Investigating the relationship between physical cognitive tasks and a social cognitive task in a wild bird by Grace Blackburn, Benjamin J. Ashton, Alex Thornton, Holly Hunter, Sarah Woodiss-Field, Amanda R. Ridley

“…In this study, we tested 36 wild Western Australian magpies (Gymnorhina tibicen dorsalis) on a battery of three physical (associative learning, spatial memory, and numerical assessment) and one social (observational spatial memory) cognitive task, to investigate if cognition in this species fits a general cognitive factor model, or instead one of separate physical and social cognitive domains. …”
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