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dc.contributor.authorWang, MY
dc.contributor.authorBrennan, CH
dc.contributor.authorLachlan, RF
dc.contributor.authorChittka, L
dc.date.accessioned2016-07-04T11:29:16Z
dc.date.issued2015-02-21
dc.date.issued2015-05-01
dc.date.submitted2016-07-04T11:30:05.724Z
dc.identifier.issn0003-3472
dc.identifier.other10.1016/j.anbehav.2015.01.022
dc.identifier.urihttp://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/13176
dc.description.abstract© 2015 The Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour.Speed-accuracy trade-offs are well studied in human decision making, but we are only beginning to understand how such trade-offs affect other animals. Similarly, it is poorly understood how consistent individual differences in decision making are influenced by their social context. Here we investigated whether zebrafish, Danio rerio, show individual consistency ('personality') in speed-accuracy trade-offs based on a colour discrimination task, and how pairs of fish with distinct personalities make consensus choices. The results showed that zebrafish exhibit between-individual speed-accuracy trade-offs: some fish made 'careful', slow but accurate decisions, while others made swift but less accurate choices. We also found that these decision-making strategies were constant over time: fish retained the same strategy for 3 days. When testing pairs of careful and fast-and-inaccurate individuals, the combined choice strategy was intermediate in speed, but statistically indistinguishable from the careful individual, whereas accuracy of the dyad decision was moderately higher than that of each individual when tested singly, although this was again not significantly different from the more careful individual. For the first time, our study thus demonstrates that two individuals influence one another's speed-accuracy trade-off in decision making.
dc.description.sponsorshipM.Y.W. was supported by the Overseas Research Student Awards Scheme and the Ministry of Education and National Science Council Taiwan Studying Abroad Scholarship (grant number 1003116013).en_US
dc.format.extent277 - 283
dc.language.isoenen_US
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dc.relation.isreplacedbyhttps://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/handle/123456789/54207
dc.titleSpeed-accuracy trade-offs and individually consistent decision making by individuals and dyads of zebrafish in a colour discrimination task
dc.typeJournal Article
dc.rights.holder2016 Elsevier B.V. or its licensors or contributor
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.anbehav.2015.01.022
dc.relation.isPartOfAnimal Behaviour
dc.relation.isPartOfAnimal Behaviour
pubs.publication-statusPublished
pubs.volume103


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