Social Complexity as a Driver of Communication and Cognition

The evolution of vocal learning

(2014) Stephen Nowicki et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN NEUROBIOLOGY

Vocal learning in seals, sea lions, and walruses

(2014) Colleen Reichmuth et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN NEUROBIOLOGY

The evolution of language from social cognition

(2014) Robert M Seyfarth et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN NEUROBIOLOGY

Vocal learning in elephants: neural bases and adaptive context

(2014) Angela S Stoeger et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN NEUROBIOLOGY

Cetacean vocal learning and communication

(2014) Vincent M Janik   CURRENT OPINION IN NEUROBIOLOGY

Vocal production learning in bats

(2014) Mirjam Knörnschild   CURRENT OPINION IN NEUROBIOLOGY

Changes in the social environment induce neurogenic plasticity predominantly in niches residing in sensory structures of the zebrafish brain independently of cortisol levels

(2014) Benjamin W. Lindsey et al.   Developmental Neurobiology

Introduction to the Symposium--Uniting Evolutionary and Physiological Approaches to Understanding Phenotypic Plasticity

(2014) H. Wada et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

The evolution of self-control

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

Comparative cognition for conservationists

(2014) Alison L. Greggor et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Vocal group signatures in the goitred gazelle Gazella subgutturosa

(2013) Ilya A. Volodin et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

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

(2013) V. Bokony et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

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

Song Competition Affects Monoamine Levels in Sensory and Motor Forebrain Regions of Male Lincoln's Sparrows (Melospiza lincolnii)

(2013) Kendra B. Sewall et al.   PLoS One

Group Size Predicts Social but Not Nonsocial Cognition in Lemurs

(2013) Evan L. MacLean et al.   PLoS One

Condition dependence, developmental plasticity, and cognition: implications for ecology and evolution

(2013) Katherine L. Buchanan et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Vocal Matching in Animals

(2012) Kendra Sewall   AMERICAN SCIENTIST

Social effects on vocal ontogeny in an ungulate, the goat, Capra hircus

(2012) Elodie F. Briefer et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Characterization of cell proliferation throughout the brain of the African cichlid fish Astatotilapia burtoni and its regulation by social status

(2012) Karen P. Maruska et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY

Social complexity as a proximate and ultimate factor in communicative complexity

(2012) T. M. Freeberg et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Evidence for Vocal Learning and Limited Dispersal as Dual Mechanisms for Dialect Maintenance in a Parrot

(2012) Alejandro Salinas-Melgoza et al.   PLoS One

Social competence: an evolutionary approach

(2012) Barbara Taborsky et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Social learning of vocal structure in a nonhuman primate?

(2011) Alban Lemasson et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Social Group Size Predicts the Evolution of Individuality

(2011) Kimberly A. Pollard et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The evolution of primate general and cultural intelligence

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

Larger groups of passerines are more efficient problem solvers in the wild

(2011) J. Morand-Ferron et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Personality and problem-solving performance explain competitive ability in the wild

(2011) E. F. Cole et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Social Network Size Affects Neural Circuits in Macaques

(2011) J. Sallet et al.   SCIENCE

Impacts of the Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution and KPg Extinction on Mammal Diversification

(2011) R. W. Meredith et al.   SCIENCE

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

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

Song Learning in the Anna Hummingbird (Calypte anna)

(2010) Luis F. Baptista et al.   ETHOLOGY

Socioeconomic status and the brain: mechanistic insights from human and animal research

(2010) Daniel A. Hackman et al.   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE

The structure of stereotyped calls reflects kinship and social affiliation in resident killer whales (Orcinus orca)

(2010) Volker B. Deecke et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

Social Cognition and the Evolution of Language: Constructing Cognitive Phylogenies

(2010) W. Tecumseh Fitch et al.   NEURON

The cognitive niche: Coevolution of intelligence, sociality, and language

(2010) S. Pinker   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

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

Environmental Change Enhances Cognitive Abilities in Fish

(2010) Alexander Kotrschal et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Rapid vocal convergence in an Australian cockatoo, the galah Eolophus roseicapillus

(2009) Judith C. Scarl et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Effects of captivity and memory-based experiences on the hippocampus in mountain chickadees.

(2009) Lara D. LaDage et al.   BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE

Vocal matching by orange-fronted conures (Aratinga canicularis)

(2009) Thorsten J.S. Balsby et al.   BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES

Complex vocal imitation during ontogeny in a bat

(2009) M. Knornschild et al.   Biology Letters

Sociality, ecology, and relative brain size in lemurs

(2009) Evan L. MacLean et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Primates, brains and ecology

(2009) T. H. Clutton-Brock et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Effects of stress throughout the lifespan on the brain, behaviour and cognition

(2009) Sonia J. Lupien et al.   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE

Larger groups are more successful in innovative problem solving in house sparrows

(2009) A. Liker et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Stability and change in vocal dialects of the yellow-naped amazon

(2008) Timothy F. Wright et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Social experience modifies behavioural responsiveness to a preferred vocal signal in red crossbills, Loxia curvirostra

(2008) Kendra B. Sewall et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Group size effect caused by food competition in nutmeg mannikins (Lonchura punctulata)

(2008) Guillaume Rieucau et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Convergence of calls as animals form social bonds, active compensation for noisy communication channels, and the evolution of vocal learning in mammals.

(2008) Peter L. Tyack   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY

Social Modulation during Songbird Courtship Potentiates Midbrain Dopaminergic Neurons

(2008) Ya-Chun Huang et al.   PLoS One

Cooperative problem solving in rooks (Corvus frugilegus)

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

A Phylogenomic Study of Birds Reveals Their Evolutionary History

(2008) S. J. Hackett et al.   SCIENCE

Collective cognition in animal groups

(2008) Iain D. Couzin   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES