Object permanence in the food-storing coal rit (periparus ater) and the non-storing great tit (parus major): is the mental representation required?

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/com0000061" target="_blank" >10.1037/com0000061</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Object permanence in the food-storing coal rit (periparus ater) and the non-storing great tit (parus major): is the mental representation required?

Original language description

Object permanence is a cognitive ability that enables animals to mentally represent the continuous existence of temporarily hidden objects. Generally, it develops gradually through six qualitative stages, the evolution of which may be connected with some specific ecological and behavioral factors. In birds, the advanced object permanence skills were reported in several storing species of the Corvidae family. In order to test the association between food-storing and achieved performance within the stages, we compared food-storing coal tits (Periparus ater) and nonstoring great tits (Parus major) using an adapted version of Uzgiris &amp; Hunt&apos;s Scale 1 tasks. The coal tits significantly outperformed the great tits in searching for completely hidden objects. Most of the great tits could not solve the task when the object disappeared completely. However, the upper limit for both species is likely to be Stage 4. The coal tits could solve problems with simply hidden objects, but they used alternative strategies rather than mental representation when searching for completely hidden objects, especially if choosing between two locations. Our results also suggest that neophobia did not affect the overall performance in the object permanence tasks.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10613 - Zoology

Project

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Continuities

V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Comparative Psychology

ISSN

0735-7036

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

131

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

115-127

UT code for WoS article

000401085800003

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85014383167