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MacLean EL Matthews LJ Hare BA Nunn CL Anderson RC Aureli F Brannon EM Call J Drea CM Emery NJ Haun DB Herrmann E Jacobs LF Platt ML Rosati AG Sandel AA Schroepfer KK Seed AM Tan J van Schaik CP Wobber V 《Animal cognition》2012,15(2):223-238
Now more than ever animal studies have the potential to test hypotheses regarding how cognition evolves. Comparative psychologists have developed new techniques to probe the cognitive mechanisms underlying animal behavior, and they have become increasingly skillful at adapting methodologies to test multiple species. Meanwhile, evolutionary biologists have generated quantitative approaches to investigate the phylogenetic distribution and function of phenotypic traits, including cognition. In particular, phylogenetic methods can quantitatively (1) test whether specific cognitive abilities are correlated with life history (e.g., lifespan), morphology (e.g., brain size), or socio-ecological variables (e.g., social system), (2) measure how strongly phylogenetic relatedness predicts the distribution of cognitive skills across species, and (3) estimate the ancestral state of a given cognitive trait using measures of cognitive performance from extant species. Phylogenetic methods can also be used to guide the selection of species comparisons that offer the strongest tests of a priori predictions of cognitive evolutionary hypotheses (i.e., phylogenetic targeting). Here, we explain how an integration of comparative psychology and evolutionary biology will answer a host of questions regarding the phylogenetic distribution and history of cognitive traits, as well as the evolutionary processes that drove their evolution. 相似文献
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Accuracy for a second target (T2) is reduced when it is presented within 500 ms of a first target (T1) in a rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP) - an attentional blink (AB). There are reliable individual differences in the magnitude of the AB. Recent evidence has shown that the attentional approach that an individual typically adopts during a task or in anticipation of a task, as indicated by various measures, predicts individual differences in the AB deficit. It has yet to be observed whether indices of attentional approach when not engaged in a goal-directed task are also relevant to individual differences in the AB. The current studies investigated individual differences in the AB by examining their relationship with attention at rest using quantitative measures of EEG. Greater levels of alpha at rest were associated with larger AB magnitudes, where greater levels of beta at rest were associated with smaller AB magnitudes. Furthermore, individuals with more beta than alpha demonstrated a smaller AB effect than individuals with more alpha than beta. Our results suggest that greater attentional engagement at rest, when not engaged in a goal-directed task, is associated with smaller AB magnitudes. 相似文献
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Accuracy for a second target is reduced when it is presented within 500 msec of a first target. This phenomenon is called
the attentional blink (AB). A diffused attentional state (via positive affect or an additional task) has been shown to reduce the AB, whereas a
focused attentional state (via negative affect) has been shown to increase the AB, purportedly by influencing the amount of
attentional investment and flexibility. In the present study, individual differences in personality traits related to positive
affect, negative affect, and cognitive flexibility were used to predict individual differences in AB magnitude. As hypothesized,
greater extraversion and openness predicted smaller ABs. Greater openness also predicted higher overall target accuracy. Greater
neuroticism predicted larger ABs and lower overall target accuracy. Conscientiousness, associated with less cognitive flexibility,
predicted lower overall target accuracy. Personality may modulate the AB by influencing overinvestment via dispositional tendencies
toward more or less stringent or capable cognitive control. 相似文献
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Sahdra BK MacLean KA Ferrer E Shaver PR Rosenberg EL Jacobs TL Zanesco AP King BG Aichele SR Bridwell DA Mangun GR Lavy S Wallace BA Saron CD 《Emotion (Washington, D.C.)》2011,11(2):299-312
We examined the impact of training-induced improvements in self-regulation, operationalized in terms of response inhibition, on longitudinal changes in self-reported adaptive socioemotional functioning. Data were collected from participants undergoing 3 months of intensive meditation training in an isolated retreat setting (Retreat 1) and a wait-list control group that later underwent identical training (Retreat 2). A 32-min response inhibition task (RIT) was designed to assess sustained self-regulatory control. Adaptive functioning (AF) was operationalized as a single latent factor underlying self-report measures of anxious and avoidant attachment, mindfulness, ego resilience, empathy, the five major personality traits (extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and openness to experience), difficulties in emotion regulation, depression, anxiety, and psychological well-being. Participants in Retreat 1 improved in RIT performance and AF over time whereas the controls did not. The control participants later also improved on both dimensions during their own retreat (Retreat 2). These improved levels of RIT performance and AF were sustained in follow-up assessments conducted approximately 5 months after the training. Longitudinal dynamic models with combined data from both retreats showed that improvement in RIT performance during training influenced the change in AF over time, which is consistent with a key claim in the Buddhist literature that enhanced capacity for self-regulation is an important precursor of changes in emotional well-being. 相似文献
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R. Ross MacLean Travis T. Nichols James M. LeBreton Stephen J. Wilson 《Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience》2016,16(4):588-600
Smoking cessation failures are frequently thought to reflect poor top-down regulatory control over behavior. Previous studies have suggested that smoking cues occupy limited working memory resources, an effect that may contribute to difficulty achieving abstinence. Few studies have evaluated the effects of cognitive load on the ability to actively maintain information in the face of distracting smoking cues. For the present study, we adapted an fMRI probed recall task under low and high cognitive load with three distractor conditions: control, neutral images, or smoking-related images. Consistent with a limited-resource model of cue reactivity, we predicted that the performance of daily smokers (n = 17) would be most impaired when high load was paired with smoking distractors. The results demonstrated a main effect of load, with decreased accuracy under high, as compared to low, cognitive load. Surprisingly, an interaction revealed that the effect of load was weakest in the smoking cue distractor condition. Along with this behavioral effect, we observed significantly greater activation of the right inferior frontal gyrus (rIFG) in the low-load condition than in the high-load condition for trials containing smoking cue distractors. Furthermore, load-related changes in rIFG activation partially mediated the effects of load on task accuracy in the smoking-cue distractor condition. These findings are discussed in the context of prevailing cognitive and cue reactivity theories. These results suggest that high cognitive load does not necessarily make smokers more susceptible to interference from smoking-related stimuli, and that elevated load may even have a buffering effect in the presence of smoking cues under certain conditions. 相似文献
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Gnanadesikan Gitanjali E. Hare Brian Snyder-Mackler Noah MacLean Evan L. 《Animal cognition》2020,23(5):953-964
Animal Cognition - Trait heritability is necessary for evolution by both natural and artificial selection, yet we know little about the heritability of cognitive traits. Domestic dogs are a... 相似文献
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Lowe JR MacLean PC Duncan AF Aragón C Schrader RM Caprihan A Phillips JP 《Infant behavior & development》2012,35(2):295-302
This study used the Still Face Paradigm to investigate the relationship of maternal interaction on infants' emotion regulation responses. Seventy infant-mother dyads were seen at 4 months and 25 of these same dyads were re-evaluated at 9 months. Maternal interactions were coded for attention seeking and contingent responding. Emotional regulation was described by infant stress reaction and overall positive affect. Results indicated that at both 4 and 9 months mothers who used more contingent responding interactions had infants who showed more positive affect. In contrast, mothers who used more attention seeking play had infants who showed less positive affect after the Still Face Paradigm. Patterns of stress reaction were reversed, as mothers who used more attention seeking play had infants with less negative affect. Implications for intervention and emotional regulation patterns over time are discussed. 相似文献
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Numerous studies have demonstrated that animals’ tolerance for risk when foraging can be affected by changes in metabolic
state. Specifically, animals on a negative energy budget increase their preferences for risk, while animals on a positive
energy budget are typically risk-averse. The malleability of these preferences may be evolutionarily advantageous, and important
for maximizing chances of survival during brief periods of energetic stress. However, animals adapted to living in unpredictable
conditions are unlikely to benefit from risk-seeking strategies, and instead are expected to reduce energetic demands while
maintaining risk-aversion. We measured risk preferences in lemurs, a group of primates restricted to the island of Madagascar.
Lemurs have evolved diverse anatomical and behavioral traits for survival in a harsh and unpredictable ecology, and these
traits have been explained as forms of anatomical and behavioral risk reduction. We therefore predicted that lemurs would
also be risk-averse in a behavioral task that offered subjects a choice between a small certain reward, and an uncertain but
potentially large reward. In Experiment 1, the average rewards associated with the constant and variable options were equal
and lemurs exhibited high levels of risk-aversion, replicating a phenomenon that has been demonstrated in dozens of taxa.
In Experiment 2, we gradually increased the average value of the variable option relative to the constant option. Lemurs’
preferences tracked these changes and subjects became more risk-seeking as the risk premium increased. However, many subjects
maintained high levels of risk-aversion even when the average payout of the variable option yielded double that of the constant
option. These results are consistent with the notion that lemur cognition has evolved to minimize risk in an unpredictable
island environment. 相似文献