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The #psynomLB special issue honoring Nicky Clayton is out! So is this new interview with lively Nicky Clayton as she talks about enthusiastic serendipity, dance, magic, and more.
L&B Special Issue: Interview with Nicky Clayton
Audio Intro Kosovicheva: You’re listening to All Things Cognition, a Psychonomic Society podcast. Now, here is your host, Laura Mickes. Intro to the interview with Professor Nicky Clayton Mickes: N…
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April 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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The Psychonomic Society is pleased to announce that Victor Ajuwon has been honored with the 2025 Best Article Award for L&B. Congratulations on this well-deserved recognition. Read the paper here: bit.ly/45CAn06 #psynomLB @victorajuwon1 @Dr_AlexSchnell @_MonteiroTiago_ @nickyclayton22
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August 7, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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🐀😱 Do rats feel fear—or just freeze in response? New #psynomLB paper by Zheng @binyinphd.bsky.social and co tease apart defensive behavior vs. subjective emotion by studying ultrasonic vocalisations. buff.ly/t9H0yxg
August 26, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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New #Outlook #PsynomLB @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social Bonobos know when you don’t: Ape ignorance attribution https://bit.ly/46Xjv5n by @awad-schwob.bsky.social‬

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Bonobos know when you don’t: Ape ignorance attribution
Learning & Behavior - Townrow and Krupenye (PNAS, 122(6), Article e2412450122, 2025) found that bonobos understand the mental states of others and can attribute ignorance to a social partner....
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July 23, 2025 at 6:12 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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New research paper #PsynomLB 'Extinction of outcome-specific Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer (PIT), instrumental outcome devaluation, and reward-related attentional capture are predicted by affect-driven impulsivity' https://bit.ly/43Rc3FL @Psychonomic_Soc @CanalUGR #Pavlov
Extinction of outcome-specific Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer (PIT), instrumental outcome devaluation, and reward-related attentional capture are predicted by affect-driven impulsivity
Learning & Behavior - In two online experiments, we aimed to study the relationship between emotion dysregulation and persistence of incentive salience attributed to reward cues....
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June 12, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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New #Outlook #PsynomLB @Psychonomic_Soc "Bonobos know when you don’t: Ape ignorance attribution" https://bit.ly/46Xjv5n by Dr. Natalie Schwob @BucknellU

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Bonobos know when you don’t: Ape ignorance attribution
Learning & Behavior - Townrow and Krupenye (PNAS, 122(6), Article e2412450122, 2025) found that bonobos understand the mental states of others and can attribute ignorance to a social partner....
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July 23, 2025 at 6:12 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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New paper #psynomLB 'Reversal learning and aging: Exploring simple discrimination learning, learning-set, and functional classes' http://bit.ly/3J9wk2Y by Manfredo et al.

#CognitiveFlexibility #ReversalLearning #Learning-set

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Reversal learning and aging: Exploring simple discrimination learning, learning-set, and functional classes
Learning & Behavior - Cognitive (or behavioral) flexibility is considered an executive function characterized by patterns of behavioral adjustment in response to changes in environmental...
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October 23, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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New paper #psynomLB 'Visual perception of rotated chromatic and achromatic 3D stimuli in goldfish (Carassius auratus)' https://bit.ly/3LE3M2z by DeLong et al.

#Objectconstancy #Objectdiscrimination #Visualperception

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Visual perception of rotated chromatic and achromatic 3D stimuli in goldfish (Carassius auratus)
Learning & Behavior - The ability to visually recognize objects despite differences in orientation would be advantageous for fish because they see objects from many viewpoints as they navigate...
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November 17, 2025 at 11:41 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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New research paper #PsynomLB 'Eavesdropping and contagious alarming in bird communities' https://bit.ly/4n3Ida6 @federicaross9 et al. #communication #Passerines #vocalizations #playback #experiment #interspecific #interactions
Eavesdropping and contagious alarming in bird communities
Learning & Behavior - Eavesdropping on heterospecific alarm calls can provide valuable information about predator presence and therefore yield survival benefits. However, if, how, and why...
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June 16, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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Congratulations to Candela Zorzo for receiving the Psychonomic Society’s 2024 Best Article Award for L&B! You can read her award-winning article online. Congratulations, Candela! https://buff.ly/3T4LGb5 #psynomLB
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August 8, 2024 at 9:05 PM
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New #PsynomLB #Outlook paper The role of associative learning in sensitization https://bit.ly/4km1H8i by Ken Leising @TCU @Psychonomic_Soc @ELSneuroscience @UTPsychology
The role of associative learning in sensitization
Learning & Behavior - In Pavlovian sensitization, conditioned stimuli are said to activate response modes (e.g., feeding, sexual, or fear), which result in an increase in the response to other...
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March 6, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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Special issue #PsynomLB In honor of the contributions of Prof. Nicky Clayton FRS Download for free until the end of May 25

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Learning & Behavior
Learning & Behavior explores fundamental processes of learning and behavior in human and nonhuman animals. An official publication of The Psychonomic ...
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March 14, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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New paper #psynomLB 'Discrimination of invisible spatial structures by pigeons' https://bit.ly/4nYlJqa by Cook & Cook

#Associativelearning #Patternrecognition #Acquisition #Spatiallearning

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Discrimination of invisible spatial structures by pigeons
Learning & Behavior - The study of animal cognition has hosted a long debate about the nature of mental representation. Specifically, whether spatial (map-like) or associative (node-like)...
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November 14, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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New original paper in #PsynomLB Common wall lizards learn familiar-unfamiliar identity of conspecifics through chemical cues by Sacchi et al. https://bit.ly/43kbRQR @Psychonomic_Soc
Common wall lizards learn familiar-unfamiliar identity of conspecifics through chemical cues
Learning & Behavior - Despite numerous studies on individual recognition having been carried out on lizards, a clear demonstration that lizards are able to identify conspecifics is still...
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March 7, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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New #Outlook in #PsynomLB 'Play in fowl and flies: The renaissance continues' https://bit.ly/4mjze3Z by Prof. Gordon Burghardt @UTK_EEB based two recent papers about play...(1/2)

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Play in fowl and flies: The renaissance continues
Learning & Behavior - The study of animal play has grown popular in recent years and its occurrence in diverse taxa documented. Two recent papers describe detailed experimental research on play...
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May 20, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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New #Outlook #PsynomLB 'Emergence of orthogonal hippocampal representations during spatial learning' https://bit.ly/4mlOXQa by Prof. Vern Bingman @BGSU_Biology about the recent paper https://bit.ly/4jZO0eT by @sunw37 @JohanWinn @CornellNBB et al. @nature @Psychonomic_Soc
Emergence of orthogonal hippocampal representations during spatial learning
Learning & Behavior - Sun et al. (2025) reveal the progressive, dynamic changes in the response properties of thousands of hippocampal neurons as mice learn a conditional discrimination while...
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May 23, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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New #paper in #psynomLB Sex differences in giant panda paw preferences during bamboo feeding https://bit.ly/47pnzv6 by Snyder et al.

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Sex differences in giant panda paw preferences during bamboo feeding
Learning & Behavior - We examined giant panda paw use while feeding on bamboo to determine if this species exhibits manual lateralization. Video recordings of 21 captive giant pandas (15...
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November 3, 2025 at 8:16 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 Complex relationship between response rate and preference in pigeons: Williams (1992) revisited https://bit.ly/3PeYSHZ by Zentall, Peng & Rasul @universityofky
Complex relationship between response rate and preference in pigeons: Williams (1992) revisited
Learning & Behavior - A decrease in the rate of reinforcement associated with one component of a multiple schedule is typically associated with a decrease in responding in that component as...
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December 30, 2024 at 10:13 PM
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New #paper in #psynomLB Evaluating a four-button computerized gaming system for cognitive engagement in dogs https://bit.ly/4qEgZZr

#CanineCognition #OperantLearning #videogame

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Evaluating a four-button computerized gaming system for cognitive engagement in dogs
Learning & Behavior - Cognitive enrichment is essential for improving the welfare of animals in kennels, shelters, and laboratory environments. Whereas touchscreens have been used to engage...
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November 4, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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'Spatial representation of magnitude in rhesus macaques: Investigating SNARC effects in quantity and size dimensions' http://bit.ly/3W46Cjs by Jackson et al.

#numericalprocessing #comparativecognition

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Spatial representation of magnitude in rhesus macaques: Investigating SNARC effects in quantity and size dimensions
Learning & Behavior - The Spatial Numerical Association of Response Codes (SNARC) effect reflects an association of magnitude with space. For example, humans typically map small numbers to one...
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October 20, 2025 at 9:48 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