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XGNITIVE: A Flexible Cognitive Architecture for Robots (Experiments)
<p>Dataset of experiments for XGNITIVE: A Flexible Cognitive Architecture for Robots. More information in its repository ( https://github.com/roboticslab-uc3m/xgnitive ).</p>
Data from: The origins of cognitive flexibility in chimpanzees
<p>Cognitive flexibility is a core component of executive function, a suite of cognitive capacities that enables individuals to update their behavior in dynamic environments. Human executive functions are proposed to be enhanced compared to other species, but this inference is based primarily on neuroanatomical studies. To address this, we examined the nature and origins of cognitive flexibility in chimpanzees, our closest living relatives. Across three studies, we examined different components of cognitive flexibility using reversal learning tasks where individuals first learned one contingency and then had to shift responses when contingencies flipped. In Study 1, we tested n = 82 chimpanzees ranging from juvenility to adulthood on a spatial reversal task, to characterize the development of basic shifting skills. In Study 2, we tested how n = 24 chimpanzees use spatial versus arbitrary perceptual information to shift, a proposed difference between human and nonhuman cognition. In Study 3, we tested n = 40 chimpanzees on a probabilistic reversal task. We found an extended developmental trajectory for basic shifting and shifting in response to probabilistic feedback—chimpanzees did not reach mature performance until late in ontogeny. Additionally, females were faster to shift than males were. We also found that chimpanzees were much more successful when using spatial versus perceptual cues, and highly perseverative when faced with probabilistic versus consistent outcomes. These results identify both core features of chimpanzee cognitive flexibility that are shared with humans, as well as constraints on chimpanzee cognitive flexibility that may represent evolutionary changes in human cognitive development.</p>
Cognitive flexibility supports the development of cumulative cultural learning in children
<p><span>The scale of cumulative cultural evolution (CCE), the improvement of cultural traits over generations via social transmission, is widely believed to be one of humans' most defining characteristics. Our capacity to build upon others' knowledge, skills, and technologies has produced the most diverse and complex technological repertoire on the planet. Despite growing interest in the field of CCE, the cognitive underpinnings supporting its development remain relatively understudied. In this study, we examined the role that cognitive flexibility plays in supporting cumulative cultural learning by studying U.S. children's (</span><span>N</span><span> = 167, 3-5-year-olds) propensity to relinquish an inefficient solution to a problem in favor of a more efficient alternative. We also examined whether children would resist revertin</span><span>g</span><span> back to earlier versions and omit redundant actions from previous behaviors. In contrast to previous work with chimpanzees, most children who first learned to solve a puzzlebox in a highly inefficient way switched to an observed, more efficient alternative. However, over multiple task interactions, 85% of children who did switch also reverted back to the original, inefficient method. Moreover, almost all children in a control condition (who first learned the efficient method before observing the inefficient method) switched to the inefficient method. This suggests that </span><span>children were keen to explore an alternative modeled solution but were overall conservative in reverting to their first-learned method across subsequent task interactions. We discuss these findings in the context of their implications for the cognitive ontogeny of CCE.</span></p>
Data Files for the study "Exploring risk-taking behaviour as a function of cognitive flexibility and emotional intelligence"
<p><span>Risk-taking behaviour refers to how one decides to act with the possibility of negative outcomes which is often pursued in the hope of achieving a lucrative reward, and it can happen in various circumstances, which makes it important to study and understand the key factors behind this cognitive process. The present study focused on understanding these dynamics with emotional intelligence and cognitive flexibility. The present study incorporated a healthy sample (<em>n=</em>121) whose emotional intelligence was assessed with MSREIS-R, risk-taking with GDT and cognitive flexibility with WCST. The findings suggested that cognitive flexibility and sub-scale of emotional intelligence did impact risk-taking behaviour, while no moderating effect was found between them. However, the sub-scales of emotional intelligence did predict cognitive flexibility hinting at their interactive relationship which does not erase the possibility of them not affecting risk-taking behaviour completely.<span> </span></span></p> <p>Emotional intelligence questionnaire and manuals, an Excel file consisting of Emotional Intelligence Score, SPSS file, Software file (Inquisit Program file), the link to the task script and other important links, Game of dice task(raw and summary data), Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (raw and summary data).</p>
Social dominance status is associated with differences in spatial cognitive flexibility in wild mountain chickadees
Social dominance has long been used as a model to investigate social stress. However, many studies using such comparisons have been performed in captive environments. These environments may produce unnaturally high antagonistic interactions, exaggerating the stress of social subordination and any associated adverse consequences. One such adverse effect concerns impaired cognitive ability, often thought to be associated with social subordination. Here, we tested whether social dominance rank is associated with differences in spatial learning and memory and in reversal spatial learning (flexibility) abilities in wild food-caching mountain chickadees at different montane elevations. Higher dominance rank was associated with higher spatial cognitive flexibility in harsh environments at higher elevations, but not at lower, milder elevations. In contrast, there were no consistent differences in spatial learning and memory ability associated with dominance rank. Our results suggest that spatial learning and memory ability in specialized food-caching species is a stable trait resilient to social influences. Spatial cognitive flexibility, on the other hand, appears to be more sensitive to environmental influences including social dominance. These findings contradict those from laboratory studies and suggest that it is critical to investigate the biological consequences of social dominance under natural conditions.
Data: Double Task Switching: an investigation into the effects of similarity and task-rule congruency on cognitive flexibility in the context of mental fatigue
<p>This is the data that was collected for the Double Task Switching Experiment (Hinss, Brock & Roy 2023). The File contains the behavioral as well as the subjective data of all participants.</p> <p><br> Some details:<br> Switch<br> 1= repetition trial<br> 2= internal switch<br> 3= external switch</p> <p>Task<br> 1= Low/High<br> 2= Even/Odd<br> 3= Vertical/Horizontal<br> 4= Cold/Hot</p> <p>Language (of instructions)<br> 0= French<br> 1= English</p> <p>Congruency<br> 1= Neutral<br> 2= Internally incongruent<br> 3= Externally incongruent<br> 4= Double incongruent<br> 5= Internally congruent<br> 6= Externally congruent<br> 7= Double congruent</p> <p>Correct<br> 1= Correct Response<br> 0= Error</p> <p>Hit<br> 0= Correct response on letter S<br> 1= Correct response on letter L</p> <p>Response<br> 0= Participants response on letter S<br> 1= Participants response on letter L</p> <p>EDI (Edinburgh Handedness questionnaire)</p> <p>MaryA1: What time did you settle in for the night?<br> MaryA2: What time did you fall asleep last night?<br> MaryA3: What time did you wake up this morning?<br> MaryA4: What time did you get up this morning?<br> MaryB1: How was your sleep<br> MaryB2: How many times did you wake up last night ?<br> MaryB3: How many hours did you sleep last night?<br> MaryB4: How many hours did you sleep during the day yesterday?<br> MaryB5: How well did you sleep last night?<br> MaryC1: If you didn't sleep well, what was the problem? (e.g., restless, etc.)<br> MaryD1: How much caffine/theine did you consume today ( in cups of coffee) ?<br> MaryD2: How much caffeine/theine would you usually have consumed at this time of the day ( in cups of coffee)?</p> <p> </p> <p>For any further questions, please refer to the full journal paper (<a href="https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0279021">https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0279021</a>).</p> <p>For publications, please cite as:</p> <p>Hinss MF, Brock AM, Roy RN (2023) The double task-switching protocol: An investigation into the effects of similarity and conflict on cognitive flexibility in the context of mental fatigue. PLOS ONE 18(2): e0279021. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0279021">https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0279021</a><br> </p>
The Impact of Pharmacological and Electric Modulation of NMDA Pathway on the Cognitive Flexibility and Volitional Movement Preparation in Patients With Parkinson's Disease
ClinicalTrials.gov study NCT01785628. IPD Sharing: Not stated. Countries: 1. Publications: 1.
Cognitive flexibility supports the development of cumulative cultural learning in children
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Data from: The origins of cognitive flexibility in chimpanzees
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Data from: Temperament and cognitive flexibility across lemur species
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Social dominance status is associated with differences in spatial cognitive flexibility in wild mountain chickadees
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Food discovery is associated with different reliance on social learning and lower cognitive flexibility across environments in a food caching bird
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Cuttlefish show flexible and future-dependent foraging cognition
<p>Some animals optimise their foraging activity by learning and memorising food availability, in terms of quantity and quality, and adapt their feeding behaviour accordingly. Here we investigated whether cuttlefish flexibly adapt their foraging behaviour according to the availability of their preferred prey. In Experiment 1, cuttlefish switched from a selective to an opportunistic foraging strategy (or <i>vice versa</i>) when the availability of their preferred prey at night was predictable versus unpredictable. In Experiment 2, cuttlefish exhibited day-to-day foraging flexibility, in response to what will happen in the proximate future (i.e. preferred prey available on alternate nights). In Experiment 1, the number of crabs eaten during the day decreased when shrimp (i.e. preferred food) were predictably available at night, while the consumption of crabs during the day was maintained when shrimp availability was unpredictable. Cuttlefish quickly shifted from one strategy to the other, when experimental conditions were reversed. In Experiment 2, cuttlefish only reduced their consumption of crabs during the daytime when shrimps were predictably available the following night. Their daytime foraging behaviour appeared dependent on shrimps' future availability. Overall, cuttlefish can adopt dynamic and flexible foraging behaviours including selective, opportunistic and future-dependent strategies, in response to changing foraging conditions.</p>
Prefrontal deep projection neurons enable cognitive flexibility via persistent feedback monitoring
<p>Attentional set-shifting is a cognitive task that requires a subject to flexibly shift attention between different sensory features of a stimulus, based on continuous trial-and-error. This data set comprises in-vivo 2-photon video recordings of fluorescent calcium signals made in the prefrontal (prelimbic + infralimbic) cortex of mice performing a serial extradimensional set-shifting task. </p> <p> </p> <p> </p>
The OpenFeeder: a flexible automated RFID feeder to measure inter and intraspecies differences in cognitive and behavioral performance in wild birds
<p>Understanding the ecology and evolution of personality and cognition requires the development of new tools to measure individual and species differences in behavioral and cognitive performances in wild populations. Furthermore, such tools should facilitate collection of large sample sizes, evaluate the repeatability of measured traits and allow direct comparison of species performances across a variety of behavioural tasks. Here we present a RFID-based feeder (OpenFeeder) designed to run visual cognitive tasks in wild animals. We illustrate the flexibility of the tool showing performances of three wild passerine species (<em>Parus major</em>, <em>Cyanistes caeruleus</em> and <em>Poecile palustris</em>) in an associative learning task. We recorded performances of a large number of individuals (>300) in the wild and showed both inter and intraspecific differences in associative learning. We also found moderate to high repeatability in individual differences in associative learning in each species. We show that the OpenFeeder is a flexible tool to record performance in multiple cognitive and behavioural tasks in free ranging animals across a variety of passerine species. The design, firmware, and software are open source to facilitate use in a wide variety of species and thus allow continuous improvement of the system and development of new behavioural and cognitive tasks. In doing so, we hope that this tool will be used by a large community of cognitive ecologists and comparative psychologists for both within and across species studies. Furthermore, our system should facilitate replication of results across populations along large-scale environmental gradients to improve our understanding of the role ecology plays in the evolution of cognitive traits.</p>
Comparing self-report and performance measurement of wisdom in Turkish sample: Relations with self-transcendence and cognitive flexibility
<p>Data set of research named: Comparing self-report and performance measurement of wisdom in Turkish sample: Relations with self-transcendence and cognitive flexibility</p>
Cognitive Flexibility Training for Persistent Pain: Neuroimaging Pilot (COFLEX-i)
ClinicalTrials.gov study NCT03720821. IPD Sharing: UNDECIDED. Countries: 1. Publications: 27.
The Effect of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on Decision Making and Cognitive Flexibility in Gambling Disorder
ClinicalTrials.gov study NCT03477799. IPD Sharing: UNDECIDED. Countries: 1. Publications: 1.
Funfitness Program With Music Tempo on Perceived Exertion, Flexibility, Balance and Cognition in Gym Going Females
ClinicalTrials.gov study NCT06985797. IPD Sharing: NO. Countries: 1. Publications: 9.
Mechanism of Mindfulness-Based Online Intervention in Enhancing Cognitive Flexibility
ClinicalTrials.gov study NCT06035003. IPD Sharing: NO. Countries: 1. Publications: 1.
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