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Check out this special issue on #Animal #Culture! 🧪

#ComparativePsychology #CompCogPapers #AnimalBehavior
royalsocietypublishing.org Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · Mar 30
Culture was assumed to be unique to humans, but recent scientific discoveries have revealed that it's in fact widespread in the animal kingdom. This #PhilTransB issue is the first to present a comprehensive picture of the science & implications of this: royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/issue/3...
March 31, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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In case you haven't seen this themed issue on #Animal #Minds, it offers insights on the evolution of cognitive adaptations across #species 🧪

#CompCogPapers #ComparativePsychology #AnimalCognition #AnimalBehavior #Cognition
royalsocietypublishing.org Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · Jun 27
A new theme issue in #PhilTransB looks at how and why animal minds have evolved to be so different from one another, framing animal #cognition as a diverse set of solutions to life’s many challenges buff.ly/csMZa3R
January 28, 2026 at 3:15 PM
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🧪 #CompCogPapers #ZebraFinch #AnimalBehavior
September 28, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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New study of personality variability across social contexts in common marmosets 🧪 🐒
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#AnimalBehavior #CompCogPapers #Personality #Monkey #Primate #IndividualVariation #Marmoset
December 9, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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#NewPaper on adaptive tool use in Veronika the Carinthian #Cow 🐮 🧪
#CompCogPapers #AnimalBehvior #ComparativePsychology #AnimalCognition #ToolUse #CarinthianBlondvieh
auersperga.bsky.social Alice Auersperg @auersperga.bsky.social · Jan 19
Our new paper (with @biotay.bsky.social) is out and on the cover story of @currentbiology.bsky.social !!!! Veronika, a Carinthian mountain cow flexibly uses a “multi-purpose tool” to scratch herself. A video and more information will follow in the comments.
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January 20, 2026 at 2:39 PM
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Bee positive! 🐝 A new study found evidence for positive affective contagion in bumblebees, this is an exciting direction for studying affect and emotion beyond vertebrates 🧪 #CompCogPapers #AffectiveScience #ComparativeCognition #BumbleBee #SocialBehavior #AnimalBehavior #Invertebrate #Insect
larschittka.bsky.social Lars Chittka @larschittka.bsky.social · Oct 24
Exciting new work from former team members Eric Romero, Cwyn Solvi, Fei Peng and colleagues makes the cover of Science: affective contagion in bumblebees! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
October 28, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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New paper alert 📣 Baby #chicks tested with the bouba-kiki paradigm show evidence that mechanisms for crossmodal associations of shapes with sounds are present in a broad range of species 🧪 🐥

#CompCogPapers #SoundSymbolism #Chicken #BirdBrain #AnimalBehavior #ComparativePsychology
mehr.nz samuel mehr @mehr.nz · Feb 20
the new paper on bouba/kiki in chicks is utterly compelling

canonical, elegant method from comparative cogsci & its partner in developmental science, ultra-simple design, ultra-clear effects, no need for fancy analyses, machine learning, or AI

it appeared in an appropriately badass venue (Science)
Matching sounds to shapes: Evidence of the bouba-kiki effect in naïve baby chicks Maria Loconsole1*, Silvia Benavides-Varela2,3, Lucia Regolin1 Humans across multiple languages spontaneously associate the nonwords “kiki” and “bouba” with spiky and round shapes, respectively, a phenomenon named the bouba-kiki effect. To explore the origin of this association, and whether it is unique to humans, we tested the bouba-kiki effect in baby domestic chickens (Gallus gallus). as a precocial species, chicks can be tested shortly after hatching, allowing us to control their pretest experiences. Similar to humans, both 3-day-old [experiment 1 (exp. 1)] and 1-day-old (exp. 2) chicks spontaneously choose a spiky shape when hearing the “kiki” sound and a round shape when hearing the “bouba” sound. results from naïve young animals suggest a predisposed mechanism for matching the dimensions of shape and sound, which may be widespread across species. main fig from the paper showing the association between bouba/round and kiki/spiky in newborn chicks
February 20, 2026 at 3:01 PM
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New paper alert: Social dynamics in #Meerkats 🧪 Make sure to see the videos in Vlad's thread as well 🙌

#CompCogPapers #AnimalBehavior #CollectiveBehvior #SocialHierarchy #AnimalCommunication
February 1, 2026 at 6:20 PM
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📣 New paper alert 🧪 The authors demonstrate that Kanzi the #bonobo tracks the displacement of "invisible" juice, a first of its kind study to examine imagination in nonhuman beings.
Read the paper here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#GreatApe #AnimalBehavior #CompCogPapers #ComparativePsychology
February 6, 2026 at 2:19 PM
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Sex predicts response to novelty and problem-solving in a wild bird with female-biased sexual dimorphism | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences https://bit.ly/4gMFu0J #CompCogPapers @JuliaLSelf @ConnorTLambert
December 19, 2024 at 7:30 PM
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📣 New paper alert! Capuchin monkeys showed selective information seeking behaviour, suggesting that this is a flexible & domain general behaviour, not just a foraging strategy 🧪 🐒 #CompCogPapers #ComparativeCognition #Monkey #AnimalBehavior #ComparativePsychology
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Peek a boo! Information seeking about food and functionality in capuchin monkeys - Animal Cognition
The ability to be aware of your own knowledge state (metacognition) can be investigated by examining an individual’s information-seeking behaviour. Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) perform strategic sear...
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November 6, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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🧪 New paper with "gifted" pet #dogs 🐶 suggests that they are able to associate labels they've overheard their guardians use with novel objects. Check out the full article: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Dogs with a large vocabulary of object labels learn new labels by overhearing like 1.5-year-old infants
Children as young as 18 months can acquire novel words by overhearing third-party interactions. Demonstrating similar learning processes in nonhuman species would indicate that the social-cognitive sk...
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January 9, 2026 at 8:22 PM
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New collaborative paper "Systematic mapping and bibliometric analysis of meta-analyses on animal cognition" Neuro & Biobehav Rev https://bit.ly/45Jsd4T by folks at @UNSWScience @ualbertaScience @Uni_Newcastle @HokkaidoUni

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Systematic mapping and bibliometric analysis of meta-analyses on animal cognition
Meta-analyses play an important role in empirically synthesising research and guiding future directions. The field of animal cognition is rapidly expa…
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August 21, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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New #psynomLB #Outlook Do marmosets really have names? https://bit.ly/4213mts by Kelly Jaakkola @DolphinResearch about @DavidOmer_ paper @ScienceMagazine Vocal labeling of others by nonhuman primates, 385:996-1003 #compcogpapers #neuroscience #communication
Do marmosets really have names?
Learning & Behavior - A recent study demonstrated that marmoset “phee calls” include information specific to the intended receiver of the call, and that receivers respond more to...
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January 3, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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🚨Bees may reason by exclusion🚨 Martin-Ordas suggests bees can infer 1 option is correct because they have excluded the alternative, & that the concept of 'or' is represented. Clever adaptation of 2-cup task allowing 1st test of this capacity in invertebrates 🐝 #compcogpapers
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January 7, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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New #PsynomLB #Outlook paper Bee reasonable: Do bumblebees reason by exclusion? https://bit.ly/4achpOB by @donnakean.bsky.social & Alex Taylor #CompCogPapers
Bee reasonable: Do bumblebees reason by exclusion?
Learning & Behavior - In a clever adaptation of the two-cups task, a recent paper tested for reasoning by exclusion in bees. Although further work is necessary to rule out competing hypotheses,...
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January 10, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Fear of the flying: new study looks at ‘neophobia’ in birds bit.ly/3LU5IUF Folio write up about our recent collaborative paper

PLoS Biology article: bit.ly/4o4Sdir

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Fear of the flying: new study looks at ‘neophobia’ in birds | News
A University of Alberta psychology team is part of the largest-ever study on neophobia, or the fear of novelty, in birds. The study suggests birds that are more afraid of the unfamiliar may be less likely to adapt well to environmental disruptions as a result of climate change.
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November 19, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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New #PsynomLB paper Revisiting episodic-like memory in scrub jays: Is there more we can still learn from what–where–when caching behaviour? https://bit.ly/42a4zhZ by Wordfold et al. @nickyclayton22 #corvid #compcogpapers #caching @psychonomic_soc @comparativecog
Revisiting episodic-like memory in scrub jays: Is there more we can still learn from what–where–when caching behaviour?
Learning & Behavior - Professor Nicola Clayton is perhaps best known for her work on food-caching scrub jays. Her seminal 1998 paper, together with Anthony Dickinson, showed that scrub jays...
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January 13, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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📣 #NewPaper on #plant information processing, with a truly excellent title 🌱 🧪 www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

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Is cognition at the root of plant behavior?
Information processing underlies the behavior of many species, including plants. However, there remains uncertainty about how plants integrate and use information, and whether this is analogous to ani...
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February 4, 2026 at 2:32 PM
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New #PsynomLB paper https://bit.ly/4gInJ2N Examination of hierarchical form perception in African grey parrots (Psittacus erithacus) by Ali Qadri & Suzanne Gray @Psychonomic_Soc @ComparativeCog #compcogpapers
Examination of hierarchical form perception in African grey parrots (Psittacus erithacus)
Learning & Behavior - The perception of objects is a challenging task that requires recognizing visual elements and integrating them into a whole. While human vision prioritizes attention to...
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January 8, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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New #psynomLB paper https://bit.ly/3C0taLu Cuttlefish favour their current need to hide rather than their future need for food by Lisa et al. @ChristelleJozet #cephalopod #futureplanning #mentaltimetravel @ComparativeCog @Psychonomic_Soc #CompCogPapers
Cuttlefish favour their current need to hide rather than their future need for food
Learning & Behavior - Episodic memory and future thinking are generally considered as two parts of the same mental time travelling system in vertebrates. Modern cephalopods, with their...
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January 9, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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The Editorial for the Special Issue of #PsynomLB In honour of the contributions of @nickyclayton22 is now online: https://bit.ly/4iiXDUn #compcogpapers @ComparativeCog @Psychonomic_Soc
A special issue in honor of the contributions of Professor Nicola S. Clayton FRS
Learning & Behavior - It has been an honor to edit this special issue of Learning & Behavior to recognize the exceptional contributions of Prof. Nicky S. Clayton FRS to the fields of...
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February 26, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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🚨 Aerial Urination in dolphins 🚨 Male river dolphins spray urine into the air, usually in the presence of a 'receiver' male 🐬 Results suggest a previously unreported sensory modality, and potential social and communicatory functions #CompCogPapers www.sciencedirect.co...
Aerial urination suggests undescribed sensory modality and social function in river dolphins
Scent marking through urine spraying is known to aid mate selection, territory marking and chemical communication in terrestrial, but not in aquatic m…
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January 24, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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December 30, 2024 at 10:17 PM