Artículo
Tolerance to delayed reward tasks in social and non-social contexts
Fagnani, Jésica Paola
; Barrera, Gabriela Luciana
; Carballo Pozzo Ardizzi, Fabricio
; Bentosela, Mariana
Fecha de publicación:
08/2016
Editorial:
Elsevier Science
Revista:
Behavioural Processes
ISSN:
0376-6357
Idioma:
Inglés
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Artículo publicado
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Resumen
Domestic dogs have demonstrated striking social skills towards humans, however, there are few studies investigating impulsivity with delay-choice tasks in communicative contexts. In Study 1 we introduced a novel social delay-choice task in which subjects had to choose between one human cueing an immediate, low quality reward and another human signaling a delayed, high quality reward. In Study 2 we evaluated the tolerance to increasing delays using social and non-social cues. We also explored if more self-controlled dogs show any distinct behaviours during delays. Finally, we correlated all results with the Dog Impulsivity Assessment Scale (Wright et al., 2011). In Study 1 dogs reached an average maximum delay of 11.55 s. In Study 2 that average was 52.14 s with social cues and 40.2 s with non-social, but differences were not significant. Tolerance to delays showed high interindividual variation. Dogs remained mostly standing and near the delayed experimenter in the social tasks although we could not to find any distinct coping strategies. No significant correlations were found between the delay reached and behaviours, neither with the scale. These results show the relevance of the parameters and methodsused to investigate tolerance to delay of reinforcements. More investigations are required, especially an assessment of the same subjects performing the same tasks using different contexts.
Palabras clave:
Aprendizaje
,
Comunicacion
,
Demora
,
Impulsividad
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Articulos(ICIVET-LITORAL)
Articulos de INST. DE CIENCIAS VETERINARIAS DEL LITORAL
Articulos de INST. DE CIENCIAS VETERINARIAS DEL LITORAL
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Articulos de INST.DE INVEST.MEDICAS
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Articulos de INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS BIOLOGICAS Y BIOMEDICAS DEL SUR
Articulos de INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS BIOLOGICAS Y BIOMEDICAS DEL SUR
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Fagnani, Jésica Paola; Barrera, Gabriela Luciana; Carballo Pozzo Ardizzi, Fabricio; Bentosela, Mariana; Tolerance to delayed reward tasks in social and non-social contexts; Elsevier Science; Behavioural Processes; 130; 8-2016; 19-30
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