Birds are excellent model organisms to study perceptual categorization and concept
formation. The renewed focus on avian neuroscience has sparked an explosion of new data …

Animal Learning and Cognition: An Introduction provides an up-to-date review of the
principal findings from more than a century of research into animal intelligence. This new …

Generally speaking, the study of concepts in cognitive psychology is anthropocentric with
respect to both content and theory. A broader comparative perspective on the various forms …

Eight pigeons were trained and tested in a simultaneous same/different task. After pecking
an upper picture, they pecked a lower picture to indicate same or a white rectangle to …

Mechanisms of same/different concept learning by rhesus monkeys, capuchin monkeys, and
pigeons were studied in terms of how these species learned the task (eg, item-specific …

concept learning, including same/different and matching-to-sample concept learning,
provides the basis for many other forms of “higher” cognition. The issue of which species can …

The use of abstract rules in behavioral decisions is considered evidence of executive
functions associated with higher-level cognition. Laboratory studies across taxa have shown …

This article describes an approach for training a variety of species to learn the abstract
concept of same/different, which in turn forms the basis for testing proactive interference and …

Abstracting syntactic rules is critical to human language learning. It is debated whether this
ability, already present in young infants, is human-and language specific or can also be …

The authors investigated the role that entropy measures, discriminative cues, and symbolic
knowledge play for rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) in the acquisition of the concepts of …