Performance in cognitive and problem-solving tasks in male spotted bowerbirds does not correlate with mating success

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Toward wild psychometrics: linking individual cognitive differences to fitness (2014, methodology): “, association formation, instrumental learning, transitive inference, inhibitory control, spatial memory), with tasks designed to minimize effects of experience in one task on performance in others (c.f., Matzel et al. 2003; Herrmann et al. 2010; Isden et al. 2013).”
Measuring variation in cognition (2014, background): “One certainly needs to be cautious in attributing variation in performance in an associative learning task involving colors and rewards to differences in learning speed per se (Isden et al. 2013).”
Wild psychometrics: evidence for ‘general’ cognitive performance in wild New Zealand robins, Petroica longipes (2015, methodology): “However, Isden et al. (2013) used block symbols (rather than lines) and also found that spotted bowerbirds took longer to learn the symbol discrimination than a colour discrimination task.”