Animal Cognition

Article	Citations
Multimodal interactions in insect navigation	66
The scholar’s best friend: research trends in dog cognitive and behavioral studies	62
Age influences domestic dog cognitive performance independent of average breed lifespan	45
Understanding fish cognition: a review and appraisal of current practices	32
Estimating the heritability of cognitive traits across dog breeds reveals highly heritable inhibitory control and communication factors	31
Horses feel emotions when they watch positive and negative horse–human interactions in a video and transpose what they saw to real life	28
Sex differences in cognitive performance and style across domains in mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis)	26
Dog cognitive development: a longitudinal study across the first 2 years of life	24
Magnetoreception in Hymenoptera: importance for navigation	24
Social motivation and the use of distal, but not local, featural cues are related to ranging behavior in free-range chickens (Gallus gallus domesticus)	22
Cognition and the human–animal relationship: a review of the sociocognitive skills of domestic mammals toward humans	21
A dung beetle that path integrates without the use of landmarks	20
Sex differences in the behavioral responses of dogs exposed to human chemosignals of fear and happiness	20
Predictors of individual variation in reversal learning performance in three-spined sticklebacks	17
Did we find a copycat? Do as I Do in a domestic cat (Felis catus)	16
Bodily emotional expressions are a primary source of information for dogs, but not for humans	16
Food quantity discrimination in puppies (Canis lupus familiaris)	16
Is cognition the secret to working dog success?	16
Dog–human behavioral synchronization: family dogs synchronize their behavior with child family members	15
A review of the unsolvable task in dog communication and cognition: comparing different methodologies	15
Kea (Nestor notabilis) show flexibility and individuality in within-session reversal learning tasks	15
Equal performance but distinct behaviors: sex differences in a novel object recognition task and spatial maze in a highly social cichlid fish	15
Bold and bright: shy and supple? The effect of habitat type on personality–cognition covariance in the Aegean wall lizard (Podarcis erhardii)	14
Cats show an unexpected pattern of response to human ostensive cues in a series of A-not-B error tests	14
Unwilling or willing but unable: can horses interpret human actions as goal directed?	14

The development of problem-solving abilities in a population of candidate detection dogs (Canis familiaris)	14
The effect of urbanization on innovation in spotted hyenas	14
Horses are sensitive to baby talk: pet-directed speech facilitates communication with humans in a pointing task and during grooming	14
Human–dog relationships as a working framework for exploring human–robot attachment: a multidisciplinary review	14
Who turns to the human? Companion pigs’ and dogs’ behaviour in the unsolvable task paradigm	13
Shells as ‘extended architecture’: to escape isolation, social hermit crabs choose shells with the right external architecture	13
Linguistic laws of brevity: conformity in Indri indri	13
Spatial cognition in the context of foraging styles and information transfer in ants	13
Variation in reversal learning by three generalist mesocarnivores	13
Visual timing abilities of a harbour seal (Phoca vitulina) and a South African fur seal (Arctocephalus pusillus pusillus) for sub- and supra-second time intervals	13
Neophobia and social facilitation in narrow-striped mongooses	13
Neural substrates involved in the cognitive information processing in teleost fish	13
Non-visual homing and the current status of navigation in scorpions	12
Effects of incubation temperatures on learning abilities of hatchling velvet geckos	12
Seeing others yawn selectively enhances vigilance: an eye-tracking study of snake detection	12
Fears from the past? The innate ability of dogs to detect predator scents	12
Oceans of stimuli: an individual-based model to assess the role of olfactory cues and local enhancement in seabirds’ foraging behaviour	11
Effect of large visual changes on the navigation of the nocturnal bull ant, Myrmecia midas	11
The functional equivalence of two variants of the suboptimal choice task: choice proportion and response latency as measures of value	11
Life is in motion (through a chick’s eye)	11
Seasonal variation of sexually dimorphic spatial learning implicates mating system in the intertidal Cocos Frillgoby (Bathygobius cocosensis)	11
Persistence is key: investigating innovative problem solving by Asian elephants using a novel multi-access box	11
All units are equal in humpback whale songs, but some are more equal than others	11
Captivity and habituation to humans raise curiosity in vervet monkeys	10
Dogs and cats prioritize human action: choosing a now-empty instead of a still-baited container	10
Environmental influences on development of executive functions in dogs	10
Trace conditioning as a test for animal consciousness: a new approach	10
The relationship between monoaminergic gene expression, learning, and optimism in red junglefowl chicks	10
Mechanisms of auditory masking in marine mammals	10
Male mice and cows perceive human emotional chemosignals: a preliminary study	10
Quantitative abilities of invertebrates: a methodological review	10
Visual categories and concepts in the avian brain	9
Is consonance attractive to budgerigars? No evidence from a place preference study	9
Through the looking glass: how do marked dolphins use mirrors and what does it mean?	9
Hermit crabs, shells, and sentience	9
Exclusion in the field: wild brown skuas find hidden food in the absence of visual information	9
Wild great tits’ alarm calls prompt vigilant behaviours in free-range chickens	9
Evaluating the accuracy of facial expressions as emotion indicators across contexts in dogs	9
Investigating information seeking in ravens (Corvus corax)	9
Domestic cats (Felis catus) prefer freely available food over food that requires effort	9
Territorial calls of the bat Hipposideros armiger may encode multiple types of information: body mass, dominance rank and individual identity	9
African elephants can detect water from natural and artificial sources via olfactory cues	9
More exploratory house mice judge an ambiguous situation more negatively	9
Giraffes go for more: a quantity discrimination study in giraffes (Giraffa camelopardalis)	9
Effect of shared information and owner behavior on showing in dogs (Canis familiaris)	9
Dogs (Canis familiaris) recognise our faces in photographs: implications for existing and future research	8
The ontogeny of continuous quantity discrimination in zebrafish larvae (Danio rerio)	8
Do alternative reproductive tactics predict problem-solving performance in African striped mice?	8
Seeing red? Colour biases of foraging birds are context dependent	8
From representations to servomechanisms to oscillators: my journey in the study of cognition	8

Intentional gestural communication amongst red-capped mangabeys (Cercocebus torquatus)	8
Discrimination of cat-directed speech from human-directed speech in a population of indoor companion cats (Felis catus)	8
Movement and vocal intonation together evoke social referencing in companion dogs when confronted with a suspicious stranger	8
A machine learning approach to infant distress calls and maternal behaviour of wild chimpanzees	8
What’s the point? Domestic dogs’ sensitivity to the accuracy of human informants	8
If horses had toes: demonstrating mirror self recognition at group level in Equus caballus	8
Fear of the new? Geckos hesitate to attack novel prey, feed near objects and enter a novel space	7
Feline communication strategies when presented with an unsolvable task: the attentional state of the person matters	7
Dog–human social relationship: representation of human face familiarity and emotions in the dog brain	7
Adjustment in the point-following behaviour of free-ranging dogs – roles of social petting and informative-deceptive nature of cues	7
Homing in the arachnid taxa Araneae and Amblypygi	7
Volumetric spatial behaviour in rats reveals the anisotropic organisation of navigation	7
Sex differences in the use of spatial cues in two avian brood parasites	7
Arthropod spatial cognition	7
Overlooked evidence for semantic compositionality and signal reduction in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)	7
Who is there? Captive western gorillas distinguish human voices based on familiarity and nature of previous interactions	7
Behavioural factors underlying innovative problem-solving differences in an avian predator from two contrasting habitats	7
Training with varying odor concentrations: implications for odor detection thresholds in canines	7
Daddy, daddy cool: stallion–foal relationships in a socially-natural herd of Exmoor ponies	7
Rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) monitor evolving decisions to control adaptive information seeking	6
Do zoo visitors induce attentional bias effects in primates completing cognitive tasks?	6
Different effects of reward value and saliency during bumblebee visual search for multiple rewarding targets	6
Relative importance of senses in forage discrimination by cattle depends on the sensory contrast between the discrimination targets: a preliminary study	6
Do wild raccoons (Procyon lotor) use tools?	6
Early evidence for emotional play contagion in juvenile ravens	6
Emergence of complex dynamics of choice due to repeated exposures to extinction learning	6
2D or not 2D? An fMRI study of how dogs visually process objects	6
Individual consistency in the learning abilities of honey bees: cognitive specialization within sensory and reinforcement modalities	6
Long-term stability of vocal individuality cues in a territorial and monogamous seabird	6
Early life differences in behavioral predispositions in two Alligatoridae species	6
Repeatability of lateralisation in mosquitofish Gambusia holbrooki despite evidence for turn alternation in detour tests	6
Production of regular rhythm induced by external stimuli in rats	6
Learning about construction behaviour from observing an artefact: can experience with conspecifics aid in artefact recognition?	6
Adding colour-realistic video images to audio playbacks increases stimulus engagement but does not enhance vocal learning in zebra finches	6
Irrational risk aversion in an ant	6
Where to sleep next? Evidence for spatial memory associated with sleeping sites in Skywalker gibbons (Hoolock tianxing)	6
Dissociating the effects of delay and interference on dog (Canis familiaris) working memory	6
Cryptic eggs are rejected less frequently by a cuckoo host	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
Is this love? Sex differences in dog-owner attachment behavior suggest similarities with adult human bonds	6
I know a dog when I see one: dogs (Canis familiaris) recognize dogs from videos	6
Dimensional bias and adaptive adjustments in inhibitory control of monkeys	6
Paradoxical choice and the reinforcing value of information	6
Changes in the anxiety-like and fearful behavior of shrimp following daily threatening experiences	5
Defensive adaptations to cuckoo parasitism in the black-browed reed warbler (Acrocephalus bistrigiceps): recognition and mechanism	5
Parental favoritism in a wild bird population	5
Frog embryos use multiple levels of temporal pattern in risk assessment for vibration-cued escape hatching	5
Cognitive enrichment device provides evidence for intersexual differences in collaborative actions in Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops aduncus)	5
Quantity discrimination in a spontaneous task in a poison frog	5
Vertical-surface navigation in the Neotropical whip spider Paraphrynus laevifrons (Arachnida: Amblypygi)	5
Partial rewarding during clicker training does not improve naïve dogs’ learning speed and induces a pessimistic-like affective state	5
Adaptive spatial working memory assessments for aging pet dogs	5
Bioelectric networks: the cognitive glue enabling evolutionary scaling from physiology to mind	5
Numerical averaging in mice	5
Training differences predict dogs' (Canis lupus familiaris) preferences for prosocial others	5
Tolerant macaque species are less impulsive and reactive	5
Horses form cross-modal representations of adults and children	5
Face-to-face configuration in Japanese macaques functions as a platform to establish mutual engagement in social play	5
Testing use of the first multi-partner cognitive enrichment devices by a group of male bottlenose dolphins	5
The effect of dimensional reinforcement prediction on discrimination of compound visual stimuli by pigeons	5
Multisensory mental representation of objects in typical and Gifted Word Learner dogs	5
Social position indirectly influences the traits yellow-bellied marmots use to solve problems	5
Varieties of visual navigation in insects	5
Breed group differences in the unsolvable problem task: herding dogs prefer their owner, while solitary hunting dogs seek stranger proximity	5
Vultures as an overlooked model in cognitive ecology	5
Multimodal signaling in the visuo-acoustic mismatch paradigm: similarities between dogs and children in the communicative approach	5
Effects of reward magnitude and training frequency on the learning rates and memory retention of the Port Jackson shark Heterodontus portusjacksoni	5
Neurally underdeveloped cuttlefish newborns exhibit social learning	5
Navigation and orientation in Coleoptera: a review of strategies and mechanisms	4
Canine perspective-taking	4
Using a new video rating tool to crowd-source analysis of behavioural reaction to stimuli	4
Social experience drives the development of holistic face processing in paper wasps	4
Thoughts from the forest floor: a review of cognition in the slime mould Physarum polycephalum	4
Chasing perception in domestic cats and dogs	4
Does stress run through the leash? An examination of stress transmission between owners and dogs during a walk	4
An intentional cohesion call in male chimpanzees of Budongo Forest	4
Serial visual reversal learning in harbor seals (Phoca vitulina)	4
Understanding across the senses: cross-modal studies of cognition in cetaceans	4
Cowards or clever guys: an alternative nest defence strategy employed by shrikes against magpies	4

Smart sharks: a review of chondrichthyan cognition	4
Innovative problem-solving in a small, wild canid	4
Exploratory decisions of Trinidadian guppies when uncertain about predation risk	4
Testing cognitive models of decision-making: selected studies with starlings	4
Habituation in anuran tadpoles and the role of risk uncertainty	4
Mirror self-recognition in gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla): a review and evaluation of mark test replications and variants	4
Repeated testing does not confound cognitive performance in the Western Australian magpie (Cracticus tibicen dorsalis)	4
Wild skuas can follow human-given behavioural cues when objects resemble natural food	4
The use of an intermittent schedule of reinforcement to evaluate detection dogs’ generalization from smokeless-powder	4
Zebrafish excel in number discrimination under an operant conditioning paradigm	4
Do Carolina chickadees (Poecile carolinensis) and tufted titmice (Baeolophus bicolor) use predator eyes in risk assessment?	4
Appeasement function of displacement behaviours? Dogs’ behavioural displays exhibited towards threatening and neutral humans	4
Performance of Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) on a quantity discrimination task is similar to that of African savanna elephants (Loxodonta africana)	4
Effects of oxytocin administration and the dog–owner bond on dogs’ rescue behavior	4
Does owner handedness influence paw preference in dogs?	4
Does Pet Parenting Style predict the social and problem-solving behavior of pet dogs (Canis lupus familiaris)?	4
Comparing utility functions between risky and riskless choice in rhesus monkeys	4
Domestic pigs (Sus scrofa) engage in non-random post-conflict affiliation with third parties: cognitive and functional implications	4
Cognitive bias in animal behavior science: a philosophical perspective	4
Are you my mummy? Long-term olfactory memory of mother’s body odour by offspring in the domestic cat	4
Dog and owner characteristics predict training success	4
Thinking about order: a review of common processing of magnitude and learned orders in animals	4
Putting the cart before the horse: claims for mirror self-recognition in horses are unfounded	4
Cognition of the manatee: past research and future developments	4
Prosociality and reciprocity in bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus)	4
Nesting ecology does not explain slow–fast cognitive differences among honeybee species	3
Killer whale innovation: teaching animals to use their creativity upon request	3
Plasticity for the kin and conspecific preferences in the frog tadpoles (Rana ornativentris)	3
Positional inference in rhesus macaques	3
Performance on inhibitory tasks does not relate to handedness in several small groups of Callitrichids	3
Mother–pup recognition mechanisms in Australia sea lion (Neophoca cinerea) using uni- and multi-modal approaches	3
Flexibility and rigidity in hunting behaviour in rodents: is there room for cognition?	3
Social cognition and metacognition in great apes: a theory	3
Dogs can infer implicit information from human emotional expressions	3
Bridging pure cognitive research and cognitive enrichment	3
Degraded and computer-generated speech processing in a bonobo	3
Clever pest control? The role of cognition in biological pest regulation	3
An information-theory approach to geometry for animal groups	3
What is it like to be a choanoflagellate? Sensation, processing and behavior in the closest unicellular relatives of animals	3
The transition of object to mental manipulation: beyond a species-specific view of intelligence	3
The current state of carnivore cognition	3
Innovative problem-solving in a threatened gull species, the Olrog’s Gull (Larus atlanticus)	3
Effect of isotocin on shoaling behaviour of the Guppy (Poecilia reticulata)	3
Memory enhances problem solving in the fawn-footed mosaic-tailed rat Melomys cervinipes	3
Human interventions in a behavioural experiment for Asian Elephants (Elephas maximus)	3
Navigating in a challenging semiarid environment: the use of a route-based mental map by a small-bodied neotropical primate	3
Searching where the treasure is: on the emergence of human companion animal partnership (HCAP)	3
Pigeons are attracted to a perceived gain without an actual gain	3
Intra- and interspecific variation in self-control capacities of parrots in a delay of gratification task	3
Can you hear me now? The effect of signal degradation on perceived predator threat in black-capped chickadees (Poecile atricapillus)	3
Reducing impulsive choice VII: effects of duration of delay-exposure training	3
Variation in inhibitory control does not influence social rank, foraging efficiency, or risk taking, in red junglefowl females	3
Context-dependent alarm responses in wild vervet monkeys	3
Social spatial cognition: social distance dynamics as an identifier of social interactions	3
Macaque species with varying social tolerance show no differences in understanding what other agents perceive	3
Do sex differences in construction behavior relate to differences in physical cognitive abilities?	3
A kestrel without hooked beak and talons is not a kestrel for the red-backed shrike (Lanius collurio)	3
Recent developments in parrot cognition: a quadrennial update	3
Seasonal changes in problem-solving in wild African striped mice	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
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	3
Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) detect strange body parts: an eye-tracking study	3
Early-life and parental predation risk shape fear acquisition in adult minnows	3
A novel, short and easy-to-perform method to evaluate newborns’ social olfactory preferences	3
The effects of food limitation on behavior, corticosterone, and the use of social information in the red crossbill (Loxia curvirostra)	3
An exploratory analysis of head-tilting in dogs	3
Individuality, species-specific features, and female discrimination of male southern white rhinoceros courtship calls	3
The performance of domestic dogs (Canis lupus familiaris) on two versions of the object choice task	3
Correlations begin at home: drivers of co-occurrence patterns in personality and cognitive ability in wild populations of zebrafish	3
The PROUST hypothesis: the embodiment of olfactory cognition	3
Odor-based mate choice copying in deer mice is not affected by familiarity or kinship	3
Volumetric and connectivity assessment of the caudate nucleus in California sea lions and coyotes	3
Social context shapes cognitive abilities: associative memories are modulated by fight outcome and social isolation in the crab Neohelice granulata	3
Development of the dog executive function scale (DEFS) for adult dogs	3
Choice biases in no-sample and delay testing in pigeons (Columba livia)	3
Learning to anticipate mate presence shapes individual sex roles in the hermaphroditic pond snail, Lymnaea stagnalis	3
Why it hurts: with freedom comes the biological need for pain	3
Disentangling help-seeking and giving up: differential human-directed gazing by dogs in a modified unsolvable task paradigm	3
Effect of environmental exposure to a maternally-learned odorant on anxiety-like behaviors at weaning in mice	3