EVOLECOCOG

The evolutionary ecology of cognition across a heterogeneous landscape

 Coordinatore UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, CORK 

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 Nazionalità Coordinatore Ireland [IE]
 Totale costo 1˙993˙189 €
 EC contributo 1˙993˙189 €
 Programma FP7-IDEAS-ERC
Specific programme: "Ideas" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
 Code Call ERC-2013-CoG
 Funding Scheme ERC-CG
 Anno di inizio 2015
 Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) 2015-03-01   -   2020-02-29

 Partecipanti

# participant  country  role  EC contrib. [€] 
1    UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, CORK

 Organization address address: Western Road
city: CORK
postcode: -

contact info
Titolo: Dr.
Nome: David
Cognome: O'connell
Email: send email
Telefono: +353 214903501
Fax: +353 214903506

IE (CORK) hostInstitution 1˙993˙189.00
2    UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, CORK

 Organization address address: Western Road
city: CORK
postcode: -

contact info
Titolo: Dr.
Nome: John Leo
Cognome: Quinn
Email: send email
Telefono: +353 21 4904546
Fax: +353 214903506

IE (CORK) hostInstitution 1˙993˙189.00

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traits    genetic    variation    wild    quantitative    physiological    cognitive    examine    population    learning    individuals    causes    ability    proximate    vary   

 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'Why do individuals vary in their cognitive abilities? This proposal takes the disciplines of cognition and evolutionary biology into a natural setting to answer this question by investigating a variety of proximate causes and population-level consequences of individual variation in cognitive ability. It represents the first large-scale integrative study of cognitive ability on any wild population. State of the art observational (remote sensing and automated self-administration trials of learning in the wild), chemical (stable isotope analysis of diet), physiological (stress, energetics, immunocompetence), molecular (DNA fingerprinting and metabarcoding) and analytical (reaction norm, quantitative genetic) techniques will be used. The chosen study system, the great tit Parus major, is one of the most widely used in Europe, but uniquely here will consist of 12 subpopulations across deciduous and conifer woodland fragments. The proposal’s broad scope is captured in three objectives: 1) To characterise proximate causes of variation in cognitive (associative/reversal learning; problem solving; brain size) and other traits (the reactive-proactive personality axis; bill morphology), all of which can influence similar ecologically important behaviour. Quantitative genetic, social, parasite-mediated, and physiological causes will be explored. 2) To examine links between these traits, and key behaviours and trade-offs, e.g., space use, niche specialization, predation, parental care and promiscuity; and 3) To examine the consequences of this variation for life histories and fitness. The research team consists of the PI, five early career biologists, and three PhD students, and will collaborate with eight researchers from Europe and further afield. The project will reveal ground-breaking insight into why individuals vary in their cognitive ability. It aims to impact a wide scientific community, to raise public interest in science, and to inform EU biodiversity policy.'

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