation to examine mechanisms underlying the relationship between cognition and personality. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2014 Animal personality nationallicence Black-capped chickadee nationallicence Cognition nationallicence Exploratory behaviour nationallicence Individual differences nationallicence Learning nationallicence Guillette Lauren Department of Psychology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada aut Hahn Allison Department of Psychology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada aut Hoeschele Marisa Department of Psychology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada aut Przyslupski Ann-Marie Department of Psychology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada aut Sturdy Christopher Department of Psychology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada aut Animal Cognition Springer Berlin Heidelberg 18/1(2015-01-01), 165-178 1435-9448 18:1<165 2015 18 10071 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10071-014-0787-3 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10071-014-0787-3 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Guillette Lauren Department of Psychology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Hahn Allison Department of Psychology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Hoeschele Marisa Department of Psychology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Przyslupski Ann-Marie Department of Psychology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Sturdy Christopher Department of Psychology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Animal Cognition Springer Berlin Heidelberg 18/1(2015-01-01), 165-178 1435-9448 18:1<165 2015 18 10071