That has prompted a group of top researchers on animal cognition to publish a new pronouncement that they hope will transform how scientists and society view — and care — for animals.

This Collection welcomes submissions from the fields of comparative psychology and neuroscience, with a focus on studies investigating the cognitive and neural processes underpinning animal behaviour.

This Collection welcomes submissions from the fields of comparative psychology and neuroscience, with a focus on studies investigating the cognitive and neural processes underpinning animal behaviour.

for The Cognitive Animal: Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives on Animal Cognition. Bekoff, Marc. Cognitive Ethology, Take Three: Fascinating and Frustrating Questions about Animal Minds.

The work, which deepens our understanding of animal cognition, and could lead to identifying the neural basis for strategizing, published today in Current Biology. Kuchibhotla's lab previously found ...

A Guinness World Record-holding talking parrot and a dog that plays video games are at the center of an animal cognition study at Eckerd College.

Listen to biologist Scarlett Howard speak in defence of ecologically irrelevant experiments on The Conversation Weekly podcast.

Most animal cognition experts hesitate to directly compare animals because every animal is unique, and each species values different things, have different social motivations, evolutionary ...

There's been more acceptance of cognitive ethology in the past 20 years among those interested in animal minds, including animal consciousness, sentience, and emotional lives.

Either fish are self-aware or scientists need to rethink how they study animal cognition.

Ask the Doctors: Owning a companion animal helps with cognition in older adults The pet owners in a recent study tended to have lower body-fat percentages, better blood pressure and a lower ...