The quick are the dead: pheasants that are slow to reverse a learned association survive for longer in the wild

Cognitive performance is linked to group size and affects fitness in Australian magpies

(2018) Benjamin J. Ashton et al.   NATURE

Comparative psychometrics: establishing what differs is central to understanding what evolves

(2018) Christoph J. Völter et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The repeatability of cognitive performance: a meta-analysis

(2018) M. Cauchoix et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Heritabilities and co-variation among cognitive traits in red junglefowl

(2018) Enrico Sorato et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Associative learning is inversely related to reversal learning and varies with nestling corticosterone exposure

(2016) Sara E. Bebus et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Individual learning performance and exploratory activity are linked to colony foraging success in a mass-recruiting ant

(2016) Grégoire Pasquier et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Survival is linked with reaction time and spatial memory in African striped mice

(2016) Audrey Maille et al.   Biology Letters

Selection on learning performance results in the correlated evolution of sexual dimorphism in life history

(2016) Martyna K. Zwoinska et al.   EVOLUTION

Why study cognition in the wild (and how to test it)?

(2016) David J. Pritchard et al.   JOURNAL OF THE EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF BEHAVIOR

Interaction between animal personality and animal cognition

(2016) Claudio Carere et al.   Current Zoology

Wild psychometrics: evidence for ‘general’ cognitive performance in wild New Zealand robins, Petroica longipes

(2015) Rachael C. Shaw et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Studying the evolutionary ecology of cognition in the wild: a review of practical and conceptual challenges

(2015) Julie Morand-Ferron et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Brain size affects female but not male survival under predation threat

(2015) Alexander Kotrschal et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Cognitive ability is heritable and predicts the success of an alternative mating tactic

(2015) Carl Smith et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Sexual fidelity trade-offs promote regulatory variation in the prairie vole brain

(2015) M. Okhovat et al.   SCIENCE

Individual differences in learning speed, performance accuracy and exploratory behaviour in black-capped chickadees

(2014) Lauren M. Guillette et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Toward wild psychometrics: linking individual cognitive differences to fitness

(2014) Alex Thornton et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Measuring variation in cognition

(2014) C. Rowe et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Tracking Changing Environments: Innovators Are Fast, but Not Flexible Learners

(2014) Andrea S. Griffin et al.   PLoS One

Performance in cognitive and problem-solving tasks in male spotted bowerbirds does not correlate with mating success

(2013) Jess Isden et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Selection on behavioural traits during ‘unselective’ harvesting means that shy pheasants better survive a hunting season

(2013) Joah R. Madden et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Potential trade-off between vocal ornamentation and spatial ability in a songbird

(2013) K. B. Sewall et al.   Biology Letters

Artificial Selection on Relative Brain Size in the Guppy Reveals Costs and Benefits of Evolving a Larger Brain

(2013) Alexander Kotrschal et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Personality affects learning performance in difficult tasks in a sex-dependent way

(2012) Mieke Titulaer et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Worms under cover: relationships between performance in learning tasks and personality in great tits (Parus major)

(2012) Mathieu Amy et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Cognitive Ability Influences Reproductive Life History Variation in the Wild

(2012) Ella F. Cole et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Are most samples of animals systematically biased? Consistent individual trait differences bias samples despite random sampling

(2012) Peter A. Biro   OECOLOGIA

No Trade-Off between Learning Speed and Associative Flexibility in Bumblebees: A Reversal Learning Test with Multiple Colonies

(2012) Nigel E. Raine et al.   PLoS One

Song repertoire size in male song sparrows correlates with detour reaching, but not with other cognitive measures

(2011) Neeltje J. Boogert et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Song bout length is indicative of spatial learning in European starlings

(2011) Tara M. Farrell et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

When is it adaptive to be patient? A general framework for evaluating delayed rewards

(2011) Tim W. Fawcett et al.   BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES

Getting a Head Start: Diet, Sub-Adult Growth, and Associative Learning in a Seed-Eating Passerine

(2011) Kristina M. Bonaparte et al.   PLoS One

Differential Contributions of the Primate Ventrolateral Prefrontal and Orbitofrontal Cortex to Serial Reversal Learning

(2010) R. Rygula et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Individual-learning ability predicts social-foraging strategy in house sparrows

(2010) E. Katsnelson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Sometimes slower is better: slow-exploring birds are more sensitive to changes in a vocal discrimination task

(2010) L. M. Guillette et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Neural Components Underlying Behavioral Flexibility in Human Reversal Learning

(2009) D. G. Ghahremani et al.   CEREBRAL CORTEX

Female guppiesPoecilia reticulataprefer males that can learn fast

(2009) A. J. Shohet et al.   JOURNAL OF FISH BIOLOGY

Survival and Reproduction of Pen-Reared vs Translocated Wild PheasantsPhasianus colchicus

(2009) David D. Musil et al.   WILDLIFE BIOLOGY

Fission-Fusion Dynamics, Behavioral Flexibility, and Inhibitory Control in Primates

(2008) Federica Amici et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

LEARNING ABILITY AND LONGEVITY: A SYMMETRICAL EVOLUTIONARY TRADE-OFF IN DROSOPHILA

(2008) Joep M. S. Burger et al.   EVOLUTION

Genetic basis of fitness differences in natural populations

(2008) Hans Ellegren et al.   NATURE