Animal Cognition

Article	Citations
“Cognition in marine mammals: the strength of flexibility in adapting to marine life”	47
Planning actions with a magnetic tool: how initial tool orientation and number of functional ends influence motor planning abilities in capuchin monkeys (Sapajus spp.)	43
Correction to: If horses had toes: demonstrating mirror self recognition at group level in Equus caballus	24
Disentangling help-seeking and giving up: differential human-directed gazing by dogs in a modified unsolvable task paradigm	23
Assessment of predation risk through conspecific cues by anuran larvae	21
Does owner handedness influence paw preference in dogs?	21
Learning to anticipate mate presence shapes individual sex roles in the hermaphroditic pond snail, Lymnaea stagnalis	20
House sparrows use learned information selectively based on whether reward is hidden or visible	19
Life is in motion (through a chick’s eye)	19
Spaced training enhances equine learning performance	18
Pet dogs (Canis familiaris) re-engage humans after joint activity	18
Seasonal changes in problem-solving in wild African striped mice	18
Nest sanitation as an effective defence against brood parasitism	17
Sex differences in social buffering and social contagion of alarm responses in zebrafish	16
Cognitive flexibility in a Tanganyikan bower-building cichlid, Aulonocranus dewindti	16
Thinking about order: a review of common processing of magnitude and learned orders in animals	16
Mutual mother–pup vocal recognition in the highly colonial Cape fur seal: evidence of discrimination of calls with a high acoustic similarity	15
Injury shortens life expectancy in ants and affects some risk-related decisions of workers	14
Spot the odd one out: do snake pictures capture macaques’ attention more than other predators?	14
Horses discriminate between human facial and vocal expressions of sadness and joy	14
Grouping rule in tadpole: is quantity more or size assortment more important?	14
The PROUST hypothesis: the embodiment of olfactory cognition	13
On being a Hydra with, and without, a nervous system: what do neurons add?	13
Learning and organization of within-session sequences by pigeons (Columba livia)	13
A comparative study of mirror self-recognition in three corvid species	12

A new protocol for investigating visual two-choice discrimination learning in lizards	12
A promising novel judgement bias test to evaluate affective states in dogs (Canis familiaris)	12
Both age and experience are important for successful problem solving in juvenile fawn-footed mosaic-tailed rats Melomys cervinipes	12
Cognitive control of song production by humpback whales	12
Lessons learned in animal acoustic cognition through comparisons with humans	12
What drives horse success at following human-given cues? An investigation of handler familiarity and living conditions	11
Smart sharks: a review of chondrichthyan cognition	11
Decision making under risk: framing effects in pigeon risk preferences	11
Changes in the anxiety-like and fearful behavior of shrimp following daily threatening experiences	11
Impact of environmental complexity and stocking density on affective states of rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)	11
Penguins perceive variations of source- and filter-related vocal parameters of species-specific vocalisations	11
Context specificity of latent inhibition in the snail Cornu aspersum	11
Searching high and low: domestic dogs’ understanding of solidity	10
Orientation by environmental geometry and feature cues in the green and black poison frog (Dendrobates auratus)	10
Incrementing non-matching- but not matching-to-sample is rapidly learned in an automated version of the odor span task	10
Overlooked evidence for semantic compositionality and signal reduction in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)	10
Behavioral laterality is correlated with problem-solving performance in a songbird	10
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)	10
Impact of exploration behavior, aptitude for pellet consumption, and the predation practice on the performance in consecutive live prey foraging tests in a piscivorous species	10
Are you better than me? Social comparisons in carrion crows (Corvus corone)	9
Emulative learning of a two-step task in free-ranging domestic pigs	9
Individual recognition and long-term memory of inanimate interactive agents and humans in dogs	9
Testing use of the first multi-partner cognitive enrichment devices by a group of male bottlenose dolphins	9
Can rats and ants exchange information between the horizontal and vertical domains?	9
Basal cognition: shifting the center of gravity (again)	9
Plasticity for the kin and conspecific preferences in the frog tadpoles (Rana ornativentris)	9
Novel object recognition in Octopus maya	9
Cue polarization and representation in mouse home base behaviors	9
Host parent responses to heterospecific parasite nestling alarm calls are independent of past and current experience with experimental brood parasitism	9
Evidence of successive negative contrast in terrestrial toads (Rhinella arenarum): central or peripheral effect?	9
After 150 years of watching: is there a need for synthetic ethology?	9
Intra- and interspecific variation in self-control capacities of parrots in a delay of gratification task	9
Context-dependent use of olfactory cues by foragers of Vespula germanica social wasps	9
Volumetric and connectivity assessment of the caudate nucleus in California sea lions and coyotes	9
Visual perception of emotion cues in dogs: a critical review of methodologies	8
African jewel fish (Hemichromis bimaculatus) distinguish individual faces based on their unique iridophore patterns	8
Bold and bright: shy and supple? The effect of habitat type on personality–cognition covariance in the Aegean wall lizard (Podarcis erhardii)	8
Odor-based mate choice copying in deer mice is not affected by familiarity or kinship	8
Tolerant macaque species are less impulsive and reactive	8
Wild skuas can use acoustic cues to locate hidden food	8
Varieties of visual navigation in insects	8
Nest box entrance hole size can influence nest site selection and nest defence behaviour in Japanese tits	8
Performance on inhibitory tasks does not relate to handedness in several small groups of Callitrichids	8
An exploratory analysis of head-tilting in dogs	8
The deterrent effects of individual monoterpene odours on the dietary decisions of African elephants	8
Behavioural synchronization and social referencing of dogs and humans: walking in dyad vs in group	8
First record of geophagy in Jungle Babbler (Turdoides striata) prior to egg-laying: an instinct for calcium supplement	8
Through the eyes of a hunter: assessing perception and exclusion performance in ground-hornbills	7
Social experience drives the development of holistic face processing in paper wasps	7
Domestication effects on social information transfer in chickens	7

Assessing the performance of brushtail possums (Trichosurus vulpecula) on the Mechner counting procedure	7
Repeated testing does not confound cognitive performance in the Western Australian magpie (Cracticus tibicen dorsalis)	7
Count-based decision-making in mice: numerosity vs. stimulus control	7
Visual categories and concepts in the avian brain	7
Meowing dogs: can dogs recognize cats in a cross-modal violation of expectancy task (Canis familiaris)?	7
Cognition of the manatee: past research and future developments	7
Gender differences in animal cognition science	7
Juvenile vervet monkeys rely on others when responding to danger	7
Quantity discrimination by kittens of the domestic cat (Felis silvestris catus)	7
Slowly walking down to the more food: relative quantity discrimination in African spurred tortoises (Centrochelys sulcata)	7
Active oscillations in microscale navigation	7
Mirror self-recognition in gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla): a review and evaluation of mark test replications and variants	7
Orcas remember what to copy: a deferred and interference-resistant imitation study	6
Does quantity matter to a stingless bee?	6
Correction: Do chimpanzees see a face on Mars? A search for face pareidolia in chimpanzees	6
Group size, partner choice and collaborative actions in male Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops aduncus)	6
Innovative problem-solving in a small, wild canid	6
Adding colour-realistic video images to audio playbacks increases stimulus engagement but does not enhance vocal learning in zebra finches	6
Oscillatory extraction behaviour suggests functional attributes of crows’ hooked-stick tools	6
Grey wolves (Canis lupus) discriminate between familiar and unfamiliar human voices	6
Who is there? Captive western gorillas distinguish human voices based on familiarity and nature of previous interactions	6
Horses form cross-modal representations of adults and children	6
When should we ascribe sentience to animals? A commentary on “Hermit crabs, shells and sentience” (Elwood 2022)	6
Context-effect bias in capuchin monkeys (Sapajus spp.): exploring decoy influences in a value-based food choice task	6
Puppies in the problem-solving paradigm: quick males and social females	6
Breed group differences in the unsolvable problem task: herding dogs prefer their owner, while solitary hunting dogs seek stranger proximity	6
No evidence of spatial representation of age, but “own-age bias” like face processing found in chimpanzees	6
Color is necessary for face discrimination in the Northern paper wasp, Polistes fuscatus	6
Two-action task, testing imitative social learning in kea (Nestor notabilis)	6
Adjustment in the point-following behaviour of free-ranging dogs – roles of social petting and informative-deceptive nature of cues	6
Interspecific differences in developmental mode determine early cognitive abilities in teleost fish	6
Object use in communication of semi-wild chimpanzees	6
Correction to: Domestic cats (Felis catus) prefer freely available food over food that requires effort	6
The current state of carnivore cognition	5
Nest size matters: common cuckoos prefer to parasitize larger nests of Oriental reed warblers	5
An investigation on the olfactory capabilities of domestic dogs (Canis lupus familiaris)	5
Perceptual grouping and detection of trial-unique emergent structures by pigeons	5
Recovery-from-extinction effects in an anuran amphibian: renewal effect, but no reinstatement	5
Vocal signals with different social or non-social contexts in two wild rodent species (Mus caroli and Rattus losea)	5
A small step for rats alters spatial behavior: rats on a bi-level arena explore each level separately	5
First acoustic evidence of signature whistle production by spinner dolphins (Stenella longirostris)	5
Memory enhances problem solving in the fawn-footed mosaic-tailed rat Melomys cervinipes	5
What is it like to be a choanoflagellate? Sensation, processing and behavior in the closest unicellular relatives of animals	5
Social cognition and metacognition in great apes: a theory	5
Stepwise learning of compound multidimensional visual stimuli by sorting out the dimensions of which they are composed in pigeons	5
Operant conditioning in antlion larvae and its impairment following exposure to elevated temperatures	5
All units are equal in humpback whale songs, but some are more equal than others	5
How visual system configuration can play a role in individual recognition: a visual modeling study	5
No coordination required for resources allocation during colony fission in a social insect? An individual-based model reproduces empirical patterns	5
Effects of predation risk on the sensory asymmetries and defensive strategies of Bufotes balearicus tadpoles	5
Mice make temporal inferences about novel locations based on previously learned spatiotemporal contingencies	5
Geckos differentiate self from other using both skin and faecal chemicals: evidence towards self-recognition?	5
The influence of visual illusion perception on numerosity estimation could be evolutionarily conserved: exploring the numerical Delboeuf illusion in humans (Homo sapiens) and fish (Poecilia reticulata	5
Why wait to mark? Possible reasons behind latency from olfactory exploration to overmarking in four African equid species	5
Mirror image stimulation could reverse social-isolation-induced aggressiveness in the high-level subsocial lactating spider	5
Intentional gestural communication amongst red-capped mangabeys (Cercocebus torquatus)	4
Cowards or clever guys: an alternative nest defence strategy employed by shrikes against magpies	4
Detecting surface changes in a familiar tune: exploring pitch, tempo and timbre	4
Prior experience modifies acquisition trajectories via response–strategy sampling	4
Llamas use social information from conspecifics and humans to solve a spatial detour task	4
Use of anvils by the Great Kiskadee (Aves, Tyrannidae): a description based on citizen science data	4
Structural environmental enrichment and the way it is offered influence cognitive judgement bias and anxiety-like behaviours in zebrafish	4
Well-developed spatial reversal learning abilities in harbor seals (Phoca vitulina)	4
Fish self-awareness: limits of current knowledge and theoretical expectations	4
Context-dependent and seasonal fluctuation in bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) vocalizations	4
Use of the sun compass by monocularly occluded homing pigeons in a food localisation task in an outdoor arena	4
Bioelectric networks: the cognitive glue enabling evolutionary scaling from physiology to mind	4
On the role of training in delay of gratification paradigms: a reply to Pepperberg 2022	4
Does social motivation mitigate fear caused by a sudden sound in horses?	4
Under pressure: the interaction between high-stakes contexts and individual differences in decision-making in humans and non-human species	4
Animal cognition, past present and future, a 25th anniversary special issue	4
Is this love? Sex differences in dog-owner attachment behavior suggest similarities with adult human bonds	4
Heterospecific eavesdropping on disturbance cues of a treefrog	4
“The song remains the same”: not really! Vocal flexibility in the song of the indris	4
Why an animal needs a brain	4
Star finches Neochmia ruficauda have a visual preference for white dot patterns: a possible case of trypophilia	4
Mother–pup recognition mechanisms in Australia sea lion (Neophoca cinerea) using uni- and multi-modal approaches	4
Language preference in the domestic dog (Canis familiaris)	4
A comparison of personality traits of gifted word learner and typical border collies	4
Congratulations to Animal Cognition on its 50th birthday! Some thoughts on the last 50 years of animal cognition research	4

Stressfulness of the design influences consistency of cognitive measures and their correlation with animal personality traits in wild mice (Mus musculus)	4
Zebrafish excel in number discrimination under an operant conditioning paradigm	4
The use of an intermittent schedule of reinforcement to evaluate detection dogs’ generalization from smokeless-powder	4