Domestic chickens are members of an order, Aves, which has been the focus of a revolution
in our understanding of neuroanatomical, cognitive, and social complexity. At least some …

Fish are one of the most highly utilised vertebrate taxa by humans; they are harvested from
wild stocks as part of global fishing industries, grown under intensive aquaculture …

Philosopher Ned Block argues in this book that there is a" joint in nature" between
perception and cognition and that by exploring the nature of that joint, one can solve …

Sentience–the ability to feel, perceive and experience–is central to the animal welfare
debate as it raises the question of whether animals experience suffering in life and death …

Humans represent numbers along a mental number line (MNL), where smaller values are
located on the left and larger on the right. The origin of the MNL and its connections with …

El cerebro humano es una máquina extraordinaria, capaz de transformarse a sí misma a
partir de la experiencia y de albergar talentos que nos vuelven únicos como especie …

Numerical skills are essential in our everyday life, and impairments in the development of
number processing and calculation have a negative impact on schooling and professional …

Evolution selects for traits that are of adaptive value and increase the fitness of an individual
or population. Numerical competence, the ability to estimate and process the number of …

Background Humans and non-human animals share an approximate non-verbal system for
representing and comparing numerosities that has no upper limit and for which accuracy is …

Evidence has been reported for quantity discrimination in mammals and birds and, to a
lesser extent, fish and amphibians. For the latter species, however, whether quantity …