Lefebvre Louis, Audet Jean-Nicolas
Department of Biology, McGill University, 1205 ave Dr Penfield, Montréal, H3A 1B1, Québec, Canada.
Rockefeller University Field Research Center, 495 Tyrrel rd, Millbrook, NY, 12545, USA.
Learn Behav. 2022 Mar;50(1):37-44. doi: 10.3758/s13420-021-00493-2. Epub 2021 Nov 10.
David Sherry's pioneering work on the neuroecology of spatial memory has three characteristics that could inspire studies on other cognitive processes: it was grounded in a robust prior literature in psychology and neuroscience; it identified several natural history contexts in which repeated independent evolution of spatial memory differences had occurred in different clades; it involved a precise cognitive ability with a precise neural substrate. We discuss the application of these three principles to a more domain-general trait-innovation. We argue that targeting the caudolateral nidopallium and its connected areas, favoring problem-solving over reversal learning as an experimental assay, and focusing on situations that involve environmental change, such as urbanization and invasion, can help the study of innovation progress, like the field of spatial memory has since 1989.
大卫·谢里在空间记忆神经生态学方面的开创性工作具有三个特点，这些特点可能会启发对其他认知过程的研究：它基于心理学和神经科学方面丰富的先前文献；它确定了几个自然历史背景，在这些背景中，不同进化枝中空间记忆差异发生了反复的独立进化；它涉及一种具有精确神经基质的精确认知能力。我们讨论这三个原则在更具领域一般性的性状创新中的应用。我们认为，以尾外侧巢皮质及其连接区域为目标，在实验测定中更倾向于解决问题而非逆向学习，并关注涉及环境变化的情况，如城市化和入侵，有助于像自1989年以来空间记忆领域那样推动创新研究的进展。
