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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

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
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
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