Non-human animals demonstrate probabilistic thinking capabilities
Multiple comparative studies demonstrate that non-human animals, such as primates and rodents, engage in probabilistic decision-making and exhibit choice behaviors under uncertainty that closely mirror human patterns.
The retrieved papers provide robust experimental evidence that non-human animals (rodents and primates) can be successfully tested using animal adaptations of tasks like the Iowa Gambling Task, demonstrating that they make choices based on probabilistic cost-benefit and uncertainty assessments. No papers refute the claim.
C. Winstanley, S. Floresco. Deciphering Decision Making: Variation in Animal Models of Effort- and Uncertainty-Based Choice Reveals Distinct Neural Circuitries Underlying Core Cognitive Processes. 2016. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1713-16.2016
Paper 0 discusses behavioral paradigms designed for non-human laboratory animals to test decision-making under uncertainty.
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F. De Petrillo, A. Rosati. Variation in primate decision-making under uncertainty and the roots of human economic behaviour. 2021. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0671
Paper 1 reviews comparative research on decision-making under risk and uncertainty across non-human primates to evaluate behavioral mechanisms.
Lidia Cabeza, Julie Giustiniani, Thibault Chabin, Bahrie Ramadan, Coralie Joucla, M. Nicolier, L. Pazart, E. Haffen, D. Fellmann, D. Gabriel, Y. Peterschmitt. Modelling decision-making under uncertainty: A direct comparison study between human and mouse gambling data.. 2019. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroneuro.2019.11.005
Paper 3 directly compares decision-making performance under probabilistic reward contingencies between humans and mice, showing closely matching patterns.
Lidia Cabeza, Julie Giustiniani, Thibault Chabin, Bahrie Ramadan, Coralie Joucla, M. Nicolier, L. Pazart, E. Haffen, D. Fellmann, D. Gabriel, Y. Peterschmitt. Modeling decision-making under uncertainty: a direct comparison study between human and mouse gambling data. 2019. https://doi.org/10.1101/570499
Paper 4 confirms similar physiological decision-making performances and probabilistic choice behaviors between mice and humans.
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