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Animal cognition

Continuous or discrete magnitudes? A comparative study between cats, dogs and humans

Mireia Solé Pi, Luz A. Espino, Péter Szenczi, Marcos Rosetti, Oxána Bánszegi

published 01 Oct 2025

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Asymmetrical distribution of supports affect pea plants movement and shape: Evidence of quantity discrimination?

Silvia Guerra, Umberto Castiello, Valentina Simonetti, Bianca Bonato, Koleen McCrink

published 19 May 2025

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“Classifying-together” phenomenon in fish (Xenotoca eiseni): Simultaneous exposure to visual stimuli impairs subsequent discrimination learning

Valeria Anna Sovrano, Greta Baratti, Davide Potrich, Tania Rosà, Veronica Mazza

published 25 Aug 2022

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Cleaner wrasse Labroides dimidiatus perform above chance in a “matching-to-sample” experiment

Mélisande Aellen, Ulrike E. Siebeck, Redouan Bshary

published 31 Jan 2022

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Socio-spatial cognition in cats: Mentally mapping owner’s location from voice

Saho Takagi, Hitomi Chijiiwa, Minori Arahori, Atsuko Saito, Kazuo Fujita, Hika Kuroshima

published 10 Nov 2021

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The hidden side of animal cognition research: Scientists’ attitudes toward bias, replicability and scientific practice

Benjamin G. Farrar, Ljerka Ostojić, Nicola S. Clayton

published 31 Aug 2021

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Development of strategic social information seeking: Implications for cumulative culture

Kirsten H. Blakey, Eva Rafetseder, Mark Atkinson, Elizabeth Renner, Fía Cowan-Forsythe, Shivani J. Sati, Christine A. Caldwell

published 24 Aug 2021

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Interspecific two-dimensional visual discrimination of faces in horses (Equus caballus)

Giulia Ragonese, Paolo Baragli, Chiara Mariti, Angelo Gazzano, Antonio Lanatà, Adriana Ferlazzo, Esterina Fazio, Cristina Cravana

published 19 Feb 2021

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Using touchscreen equipped operant chambers to study animal cognition. Benefits, limitations, and advice

Benjamin M. Seitz, Kelsey McCune, Maggie MacPherson, Luisa Bergeron, Aaron P. Blaisdell, Corina J. Logan

published 19 Feb 2021

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Does training method matter? Evidence for the negative impact of aversive-based methods on companion dog welfare

Ana Catarina Vieira de Castro, Danielle Fuchs, Gabriela Munhoz Morello, Stefania Pastur, Liliana de Sousa, I. Anna S. Olsson

published 16 Dec 2020

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Sex-dependent effects of chronic intermittent voluntary alcohol consumption on attentional, not motivational, measures during probabilistic learning and reversal

Claudia G. Aguirre, Alexandra Stolyarova, Kanak Das, Saisriya Kolli, Vincent Marty, Lara Ray, Igor Spigelman, Alicia Izquierdo

published 18 Jun 2020

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Establishing an infrastructure for collaboration in primate cognition research

Many Primates , Drew M. Altschul, Michael J. Beran, Manuel Bohn, Josep Call, Sarah DeTroy, Shona J. Duguid, Crystal L. Egelkamp, Claudia Fichtel, Julia Fischer, Molly Flessert, Daniel Hanus, Daniel B. M. Haun, Lou M. Haux, R. Adriana Hernandez-Aguilar, Esther Herrmann, Lydia M. Hopper, Marine Joly, Fumihiro Kano, Stefanie Keupp, Alicia P. Melis, Alba Motes Rodrigo, Stephen R. Ross, Alejandro Sánchez-Amaro, Yutaro Sato, Vanessa Schmitt, Manon K. Schweinfurth, Amanda M. Seed, Derry Taylor, Christoph J. Völter, Elizabeth Warren, Julia Watzek

published 24 Oct 2019

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Influences of demographic, seasonal, and social factors on automated touchscreen computer use by rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) in a large naturalistic group

Regina Paxton Gazes, Meredith C. Lutz, Mark J. Meyer, Thomas C. Hassett, Robert R. Hampton

published 24 Apr 2019

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