The tendency for social submission predicts superior cognitive performance in previously isolated male mice

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• 作者：Louis D. Matzel ; ^a ; ^{matzel@rci.rutgers.edu} ; Stefan Kolata^a ; Kenneth Light^b ; Bruno Sauce^a
• 关键词：Aggression ; Dominance ; Intelligence ; Learning ; Stress ; Individual differences
• 刊名：Behavioural Processes
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：134
• 期：Complete
• 页码：12-21
• 全文大小：783 K
• 卷排序：134

文摘

Imposed submission can impair cognitive performance. Here, innate tendencies toward submission were associated with higher cognitive abilities. Both submissive tendencies and cognitive abilities were related to stress reactivity. Higher cognition may be a compensatory device to mitigate submissive tendencies.