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    • Comparative cognition
    • Evolutionary psychology
    • Animal behavior

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    • Comparative cognition investigates animal intelligence and its evolution, but faces methodological challenges.
    • Standardized cross-species cognitive testing is difficult due to anatomical, perceptual, and motivational differences.
    • Existing paradigms may yield misrepresentative results by not accounting for interspecific variations.

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    • To introduce a novel approach for comparative cognitive research.
    • To address the need for universally applicable paradigms in cross-species cognitive ability testing.
    • To facilitate the examination of behavioral and psychological profiles alongside specific cognitive skills.

    Main Methods:

    • The Multi-Access-Box paradigm was developed for comparative cognitive research.
    • This method presents animals with novel, multi-solution extractive foraging tasks.
    • It allows for the assessment of exploration, solution discovery, flexibility, and individual variation.

    Main Results:

    • The Multi-Access-Box enables the examination of species-specific behavioral and perceptual determinants of performance.
    • It provides a standardized method for collecting comparative data on flexibility and problem-solving.
    • The paradigm is suitable for assessing theoretical covariates of 'general intelligence' across species.

    Conclusions:

    • The Multi-Access-Box offers a promising new approach to comparative cognition.
    • Establishing behavioral profiles prior to skill comparison can yield more accurate insights.
    • This method enhances the study of the evolution of brain and intelligence through standardized, cross-species analysis.