Flexible Planning in Ravens?

Jonathan Redshaw; Alex H Taylor; Thomas Suddendorf

doi:10.1016/j.tics.2017.09.001

Flexible Planning in Ravens?

Trends Cogn Sci. 2017 Nov;21(11):821-822. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2017.09.001. Epub 2017 Sep 15.

Authors

Jonathan Redshaw¹, Alex H Taylor², Thomas Suddendorf³

Affiliations

¹ Centre for Psychology and Evolution, School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Australia; All authors contributed equally to this work.
² School of Psychology, University of Auckland, New Zealand; All authors contributed equally to this work.
³ Centre for Psychology and Evolution, School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Australia; All authors contributed equally to this work. Electronic address: t.suddendorf@psy.uq.edu.au.

PMID: 28927634
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2017.09.001

Abstract

Across two different contexts, Kabadayi and Osvath found that ravens preferentially selected items that could be used to obtain future rewards. Do these results demand a rethink of the evolution of flexible planning, or are there leaner alternative explanations for the performance of ravens?

Keywords: animal cognition; foresight; mental time travel; planning.

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MeSH terms

Animals
Crows*
Reward*