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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The scholar’s best friend: research trends in dog cognitive and behavioral studies	63
Estimating the heritability of cognitive traits across dog breeds reveals highly heritable inhibitory control and communication factors	35
Understanding fish cognition: a review and appraisal of current practices	34
Dog cognitive development: a longitudinal study across the first 2 years of life	27
Magnetoreception in Hymenoptera: importance for navigation	24
Predictors of individual variation in reversal learning performance in three-spined sticklebacks	22
Cognition and the human–animal relationship: a review of the sociocognitive skills of domestic mammals toward humans	21
A dung beetle that path integrates without the use of landmarks	21
Sex differences in the behavioral responses of dogs exposed to human chemosignals of fear and happiness	20
Did we find a copycat? Do as I Do in a domestic cat (Felis catus)	18
Dog–human behavioral synchronization: family dogs synchronize their behavior with child family members	17
A review of the unsolvable task in dog communication and cognition: comparing different methodologies	17
Bodily emotional expressions are a primary source of information for dogs, but not for humans	17
Is cognition the secret to working dog success?	16
Neural substrates involved in the cognitive information processing in teleost fish	16
Horses are sensitive to baby talk: pet-directed speech facilitates communication with humans in a pointing task and during grooming	15
The effect of urbanization on innovation in spotted hyenas	15
Equal performance but distinct behaviors: sex differences in a novel object recognition task and spatial maze in a highly social cichlid fish	15
Kea (Nestor notabilis) show flexibility and individuality in within-session reversal learning tasks	15
Human–dog relationships as a working framework for exploring human–robot attachment: a multidisciplinary review	15
Spatial cognition in the context of foraging styles and information transfer in ants	14
Visual timing abilities of a harbour seal (Phoca vitulina) and a South African fur seal (Arctocephalus pusillus pusillus) for sub- and supra-second time intervals	14
Unwilling or willing but unable: can horses interpret human actions as goal directed?	14
Bold and bright: shy and supple? The effect of habitat type on personality–cognition covariance in the Aegean wall lizard (Podarcis erhardii)	14
Shells as ‘extended architecture’: to escape isolation, social hermit crabs choose shells with the right external architecture	14

Variation in reversal learning by three generalist mesocarnivores	13
Who turns to the human? Companion pigs’ and dogs’ behaviour in the unsolvable task paradigm	13
Linguistic laws of brevity: conformity in Indri indri	13
Neophobia and social facilitation in narrow-striped mongooses	13
Seeing others yawn selectively enhances vigilance: an eye-tracking study of snake detection	13
Environmental influences on development of executive functions in dogs	12
Persistence is key: investigating innovative problem solving by Asian elephants using a novel multi-access box	12
Territorial calls of the bat Hipposideros armiger may encode multiple types of information: body mass, dominance rank and individual identity	11
The functional equivalence of two variants of the suboptimal choice task: choice proportion and response latency as measures of value	11
Visual categories and concepts in the avian brain	11
Life is in motion (through a chick’s eye)	11
All units are equal in humpback whale songs, but some are more equal than others	11
Quantitative abilities of invertebrates: a methodological review	11
Trace conditioning as a test for animal consciousness: a new approach	10
Male mice and cows perceive human emotional chemosignals: a preliminary study	10
Dogs and cats prioritize human action: choosing a now-empty instead of a still-baited container	10
Bioelectric networks: the cognitive glue enabling evolutionary scaling from physiology to mind	10
Mechanisms of auditory masking in marine mammals	10
If horses had toes: demonstrating mirror self recognition at group level in Equus caballus	10
The relationship between monoaminergic gene expression, learning, and optimism in red junglefowl chicks	10
Captivity and habituation to humans raise curiosity in vervet monkeys	10
Evaluating the accuracy of facial expressions as emotion indicators across contexts in dogs	10
Through the looking glass: how do marked dolphins use mirrors and what does it mean?	10
Seeing red? Colour biases of foraging birds are context dependent	10
Behavioural factors underlying innovative problem-solving differences in an avian predator from two contrasting habitats	9
Giraffes go for more: a quantity discrimination study in giraffes (Giraffa camelopardalis)	9
Exclusion in the field: wild brown skuas find hidden food in the absence of visual information	9
Intentional gestural communication amongst red-capped mangabeys (Cercocebus torquatus)	9
Wild great tits’ alarm calls prompt vigilant behaviours in free-range chickens	9
More exploratory house mice judge an ambiguous situation more negatively	9
Movement and vocal intonation together evoke social referencing in companion dogs when confronted with a suspicious stranger	9
Hermit crabs, shells, and sentience	9
Effect of shared information and owner behavior on showing in dogs (Canis familiaris)	9
African elephants can detect water from natural and artificial sources via olfactory cues	9
Dog–human social relationship: representation of human face familiarity and emotions in the dog brain	9
Training with varying odor concentrations: implications for odor detection thresholds in canines	9
Domestic cats (Felis catus) prefer freely available food over food that requires effort	9
Overlooked evidence for semantic compositionality and signal reduction in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)	9
Do alternative reproductive tactics predict problem-solving performance in African striped mice?	9
Is consonance attractive to budgerigars? No evidence from a place preference study	9
What’s the point? Domestic dogs’ sensitivity to the accuracy of human informants	8
Discrimination of cat-directed speech from human-directed speech in a population of indoor companion cats (Felis catus)	8
Adjustment in the point-following behaviour of free-ranging dogs – roles of social petting and informative-deceptive nature of cues	8
Paradoxical choice and the reinforcing value of information	8
Arthropod spatial cognition	8
A machine learning approach to infant distress calls and maternal behaviour of wild chimpanzees	8
Volumetric spatial behaviour in rats reveals the anisotropic organisation of navigation	8
Dissociating the effects of delay and interference on dog (Canis familiaris) working memory	8
From representations to servomechanisms to oscillators: my journey in the study of cognition	8
Early life differences in behavioral predispositions in two Alligatoridae species	7

Who is there? Captive western gorillas distinguish human voices based on familiarity and nature of previous interactions	7
Does owner handedness influence paw preference in dogs?	7
Fear of the new? Geckos hesitate to attack novel prey, feed near objects and enter a novel space	7
Homing in the arachnid taxa Araneae and Amblypygi	7
Feline communication strategies when presented with an unsolvable task: the attentional state of the person matters	7
Dimensional bias and adaptive adjustments in inhibitory control of monkeys	7
Long-term stability of vocal individuality cues in a territorial and monogamous seabird	7
Production of regular rhythm induced by external stimuli in rats	7
Sex differences in the use of spatial cues in two avian brood parasites	7
Assessing cognitive performance in dairy calves using a modified hole-board test	6
Learning about construction behaviour from observing an artefact: can experience with conspecifics aid in artefact recognition?	6
Early evidence for emotional play contagion in juvenile ravens	6
Partial rewarding during clicker training does not improve naïve dogs’ learning speed and induces a pessimistic-like affective state	6
Smart sharks: a review of chondrichthyan cognition	6
Mirror self-recognition in gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla): a review and evaluation of mark test replications and variants	6
Individual consistency in the learning abilities of honey bees: cognitive specialization within sensory and reinforcement modalities	6
Varieties of visual navigation in insects	6
Cryptic eggs are rejected less frequently by a cuckoo host	6
Tolerant macaque species are less impulsive and reactive	6
Emergence of complex dynamics of choice due to repeated exposures to extinction learning	6
I know a dog when I see one: dogs (Canis familiaris) recognize dogs from videos	6
Adding colour-realistic video images to audio playbacks increases stimulus engagement but does not enhance vocal learning in zebra finches	6
2D or not 2D? An fMRI study of how dogs visually process objects	6
Rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) monitor evolving decisions to control adaptive information seeking	6
Domestic pigs (Sus scrofa) engage in non-random post-conflict affiliation with third parties: cognitive and functional implications	6
Relative importance of senses in forage discrimination by cattle depends on the sensory contrast between the discrimination targets: a preliminary study	6
Different effects of reward value and saliency during bumblebee visual search for multiple rewarding targets	6
Do wild raccoons (Procyon lotor) use tools?	6
Is this love? Sex differences in dog-owner attachment behavior suggest similarities with adult human bonds	6
Appeasement function of displacement behaviours? Dogs’ behavioural displays exhibited towards threatening and neutral humans	6
Where to sleep next? Evidence for spatial memory associated with sleeping sites in Skywalker gibbons (Hoolock tianxing)	6
Irrational risk aversion in an ant	6
Do zoo visitors induce attentional bias effects in primates completing cognitive tasks?	6
Frog embryos use multiple levels of temporal pattern in risk assessment for vibration-cued escape hatching	6
Owner attention facilitates social play in dog–dog dyads (Canis lupus familiaris): evidence for an interspecific audience effect	6
Repeatability of lateralisation in mosquitofish Gambusia holbrooki despite evidence for turn alternation in detour tests	6