Animal Cognition

Article	Citations
The scholar’s best friend: research trends in dog cognitive and behavioral studies	73
Understanding fish cognition: a review and appraisal of current practices	40
Dog cognitive development: a longitudinal study across the first 2 years of life	35
Cognition and the human–animal relationship: a review of the sociocognitive skills of domestic mammals toward humans	29
Sex differences in the behavioral responses of dogs exposed to human chemosignals of fear and happiness	22
Bodily emotional expressions are a primary source of information for dogs, but not for humans	21
A review of the unsolvable task in dog communication and cognition: comparing different methodologies	21
The effect of urbanization on innovation in spotted hyenas	20
Bioelectric networks: the cognitive glue enabling evolutionary scaling from physiology to mind	19
Dog–human behavioral synchronization: family dogs synchronize their behavior with child family members	19
Horses are sensitive to baby talk: pet-directed speech facilitates communication with humans in a pointing task and during grooming	18
Human–dog relationships as a working framework for exploring human–robot attachment: a multidisciplinary review	18
Equal performance but distinct behaviors: sex differences in a novel object recognition task and spatial maze in a highly social cichlid fish	17
Is cognition the secret to working dog success?	17
Kea (Nestor notabilis) show flexibility and individuality in within-session reversal learning tasks	16
Neural substrates involved in the cognitive information processing in teleost fish	16
Bold and bright: shy and supple? The effect of habitat type on personality–cognition covariance in the Aegean wall lizard (Podarcis erhardii)	16
Life is in motion (through a chick’s eye)	15
Linguistic laws of brevity: conformity in Indri indri	15
Evaluating the accuracy of facial expressions as emotion indicators across contexts in dogs	15
Seeing others yawn selectively enhances vigilance: an eye-tracking study of snake detection	14
Variation in reversal learning by three generalist mesocarnivores	14
Captivity and habituation to humans raise curiosity in vervet monkeys	14
Trace conditioning as a test for animal consciousness: a new approach	14
Territorial calls of the bat Hipposideros armiger may encode multiple types of information: body mass, dominance rank and individual identity	13

Persistence is key: investigating innovative problem solving by Asian elephants using a novel multi-access box	13
African elephants can detect water from natural and artificial sources via olfactory cues	12
Behavioural factors underlying innovative problem-solving differences in an avian predator from two contrasting habitats	12
Intentional gestural communication amongst red-capped mangabeys (Cercocebus torquatus)	12
Visual categories and concepts in the avian brain	12
Male mice and cows perceive human emotional chemosignals: a preliminary study	12
Environmental influences on development of executive functions in dogs	12
Domestic cats (Felis catus) prefer freely available food over food that requires effort	12
Individual consistency in the learning abilities of honey bees: cognitive specialization within sensory and reinforcement modalities	11
Discrimination of cat-directed speech from human-directed speech in a population of indoor companion cats (Felis catus)	11
Hermit crabs, shells, and sentience	11
Fear of the new? Geckos hesitate to attack novel prey, feed near objects and enter a novel space	11
Through the looking glass: how do marked dolphins use mirrors and what does it mean?	11
If horses had toes: demonstrating mirror self recognition at group level in Equus caballus	11
Exclusion in the field: wild brown skuas find hidden food in the absence of visual information	11
All units are equal in humpback whale songs, but some are more equal than others	11
Varieties of visual navigation in insects	11
Dog–human social relationship: representation of human face familiarity and emotions in the dog brain	11
Quantitative abilities of invertebrates: a methodological review	11
Mechanisms of auditory masking in marine mammals	10
Training with varying odor concentrations: implications for odor detection thresholds in canines	10
Do alternative reproductive tactics predict problem-solving performance in African striped mice?	10
Early life differences in behavioral predispositions in two Alligatoridae species	10
Paradoxical choice and the reinforcing value of information	10
Giraffes go for more: a quantity discrimination study in giraffes (Giraffa camelopardalis)	10
Overlooked evidence for semantic compositionality and signal reduction in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)	9
Wild great tits’ alarm calls prompt vigilant behaviours in free-range chickens	9
Arthropod spatial cognition	9
From representations to servomechanisms to oscillators: my journey in the study of cognition	9
What’s the point? Domestic dogs’ sensitivity to the accuracy of human informants	9
Feline communication strategies when presented with an unsolvable task: the attentional state of the person matters	9
I know a dog when I see one: dogs (Canis familiaris) recognize dogs from videos	9
Does Pet Parenting Style predict the social and problem-solving behavior of pet dogs (Canis lupus familiaris)?	9
What is it like to be a choanoflagellate? Sensation, processing and behavior in the closest unicellular relatives of animals	9
Breed group differences in the unsolvable problem task: herding dogs prefer their owner, while solitary hunting dogs seek stranger proximity	9
Repeated testing does not confound cognitive performance in the Western Australian magpie (Cracticus tibicen dorsalis)	8
The current state of carnivore cognition	8
Serial visual reversal learning in harbor seals (Phoca vitulina)	8
Early evidence for emotional play contagion in juvenile ravens	8
Dissociating the effects of delay and interference on dog (Canis familiaris) working memory	8
Do wild raccoons (Procyon lotor) use tools?	8
Adjustment in the point-following behaviour of free-ranging dogs – roles of social petting and informative-deceptive nature of cues	8
Does owner handedness influence paw preference in dogs?	8
Smart sharks: a review of chondrichthyan cognition	8
Long-term stability of vocal individuality cues in a territorial and monogamous seabird	8
Production of regular rhythm induced by external stimuli in rats	8
A machine learning approach to infant distress calls and maternal behaviour of wild chimpanzees	8
Mirror self-recognition in gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla): a review and evaluation of mark test replications and variants	7
Cryptic eggs are rejected less frequently by a cuckoo host	7
Tolerant macaque species are less impulsive and reactive	7

Appeasement function of displacement behaviours? Dogs’ behavioural displays exhibited towards threatening and neutral humans	7
Numerical averaging in mice	7
Multisensory mental representation of objects in typical and Gifted Word Learner dogs	7
Social cognition and metacognition in great apes: a theory	7
An exploratory analysis of head-tilting in dogs	7
An intentional cohesion call in male chimpanzees of Budongo Forest	7
Dimensional bias and adaptive adjustments in inhibitory control of monkeys	7
2D or not 2D? An fMRI study of how dogs visually process objects	7
Domestic pigs (Sus scrofa) engage in non-random post-conflict affiliation with third parties: cognitive and functional implications	7
Different effects of reward value and saliency during bumblebee visual search for multiple rewarding targets	7
Who is there? Captive western gorillas distinguish human voices based on familiarity and nature of previous interactions	7
Learning about construction behaviour from observing an artefact: can experience with conspecifics aid in artefact recognition?	7
Zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata) demonstrate cognitive flexibility in using phonology and sequence of syllables in auditory discrimination	7
Changes in the anxiety-like and fearful behavior of shrimp following daily threatening experiences	6
Irrational risk aversion in an ant	6
Do zoo visitors induce attentional bias effects in primates completing cognitive tasks?	6
Cognitive bias in animal behavior science: a philosophical perspective	6
Repeatability of lateralisation in mosquitofish Gambusia holbrooki despite evidence for turn alternation in detour tests	6
Flexibility and rigidity in hunting behaviour in rodents: is there room for cognition?	6
Early-life and parental predation risk shape fear acquisition in adult minnows	6
Dog and owner characteristics predict training success	6
Spaced training enhances equine learning performance	6
Canine perspective-taking	6
Social position indirectly influences the traits yellow-bellied marmots use to solve problems	6
Testing cognitive models of decision-making: selected studies with starlings	6
Thoughts from the forest floor: a review of cognition in the slime mould Physarum polycephalum	6
Owner attention facilitates social play in dog–dog dyads (Canis lupus familiaris): evidence for an interspecific audience effect	6
Assessing cognitive performance in dairy calves using a modified hole-board test	6
Quantity discrimination in a spontaneous task in a poison frog	6
Vultures as an overlooked model in cognitive ecology	6
Emergence of complex dynamics of choice due to repeated exposures to extinction learning	6
Thinking about order: a review of common processing of magnitude and learned orders in animals	6
Defensive adaptations to cuckoo parasitism in the black-browed reed warbler (Acrocephalus bistrigiceps): recognition and mechanism	6
Parental favoritism in a wild bird population	6
Where to sleep next? Evidence for spatial memory associated with sleeping sites in Skywalker gibbons (Hoolock tianxing)	6
Rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) monitor evolving decisions to control adaptive information seeking	6
Frog embryos use multiple levels of temporal pattern in risk assessment for vibration-cued escape hatching	6
Horses form cross-modal representations of adults and children	6
Face-to-face configuration in Japanese macaques functions as a platform to establish mutual engagement in social play	6
Testing use of the first multi-partner cognitive enrichment devices by a group of male bottlenose dolphins	6
Adding colour-realistic video images to audio playbacks increases stimulus engagement but does not enhance vocal learning in zebra finches	6
Disentangling help-seeking and giving up: differential human-directed gazing by dogs in a modified unsolvable task paradigm	6
The effect of dimensional reinforcement prediction on discrimination of compound visual stimuli by pigeons	5
Juvenile vervet monkeys rely on others when responding to danger	5
Social context shapes cognitive abilities: associative memories are modulated by fight outcome and social isolation in the crab Neohelice granulata	5
Recent developments in parrot cognition: a quadrennial update	5
Intra- and interspecific variation in self-control capacities of parrots in a delay of gratification task	5
On being a Hydra with, and without, a nervous system: what do neurons add?	5
The PROUST hypothesis: the embodiment of olfactory cognition	5
Context-dependent alarm responses in wild vervet monkeys	5
Effects of oxytocin administration and the dog–owner bond on dogs’ rescue behavior	5
Cowards or clever guys: an alternative nest defence strategy employed by shrikes against magpies	5
Prosociality and reciprocity in bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus)	5
A comparative study of mirror self-recognition in three corvid species	5
Effects of early noise exposure on hippocampal-dependent behaviors during adolescence in male rats: influence of different housing conditions	5
Wild skuas can follow human-given behavioural cues when objects resemble natural food	5
Photobehaviours guided by simple photoreceptor systems	5
Novel object recognition in Octopus maya	5
Volumetric and connectivity assessment of the caudate nucleus in California sea lions and coyotes	5
Is this love? Sex differences in dog-owner attachment behavior suggest similarities with adult human bonds	5
Innovative problem-solving in a small, wild canid	5
Do Carolina chickadees (Poecile carolinensis) and tufted titmice (Baeolophus bicolor) use predator eyes in risk assessment?	5
Impact of environmental complexity and stocking density on affective states of rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)	5
Comparing utility functions between risky and riskless choice in rhesus monkeys	5
Why it hurts: with freedom comes the biological need for pain	5
Does stress run through the leash? An examination of stress transmission between owners and dogs during a walk	5
Killer whale innovation: teaching animals to use their creativity upon request	5
Cognitive enrichment device provides evidence for intersexual differences in collaborative actions in Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops aduncus)	5
Zebrafish excel in number discrimination under an operant conditioning paradigm	5
Group size, partner choice and collaborative actions in male Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops aduncus)	5
Understanding across the senses: cross-modal studies of cognition in cetaceans	5
Context-effect bias in capuchin monkeys (Sapajus spp.): exploring decoy influences in a value-based food choice task	4
Putting the cart before the horse: claims for mirror self-recognition in horses are unfounded	4
Habituation in anuran tadpoles and the role of risk uncertainty	4
Wild skuas can use acoustic cues to locate hidden food	4
Through the eyes of a hunter: assessing perception and exclusion performance in ground-hornbills	4
Choice biases in no-sample and delay testing in pigeons (Columba livia)	4
Domestication effects on social information transfer in chickens	4
Dogs can infer implicit information from human emotional expressions	4
Performance of Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) on a quantity discrimination task is similar to that of African savanna elephants (Loxodonta africana)	4

Structural environmental enrichment and the way it is offered influence cognitive judgement bias and anxiety-like behaviours in zebrafish	4
Getting rid of blinkers: the case of mirror self-recognition in horses (Equus caballus)	4
Color is necessary for face discrimination in the Northern paper wasp, Polistes fuscatus	4
Dances with dogs: interspecies play and a case for sympoietic enactivism	4
Basal cognition: shifting the center of gravity (again)	4
Degraded and computer-generated speech processing in a bonobo	4
Individual differences in co-representation in three monkey species (Callithrix jacchus, Sapajus apella and Macaca tonkeana) in the joint Simon task: the role of social factors and inhibitory control	4
Exploratory decisions of Trinidadian guppies when uncertain about predation risk	4
The “right” side of sleeping: laterality in resting behaviour of Aldabra giant tortoises (Aldabrachelys gigantea)	4
Odor-based mate choice copying in deer mice is not affected by familiarity or kinship	4
Navigational roots of spatial and temporal memory structure	4
Positional inference in rhesus macaques	4
Clever pest control? The role of cognition in biological pest regulation	4
Using a new video rating tool to crowd-source analysis of behavioural reaction to stimuli	4
Searching where the treasure is: on the emergence of human companion animal partnership (HCAP)	4
Navigating in a challenging semiarid environment: the use of a route-based mental map by a small-bodied neotropical primate	4
Performance on inhibitory tasks does not relate to handedness in several small groups of Callitrichids	4
Social experience drives the development of holistic face processing in paper wasps	4
A comparison of personality traits of gifted word learner and typical border collies	4
The use of an intermittent schedule of reinforcement to evaluate detection dogs’ generalization from smokeless-powder	4
Adaptive spatial working memory assessments for aging pet dogs	4
Innovative problem-solving in a threatened gull species, the Olrog’s Gull (Larus atlanticus)	4
Disturbance cues function as a background risk cue but not as an associative learning cue in tadpoles	4
Memory enhances problem solving in the fawn-footed mosaic-tailed rat Melomys cervinipes	4
Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) detect strange body parts: an eye-tracking study	4
Cognition of the manatee: past research and future developments	4
The effect of repeated testing on judgement bias in domestic dogs (Canis familiaris)	4
Navigation and orientation in Coleoptera: a review of strategies and mechanisms	4
Both sheep and goats can solve inferential by exclusion tasks	4
Chasing perception in domestic cats and dogs	4
Are you my mummy? Long-term olfactory memory of mother’s body odour by offspring in the domestic cat	4
Geckos differentiate self from other using both skin and faecal chemicals: evidence towards self-recognition?	4
Does quantity matter to a stingless bee?	4
Fish self-awareness: limits of current knowledge and theoretical expectations	4
Plasticity for the kin and conspecific preferences in the frog tadpoles (Rana ornativentris)	3
Stressfulness of the design influences consistency of cognitive measures and their correlation with animal personality traits in wild mice (Mus musculus)	3
Seasonal changes in problem-solving in wild African striped mice	3
The effects of food limitation on behavior, corticosterone, and the use of social information in the red crossbill (Loxia curvirostra)	3
Learning to anticipate mate presence shapes individual sex roles in the hermaphroditic pond snail, Lymnaea stagnalis	3
Mother–pup recognition mechanisms in Australia sea lion (Neophoca cinerea) using uni- and multi-modal approaches	3
An investigation on the olfactory capabilities of domestic dogs (Canis lupus familiaris)	3
Social spatial cognition: social distance dynamics as an identifier of social interactions	3
Correlations begin at home: drivers of co-occurrence patterns in personality and cognitive ability in wild populations of zebrafish	3
Do sex differences in construction behavior relate to differences in physical cognitive abilities?	3
Naïve chicks do not prefer objects with stable body orientation, though they may prefer behavioural variability	3
Conspecific "gaze following" in bottlenose dolphins	3
Sex differences in social buffering and social contagion of alarm responses in zebrafish	3
Macaque species with varying social tolerance show no differences in understanding what other agents perceive	3
When are puppies receptive to emotion-induced human chemosignals? The cases of fear and happiness	3
Dogs (Canis lupus familiaris) are susceptible to the Kanizsa’s triangle illusion	3
Individuality, species-specific features, and female discrimination of male southern white rhinoceros courtship calls	3
Contagious yawning in African painted dogs	3
First acoustic evidence of signature whistle production by spinner dolphins (Stenella longirostris)	3
Behavioural synchronization and social referencing of dogs and humans: walking in dyad vs in group	3
Two-dimensional reward evaluation in mice	3
A chimpanzee recognizes varied acoustical versions of sine-wave and noise-vocoded speech	3
A tool to act blind? Object-assisted eye-covering as a self-handicapping behavior and social play signal in Balinese long-tailed macaques	3
The performance of domestic dogs (Canis lupus familiaris) on two versions of the object choice task	3
After 150 years of watching: is there a need for synthetic ethology?	3
Individual recognition and long-term memory of inanimate interactive agents and humans in dogs	3
Development of the dog executive function scale (DEFS) for adult dogs	3
In paired preference tests, domestic chicks innately choose the colour green over red, and the shape of a frog over a sphere when both stimuli are green	3
A songbird strategically modifies its blinking behavior when viewing human faces	3
Pigeons are attracted to a perceived gain without an actual gain	3
A kestrel without hooked beak and talons is not a kestrel for the red-backed shrike (Lanius collurio)	3
Variation in inhibitory control does not influence social rank, foraging efficiency, or risk taking, in red junglefowl females	3
Bridging pure cognitive research and cognitive enrichment	3
Nest size matters: common cuckoos prefer to parasitize larger nests of Oriental reed warblers	3
Cognitive control of song production by humpback whales	3
Nesting ecology does not explain slow–fast cognitive differences among honeybee species	3
Mandrills learn two-day time intervals in a naturalistic foraging situation	3