Commentary: Revisiting the Marshmallow Test: A Conceptual Replication Investigating Links Between Early Delay of Gratification and Later Outcomes

Barragan‐Jason, Gladys; Atance, Cristina M.; Hopfensitz, Astrid; Stieglitz, Jonathan; Cauchoix, Maxime

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02719

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“…Therefore, instead of testing an individual in one standardized condition, we could measure an individual's cognitive performance in different natural (or artificial) conditions (e.g., social vs. nonsocial, temperature gradient, etc.) to take into account plastic responses at the individual and population levels (Voelkl and Würbel, 2016;Barragan-Jason et al, 2018a;Caza and Atance, 2018). Such an approach would not only enable a more accurate measure of cognitive abilities, teasing out repeatable and plastic components (Dingemanse et al, 2010), but could also help us better understand the adaptive value of plastic cognitive responses.…”

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Cognition in Context: Plasticity in Cognitive Performance in Response to Ongoing Environmental Variables

2020

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Cognition has evolved to allow organisms to process, use and store information in their natural environment. Yet, cognitive abilities are traditionally measured in controlled laboratory conditions to obtain consistent and accurate measurements. Consequently, little is known about the actual effect of natural environmental variation on cognitive performances. Being able to modify cognitive performance according to environmental conditions (e.g., plasticity of attentional performances according to current predator densities) could provide evolutionary advantages. In this mini-review, we compile evidence for what we call "cognitive performance plasticity" (i.e., flexible adjustment of cognitive performance in response to the current environment). We then discuss methodological approaches associated with measurement of cognitive performance plasticity and cognition in general. Finally, we discuss the implications of acknowledging plasticity in cognitive performance, including a better understanding of the reproducibility crisis observed in cognitive sciences (Open Science Collaboration, 2015) and new lines of inquiry into the evolution of cognition and the adaptive value of cognitive performance plasticity.

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