Japanese Quail Sociability and Social Cognition Experimental Data

Datasets used in analyses comparing sociocognitive performance in selectively bred lines of Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica). The data, authored by Jeanne Seressia, includes results from gaze following, social buffering, and social discrimination learning tasks. The dataset was last updated on 2026-05-28.

Use Cases

• Analyzing the relationship between social motivation and gaze following behavior based on experimental task results.
• Investigating the effects of social isolation and social buffering on behavioral adaptability based on described task outcomes.
• Comparing learning performance in social discrimination tasks between high and low social motivation lines.
• Studying individual variation in sociability as a personality trait and its context-dependent cognitive consequences.

Strengths

• Data originates from a controlled experiment using two selectively bred quail lines (S+ and S-) with consistent differences in social motivation.
• Results are derived from three complementary sociocognitive tasks: gaze following, social buffering, and social discrimination learning.
• Dataset is shared under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license, facilitating reuse.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The dataset is small in scale at 86.6 KB, indicating limited scope.

Provenance

Source

Jeanne Seressia

Collection Method

Experimental data from behavioral tasks performed on selectively bred Japanese quail lines.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-28 17:27:05; freshness should be verified.