ReviewJournal of Intelligence2020
Old and New Approaches to Animal Cognition: There Is Not "One Cognition".
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- Body Awareness Does Not Need a Pedigree: Mixed-Breed Dogs Rely More on Self-Representation Than Social Learning in a Spatial Task.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Article
- Wild fish use visual cues to recognize individual divers.Biology letters · 2025Article
- Intervention and experiment.European journal for philosophy of science · 2025Article
- Idiosyncratic gesture use in a mother-infant dyad in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) in the wild.Animal cognition · 2024Article
- Through an animal's eye: the implications of diverse sensory systems in scientific experimentation.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Review
- Feline Cognition and the Role of Nutrition: An Evolutionary Perspective and Historical Review.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Review
- No immediate attentional bias towards or choice bias for male secondary sexual characteristics in Bornean orang-utans (Pongo pygmaeus).Scientific reports · 2024Article
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- Investigating belief understanding in children in a nonverbal ambiguous displacement and communication setting.Journal of experimental child psychology · 2024Article
- What is it like to be a lizard? Directed attention and the flow of sensory experience in lizards and birds.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Moral considerability of brain organoids from the perspective of computational architecture.Oxford open neuroscience · 2024Article
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- Cognitive performance is linked to survival in free-living African striped mice.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Bodies at play: the role of intercorporeality and bodily affordances in coordinating social play in chimpanzees in the wild.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
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Abstract
Using the comparative approach, researchers draw inferences about the evolution of cognition. Psychologists have postulated several hypotheses to explain why certain species are cognitively more flexible than others, and these hypotheses assume that certain cognitive skills are linked together to create a generally "smart" species. However, empirical findings suggest that several animal species are highly specialized, showing exceptional skills in single cognitive domains while performing poorly in others. Although some cognitive skills may indeed overlap, we cannot a priori assume that they do across species. We argue that the term "cognition" has often been used by applying an anthropocentric viewpoint rather than a biocentric one. As a result, researchers tend to overrate cognitive skills that are human-like and assume that certain skills cluster together in other animals as they do in our own species. In this paper, we emphasize that specific physical and social environments create selection pressures that lead to the evolution of certain cognitive adaptations. Skills such as following the pointing gesture, tool-use, perspective-taking, or the ability to cooperate evolve
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