Innovativeness as an emergent property: a new alignment of comparative and experimental research on animal innovation

Adaptable individuals and innovative lineages

(2016) Kim Sterelny   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The reluctant innovator: orangutans and the phylogeny of creativity

(2016) C. P. van Schaik et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Feeding innovations in a nested phylogeny of Neotropical passerines

(2016) Louis Lefebvre et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The coevolution of innovation and technical intelligence in primates

(2016) Ana F. Navarrete et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

From mechanisms to function: an integrated framework of animal innovation

(2016) Sabine Tebbich et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Environmental and genetic determinants of innovativeness in a natural population of birds

(2016) John L. Quinn et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The life-history basis of behavioural innovations

(2016) Daniel Sol et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Innovative problem solving in birds: a cross-species comparison of two highly successful passerines

(2015) Andrea S. Griffin et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Feature- versus rule-based generalization in rats, pigeons and humans

(2015) Elisa Maes et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

The role of motor diversity in foraging innovations: a cross-species comparison in urban birds

(2015) Marie C. Diquelou et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Differences in exploration behaviour in common ravens and carrion crows during development and across social context

(2015) Rachael Miller et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Evolved to adapt: A computational approach to animal innovation and creativity

(2015) Oren Kolodny et al.   Current Zoology

Combinatory actions during object play in psittaciformes (Diopsittaca nobilis, Pionites melanocephala, Cacatua goffini) and corvids (Corvus corax, C. monedula, C. moneduloides).

(2015) Alice M. I. Auersperg et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY

Taking the Operant Paradigm into the Field: Associative Learning in Wild Great Tits

(2015) Julie Morand-Ferron et al.   PLoS One

Cognition and personality: an analysis of an emerging field

(2015) Andrea S. Griffin et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Evolved to adapt: A computational approach to animal innovation and creativity

(2015) Oren Kolodny et al.   Current Zoology

The memory of hunger: developmental plasticity of dietary selectivity in the European starling, Sturnus vulgaris

(2014) Louise Bloxham et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Innovative problem solving in birds: a key role of motor diversity

(2014) Andrea S. Griffin et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Psychological limits on animal innovation

(2014) Sarah F. Brosnan et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Problem-solving and learning in Carib grackles: individuals show a consistent speed–accuracy trade-off

(2014) S. Ducatez et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Innovation and problem solving: A review of common mechanisms

(2014) Andrea S. Griffin et al.   BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES

Ecological generalism and behavioural innovation in birds: technical intelligence or the simple incorporation of new foods?

(2014) Simon Ducatez et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Phylogenetics and diversification of tanagers (Passeriformes: Thraupidae), the largest radiation of Neotropical songbirds

(2014) Kevin J. Burns et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

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

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

The evolution of self-control

(2014) E. L. MacLean et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Predictability as a Personality Trait: Consistent Differences in Intraindividual Behavioral Variation

(2013) Peter A. Biro et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

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

(2013) Jess Isden et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

An overview of the evolutionary causes and consequences of behavioural plasticity

(2013) Emilie C. Snell-Rood   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Necessity or capacity? Physiological state predicts problem-solving performance in house sparrows

(2013) V. Bokony et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Innovating Innovation Rate and Its Relationship with Brains, Ecology and General Intelligence

(2013) Louis Lefebvre et al.   BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND EVOLUTION

'Captivity bias' in animal tool use and its implications for the evolution of hominin technology

(2013) M. Haslam   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Positive Outcomes Influence the Rate and Time to Publication, but Not the Impact Factor of Publications of Clinical Trial Results

(2013) Pilar Suñé et al.   PLoS One

Innovative problem solving in wild meerkats

(2012) Alex Thornton et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

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

(2012) Mieke Titulaer et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Problem-solving performance is correlated with reproductive success in a wild bird population

(2012) Laure Cauchard et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Repeated innovation in great apes

(2012) Héctor Marín Manrique et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Cognitive Ability Influences Reproductive Life History Variation in the Wild

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

Innovative problem solving by wild spotted hyenas

(2012) S. Benson-Amram et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Are innovative species ecological generalists? A test in North American birds

(2011) Sarah E. Overington et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Who are the innovators? A field experiment with 2 passerine species

(2011) Julie Morand-Ferron et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Towards a neurobiology of creativity in nonhuman animals.

(2011) Allison B. Kaufman et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY

The evolution of primate general and cultural intelligence

(2011) S. M. Reader et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Flexibility in Problem Solving and Tool Use of Kea and New Caledonian Crows in a Multi Access Box Paradigm

(2011) Alice M. I. Auersperg et al.   PLoS One

Exploring or Avoiding Novel Food Resources? The Novelty Conflict in an Invasive Bird

(2011) Daniel Sol et al.   PLoS One

Individual variation in spontaneous problem-solving performance among wild great tits

(2010) Ella F. Cole et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Taxonomic counts of cognition in the wild

(2010) L. Lefebvre   Biology Letters

The tale of the finch: adaptive radiation and behavioural flexibility

(2010) S. Tebbich et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Complex cognition and behavioural innovation in New Caledonian crows

(2010) A. H. Taylor et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Clever animals and killjoy explanations in comparative psychology

(2010) Sara J. Shettleworth   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Male satin bowerbird problem-solving ability predicts mating success

(2009) Jason Keagy et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Technical innovations drive the relationship between innovativeness and residual brain size in birds

(2009) Sarah E. Overington et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Brains, Lifestyles and Cognition: Are There General Trends?

(2008) Louis Lefebvre et al.   BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND EVOLUTION

Do New Caledonian crows solve physical problems through causal reasoning?

(2008) A.H Taylor et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES