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Transitive inference in cleaner wrasses (Labroides dimidiatus)
- Source :
- PLoS ONE, Vol 15, Iss 8, p e0237817 (2020), PLoS ONE
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2020.
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Abstract
- Transitive inference (TI) is the ability to infer unknown relationships from previous information. To test TI in non-human animals, transitive responding has been examined in a TI task where non-adjacent pairs were presented after premise pair training. Some mammals, birds and paper wasps can pass TI tasks. Although previous studies showed that some fish are capable of TI in the social context, it remains unclear whether fish can pass TI task. Here, we conducted a TI task in cleaner wrasses (Labroides dimidiatus), which interact with various client fishes and conspecifics. Because they make decisions based on previous direct and indirect interactions in the context of cleaning interactions, we predicted that the ability of TI is beneficial for cleaner fish. Four tested fish were trained with four pairs of visual stimuli in a 5-term series: A-B+, B-C+, C-D+, and D-E+ (plus and minus denote rewards and non-rewards, respectively). After training, a novel pair, BD (BD test), was presented wherein the fish chose D more frequently than B. In contrast, reinforcement history did not predict the choice D. Our results suggest that cleaner fish passed the TI task, similar to mammals and birds. Although the mechanism underlying transitive responding in cleaner fish remains unclear, this work contributes to understanding cognitive abilities in fish.
- Subjects :
- Male
0106 biological sciences
Visual perception
Social Sciences
Choice Behavior
01 natural sciences
Task (project management)
Cognition
Learning and Memory
Psychology
Mammals
Multidisciplinary
Animal Behavior
Simulation and Modeling
05 social sciences
Eukaryota
Animal Sociality
Vertebrates
Medicine
Female
Research Article
Primates
Lemurs
Prosimians
Transitive inference
Science
Decision Making
Spatial Cognition
Context (language use)
Biology
Research and Analysis Methods
Cleaner fish
010603 evolutionary biology
Birds
Reward
Animals
Learning
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
050102 behavioral science & comparative psychology
Labroides
Behavior
Transitive relation
Cognitive Psychology
Organisms
Biology and Life Sciences
Spatial cognition
biology.organism_classification
Perciformes
Evolutionary biology
Amniotes
Cognitive Science
Zoology
Neuroscience
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 19326203
- Volume :
- 15
- Issue :
- 8
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- PLoS ONE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....fb2864d1ac22f6384129b12deb05d744