Order effects in transitive inference: Does the presentation order of social information affect transitive inference in social animals?

Order effects in transitive inference: Does the presentation order of social information affect transitive inference in social animals?

Transitive inference (TI) is the ability to infer social relationships between individuals (e.g. if A<B & B<C, then A<C), and has been documented in a variety of vertebrates. Many studies of TI use the task of inferring social dominance, where a subject animal A first interacts with B (...

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Main Authors: Takashi eHotta, Lyndon Alexander Jordan, Tomohiro eTakeyama, Masanori eKohda
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-06-01
Series:Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
Subjects:
transitive inference
dominance hierarchy
information order
Cooperatively breeding cichlid
contest ability
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fevo.2015.00059/full

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