OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Animal Cognition is 6. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

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
Magnetoreception in Hymenoptera: importance for navigation	24
Dog cognitive development: a longitudinal study across the first 2 years of life	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
Is cognition the secret to working dog success?	16
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
Equal performance but distinct behaviors: sex differences in a novel object recognition task and spatial maze in a highly social cichlid fish	15
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
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

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
Neophobia and social facilitation in narrow-striped mongooses	13
Neural substrates involved in the cognitive information processing in teleost fish	13
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
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
Non-visual homing and the current status of navigation in scorpions	12
Effects of incubation temperatures on learning abilities of hatchling velvet geckos	12
All units are equal in humpback whale songs, but some are more equal than others	11
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Volumetric spatial behaviour in rats reveals the anisotropic organisation of navigation	7
Who is there? Captive western gorillas distinguish human voices based on familiarity and nature of previous interactions	7
Arthropod spatial cognition	7
Training with varying odor concentrations: implications for odor detection thresholds in canines	7
Behavioural factors underlying innovative problem-solving differences in an avian predator from two contrasting habitats	7
Feline communication strategies when presented with an unsolvable task: the attentional state of the person matters	7
Daddy, daddy cool: stallion–foal relationships in a socially-natural herd of Exmoor ponies	7
Adjustment in the point-following behaviour of free-ranging dogs – roles of social petting and informative-deceptive nature of cues	7
Fear of the new? Geckos hesitate to attack novel prey, feed near objects and enter a novel space	7
Homing in the arachnid taxa Araneae and Amblypygi	7
Dog–human social relationship: representation of human face familiarity and emotions in the dog brain	7
Sex differences in the use of spatial cues in two avian brood parasites	7
Overlooked evidence for semantic compositionality and signal reduction in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)	7
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
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