Comparative Route Learning in Corvids and Primates: A Benchmark of Task Equivalence

Authors

  • Andreas-B Egger-Hub Centre for Comparative Cognition, Prattigau Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Klosters, Switzerland Author
  • Aristotelis Chatzistavrou Centre for Comparative Cognition, Magnesia Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Volos, Greece Author
  • Henryka Iwanowski Department of Learning and Memory, Beskid Niski Centre for Brain and Behaviour, Gorlice, Poland Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22677919

Keywords:

Comparative Route Learning in Corvids and Primates; Cognitive neuroscience; Neurofeedback; Evidence synthesis; Research methodology

Abstract

Comparative Route Learning in Corvids and Primates has moved quickly from a niche scientific question to something a wider
community can now investigate with reasonably reliable tools, but the evidence behind it has not always kept pace. We pull
together the current evidence for comparative route learning in corvids and primates, covering the methodological, practical,
regulatory and cost angles, with an eye on where practice has genuinely settled and where researchers and reviewers are still
largely working it out for themselves. Selective, context-specific pursuit looks better supported by the evidence gathered here than
either broad rollout or blanket avoidance.

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2023-01-21