Non-Human Cognition
General
- General non-human animal (blog entries) July 26, 2006: Where our language center comes from; May 24, 2006: language and planning abilities in non-human animals; January 26, 2006: animal personality; November 12, 2005: sleep in other animals, and the possible evolutionary purposes of sleep; August 26 2003: How far different is human memory from the memory of other animals?
Mammals
- Primates:
- A cognitive strategy shared by human infants and our great-ape kin (report)
- Primates take weather into account when searching for fruits (report)
- Human frontal cortex not proportionately larger compared to great apes (report)
- primates (blog entries) August 27, 2006: Humans, chimpanzees and bonobos; June 09 2005: monkeys taught to use money; monkeys match the number of voices they heard to the number of faces they expected to see; 2005: the language of chimpanzees;
- Other mammals
- Humans aren’t the only ones to think about what they know (report)
- other mammals (blog entries) July 02, 2006: empathy in mice; November 04, 2005: singing in mice; October 30, 2005: elephants distressed by own dead; July 20, 2005: baby dolphins and whales and their mothers sleep hardly at all in the first postpartum month; June 09 2005: tool-using behavior in dolphins; September 1 2004: study finds that showing isolated sheep photos of other sheep lowers their stress levels;
Other
- birds (blog entries) February 01, 2006: choral abilities of wrens; August 12 2005: latest math achievement from Alex, the African gray parrot; June 16 2005: Pigeon study provides evidence for "higher-order" processes in the avian correlate of the mammalian prefrontal cortex; February 10 2004: homing pigeons use landmarks on familiar routes, rather than their "traditional" senses; October 16 2003: capabilities of the black-capped chickadee - hippocampus expands by nearly a third every autumn; September 26 2003: Irene Pepperberg's work with Gray Parrots
- Fish
- Asymmetrical brains let fish multitask (reports)
- fish (blog entries) June 20 2005: fish study suggests how we make some of our instinctive decisions when we're part of a crowd; October 7 2004: memory in fish
- plants (blog entries) March 16 2005: plant cognition;
- computer (blog entries) June 09 2005: first computer simulation of the entire human brain!