Animal Cognition

Article	Citations
Spaced training enhances equine learning performance	41
“Cognition in marine mammals: the strength of flexibility in adapting to marine life”	35
Seasonal changes in problem-solving in wild African striped mice	21
Thinking about order: a review of common processing of magnitude and learned orders in animals	21
Planning actions with a magnetic tool: how initial tool orientation and number of functional ends influence motor planning abilities in capuchin monkeys (Sapajus spp.)	18
Correction to: If horses had toes: demonstrating mirror self recognition at group level in Equus caballus	18
House sparrows use learned information selectively based on whether reward is hidden or visible	18
Disentangling help-seeking and giving up: differential human-directed gazing by dogs in a modified unsolvable task paradigm	16
Does owner handedness influence paw preference in dogs?	16
Learning to anticipate mate presence shapes individual sex roles in the hermaphroditic pond snail, Lymnaea stagnalis	16
Pet dogs (Canis familiaris) re-engage humans after joint activity	16
Cognitive flexibility in a Tanganyikan bower-building cichlid, Aulonocranus dewindti	15
Nest sanitation as an effective defence against brood parasitism	15
Horses discriminate between human facial and vocal expressions of sadness and joy	15
Life is in motion (through a chick’s eye)	15
Injury shortens life expectancy in ants and affects some risk-related decisions of workers	15
Assessment of predation risk through conspecific cues by anuran larvae	15
Mutual mother–pup vocal recognition in the highly colonial Cape fur seal: evidence of discrimination of calls with a high acoustic similarity	14
The PROUST hypothesis: the embodiment of olfactory cognition	14
Grouping rule in tadpole: is quantity more or size assortment more important?	14
Sex differences in social buffering and social contagion of alarm responses in zebrafish	14
Learning and organization of within-session sequences by pigeons (Columba livia)	14
Spot the odd one out: do snake pictures capture macaques’ attention more than other predators?	14
Domestic cats (Felis catus) prefer freely available food over food that requires effort	14
Both age and experience are important for successful problem solving in juvenile fawn-footed mosaic-tailed rats Melomys cervinipes	13

Lessons learned in animal acoustic cognition through comparisons with humans	12
What drives horse success at following human-given cues? An investigation of handler familiarity and living conditions	11
On being a Hydra with, and without, a nervous system: what do neurons add?	11
A promising novel judgement bias test to evaluate affective states in dogs (Canis familiaris)	11
A new protocol for investigating visual two-choice discrimination learning in lizards	11
Cognitive control of song production by humpback whales	11
Context specificity of latent inhibition in the snail Cornu aspersum	10
Changes in the anxiety-like and fearful behavior of shrimp following daily threatening experiences	10
Impact of environmental complexity and stocking density on affective states of rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)	10
Smart sharks: a review of chondrichthyan cognition	10
Decision making under risk: framing effects in pigeon risk preferences	10
A comparative study of mirror self-recognition in three corvid species	10
Penguins perceive variations of source- and filter-related vocal parameters of species-specific vocalisations	10
Impact of exploration behavior, aptitude for pellet consumption, and the predation practice on the performance in consecutive live prey foraging tests in a piscivorous species	9
Overlooked evidence for semantic compositionality and signal reduction in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)	9
Incrementing non-matching- but not matching-to-sample is rapidly learned in an automated version of the odor span task	9
Host parent responses to heterospecific parasite nestling alarm calls are independent of past and current experience with experimental brood parasitism	9
Cue polarization and representation in mouse home base behaviors	9
Left or right, that is the question: use of egocentric frame of reference and the right-eye advantage for understanding gestural signs in bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus)	9
Quantitative abilities of invertebrates: a methodological review	9
Can rats and ants exchange information between the horizontal and vertical domains?	9
Evidence of successive negative contrast in terrestrial toads (Rhinella arenarum): central or peripheral effect?	9
Behavioral laterality is correlated with problem-solving performance in a songbird	9
Searching high and low: domestic dogs’ understanding of solidity	9
Orientation by environmental geometry and feature cues in the green and black poison frog (Dendrobates auratus)	9
Testing use of the first multi-partner cognitive enrichment devices by a group of male bottlenose dolphins	9
Individual recognition and long-term memory of inanimate interactive agents and humans in dogs	9
Context-dependent use of olfactory cues by foragers of Vespula germanica social wasps	8
Tolerant macaque species are less impulsive and reactive	8
Emulative learning of a two-step task in free-ranging domestic pigs	8
African jewel fish (Hemichromis bimaculatus) distinguish individual faces based on their unique iridophore patterns	8
The deterrent effects of individual monoterpene odours on the dietary decisions of African elephants	8
Intra- and interspecific variation in self-control capacities of parrots in a delay of gratification task	8
Basal cognition: shifting the center of gravity (again)	8
An exploratory analysis of head-tilting in dogs	8
Plasticity for the kin and conspecific preferences in the frog tadpoles (Rana ornativentris)	8
Novel object recognition in Octopus maya	8
Performance on inhibitory tasks does not relate to handedness in several small groups of Callitrichids	8
Learning about construction behaviour from observing an artefact: can experience with conspecifics aid in artefact recognition?	8
Volumetric and connectivity assessment of the caudate nucleus in California sea lions and coyotes	8
After 150 years of watching: is there a need for synthetic ethology?	8
Are you better than me? Social comparisons in carrion crows (Corvus corone)	8
Wild skuas can use acoustic cues to locate hidden food	8
Domestication effects on social information transfer in chickens	7
Social experience drives the development of holistic face processing in paper wasps	7
First record of geophagy in Jungle Babbler (Turdoides striata) prior to egg-laying: an instinct for calcium supplement	7
Odor-based mate choice copying in deer mice is not affected by familiarity or kinship	7
Gender differences in animal cognition science	7
Cognition of the manatee: past research and future developments	7
Through the eyes of a hunter: assessing perception and exclusion performance in ground-hornbills	7

Mirror self-recognition in gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla): a review and evaluation of mark test replications and variants	7
Repeated testing does not confound cognitive performance in the Western Australian magpie (Cracticus tibicen dorsalis)	7
Nest box entrance hole size can influence nest site selection and nest defence behaviour in Japanese tits	7
Bold and bright: shy and supple? The effect of habitat type on personality–cognition covariance in the Aegean wall lizard (Podarcis erhardii)	7
Visual categories and concepts in the avian brain	7
Count-based decision-making in mice: numerosity vs. stimulus control	7
Juvenile vervet monkeys rely on others when responding to danger	7
Behavioural synchronization and social referencing of dogs and humans: walking in dyad vs in group	7
Visual perception of emotion cues in dogs: a critical review of methodologies	7
Effects of early noise exposure on hippocampal-dependent behaviors during adolescence in male rats: influence of different housing conditions	7
Varieties of visual navigation in insects	7
Quantity discrimination by kittens of the domestic cat (Felis silvestris catus)	7
Long-term stability of vocal individuality cues in a territorial and monogamous seabird	7
Oscillatory extraction behaviour suggests functional attributes of crows’ hooked-stick tools	6
Horses form cross-modal representations of adults and children	6
Slowly walking down to the more food: relative quantity discrimination in African spurred tortoises (Centrochelys sulcata)	6
Meowing dogs: can dogs recognize cats in a cross-modal violation of expectancy task (Canis familiaris)?	6
Active oscillations in microscale navigation	6
Object use in communication of semi-wild chimpanzees	6
Two-action task, testing imitative social learning in kea (Nestor notabilis)	6
Quantity discrimination in a spontaneous task in a poison frog	6
Group size, partner choice and collaborative actions in male Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops aduncus)	6
Correction: Do chimpanzees see a face on Mars? A search for face pareidolia in chimpanzees	6
Interspecific differences in developmental mode determine early cognitive abilities in teleost fish	6
Context-effect bias in capuchin monkeys (Sapajus spp.): exploring decoy influences in a value-based food choice task	6
Adjustment in the point-following behaviour of free-ranging dogs – roles of social petting and informative-deceptive nature of cues	6
Adding colour-realistic video images to audio playbacks increases stimulus engagement but does not enhance vocal learning in zebra finches	6
Correction to: Domestic cats (Felis catus) prefer freely available food over food that requires effort	6
Puppies in the problem-solving paradigm: quick males and social females	6
Assessing the performance of brushtail possums (Trichosurus vulpecula) on the Mechner counting procedure	6
Innovative problem-solving in a small, wild canid	6
When should we ascribe sentience to animals? A commentary on “Hermit crabs, shells and sentience” (Elwood 2022)	6
Orcas remember what to copy: a deferred and interference-resistant imitation study	5
Who is there? Captive western gorillas distinguish human voices based on familiarity and nature of previous interactions	5
Memory enhances problem solving in the fawn-footed mosaic-tailed rat Melomys cervinipes	5
Increased speed of movement reduced identification of Batesian ant-mimicking spiders by surrogate predators	5
Mice make temporal inferences about novel locations based on previously learned spatiotemporal contingencies	5
No coordination required for resources allocation during colony fission in a social insect? An individual-based model reproduces empirical patterns	5
What is it like to be a choanoflagellate? Sensation, processing and behavior in the closest unicellular relatives of animals	5
No evidence of spatial representation of age, but “own-age bias” like face processing found in chimpanzees	5
Breed group differences in the unsolvable problem task: herding dogs prefer their owner, while solitary hunting dogs seek stranger proximity	5
The current state of carnivore cognition	5
Geckos differentiate self from other using both skin and faecal chemicals: evidence towards self-recognition?	5
First acoustic evidence of signature whistle production by spinner dolphins (Stenella longirostris)	5
A small step for rats alters spatial behavior: rats on a bi-level arena explore each level separately	5
Color is necessary for face discrimination in the Northern paper wasp, Polistes fuscatus	5
Does quantity matter to a stingless bee?	5
Effects of predation risk on the sensory asymmetries and defensive strategies of Bufotes balearicus tadpoles	5
Grey wolves (Canis lupus) discriminate between familiar and unfamiliar human voices	5
Vocal signals with different social or non-social contexts in two wild rodent species (Mus caroli and Rattus losea)	5
Social cognition and metacognition in great apes: a theory	5
Habituation in anuran tadpoles and the role of risk uncertainty	5
Why wait to mark? Possible reasons behind latency from olfactory exploration to overmarking in four African equid species	4
Recovery-from-extinction effects in an anuran amphibian: renewal effect, but no reinstatement	4
Dissociating the effects of delay and interference on dog (Canis familiaris) working memory	4
Nest size matters: common cuckoos prefer to parasitize larger nests of Oriental reed warblers	4
Mother–pup recognition mechanisms in Australia sea lion (Neophoca cinerea) using uni- and multi-modal approaches	4
Emergence of complex dynamics of choice due to repeated exposures to extinction learning	4
Bioelectric networks: the cognitive glue enabling evolutionary scaling from physiology to mind	4
“The song remains the same”: not really! Vocal flexibility in the song of the indris	4
Language preference in the domestic dog (Canis familiaris)	4
Detecting surface changes in a familiar tune: exploring pitch, tempo and timbre	4
Star finches Neochmia ruficauda have a visual preference for white dot patterns: a possible case of trypophilia	4
Prior experience modifies acquisition trajectories via response–strategy sampling	4
The effects of food limitation on behavior, corticosterone, and the use of social information in the red crossbill (Loxia curvirostra)	4
An investigation on the olfactory capabilities of domestic dogs (Canis lupus familiaris)	4
Perceptual grouping and detection of trial-unique emergent structures by pigeons	4
Why an animal needs a brain	4
Llamas use social information from conspecifics and humans to solve a spatial detour task	4
Context-dependent and seasonal fluctuation in bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) vocalizations	4
Putting the cart before the horse: claims for mirror self-recognition in horses are unfounded	4
Cowards or clever guys: an alternative nest defence strategy employed by shrikes against magpies	4
The influence of visual illusion perception on numerosity estimation could be evolutionarily conserved: exploring the numerical Delboeuf illusion in humans (Homo sapiens) and fish (Poecilia reticulata	4
Operant conditioning in antlion larvae and its impairment following exposure to elevated temperatures	4
Stepwise learning of compound multidimensional visual stimuli by sorting out the dimensions of which they are composed in pigeons	4
How visual system configuration can play a role in individual recognition: a visual modeling study	4
Mirror image stimulation could reverse social-isolation-induced aggressiveness in the high-level subsocial lactating spider	4
All units are equal in humpback whale songs, but some are more equal than others	4
Heterospecific eavesdropping on disturbance cues of a treefrog	4
On the role of training in delay of gratification paradigms: a reply to Pepperberg 2022	4

Use of anvils by the Great Kiskadee (Aves, Tyrannidae): a description based on citizen science data	4
Intentional gestural communication amongst red-capped mangabeys (Cercocebus torquatus)	4
Use of the sun compass by monocularly occluded homing pigeons in a food localisation task in an outdoor arena	4