Animal Cognition

Papers
(The median citation count of Animal Cognition is 3. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Sexual differences in responses of meadow voles to environmental cues in the presence of mink odor34
Use of the sun compass by monocularly occluded homing pigeons in a food localisation task in an outdoor arena33
Active oscillations in microscale navigation21
The effect of dimensional reinforcement prediction on discrimination of compound visual stimuli by pigeons19
Dogs (Canis lupus familiaris) are susceptible to the Kanizsa’s triangle illusion19
Cowards or clever guys: an alternative nest defence strategy employed by shrikes against magpies18
Planning actions with a magnetic tool: how initial tool orientation and number of functional ends influence motor planning abilities in capuchin monkeys (Sapajus spp.)18
Quantitative abilities of invertebrates: a methodological review16
Visual snake aversion in Octodon degus and C57BL/6 mice16
Effects of oxytocin administration and the dog–owner bond on dogs’ rescue behavior16
Detecting surface changes in a familiar tune: exploring pitch, tempo and timbre15
Spaced training enhances equine learning performance15
Seasonal changes in problem-solving in wild African striped mice15
Disentangling help-seeking and giving up: differential human-directed gazing by dogs in a modified unsolvable task paradigm15
Innovative problem-solving in a threatened gull species, the Olrog’s Gull (Larus atlanticus)15
Searching high and low: domestic dogs’ understanding of solidity15
Overlooked evidence for semantic compositionality and signal reduction in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)15
House sparrows use learned information selectively based on whether reward is hidden or visible14
Intentional gestural communication amongst red-capped mangabeys (Cercocebus torquatus)14
Exploratory decisions of Trinidadian guppies when uncertain about predation risk14
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 control14
Nest sanitation as an effective defence against brood parasitism14
Learning to anticipate mate presence shapes individual sex roles in the hermaphroditic pond snail, Lymnaea stagnalis13
Correction to: If horses had toes: demonstrating mirror self recognition at group level in Equus caballus13
Assessing the performance of brushtail possums (Trichosurus vulpecula) on the Mechner counting procedure13
Language preference in the domestic dog (Canis familiaris)12
Second verse, same as the first: learning generalizable relational concepts through functional repetition11
Understanding across the senses: cross-modal studies of cognition in cetaceans11
Thinking about order: a review of common processing of magnitude and learned orders in animals11
Behavioral laterality is correlated with problem-solving performance in a songbird11
Does owner handedness influence paw preference in dogs?10
“Cognition in marine mammals: the strength of flexibility in adapting to marine life”10
Taste aversion learning in the snail Cornu aspersum10
Assessment of predation risk through conspecific cues by anuran larvae9
Appeasement function of displacement behaviours? Dogs’ behavioural displays exhibited towards threatening and neutral humans9
Impact of exploration behavior, aptitude for pellet consumption, and the predation practice on the performance in consecutive live prey foraging tests in a piscivorous species9
Mirror self-recognition in ghost crab (Ocypode quadrata)9
Pet dogs (Canis familiaris) re-engage humans after joint activity9
Putting the cart before the horse: claims for mirror self-recognition in horses are unfounded9
Meowing dogs: can dogs recognize cats in a cross-modal violation of expectancy task (Canis familiaris)?9
Puppies in the problem-solving paradigm: quick males and social females9
Interspecific differences in developmental mode determine early cognitive abilities in teleost fish9
Incrementing non-matching- but not matching-to-sample is rapidly learned in an automated version of the odor span task9
“The song remains the same”: not really! Vocal flexibility in the song of the indris9
Response of the weeping lizard to distress calls: the effect of witnessing predation9
Contagious yawning in African painted dogs9
Left or right, that is the question: use of egocentric frame of reference and the right-eye advantage for understanding gestural signs in bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus)9
Why an animal needs a brain9
Life is in motion (through a chick’s eye)8
Context-effect bias in capuchin monkeys (Sapajus spp.): exploring decoy influences in a value-based food choice task8
Correction: Why an animal needs a brain8
Neural substrates involved in the cognitive information processing in teleost fish8
Is this love? Sex differences in dog-owner attachment behavior suggest similarities with adult human bonds8
An initial exploration of mirror behaviour in the ferret, Mustela putorius furo8
Canine perspective-taking8
Innovative problem-solving in a small, wild canid8
Orientation by environmental geometry and feature cues in the green and black poison frog (Dendrobates auratus)8
Learning about construction behaviour from observing an artefact: can experience with conspecifics aid in artefact recognition?8
Adding colour-realistic video images to audio playbacks increases stimulus engagement but does not enhance vocal learning in zebra finches8
Context-dependent and seasonal fluctuation in bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) vocalizations8
Context-dependent use of olfactory cues by foragers of Vespula germanica social wasps8
Emergence of complex dynamics of choice due to repeated exposures to extinction learning8
Group size, partner choice and collaborative actions in male Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops aduncus)8
Adjustment in the point-following behaviour of free-ranging dogs – roles of social petting and informative-deceptive nature of cues8
Serial visual reversal learning in harbor seals (Phoca vitulina)7
Fish self-awareness: limits of current knowledge and theoretical expectations7
Degraded and computer-generated speech processing in a bonobo7
Domestic dogs (Canis lupus familiaris) are sensitive to the correlation between pitch and timbre in human speech7
Development of the dog executive function scale (DEFS) for adult dogs7
Playing it by ear: gregarious sparrows recognize and respond to isolated wingbeat sounds and predator-based cues7
Behavioral evidence for two distinct memory systems in rats7
Host parent responses to heterospecific parasite nestling alarm calls are independent of past and current experience with experimental brood parasitism7
The use of an intermittent schedule of reinforcement to evaluate detection dogs’ generalization from smokeless-powder7
Testing use of the first multi-partner cognitive enrichment devices by a group of male bottlenose dolphins7
When should we ascribe sentience to animals? A commentary on “Hermit crabs, shells and sentience” (Elwood 2022)7
Evidence of successive negative contrast in terrestrial toads (Rhinella arenarum): central or peripheral effect?7
Digital embryos: a novel technical approach to investigate perceptual categorization in pigeons (Columba livia) using machine learning7
Individual recognition and long-term memory of inanimate interactive agents and humans in dogs7
Mutual mother–pup vocal recognition in the highly colonial Cape fur seal: evidence of discrimination of calls with a high acoustic similarity7
Zebrafish excel in number discrimination under an operant conditioning paradigm7
Volumetric and connectivity assessment of the caudate nucleus in California sea lions and coyotes6
Observing the nature of relationships in male bottlenose dolphins6
The selfish preen: absence of allopreening in Palaeognathae and its socio-cognitive implications6
Sex differences in social buffering and social contagion of alarm responses in zebrafish6
Inter-group alliance dynamics in Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops aduncus)6
On the role of training in delay of gratification paradigms: a reply to Pepperberg 20226
Cognitive flexibility in a Tanganyikan bower-building cichlid, Aulonocranus dewindti6
Assessing sex differences in behavioural flexibility in an endangered bird species: the Southern ground-hornbill (Bucorvus leadbeateri)6
Correction: Discrimination of cat-directed speech from human-directed speech in a population of indoor companion cats (Felis catus)6
Does social motivation mitigate fear caused by a sudden sound in horses?6
Geometry-based navigation in the dark: layout symmetry facilitates spatial learning in the house cricket, Acheta domesticus, in the absence of visual cues6
Effects of acute maternal stress induced by predator cues on spatial learning and memory of offspring in the subterranean rodent Ctenomys talarum6
Context-dependent alarm responses in wild vervet monkeys6
Correction: Do chimpanzees see a face on Mars? A search for face pareidolia in chimpanzees6
When the owner does not know: comparing puppies and adult dogs’ showing behavior6
Can rats and ants exchange information between the horizontal and vertical domains?6
Cue polarization and representation in mouse home base behaviors6
From representations to servomechanisms to oscillators: my journey in the study of cognition6
Two-action task, testing imitative social learning in kea (Nestor notabilis)6
Horses discriminate between human facial and vocal expressions of sadness and joy6
Grouping rule in tadpole: is quantity more or size assortment more important?6
Llamas use social information from conspecifics and humans to solve a spatial detour task6
Stressfulness of the design influences consistency of cognitive measures and their correlation with animal personality traits in wild mice (Mus musculus)6
Object use in communication of semi-wild chimpanzees5
Basal cognition: shifting the center of gravity (again)5
An intentional cohesion call in male chimpanzees of Budongo Forest5
Conspecific "gaze following" in bottlenose dolphins5
Do chimpanzees see a face on Mars? A search for face pareidolia in chimpanzees5
Cognitive enrichment device provides evidence for intersexual differences in collaborative actions in Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops aduncus)5
Oscillatory extraction behaviour suggests functional attributes of crows’ hooked-stick tools5
Emulative learning of a two-step task in free-ranging domestic pigs5
Use of anvils by the Great Kiskadee (Aves, Tyrannidae): a description based on citizen science data5
Heterospecific eavesdropping on disturbance cues of a treefrog5
Animal cognition, past present and future, a 25th anniversary special issue5
Feline communication strategies when presented with an unsolvable task: the attentional state of the person matters5
Quantity discrimination in a spontaneous task in a poison frog5
Spot the odd one out: do snake pictures capture macaques’ attention more than other predators?5
Injury shortens life expectancy in ants and affects some risk-related decisions of workers5
Learning and organization of within-session sequences by pigeons (Columba livia)5
Developing a feasible and sensitive judgement bias task in dairy cows5
Are you my mummy? Long-term olfactory memory of mother’s body odour by offspring in the domestic cat5
Correction to: Domestic cats (Felis catus) prefer freely available food over food that requires effort5
Orcas remember what to copy: a deferred and interference-resistant imitation study4
Color is necessary for face discrimination in the Northern paper wasp, Polistes fuscatus4
Horses form cross-modal representations of adults and children4
Assessing cognitive performance in dairy calves using a modified hole-board test4
Hermit crabs, shells, and sentience4
Intra- and interspecific variation in self-control capacities of parrots in a delay of gratification task4
Vultures as an overlooked model in cognitive ecology4
Who is there? Captive western gorillas distinguish human voices based on familiarity and nature of previous interactions4
Performance on inhibitory tasks does not relate to handedness in several small groups of Callitrichids4
Structural environmental enrichment and the way it is offered influence cognitive judgement bias and anxiety-like behaviours in zebrafish4
Lessons learned in animal acoustic cognition through comparisons with humans4
Congratulations to Animal Cognition on its 50th birthday! Some thoughts on the last 50 years of animal cognition research4
Killer whale innovation: teaching animals to use their creativity upon request4
Well-developed spatial reversal learning abilities in harbor seals (Phoca vitulina)4
Both sheep and goats can solve inferential by exclusion tasks4
A new protocol for investigating visual two-choice discrimination learning in lizards4
Dogs can infer implicit information from human emotional expressions4
An exploratory analysis of head-tilting in dogs4
A comparison of personality traits of gifted word learner and typical border collies4
Breed group differences in the unsolvable problem task: herding dogs prefer their owner, while solitary hunting dogs seek stranger proximity4
African jewel fish (Hemichromis bimaculatus) distinguish individual faces based on their unique iridophore patterns4
Correction: Varieties of visual navigation in insects4
Are you better than me? Social comparisons in carrion crows (Corvus corone)4
Human interventions in a behavioural experiment for Asian Elephants (Elephas maximus)4
Both age and experience are important for successful problem solving in juvenile fawn-footed mosaic-tailed rats Melomys cervinipes4
The acoustic bases of human voice identity processing in dogs4
Flexibility and rigidity in hunting behaviour in rodents: is there room for cognition?4
Does quantity matter to a stingless bee?4
No evidence of spatial representation of age, but “own-age bias” like face processing found in chimpanzees4
Mirror-mediated string-pulling task in Eurasian jays (Garrulus glandarius)4
After 150 years of watching: is there a need for synthetic ethology?4
Grey wolves (Canis lupus) discriminate between familiar and unfamiliar human voices4
Azure-winged Magpies would rather avoid losses than strive for benefits based on reciprocal altruism3
A tool to act blind? Object-assisted eye-covering as a self-handicapping behavior and social play signal in Balinese long-tailed macaques3
Domestic cats (Felis catus) prefer freely available food over food that requires effort3
Equivalence classification, learning by exclusion, and long-term memory in pinnipeds: cognitive mechanisms demonstrated through research with subjects under human care and in the field3
Plasticity for the kin and conspecific preferences in the frog tadpoles (Rana ornativentris)3
Under pressure: the interaction between high-stakes contexts and individual differences in decision-making in humans and non-human species3
Social information facilitates learning about novel food sources in adult flower-visiting bats3
Frog embryos use multiple levels of temporal pattern in risk assessment for vibration-cued escape hatching3
Do you see what I see? Testing horses’ ability to recognise real-life objects from 2D computer projections3
Spontaneous object recognition in capuchin monkeys: assessing the effects of sex, familiarization phase and retention delay3
Clever pest control? The role of cognition in biological pest regulation3
Through the looking glass: how do marked dolphins use mirrors and what does it mean?3
Behavioural factors underlying innovative problem-solving differences in an avian predator from two contrasting habitats3
Come with me: experimental evidence for intentional recruitment in Tonkean macaques3
Reward history modulates visual attention in an avian model3
On being a Hydra with, and without, a nervous system: what do neurons add?3
Family first! Influence of parental investment in Guinea pigs (Cavia porcellus) prosocial choices3
Wild skuas can use acoustic cues to locate hidden food3
The PROUST hypothesis: the embodiment of olfactory cognition3
Wild skuas can follow human-given behavioural cues when objects resemble natural food3
Recent developments in parrot cognition: a quadrennial update3
Cognitive control of song production by humpback whales3
Social factors influence solo and rat dyads exploration of an unfamiliar open field3
Do sex differences in construction behavior relate to differences in physical cognitive abilities?3
The current state of carnivore cognition3
Tolerant macaque species are less impulsive and reactive3
Photobehaviours guided by simple photoreceptor systems3
Novel object recognition in Octopus maya3
What do zebra finches learn besides singing? Systematic mapping of the literature and presentation of an efficient associative learning test3
Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) detect strange body parts: an eye-tracking study3
The effect of repeated testing on judgement bias in domestic dogs (Canis familiaris)3
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