E&E PhD Exit Seminar: Aquatic IQs: Fish cognition, its predictors, and adaptive value

E&E PhD Exit Seminar: Aquatic IQs: Fish cognition, its predictors, and adaptive value

Cognitive abilities underpin almost every animal behaviour and allow them to gather, store, process, and use information essential for survival and reproduction. Great variation in cognitive abilities exists not only between different species, but even across individuals from the same population.

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21 Sep 2023 4:00pm
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Ivan Vinogradov, Jennions Group, RSB
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Cognitive abilities underpin almost every animal behaviour and allow them to gather, store, process, and use information essential for survival and reproduction. Great variation in cognitive abilities exists not only between different species, but even across individuals from the same population. This variation suggests that the evolution of cognition involves multiple factors. Cognitive abilities, their adaptive value, and their biological predictors remain poorly understood in wild animals and are particularly overlooked in fish. In this seminar, I will first talk about how we can objectively quantify fish cognition, including memory, learning, and self-control. I will then present experimental studies exploring how various traits and environmental factors impact cognition, from sex and age of the fish, to pharmacological pollution and climate change. Lastly, I will discuss selection on cognitive abilities in fish, its role in survival and reproduction.

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Please note: this seminar will be held in the Eucalyptus Rm and via Zoom, details are included below.

Eucalyptus Room, Rm S205, Level 2, RN Robertson Building (46)

Please click the link below to join the webinar:

https://anu.zoom.us/j/83708507486?pwd=ZFZYTk42ODk5TlNMS3VXeFhOUWN1Zz09
Passcode: 820203

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