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The detour paradigm in animal cognition
Kabadayi, Can; Bobrowicz, Katarzyna; Osvath, Mathias
2018In Animal Cognition
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Keywords :
social learning; cognition; executive functions
Abstract :
[en] In this paper, we review one of the oldest paradigms used in animal cognition: the detour paradigm. The paradigm presents the subject with a situation where a direct route to the goal is blocked and a detour must be made to reach it. Often being an ecologically valid and a versatile tool, the detour paradigm has been used to study diverse cognitive skills like insight, social learning, inhibitory control and route planning. Due to the relative ease of administrating detour tasks, the paradigm has lately been used in large-scale comparative studies in order to investigate the evolution of inhibitory control. Here we review the detour paradigm and some of its cognitive requirements, we identify various ecological and contextual factors that might affect detour performance, we also discuss developmental and neurological underpinnings of detour behaviors, and we suggest some methodological approaches to make species comparisons more robust.
Disciplines :
Animal psychology, ethology & psychobiology
Author, co-author :
Kabadayi, Can;  Lund University > Department of Philosophy and Cognitive Science
Bobrowicz, Katarzyna  ;  University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences (FHSE) > Department of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences (DBCS)
Osvath, Mathias;  Lund University > Department of Philosophy and Cognitive Science
External co-authors :
yes
Language :
English
Title :
The detour paradigm in animal cognition
Publication date :
January 2018
Journal title :
Animal Cognition
ISSN :
1435-9456
Publisher :
Springer, Germany
Peer reviewed :
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