Beyond criterion: cognitive flexibility in wild striated caracaras

Our study assesses reversal learning in wild striated caracaras (Phalcoboenus australis). Our data was live coded by hand and later entered into a CSV file. The CSV file contains individuals' binary response across trials per task. Variables are defined as following:date (mm/dd/Y), ID (individual), age (HY, hatch-year; JUV, juvenile; SA, sub-adult; AD, adult), sex (F, female; M, male), task (AL, associative learning; RL, reversal learning), color (LB, light blue; DB, dark blue), session (set of trials corresponding to a single day), trial (trial number), succ (0, incorrect; 1, correct), cumsum (cumulative sum of correct choices), cumTrial (cumulative trial number, i.e., pooled across sessions), crit (0, no; 1, yes, i.e., whether an individual has met criterion by that trial number), critTrial (trial in which individual first reached criterion). Our R script for analyzing the data is fully annotated.

本研究旨在评估野生条纹卡拉鹰（Phalcoboenus australis）的反转学习能力。本研究的数据通过手工实时编码采集，随后录入CSV文件。该CSV文件收录了各受试个体在各项任务的不同试次中的二元反应结果。变量定义如下：日期（格式为月/日/年，mm/dd/Y）、个体编号（ID）、年龄（HY：当年孵化幼鸟（hatch-year）；JUV：幼鸟（juvenile）；SA：亚成体（sub-adult）；AD：成体（adult））、性别（F：雌性（female）；M：雄性（male））、任务类型（AL：联想学习（associative learning）；RL：反转学习（reversal learning））、颜色（LB：浅蓝色（light blue）；DB：深蓝色（dark blue））、实验单元（session，指单日开展的一组试次）、试次编号（trial）、反应结果（succ：0为错误，1为正确）、正确选择累计数（cumsum）、累计试次编号（cumTrial，即跨实验单元合并后的总试次数）、达标标记（crit：0为未达标，1为已达标，即受试个体在当前试次是否已达到判定标准）、首次达标试次编号（critTrial，即个体首次达到判定标准时的试次编号）。本研究用于数据分析的R脚本已完成完整注释。