The soft‐bodied cephalopods including octopus, cuttlefish, and squid are broadly
considered to be the most cognitively advanced group of invertebrates. Previous research …

Cumulative technological culture (CTC) refers to the increase in the efficiency and
complexity of tools and techniques in human populations over generations. A fascinating …

Humans use a variety of cues to infer an object's weight, including how easily objects can be
moved. For example, if we observe an object being blown down the street by the wind, we …

Elucidating the nature, use, and origin of knowledge in animals is one of the major
endeavors of comparative psychology. Two aspects of knowledge used in inferential …

'Accounting for the sensory abilities of animals is critical in experimental design.'No
researcher would disagree with this statement, yet it is often the case that we inadvertently …

Large-scale, comparative cognition studies are set to revolutionize the way we investigate
and understand the evolution of intelligence. However, the conclusions reached by such …

There is growing comparative evidence that the cognitive bases of cooperation are not
unique to humans. However, the selective pressures that lead to the evolution of these …

Foraging is known to be one of the most important activities in the behavioral budget of
chickens. However, how these animals adapt different foraging strategies to diverse …

Inferential reasoning by exclusion allows responding adaptively to various environmental
stimuli when confronted with inconsistent or partial information. In the experimental context …

Debates in animal cognition are frequently polarized between the romantic view that some
species have human-like causal understanding and the killjoy view that human causal …