Trait sensitivity to stress and cognitive bias processes in fish: A brief overview
Like other animals, fish have unique personalities that can affect their cognition and responses to environmental stressors. These individual personality differences are often referred to as “behavioural syndromes” or “stress coping styles” and can include personality traits such as boldness, shynes...
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author | Jhon Buenhombre Erika Alexandra Daza-Cardona Daniel Mota-Rojas Adriana Domínguez-Oliva Astrid Rivera Catalina Medrano-Galarza Paulo de Tarso María Nelly Cajiao-Pachón Francisco Vargas Adriana Pedraza-Toscano Pêssi Sousa |
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description | Like other animals, fish have unique personalities that can affect their cognition and responses to environmental stressors. These individual personality differences are often referred to as “behavioural syndromes” or “stress coping styles” and can include personality traits such as boldness, shyness, aggression, exploration, locomotor activity, and sociability. For example, bolder or proactive fish may be more likely to take risks and present lower hypothalamo–pituitary–adrenal/interrenal axis reactivity as compared to shy or reactive individuals. Likewise, learning and memory differ between fish personalities. Reactive or shy individuals tend to have faster learning and better association recall with aversive stimuli, while proactive or bold individuals tend to learn more quickly when presented with appetitive incentives. However, the influence of personality on cognitive processes other than cognitive achievement in fish has been scarcely explored. Cognitive bias tests have been employed to investigate the interplay between emotion and cognition in both humans and animals. Fish present cognitive bias processes (CBP) in which fish’s interpretation of stimuli could be influenced by its current emotional state and open to environmental modulation. However, no study in fish has explored whether CBP, like in other species, can be interpreted as long-lasting traits and whether other individual characteristics may explain its variation. We hold the perspective that CBP could serve as a vulnerability factor for the onset, persistence, and recurrence of stress-related disorders. Therefore, studying fish’s CBP as a state or trait and its interactions with individual variations may be valuable in future efforts to enhance our understanding of anxiety and stress neurobiology in animal models and humans. |
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spelling | doaj.art-93e38839df454cbe952869feddfa31552024-01-31T11:11:52ZengCambridge University PressPersonality Neuroscience2513-98862024-01-01710.1017/pen.2023.14Trait sensitivity to stress and cognitive bias processes in fish: A brief overviewJhon Buenhombre0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7793-742XErika Alexandra Daza-Cardona1Daniel Mota-Rojas2Adriana Domínguez-Oliva3Astrid Rivera4Catalina Medrano-Galarza5Paulo de Tarso6María Nelly Cajiao-Pachón7Francisco Vargas8Adriana Pedraza-Toscano9Pêssi Sousa10Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Faculty of Agrarian Science, Animal Welfare Program, Universidad Antonio Nariño, Bogotá, Colombia ICB Biological Sciences, Federal University of Pará, Belém, BrazilFaculty of Veterinary Medicine, Faculty of Agrarian Science, Animal Welfare Program, Universidad Antonio Nariño, Bogotá, ColombiaNeurophysiology, Behavior and Animal Welfare Assessment, DPAA, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Xochimilco Campus, Mexico City, MexicoNeurophysiology, Behavior and Animal Welfare Assessment, DPAA, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Xochimilco Campus, Mexico City, MexicoFaculty of Veterinary Medicine, Faculty of Agrarian Science, Animal Welfare Program, Universidad Antonio Nariño, Bogotá, ColombiaFaculty of Veterinary Medicine, Faculty of Agrarian Science, Animal Welfare Program, Universidad Antonio Nariño, Bogotá, ColombiaCentro Universitário Mauricio de Nassau, Sobral, BrazilEspecialización en Bienestar Animal y Etología, Fundación Universitaria Agraria de Colombia, Bogotá, ColombiaFaculty of Veterinary Medicine, Faculty of Agrarian Science, Animal Welfare Program, Universidad Antonio Nariño, Bogotá, ColombiaFaculty of Veterinary Medicine, Faculty of Agrarian Science, Animal Welfare Program, Universidad Antonio Nariño, Bogotá, ColombiaICB Biological Sciences, Federal University of Pará, Belém, BrazilLike other animals, fish have unique personalities that can affect their cognition and responses to environmental stressors. These individual personality differences are often referred to as “behavioural syndromes” or “stress coping styles” and can include personality traits such as boldness, shyness, aggression, exploration, locomotor activity, and sociability. For example, bolder or proactive fish may be more likely to take risks and present lower hypothalamo–pituitary–adrenal/interrenal axis reactivity as compared to shy or reactive individuals. Likewise, learning and memory differ between fish personalities. Reactive or shy individuals tend to have faster learning and better association recall with aversive stimuli, while proactive or bold individuals tend to learn more quickly when presented with appetitive incentives. However, the influence of personality on cognitive processes other than cognitive achievement in fish has been scarcely explored. Cognitive bias tests have been employed to investigate the interplay between emotion and cognition in both humans and animals. Fish present cognitive bias processes (CBP) in which fish’s interpretation of stimuli could be influenced by its current emotional state and open to environmental modulation. However, no study in fish has explored whether CBP, like in other species, can be interpreted as long-lasting traits and whether other individual characteristics may explain its variation. We hold the perspective that CBP could serve as a vulnerability factor for the onset, persistence, and recurrence of stress-related disorders. Therefore, studying fish’s CBP as a state or trait and its interactions with individual variations may be valuable in future efforts to enhance our understanding of anxiety and stress neurobiology in animal models and humans.https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2513988623000147/type/journal_articleFishpersonalitystressneurosciencecognitionemotion |
spellingShingle | Jhon Buenhombre Erika Alexandra Daza-Cardona Daniel Mota-Rojas Adriana Domínguez-Oliva Astrid Rivera Catalina Medrano-Galarza Paulo de Tarso María Nelly Cajiao-Pachón Francisco Vargas Adriana Pedraza-Toscano Pêssi Sousa Trait sensitivity to stress and cognitive bias processes in fish: A brief overview Personality Neuroscience Fish personality stress neuroscience cognition emotion |
title | Trait sensitivity to stress and cognitive bias processes in fish: A brief overview |
title_full | Trait sensitivity to stress and cognitive bias processes in fish: A brief overview |
title_fullStr | Trait sensitivity to stress and cognitive bias processes in fish: A brief overview |
title_full_unstemmed | Trait sensitivity to stress and cognitive bias processes in fish: A brief overview |
title_short | Trait sensitivity to stress and cognitive bias processes in fish: A brief overview |
title_sort | trait sensitivity to stress and cognitive bias processes in fish a brief overview |
topic | Fish personality stress neuroscience cognition emotion |
url | https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2513988623000147/type/journal_article |
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