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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Animal cognition"”.
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Effects of anthropogenic change on animal cognition and emotion
… biodiversity loss. However, the effects on animal cognition and emotion are less studied. In this thesis, I argue that anthropogenic change impacts animals’ mental states, with implications for both individuals (welfare) and populations (conservation). My first experiment explores the …
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Replication, bias, and meta-research in animal cognition research
… I explore the extent to which researchers of animal cognition should be concerned about the reliability of its scientific results and the presence of theoretical biases across research programmes. To do so I apply and develop arguments borne in human psychology’s “replication crisis” to animal …
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Public Perceptions of Animal Thinking
… study, participants credited both children and animals with simple thinking, but reserved ascriptions of complex thinking to children. However, perceptions of animal cognition appear to have improved since the original study. Specifically, results revealed a general increase in participant …
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Sacrifice or Salvation: How can Animal Lives be Spared and Human Health Improved by Toxics Reform?
… complexities of the entwined relations between animal cognition, the use of animals in toxicity testing, and the proliferation and impacts of harmful chemicals in our society. It asks how, in light of the most current research on animal sentience and the ethics of responsibility, a reorientation …
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Continuity as Crisis: Two Traditions of Theorizing about Animal Minds
… to attributing humanlike capacities to non-human animals, particularly great apes, for reasons that are not based on compelling empirical or theoretical grounds. Mental faculties such as reason, agency, and theory of mind are widely seen as differing in kind from functionally analogous abilities …
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Nemo's Plight: Political Economy, Green-Cultural Criminology, and Fish Abuse
… (Beirne, 1999) inherent in the mammalian-centric animal abuse literature. To do this I draw from research in marine biology and animal cognition to philosophically establish that fish are moral agents, "subjects-of-a-life" (Regan, 1983) on par with mammals and thus worthy of more in-depth …
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A society of mind approach to cognition and metacognition in a cognitive architecture
… research and can benefit from the use of metacognition. The aim is to develop a self configurable computational model using the concept of metacognition. A six tiered SMCA (Society of Mind Cognitive Architecture) control model is designed that relies on a society of agents operating using …
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I See, Therefore I Think - The Role of Observed Realities on Cognition in Rooks (Corvus frugilegus) and African Grey Parrots (Psittacus erithacus)
… secondary representation is mirror self-recognition (MSR), but evidence from birds is contested and contradictory: Often, they do not behave consistently with either self-recognition or perceiving a conspecific, or appear to recognise themselves in only some contexts. I posit this to be due …
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Elements of episodic-like memory in non-human animals: theory, methodology, and evolution
… when investigating its presence in non-human animals. Therefore, the term ‘episodic-like memory’ is used to reflect the behavioural characteristics of human episodic memory in the absence of evidence for consciously experienced recall. Various behavioural paradigms have been developed to test …
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Comparing reversal-learning abilities, sucrose responsiveness, and foraging experience in scout and non-scout honey bee (Apis mellifera) foragers
Honey bees (Apis mellifera) colonies divide foraging activities between scouts, who search for new sources of food, and non-scouts, who rely on information from waggle dances to find food sources. Molecular analyses of scouts and non-scouts have revealed differences in the expression of numerous …
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The Comparative Science of Magic: Using sleight of hand as a tool to investigate cognition in diverse taxa.
The use of magic effects in comparative cognition provides a powerful tool to investigate how diverse species perceive the world around them, by focusing on their shared psychological constraints rather than their cognitive prowess. In this thesis I explore how humans and non-human animals …
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Information use, risk perception, and stress in wildlife populations
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-05-01
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Care and Companionism: Animal Ethics at the End of Life
… I discuss the different kinds of companion animal and human relations, or in other words, and provide an argument that specifies our ethical obligations to the animals we live with—-our ‘pets.’ In the first chapter, I suggest that there are three types of relationships that humans can have …
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Care and Companionism: Animal Ethics at the End of Life
… I discuss the different kinds of companion animal and human relations, or in other words, and provide an argument that specifies our ethical obligations to the animals we live with—-our ‘pets.’ In the first chapter, I suggest that there are three types of relationships that humans can have …
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Cognitive variation in threespined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus)
Cognition encompasses important mechanisms with which animals are able to adjust their behavior in response to environmental cues. These cognitive processes play a clear role in many fitness-related behaviors such as foraging, predator avoidance, and courtship. Thus, how these processes have …