Aug. 20, 2019 Studying cognition in the wild is a challenge. Field researchers and their study animals face many factors that can easily interfere with their variables of interest and that many say are ...
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July 16, 2019 Recording the movements of people and animals has become easy because of small GPS devices and video cameras. However, the reasons for such movements remain difficult to infer. Scientists have ...
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June 25, 2019 Researchers studying the behavior and neuroscience of octopuses have long suspected that the animals' arms may have minds of their own. A new model is the first attempt at a comprehensive ...
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June 5, 2019 We know bees get the concept of zero and can do basic math. Now researchers have discovered they may also be capable of connecting symbols to numbers. It's a finding that sheds new light on how ...
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Apr. 29, 2019 Scientists have found that highly demanding and rewarding experiences result in stronger memories. By studying navigation in rats, the researchers traced back the mechanism behind this selective ...
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Mar. 28, 2019 Researchers have shown, in mice, that one type of stem cell that makes adult neurons is the source of this lifetime stock of new cells in the hippocampus. These findings may help neuroscientists ...
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Mar. 20, 2019 Increasing numbers of tourists are interested in observing wildlife such as African elephants, and income generated from tourism potentially aids in the protection of animals and their habitats. ...
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Feb. 7, 2019 The cleaner wrasse fish (Labroides dimidiatus), responds to its reflection and attempts to remove marks on its body during the mirror test -- a method considered the gold standard for determining ...
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Feb. 6, 2019 Researchers set out to test whether bees could do math, building on a groundbreaking finding that bees understand the concept of zero. The new study shows bees can be taught to recognize colors as ...
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Jan. 29, 2019 Larger dogs have better short-term memory and self-control than smaller breeds, according to new ...
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Dec. 21, 2018 Bees can solve seemingly clever counting tasks with very small numbers of nerve cells in their brains, according to ...
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Nov. 29, 2018 Fruit flies possess all of the cognitive capacities needed to culturally transmit their sexual preferences across generations, according to researchers. Their study provides the first experimental ...
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Nov. 28, 2018 Planning and self control in animals do not require human-like mental capacities, according to a new study. Newly developed learning models, similar to models within artificial intelligence research, ...
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Nov. 20, 2018 Researchers have shown that dogs possess some 'metacognitive' abilities -- specifically, they are aware of when they do not have enough information to solve a problem and will actively seek ...
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Oct. 25, 2018 A canine cognition test could help organizations that train working dogs identify the dogs that are most likely to succeed, according to new research. If organizations could better predict which dogs ...
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Oct. 24, 2018 The birds are able to combine individual parts to form a long-distance reaching ...
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Oct. 15, 2018 Experimental results suggest that dogs have at least a rudimentary neural representation of meaning for words they have been taught, differentiating words they have heard before from those they have ...
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Oct. 1, 2018 People who think dogs are exceptionally intelligent are barking up the wrong tree, new research ...
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Sep. 6, 2018 A study finds that neurogenesis -- inducing the production of new neurons -- in the brain structure in which memories are encoded can improve cognitive function in a mouse model of Alzheimer's ...
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Aug. 30, 2018 Both genetic and environmental factors explain cognitive traits, shows a new study carried out on red junglefowl. Researchers have shown that the ability of fowl to cope with difficult learning tasks ...
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