New paper alert 📣 Baby #chicks tested with the bouba-kiki paradigm show evidence that mechanisms for crossmodal associations of shapes with sounds are present in a broad range of species 🧪 🐥

#CompCogPapers #SoundSymbolism #Chicken #BirdBrain #AnimalBehavior #ComparativePsychology

📣 New paper alert 🧪 The authors demonstrate that Kanzi the #bonobo tracks the displacement of "invisible" juice, a first of its kind study to examine imagination in nonhuman beings.
Read the paper here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#GreatApe #AnimalBehavior #CompCogPapers #ComparativePsychology

Is cognition at the root of plant behavior? Information processing underlies the behavior of many species, including plants. However, there remains uncertainty about how plants integrate and use information, and whether this is analogous to ani...

📣 #NewPaper on #plant information processing, with a truly excellent title 🌱 🧪 www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

#CompCogPapers #ComparativePsychology #Plants #InformationProcessing #Cognition #Ecology #Biology #Evolution

New paper alert: Social dynamics in #Meerkats 🧪 Make sure to see the videos in Vlad's thread as well 🙌

#CompCogPapers #AnimalBehavior #CollectiveBehvior #SocialHierarchy #AnimalCommunication

In case you haven't seen this themed issue on #Animal #Minds, it offers insights on the evolution of cognitive adaptations across #species 🧪

#CompCogPapers #ComparativePsychology #AnimalCognition #AnimalBehavior #Cognition

#NewPaper on adaptive tool use in Veronika the Carinthian #Cow 🐮 🧪
#CompCogPapers #AnimalBehvior #ComparativePsychology #AnimalCognition #ToolUse #CarinthianBlondvieh

Dogs with a large vocabulary of object labels learn new labels by overhearing like 1.5-year-old infants Children as young as 18 months can acquire novel words by overhearing third-party interactions. Demonstrating similar learning processes in nonhuman species would indicate that the social-cognitive sk...

🧪 New paper with "gifted" pet #dogs 🐶 suggests that they are able to associate labels they've overheard their guardians use with novel objects. Check out the full article: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

#CompCogPapers #AnimalCognition #DogBehavior #DogCognition #ComparativePsychology #LoveDogs

New study of personality variability across social contexts in common marmosets 🧪 🐒
doi.org/10.1016/j.an...
#AnimalBehavior #CompCogPapers #Personality #Monkey #Primate #IndividualVariation #Marmoset

Fear of the flying: new study looks at ‘neophobia’ in birds bit.ly/3LU5IUF Folio write up about our recent collaborative paper

PLoS Biology article: bit.ly/4o4Sdir

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Peek a boo! Information seeking about food and functionality in capuchin monkeys - Animal Cognition The ability to be aware of your own knowledge state (metacognition) can be investigated by examining an individual’s information-seeking behaviour. Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) perform strategic sear...

📣 New paper alert! Capuchin monkeys showed selective information seeking behaviour, suggesting that this is a flexible & domain general behaviour, not just a foraging strategy 🧪 🐒 #CompCogPapers #ComparativeCognition #Monkey #AnimalBehavior #ComparativePsychology
doi.org/10.1007/s100...

Bee positive! 🐝 A new study found evidence for positive affective contagion in bumblebees, this is an exciting direction for studying affect and emotion beyond vertebrates 🧪 #CompCogPapers #AffectiveScience #ComparativeCognition #BumbleBee #SocialBehavior #AnimalBehavior #Invertebrate #Insect

🧪 #CompCogPapers #ZebraFinch #AnimalBehavior

Systematic mapping and bibliometric analysis of meta-analyses on animal cognition Meta-analyses play an important role in empirically synthesising research and guiding future directions. The field of animal cognition is rapidly expa…

New collaborative paper "Systematic mapping and bibliometric analysis of meta-analyses on animal cognition" Neuro & Biobehav Rev https://bit.ly/45Jsd4T by folks at @UNSWScience @ualbertaScience @Uni_Newcastle @HokkaidoUni

@NSERC_CRSNG @Psych_UAlberta #CompCogPapers

A special issue in honor of the contributions of Professor Nicola S. Clayton FRS Learning & Behavior - It has been an honor to edit this special issue of Learning & Behavior to recognize the exceptional contributions of Prof. Nicky S. Clayton FRS to the fields of...

The Editorial for the Special Issue of #PsynomLB In honour of the contributions of @nickyclayton22 is now online: https://bit.ly/4iiXDUn #compcogpapers @ComparativeCog @Psychonomic_Soc

Aerial urination suggests undescribed sensory modality and social function in river dolphins Scent marking through urine spraying is known to aid mate selection, territory marking and chemical communication in terrestrial, but not in aquatic m…

🚨 Aerial Urination in dolphins 🚨 Male river dolphins spray urine into the air, usually in the presence of a 'receiver' male 🐬 Results suggest a previously unreported sensory modality, and potential social and communicatory functions #CompCogPapers www.sciencedirect.co...

Revisiting episodic-like memory in scrub jays: Is there more we can still learn from what–where–when caching behaviour? Learning & Behavior - Professor Nicola Clayton is perhaps best known for her work on food-caching scrub jays. Her seminal 1998 paper, together with Anthony Dickinson, showed that scrub jays...

New #PsynomLB paper Revisiting episodic-like memory in scrub jays: Is there more we can still learn from what–where–when caching behaviour? https://bit.ly/42a4zhZ by Wordfold et al. @nickyclayton22 #corvid #compcogpapers #caching @psychonomic_soc @comparativecog

Bee reasonable: Do bumblebees reason by exclusion? Learning & Behavior - In a clever adaptation of the two-cups task, a recent paper tested for reasoning by exclusion in bees. Although further work is necessary to rule out competing hypotheses,...

New #PsynomLB #Outlook paper Bee reasonable: Do bumblebees reason by exclusion? https://bit.ly/4achpOB by @donnakean.bsky.social & Alex Taylor #CompCogPapers

Cuttlefish favour their current need to hide rather than their future need for food Learning & Behavior - Episodic memory and future thinking are generally considered as two parts of the same mental time travelling system in vertebrates. Modern cephalopods, with their...

New #psynomLB paper https://bit.ly/3C0taLu Cuttlefish favour their current need to hide rather than their future need for food by Lisa et al. @ChristelleJozet #cephalopod #futureplanning #mentaltimetravel @ComparativeCog @Psychonomic_Soc #CompCogPapers

Examination of hierarchical form perception in African grey parrots (Psittacus erithacus) Learning & Behavior - The perception of objects is a challenging task that requires recognizing visual elements and integrating them into a whole. While human vision prioritizes attention to...

New #PsynomLB paper https://bit.ly/4gInJ2N Examination of hierarchical form perception in African grey parrots (Psittacus erithacus) by Ali Qadri & Suzanne Gray @Psychonomic_Soc @ComparativeCog #compcogpapers

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🚨Bees may reason by exclusion🚨 Martin-Ordas suggests bees can infer 1 option is correct because they have excluded the alternative, & that the concept of 'or' is represented. Clever adaptation of 2-cup task allowing 1st test of this capacity in invertebrates 🐝 #compcogpapers

Do marmosets really have names? Learning & Behavior - A recent study demonstrated that marmoset “phee calls” include information specific to the intended receiver of the call, and that receivers respond more to...

New #psynomLB #Outlook Do marmosets really have names? https://bit.ly/4213mts by Kelly Jaakkola @DolphinResearch about @DavidOmer_ paper @ScienceMagazine Vocal labeling of others by nonhuman primates, 385:996-1003 #compcogpapers #neuroscience #communication

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Sex predicts response to novelty and problem-solving in a wild bird with female-biased sexual dimorphism | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences https://bit.ly/4gMFu0J #CompCogPapers @JuliaLSelf @ConnorTLambert