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A novel test of flexible planning in relation to executive function and language in young children

scientific article published on 15 April 2020

A quantitative autoradiographic comparison of binding to glutamate receptor sub-types in hippocampus and forebrain regions of a food-storing and a non-food-storing bird.

scientific article published in January 1999

A raven's memories are for the future

scientific article

A reply to the defenders of the faith

scientific article published on 01 March 2002

A search game model of the scatter hoarder's problem

scientific article published on 19 October 2011

A test of the adaptive specialization hypothesis: population differences in caching, memory, and the hippocampus in black-capped chickadees (Poecile atricapilla).

scientific article published in August 2002

Alternative behavioral measures of postconflict affiliation

scientific article published in 2012

An avian perspective on simulating other minds

scientific article published on 10 June 2016

An evolutionary perspective on caching by corvids

scientific article

An unexpected audience

scientific article published on 01 September 2020

Animal cognition: crows spontaneously solve a metatool task

scientific article published on October 2007

Animal minds: from computation to evolution

scientific article published on October 2012

Are animals autistic savants

scientific article

Are animals stuck in time or are they chronesthetic creatures?

scientific article

Are owners' reports of their dogs' 'guilty look' influenced by the dogs' action and evidence of the misdeed?

scientific article

As the pigeon flies

scientific article published in Nature

Avian Models for Human Cognitive Neuroscience: A Proposal

scientific article published on June 2015

Avian Theory of Mind and counter espionage by food-caching western scrub-jays (Aphelocoma californica)

Behavioural coordination of dogs in a cooperative problem-solving task with a conspecific and a human partner

scientific article

Cache protection strategies by western scrub-jays (Aphelocoma californica): hiding food in the shade

scientific article published in 2004

Cache protection strategies by western scrub-jays, Aphelocoma californica: implications for social cognition

Caching at a distance: a cache protection strategy in Eurasian jays

scientific article

California scrub-jays reduce visual cues available to potential pilferers by matching food colour to caching substrate

scientific article published in July 2017

Can animals recall the past and plan for the future?

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Can male Eurasian jays disengage from their own current desire to feed the female what she wants?

scientific article published on 26 March 2014

Careful cachers and prying pilferers: Eurasian jays (Garrulus glandarius) limit auditory information available to competitors.

scientific article published on 5 December 2012

Cephalopod cognition

scientific article published on 01 August 2019

Changes in spatial memory mediated by experimental variation in food supply do not affect hippocampal anatomy in mountain chickadees (Poecile gambeli).

scientific article

Chapter 4.2 What animals remember about past events: an ethological approach

Chimpanzees solve the trap problem when the confound of tool-use is removed.

scientific article published in January 2009

Cognitive adaptations of social bonding in birds

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Cognitive dysfunction in psychiatric disorders: characteristics, causes and the quest for improved therapy

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Commentary: A Conserved Role for Serotonergic Neurotransmission in Mediating Social Behavior in Octopus

scientific article published on 14 August 2019

Comparative cognition for conservationists

scientific article

Comparative social cognition

scientific article published on January 2009

Comparative studies of postnatal neurogenesis and learning: a critical review

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Comparing the face inversion effect in crows and humans

scientific article published on 13 September 2017

Comparing the non-linguistic hallmarks of episodic memory systems in corvids and children

Contagious risk taking: social information and context influence wild jackdaws' responses to novelty and risk

scientific article

Convergent evolution of complex cognition: Insights from the field of avian cognition into the study of self-awareness

scientific article published on 13 July 2020

Convergent minds: the evolution of cognitive complexity in nature.

scientific article

Cooperative problem solving in rooks (Corvus frugilegus).

scientific article published in June 2008

Corvid cognition

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Corvid cognition: Feathered apes

scientific article published in Nature

Current desires of conspecific observers affect cache-protection strategies in California scrub-jays and Eurasian jays

scientific article published on January 2017

Cuttlefish show flexible and future-dependent foraging cognition

scientific article published on 05 February 2020

Dancing to Darwin.

scientific article

Decision-making flexibility in New Caledonian crows, young children and adult humans in a multi-dimensional tool-use task

scientific article published on 11 March 2020

Delayed gratification in New Caledonian crows and young children: influence of reward type and visibility

scientific article published on 19 October 2019

Desire-state attribution: Benefits of a novel paradigm using the food-sharing behavior of Eurasian jays (Garrulus glandarius)

scientific article published on 11 January 2016

Development of food-storing and the hippocampus in juvenile marsh tits (Parus palustris).

scientific article published on January 1996

Development of hippocampal specialisation in two species of tit (Parus spp.).

scientific article

Difficulties when using video playback to investigate social cognition in California scrub-jays (Aphelocoma californica).

scientific article published on 14 March 2018

Dimensions of Animal Consciousness

scientific article published on 20 August 2020

Do birds have the capacity for fun?

scientific article published on January 2015

Do different tests of episodic memory produce consistent results in human adults?

scientific article published on 16 August 2013

Does hippocampal size correlate with the degree of caching specialization?

scientific article published in 2004

Dominance, pair bonds and boldness determine social-foraging tactics in rooks, Corvus frugilegus

article published in 2013

Egocentric bias across mental and non-mental representations in the Sandbox Task

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Elements of episodic-like memory in animals.

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Elephants have a nose for quantity

scientific article published on 03 June 2019

Empirical evaluation of mental time travel

Episodic future thinking in 3- to 5-year-old children: the ability to think of what will be needed from a different point of view

scientific article published on 24 September 2009

Episodic memory as an explanation for the insurance hypothesis in obesity

scientific article published in January 2017

Episodic memory.

scientific article published in March 2007

Episodic memory: what can animals remember about their past?

scientific article

Erratum to: Tool-use and instrumental learning in the Eurasian jay (Garrulus glandarius)

scholarly article published in Animal Cognition

Erratum: The development of support intuitions and object causality in juvenile Eurasian jays (Garrulus glandarius).

scientific article

Error rate on the director's task is influenced by the need to take another's perspective but not the type of perspective.

scientific article published on 16 August 2017

Eurasian jays (Garrulus glandarius) conceal caches from onlookers

scientific article

Eurasian jays (Garrulus glandarius) overcome their current desires to anticipate two distinct future needs and plan for them appropriately

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Eurasian jays do not copy the choices of conspecifics, but they do show evidence of stimulus enhancement.

scientific article

Eurasian jays, Garrulus glandarius, flexibly switch caching and pilfering tactics in response to social context

Evaluating a putative mimetic relationship between two butterflies, Adelpha bredowii and Limenitis lorquini

article by Kathleen L. Prudic et al published February 2002 in Ecological Entomology

Evidence from convergent evolution and causal reasoning suggests that conclusions on human uniqueness may be premature

scientific article published on 15 June 2012

Evidence of episodic-like memory in cuttlefish

scientific article published in December 2013

Evidence suggesting that desire-state attribution may govern food sharing in Eurasian jays

scientific article

Evolution of iris colour in relation to cavity nesting and parental care in passerine birds

scientific article published on January 2017

Evolution of the avian brain and intelligence

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Exclusion in corvids: the performance of food-caching Eurasian jays (Garrulus glandarius).

scientific article published on 13 May 2013

Experimenter expectancy bias does not explain Eurasian jays' (Garrulus glandarius) performance in a desire-state attribution task

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Exploring the relative contributions of reward-history and functionality information to children's acquisition of the Aesop's fable task

scientific article published on 23 February 2018

Flexible egocentricity: Asymmetric switch costs on a perspective-taking task

scientific article published on 26 April 2018

Food caching by western scrub-jays (Aphelocoma californica) is sensitive to the conditions at recovery.

scientific article published in April 2005

Food offering in jackdaws (Corvus monedula)

scientific article published on 29 April 2003

Food sharing and social cognition

scientific article published on 03 December 2014

Food sharing in jackdaws, Corvus monedula: what, why and with whom?

Food-caching western scrub-jays keep track of who was watching when

scientific article

Gaze sensitivity: function and mechanisms from sensory and cognitive perspectives

Grow Smart and Die Young: Why Did Cephalopods Evolve Intelligence?

scientific article published on 13 November 2018

Harnessing learning biases is essential for applying social learning in conservation

scientific article

Higher body mass index is associated with episodic memory deficits in young adults

scientific article published on 08 October 2015

Hint-seeking behaviour of western scrub-jays in a metacognition task

scientific article published on 13 August 2015

Hippocampal growth and attrition in birds affected by experience

scientific article (publication date: 2 August 1994)

Hippocampal growth and maintenance depend on food-caching experience in juvenile mountain chickadees (Poecile gambeli).

scientific article published in June 2001

How do children solve Aesop's Fable?

scientific article

How intelligent is a cephalopod? Lessons from comparative cognition

scientific article published on 06 September 2020

Imaginative scrub-jays, causal rooks, and a liberal application of Occam's aftershave

Individuals with Autism Share Others' Emotions: Evidence from the Continuous Affective Rating and Empathic Responses (CARER) Task

scientific article published on 28 May 2020

Inequity aversion in human adults: testing behavioural criteria from comparative cognition

scientific article published on 16 February 2013

Intelligence in Corvids and Apes: A Case of Convergent Evolution?

Interacting Cache memories: evidence for flexible memory use by Western Scrub-Jays (Aphelocoma californica).

scientific article published in January 2003

Introduction. Social intelligence: from brain to culture.

scientific article published on 24 January 2007

Investigating physical cognition in rooks, Corvus frugilegus.

scientific article published in April 2006

Is Language Required to Represent Others' Mental States? Evidence From Beliefs and Other Representations

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Is necessity the mother of innovation?Animal Innovation, edited by Simon M. Reader and Kevin N. Laland. Oxford University Press, 2003. £50.00 (hbk)/£19.00 (pbk) (288 pages). ISBN (hbk) 0 19 852621 0/(pbk) 0 19 852622 9

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Jays are sensitive to cognitive illusions

scientific article published on 18 August 2021

Journal club. A comparative cognitive scientist considers the effects of high-calorie diets on the brain

scientific article

Little evidence that Eurasian jays protect their caches by responding to cues about a conspecific’s desire and visual perspective

scientific article published on 10 September 2021

Looking for episodic memory in animals and young children: prospects for a new minimalism

scientific article published on 17 October 2008

Male New Zealand robins (Petroica longipes) cater to their mate's desire when sharing food in the wild

scientific article

Memory Performance Influences Male Reproductive Success in a Wild Bird

scientific article published on 18 April 2019

Memory Performance Influences Male Reproductive Success in a Wild Bird

scientific article published on 01 August 2019

Memory in Avian Food Caching and Song Learning: A General Mechanism or Different Processes?

article by Nicola Clayton & Jill A. Soha published 1999 in Advances in the study of behavior

Memory, mental time travel and The Moustachio Quartet

scientific article published on 21 April 2017

Mental time travel in animals.

scientific article published on 13 September 2010

Mental-state attribution drives rapid, reflexive gaze following

scientific article published in April 2010

Morgan's canon is not evidence

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Motivation and memory in zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata) foraging behavior

scientific article published on 22 September 2007

Motivational control of caching behaviour in the scrub jay, Aphelocoma coerulescens.

scientific article published on February 1999

Neophobia is not only avoidance: improving neophobia tests by combining cognition and ecology

Neural Processes Underlying Tool Use in Humans, Macaques, and Corvids ⬇️

scientific article published on 23 September 2020

Neural aromatization accelerates the acquisition of spatial memory via an influence on the songbird hippocampus

scientific article published in April 2004

Neural circuits and behaviour: developmental and evolutionary perspectives.

scientific article published on 3 November 2005

Neurophysiological and behavioral development in birds: song learning as a model system

scientific article published in March 1990

New Caledonian Crows Use Mental Representations to Solve Metatool Problems

scientific article published on 07 February 2019

New Caledonian crows infer the weight of objects from observing their movements in a breeze

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

New Caledonian crows learn the functional properties of novel tool types

scientific article

New perspectives in gaze sensitivity research

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Nicola S. Clayton

scientific article published in May 2007

No conclusive evidence that corvids can create novel causal interventions.

scientific article published in August 2015

No evidence of temporal preferences in caching by Western scrub-jays (Aphelocoma californica).

scientific article published on 27 December 2013

No latitudinal differences in adrenocortical stress response in wintering black-capped chickadees (Poecile atricapilla).

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Non-tool-using rooks, Corvus frugilegus, solve the trap-tube problem

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Obesity and insulin resistance are associated with reduced activity in core memory regions of the brain

scientific article published on 13 January 2017

Observational visuospatial encoding of the cache locations of others by western scrub-jays (Aphelocoma californica)

Of babies and birds: complex tool behaviours are not sufficient for the evolution of the ability to create a novel causal intervention

article by Alex H Taylor et al published 22 July 2014 in Proceedings of the Royal Society B

Origins of spatial, temporal and numerical cognition: Insights from comparative psychology ⬇️

scientific article published on October 28, 2010

Peep to pilfer: what scrub-jays like to watch when observing others

Performance in Object-Choice Aesop's Fable Tasks Are Influenced by Object Biases in New Caledonian Crows but not in Human Children

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Pilfering Eurasian jays use visual and acoustic information to locate caches

scientific article published on 3 June 2014

Postconflict Third-Party Affiliation in Rooks, Corvus frugilegus

scientific article published on 01 January 2007

Preface

Problems faced by food-caching corvids and the evolution of cognitive solutions

scientific article published on March 2010

Prometheus to Proust: the case for behavioural criteria for 'mental time travel'.

scientific article published in October 2003

Prospective cognition in animals.

scientific article published on March 2009

Rational rats.

scientific article published in April 2006

Re-caching by Western scrub-jays (Aphelocoma californica) cannot be attributed to stress

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Reduced egocentric bias when perspective-taking compared to working from rules

scientific article published on 18 March 2020

Reflections on the spoon test

scientific article published on 03 October 2019

Replications in Comparative Cognition: What Should We Expect and How Can We Improve?

scientific article published on 01 February 2020

Retrospective cognition by food-caching western scrub-jays

Rook, But Not Jackdaw, Post-Conflict Third-Party Affiliation Reduces Aggression for Aggressors

article by Corina J. Logan et al published 17 March 2013 in Ethology

Route-planning and the comparative study of future-thinking

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Salient eyes deter conspecific nest intruders in wild jackdaws (Corvus monedula).

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Seasonal changes in neophobia and its consistency in rooks: the effect of novelty type and dominance position

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Seasonal changes of hippocampus volume in parasitic cowbirds.

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Self-control in crows, parrots and nonhuman primates

scientific article published on 20 May 2019

Seven myths of memory

scientific article published on 23 December 2017

Sexual dimorphism and species differences in HVC volumes of cowbirds.

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Shell Loss in Cephalopods: Trigger for, or By-Product of, the Evolution of Intelligence? A Reply to Mollo et al

scientific article published on 04 June 2019

Social cognition by food-caching corvids. The western scrub-jay as a natural psychologist

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Social cognition modulates the sensory coding of observed gaze direction

scientific article published on 25 June 2009

Social influences on foraging by rooks (Corvus frugilegus)

Song behavior, NGF level and NPY distribution in the brain of adult male zebra finches.

scientific article published in May 1999

Spatial learning induces neurogenesis in the avian brain.

scientific article published in December 1997

Specializations of birds that attend army ant raids: an ecological approach to cognitive and behavioral studies

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Street smart: faster approach towards litter in urban areas by highly neophobic corvids and less fearful birds

scientific article published on July 2016

Ten years of research into avian models of episodic-like memory and its implications for developmental and comparative cognition

scientific article published on 19 June 2010

The behaviour and evolution of cache protection and pilferage

The control of food-caching behavior by Western scrub-jays (Aphelocoma californica).

scientific article published in October 2007

The development of caching and object permanence in Western scrub-jays (Aphelocoma californica): which emerges first?

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The development of support intuitions and object causality in juvenile Eurasian jays (Garrulus glandarius).

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The effect of endotracheal tube size on voice and swallowing function in patients with thermal burn injury: an evaluation using the Australian Therapy Outcome Measures (AusTOMS).

scientific article published on 24 September 2012

The effect of photoperiod on adrenocortical stress response in mountain chickadees (Poecile gambeli).

scientific article published in April 2002

The evolution of dance

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The evolution of self-control

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The hippocampus, spatial memory and food hoarding: a puzzle revisited

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The interplay between psychological predispositions and skill learning in the evolution of tool use

The mentality of crows: convergent evolution of intelligence in corvids and apes

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The neuroethological development of food-storing memory: a case of use it, or lose it!

scientific article published on September 1995

The relationship between dominance, corticosterone, memory, and food caching in mountain chickadees (Poecile gambeli).

scientific article published in August 2003

The role of food- and object-sharing in the development of social bonds in juvenile jackdaws (Corvus monedula)

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The six blind men and the elephant: Are episodic memory tasks tests of different things or different tests of the same thing?

scientific article published on 27 April 2015

The social life of corvids ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 August 2007

The social suppression of caching in western scrub-jays (Aphelocoma californica)

article published in 2005

The unreliability of egocentric bias across self-other and memory-belief distinctions in the Sandbox Task

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Thinking ahead about where something is needed: new insights about episodic foresight in preschoolers

scientific article published on 3 October 2014

Thinking with their trunks: elephants use smell but not sound to locate food and exclude nonrewarding alternatives

Tool use and physical cognition in birds and mammals

scientific article published on February 2009

Tool-use and instrumental learning in the Eurasian jay (Garrulus glandarius)

scientific article (publication date: 20 January 2011)

Translating cognitive insights into effective conservation programs: reply to Schakner et al.

scientific article published on 7 October 2014

Translational research into intertemporal choice: the Western scrub-jay as an animal model for future-thinking

scientific article published on 16 September 2014

Trialling Meta-Research in Comparative Cognition: Claims and Statistical Inference in Animal Physical Cognition

scientific article published on 01 August 2020

Two-Year-Old Children's Understanding of Visual Perception and Knowledge Formation in Others

Using the Aesop's fable paradigm to investigate causal understanding of water displacement by New Caledonian crows

scientific article (publication date: 2014)

Visual cues given by humans are not sufficient for Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) to find hidden food

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Ways of thinking: from crows to children and back again

scientific article published on 10 September 2014

Western scrub-jays ( Aphelocoma californica) use cognitive strategies to protect their caches from thieving conspecifics

scientific article published on 26 June 2003

Western scrub-jays (Aphelocoma californica) solve multiple-string problems by the spatial relation of string and reward.

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Western scrub-jays allocate longer observation time to more valuable information

scientific article published on 10 December 2013

Western scrub-jays anticipate future needs independently of their current motivational state

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Western scrub-jays conceal auditory information when competitors can hear but cannot see

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What can What–When–Where (WWW) binding tasks tell us about young children's episodic foresight? Theory and two experiments

article by James Russell et al published October 2011 in Cognitive Development

What do bonobos (Pan paniscus) understand about physical contact?

scientific article published in August 2006

What do rooks (Corvus frugilegus) understand about physical contact?

scientific article published in August 2006

What is the role of episodic foresight in planning for future needs? Theory and two experiments

scientific article published on 17 January 2019

Where was I? Taking alternative visual perspectives can make us (briefly) misplace our own

scientific article published on 17 October 2019

Wild jackdaws are wary of objects that violate expectations of animacy

scientific article published on 24 October 2018

Wild jackdaws' reproductive success and their offspring's stress hormones are connected to provisioning rate and brood size, not to parental neophobia

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Wild jackdaws, Corvus monedula , recognize individual humans and may respond to gaze direction with defensive behaviour

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Wild psychometrics: evidence for ‘general’ cognitive performance in wild New Zealand robins, Petroica longipes

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Young children do not require perceptual-motor feedback to solve Aesop's Fable tasks

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Zebra Finches and cognition

2010 scholarly article

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