Is behavioural flexibility evidence of cognitive complexity? How evolution can inform comparative cognition

Solomonoff Prediction and Occam’s Razor

(2016) Tom F. Sterkenburg   PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

Insect societies and the social brain

(2016) Sarah M Farris   Current Opinion in Insect Science

Brains, brawn and sociality: a hyaena's tale

(2015) Kay E. Holekamp et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Contrasting styles in cognition and behaviour in bumblebees and honeybees

(2015) David F. Sherry et al.   BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES

Microhabitat Use Affects Brain Size and Structure in Intertidal Gobies

(2015) Gemma E. White et al.   BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND EVOLUTION

Transitional Gradation in the Mind: Rethinking Psychological Kindhood

(2015) Cameron Buckner   BRITISH JOURNAL FOR THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

Exploration behaviour and behavioural flexibility in orb-web spiders: A review

(2015) Thomas Hesselberg   Current Zoology

Evolution of brain elaboration

(2015) S. M. Farris   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Experiment and Animal Minds: Why the Choice of the Null Hypothesis Matters

(2015) Irina Mikhalevich   PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

There Is No Special Problem of Mindreading in Nonhuman Animals

(2015) Marta Halina   PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

Distributed cognition and social brains: reductions in mushroom body investment accompanied the origins of sociality in wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae)

(2015) Sean O'Donnell et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Exploration behaviour and behavioural flexibility in orb-web spiders: A review

(2015) Thomas Hesselberg   Current Zoology

The cognitive cell: bacterial behavior reconsidered

(2015) Pamela Lyon   Frontiers in Microbiology

Relative Brain and Brain Part Sizes Provide Only Limited Evidence that Machiavellian Behaviour in Cleaner Wrasse Is Cognitively Demanding

(2015) Dominika Chojnacka et al.   PLoS One

Cue choice and spatial learning ability are affected by habitat complexity in intertidal gobies

(2014) G. E. White et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Anthropomorphism, anthropectomy, and the null hypothesis

(2014) Kristin Andrews et al.   BIOLOGY & PHILOSOPHY

A critique of the principle of cognitive simplicity in comparative cognition

(2014) Irina Meketa   BIOLOGY & PHILOSOPHY

Reactive Neurogenesis in Response to Naturally Occurring Apoptosis in an Adult Brain

(2014) T. A. Larson et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Brain scaling in mammalian evolution as a consequence of concerted and mosaic changes in numbers of neurons and average neuronal cell size

(2014) Suzana Herculano-Houzel et al.   Frontiers in Neuroanatomy

Evolution of Complex Higher Brain Centers and Behaviors: Behavioral Correlates of Mushroom Body Elaboration in Insects

(2013) Sarah M. Farris   BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND EVOLUTION

Elevation-related differences in memory and the hippocampus in mountain chickadees, Poecile gambeli

(2012) Cody A. Freas et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Convergence as Evidence

(2012) A. Currie   BRITISH JOURNAL FOR THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

What is comparable in comparative cognition?

(2012) L. Chittka et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Simple minds: a qualified defence of associative learning

(2012) C. Heyes   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Old World Monkeys Compare to Apes in the Primate Cognition Test Battery

(2012) Vanessa Schmitt et al.   PLoS One

Brains matter, bodies maybe not: the case for examining neuron numbers irrespective of body size

(2011) Suzana Herculano-Houzel   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Brain development and predation: plastic responses depend on evolutionary history

(2011) A. Gonda et al.   Biology Letters

Brain Size and Social Complexity: A Computed Tomography Study in Hyaenidae

(2011) Sharleen T. Sakai et al.   BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND EVOLUTION

The effect of environmental harshness on neurogenesis: A large-scale comparison

(2010) Leia V. Chancellor et al.   Developmental Neurobiology

Information processing, computation, and cognition

(2010) Gualtiero Piccinini et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL PHYSICS

Parasitoidism, not sociality, is associated with the evolution of elaborate mushroom bodies in the brains of hymenopteran insects

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

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

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

Brain Size: A Global or Induced Cost of Learning?

(2009) Emilie C. Snell-Rood et al.   BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND EVOLUTION

The Evolution of Flexible Behavioral Repertoires in Cephalopod Molluscs

(2009) Frank W. Grasso et al.   BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND EVOLUTION

The human brain in numbers: a linearly scaled-up primate brain

(2009) Suzana Herculano-Houzel   Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Brains, Lifestyles and Cognition: Are There General Trends?

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

The role of behavior in evolution: a search for mechanism

(2008) Renée A. Duckworth   EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY

A biphasic memory curve in the chambered nautilus, Nautilus pompilius L. (Cephalopoda: Nautiloidea)

(2008) R. Crook et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Hippocampal volumes and neuron numbers increase along a gradient of environmental harshness: a large-scale comparison

(2008) T. C Roth et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The effect of social environment on singing behavior in the zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata) and its implication for neuronal recruitment

(2007) Einat Adar et al.   BEHAVIOURAL BRAIN RESEARCH