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20Extending the Reach of Tooling Theory: A Neurocognitive and Phylogenetic PerspectiveTopics in Cognitive Science 13 (4): 548-572. 2021.Tool use research has suffered from a lack of consistent theoretical frameworks. There is a plethora of tool use definitions and the most widespread ones are so inclusive that the behaviors that fall under them arguably do not have much in common. The situation is aggravated by the prevalence of anecdotes, which have played an undue role in the literature. In order to provide a more rigorous foundation for research and to advance our understanding of the interrelation between tool use and cognit…Read more
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12Investigating information seeking in ravensAnimal Cognition. forthcoming.Measuring the responses of non-human animals to situations of uncertainty is thought to shed light on an animal’s metacognitive processes; namely, whether they monitor their own knowledge states. For example, when presented with a foraging task, great apes and macaques selectively seek information about the location of a food item when they have not seen where it was hidden, compared to when they have. We presented this same information seeking task to ravens, in which a food item was hidden in …Read more
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23Subadult ravens generally don't transfer valuable tokens to conspecifics when there is nothing to gain for themselvesFrontiers in Psychology 6. 2015.
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