During the Spring semester 2008 SPACKLED meets on a roughly bi-weekly schedule (see below) at the Center for the Integrative Study of Animal Behavior (CISAB), 402 N. Park Ave, IUB.

Each meeting we discuss some pre-circulated papers on animal cognition in the widest sense that have come to our attention. So far we have tried to group the readings of one semester around a common theme, such as episodic memory and mental time travel, or the emergence of consciousness.

Everybody present at our inaugural meeting at Sept 9, 2005 had been added to our listserv spackled-l@indiana.edu. Please feel welcome to add yourself to the list.

Please email Colin Allen at colallen@indiana.edu if you have any questions.

Colin

Schedule:

March 24 Spackled (**5:30pm, location TBA**)
April 14 Spackled (4pm)
April 28 Spackled (4pm)

May 19

Alonzo2008-MCCaffectsSSinWrasse.pdf

JonesDebruine2006-Social transmission face prefs.pdf

White2004-MCC.pdf

April 28

Seed, A.M., Clayton, N.S., & Emery, N.J. (in press). Cooperative problem solving in rooks (Corvus frugilegus). Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Melis, A.P., Hare,B., & Tomasello, M. (2006). Chimpanzees Recruit the Best Collaborators. Science, 311 (5765): 1297-1300.

April 14

Subiaul, F., Vonk, J., Okamoto-Barth, S, Barth, J. (in press). Do chimpanzees learn reputation by observation? Evidence from direct and indirect experience with generous and selfish strangers. Animal Cognition

Connor, R. & Mann, J. (2006). Social cognition in the wild: Machiavellian dolphins? In Hurley, S. and Nudds, M. (eds.). Rational Animals? Oxford University Press (Chapter 16)

March 24

Fiset, S. (2007). Landmark-Based Search Memory in the Domestic Dog (Canis familiaris). Journal of Comparative Psychology, 121 (4), 345-353.

Kaminski, J., Fischer, J., Call, J. (in press). Prospective object search in dogs: mixed evidence for knowledge of What and Where. Animal Cognition.

March 3

TOPÁL, J., MIKLÓSI, A., GÁCSI, M., DÓKA, A., PONGRÁCZ, P., KUBINYI, E., VIRÁNYI, Z., & CSÁNYI, V. Dog as a complementary model for understanding human social behaviour (Manuscript).

February 18

Ramsey, Bastian, and van Schaik (2007) Animal innovation defined and operationalized. BEHAVIORAL AND BRAIN SCIENCES (2007) 30, 393–437.

Chapter 2 from the Hurley & Nudds volume

February 4

Thomas Suddendorf and Michael C. Corballis (2007). The evolution of foresight: What is mental time travel, and is it unique to humans? Behavioral and Brain Sciences 30: 299–351.

Nicky Clayton, Nathan Emery, and Anthony Dickinson (2006). The rationality of animal memory: Complex caching strategies of western scrub jays. Chapter 9 in Hurley & Nudds (eds.) The Rational Animal.

January 14

Suda-King, C. (2008) Do orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) know when they do not remember? Animal Cognition 11: 21-42.

Shettleworth, S. & Sutton, J. (2006) "Do animals know what they know", Chapter 11 in Hurley, S. and Nudds, M. (2006). Rational Animals? Oxford University Press.

November 30

Penn, Derek C. and Daniel J. Povinelli (2007) ‘On the lack of evidence that non-human animals possess anything remotely resembling a ‘theory of mind’. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B (2007) 362, 731–744

Andrews, Kristin (2005) ‘Chimpanzee Theory of Mind: Looking in All the Wrong Places?’ Mind & Language, Vol. 20 No. 5 November 2005, pp. 521–536.

November 2

Byrne, R. (2005) 'Detecting, Understanding, and Explaining Animal Imitation'. In: S Hurley & N Chater (eds) Perspectives on imitation: from mirror neurons to memes, Vol.1, 255-282. MIT Press, Cambridge MA, 2005

Arbib, M. A., Bonaiuto, J., and Rosta, E. (2006) 'The mirror system hypothesis: From a macaque-like mirror system to imitation'. In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on the Evolution of Language, 3-10.

Introduction:

Caroline Ash, Gilbert Chin, Elizabeth Pennisi, and Andrew Sugden (2007) ‘Living in Societies’. Science 317: 1337.

Reviews:

R. I. M. Dunbar and Susanne Shultz (2007) ‘Evolution in the Social Brain’. Science 317: 1344-1347.

Joan B. Silk (2007) ‘Social Components of Fitness in Primate Groups’. Science 317: 1347-1351.

Supplemental Reading:

News features:

Greg Miller (2007) ‘All Together Now--Pull!’ Science 317: 1338-1340.

Greg Miller (2007) ‘The Promise of Parallel Universes’. Science 317 September 2007: 1341-1343.

Book Review:

Jolly, Allison (2007) ‘The Social Origin of Mind’. Science 317: 1326-1327

Research article:

Daniel T. Gilbert and Timothy D. Wilson (2007) ‘Prospection: Experiencing the Future’. Science 317: 1351-1354.

Esther Herrmann, Josep Call, María Victoria Hernàndez-Lloreda, Brian Hare, and Michael Tomasello (2007) ‘Humans Have Evolved Specialized Skills of Social Cognition: The Cultural Intelligence Hypothesis’. Science 317: 1360-1366.

Children who are 2 and a half years old deal with quantities, space, and causality as well as adult chimps but far surpass them on social learning tasks, communication, and theory of mind skills.

Justin N. Wood, David D. Glynn, Brenda C. Phillips, and Marc D. Hauser (2007) ‘The Perception of Rational, Goal-Directed Action in Nonhuman Primates’. Science 317: 1402-1405.

Apes, as well as New and Old World monkeys, can analyze goal-directed actions and infer the underlying rationale.

McGonigle, Brendan, and Margaret Chalmers (2001) ‘The Growth of Cognitive Structure in Monkeys and Men’. In: Animal Cognition and Sequential Behavior: Behavioral, Biological, and Computational Perspectives, by Stephen B. Fountain, Michael D. Bunsey, Joseph H. Danks, and Michael K. McBeath (Eds). New York: Springer: 287-332.

Blaisdell, Aaron P., Kosuke Sawa, Kenneth J. Leising, and Michael R. Waldmann (2006) ‘Causal Reasoning in Rats’. Science 311:1020-1022

David Premack (2007) ‘Human and animal cognition: Continuity and discontinuity’. PNAS 104 (35): 13861-13867

McGonigle, Brendan and Margaret Chalmers (Forthcoming) 'Insight and relational mechanisms'. To appear in The Encyclopedia of Applied Animal Behaviour and Welfare, edited by D. Mills, CABI Publishing.

McGonigle, Brendan and Margaret Chalmers (In Press) 'Ordering and executive functioning as a window on the evolution and development of cognitive systems'. International Journal of Comparative Psychology (Special issue on Comparative, Developmental and Evolutionary Psychology)

Collier-Baker, Emma, Joanne M. Davis, and Thomas Suddendorf (2004) "Do Dogs (Canis familiaris) Understand Invisible Displacement?" Journal of Comparative Psychology Copyright 2004 by the American Psychological Association 118 (4): 421- 433

Topal, Jozsef, Richard W. Byrne, Adam Miklosi & Vilmos Csanyi (2006) "Reproducing human actions and action sequences: "Do as I Do!" in a dog". Anim Cogn (2006) 9:355-367

Thomas R. Zentall (2006). Imitation: definitions, evidence, and mechanisms. Anim Cog 9:335-353

Miclósi, Ádám (1999). The ethological analysis of imitation. Biol. Rev. 74:347- 347

Huber, Ludwig and Gyula K. Gajdon (2006) Technical intelligence in animals: the kea model. Anim Cogn 9:295-305

Seibt, Uta and Wolfgang Wickler (2006) Individuality in Problem Solving: String Pulling in Two Carduelis Species (Aves: Passeriformes). Ethology 112 (2006) 493-502

Heinrich, Bernd and Thomas Bugnyar (2005) Testing Problem Solving in Ravens: String-Pulling to Reach Food. Ethology 111, 962-976

Hunt, Gavin R., Robb B. Rutledge, and Russell D. Gray (2006) The right tool for the job: what strategies do wild New Caledonian crows use? Anim Cogn 9:307-316

Weir, Alex A. S. and Alex Kacelnik (2006) A New Caledonian crow (Corvus moneduloides) creatively re-designs tools by bending or unbending aluminium strips. Anim Cogn 9:317-334

Silva, Francisco J. and Silva, Kathleen M. (2005) Methodological-conceptual problems in the study of chimpanzees' fold physics: How studies with adult humans can help. Learning & Behavior 33(1), 47-58.

Watanabe, Shigeru and Ludwig Huber (2006). Animal logics: Decisions in the absence of human language. Animal Cognition 9 (4): 235-245

Benard, Julie, Silke Stach and Martin Giurfa (2006). Categorization of visual stimuli in the honeybee Apis mellifera. Animal Cognition 9 (4): 257-270

Biro, Dora, Claudia Sousa, and Tetsuro Matsuzawa (2006). "Ontogeny and Cultural Propagation of Toll Use by Wild Chimpanzees at Bossou, Guinea: Case Studies in Nut Cracking and Leaf Folding". In: Cognitive Development in Chimpanzees, T. Matsuzawa, M. Tomonaga, and M. Tanaka (eds), Springer.

Hunt, G.R. and Gray, R.D. (2003). Diversification and cumulative evolution in tool manufacture by New Caledonian crows. Proceedings of the Royal Society, London B 270, 867-874.

Background reading

Caro TM, Hauser MD. (1992). "Is there teaching in nonhuman animals?", Q Rev Biol. 67(2):151-74.

Miklósi, Ádám (1999). "The ethological analysis of imitation", Biol. Rev. 74: 347-374

Okamoto-Barth, Sanae, and Masaki Tomonaga (2006) "Development of Joint Attention in Infant Chimpanzees". In: Cognitive Development in Chimpanzees, T. Matsuzawa, M. Tomonaga, and M. Tanaka (eds), Springer, Chapter 10.

Myowa-Yamakoshi, Masako (2006) "How and When do Chimpanzees Acquire the Ability to Imitate?" In: Cognitive Development in Chimpanzees, T. Matsuzawa, M. Tomonaga, and M. Tanaka (eds), Springer, Chapter 14.

Background reading

Hirata, Satoshi (2006) "Tactival Deceltpion and Understanding of Others in Chimpanzees". In: Cognitive Development in Chimpanzees, T. Matsuzawa, M. Tomonaga, and M. Tanaka (eds), Springer, Chapter 17

Kawai, Nobuyuki (2006) "Cognitive abilities before birth: learning and long-lasting memory in a chimpanzee fetus". In: Cognitive Development in Chimpanzees, T. Matsuzawa, M. Tomonaga, and M. Tanaka (eds), Springer.

Papini, Mauricio R. (2002) THEORETICAL NOTES: Pattern and Process in the Evolution of Learning. Psychologicl Review 109 (1): 186-201.

Hauber, M. E. and Sherman, P. W. (2001). Self-referent phenotype matching: theoretical considerations and empirical evidence. Trends Neurosci. 24, 609-616.

West, M.J., A.P. King, D.J. White, J. Gros-Louis & G. Freed-Brown (In press). The development of local song preferences in female cowbirds (Molothrus ater): Flock living stimulates learning. Ethology.

Göth, A. & Evans, C.S. 2004. Social responses without early experience: Australian brush-turkey chicks use specific visual cues to aggregate with conspecifics. Journal of Experimental Biology, 207, 2199-2208.

Göth, A. & Evans, C.S. 2005. Life-history and social learning: megapode chicks fail to acquire feeding preferences from conspecifics. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 119, 381-386.

Hutchinson, John M.C. and Gerd Gigerenzer (2005). 'Simple heuristics and rules of thumb: Where psychologists and behavioural biologists might meet.' Behavioural Processes 69 (2): 97-124

Hutchinson, John M.C. and Gerd Gigerenzer (2005). 'Connecting behavioural biologists and psychologists: Clarifying distinctions and suggestions for further work'. Behavioural Processes 69 (2): 159-163

The second paper is a response to 10 short commentaries which I have not copied. If you want to have a look at them, the issue is available over Science Direct

Prologue and chapter 1 from Gary Lucas' book in progress "The Emergent Chain" on the emergence of consciousness: http://mypage.iu.edu/~lucasg/HME/spackled.html

N.J. Mackintosh, N. J. (2002), "Do not ask whether they have a cognitive map, but how they find their way about". Psicológica 23, 165-185.

Clayton, N. S., Emery, N. J. & Dickinson, A. (forthcoming), "The rationality of animal memory: The cognition of caching". In: S. Hurley and M. Nudds (eds.) Rational Animals, Oxford University Press.

Schwartz, Bennett L. and Sian Evans (2001) Episodic Memory in Primates. American Journal of Primatology 55:71-85 (2001)

Background reading:

Schwartz, Bennett L., Megan L. Hoffmann, and Sian Evans (2005). Episodic-like memory in a gorilla: A review and new Findings. Learning and Motivation 36 (2005) 226-244

Hampton, Robert R., Benjamin M. Hampstead, and Elisabeth A. Murray (2005). Rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) demonstrate robust memory for what and where, but not when, in an open-Weld test of memory. Learning and Motivation 36 (2005) 245-259

Babb, Stephanie J. and Jonathon D. Crystal (2005), Discrimination of what, when, and where: Implications for episodic-like memory in rats. Learning and Motivation 36 (2005) 177-189

Eichenbaum, Howard, Norbert J. Fortin, Ceren Ergorul, Sean P. Wright, Kara L. Agster (2005) Episodic recollection in animals: "If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck". Learning and Motivation 36: 190-207

Zentall, Thomas R. (2005) Animals may not be stuck in time. Learning and Motivation 36: 208-225

Background reading:

Suddendorf, Thomas and Janie Busby (2003) Mental time travel in animals? TRENDS in Cognitive Sciences 7 (9): 391-396

Hampton, Robert R. (2001) Rhesus monkeys know when they remember . PNAS 98 (9): 5359-5362

Mercado III, Eduardo, Scott O. Murray, Robert K. Uyeyama,· Adam A. Pack, and Louis M. Herman (1998). Memory for recent actions in the bottlenosed dolphin (Tursiops truncatus): Repetition of arbitrary behaviors using an abstract rule. Animal Learning & Behavior 26 (2), 210-218

Mercado III, Eduardo, Robert K. Uyeyama,· Adam A. Pack, and Louis M. Herman (1999). Memory for action events in the bottlenosed dolphin. Anim Cogn 2: 17-25

Zentall, Thomas R., Tricia S. Clement, Ramesh S. Bhatt, and Jessica A. Allen (2001). Episodic-like memory in pigeons. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 8 (4): 685-690

Background reading:

Lori Marino (2004). Cetacean Brain Evolution: Multiplication Generates Complexity. International Journal of Comparative Psychology 17: 1-16.

Dally, JM, Emery, NJ & Clayton, NS. (in Press). Cache protection strategies by western scrub-jays: Implications for social cognition. Animal Behaviour 2005.

This paper discusses the implication of cache protection strategies in scrub jays for complex and social cognition, such as mental time travel, experience projection and possibly knowledge attribution, all which have been implicated for the possession of 'Theory of Mind'. This research group did a handful of different experiments testing distinctive social contexts and their influence on cache protection strategy. If there is interest have these papers on file.

Emery, NJ, Dally, J & Clayton, NS (2004). Western scrub-jays (Aphelocoma californica) use cognitive strategies to protect their caches from thieving conspecifics. Animal Cognition 7: 37 -43.

The main interest in this paper is the part in which it shows that jays (which already had experience pilfering other bird's caches) observing the pilfering of their cache by other birds will change their recovery strategy from re-caching to eating their caches.

de Kort, SR, Tebbich, S, Dally, JM, Emery, NJ & Clayton, NS. (2005). The comparative cognition of caching. In: Wasserman, EA & Zentall, TR (Eds.), Comparative Cognition: Experimental explanations of animal intelligence. Oxford University Press: Oxford.

This paper gives a nice overview over the avian food-caching paradigm: species differences in caching, the role of cognition in caching (episodic-like memory, social cognition), cognition in cache recovery (esp. its social aspects), and evolutionary considerations (comparison of corvid species for spatial capacities and between corvids and parids). According to amazon the book came out in June, but is for some strange reason not available.

Background reading:

Emery, NJ & Clayton, NS (2001). Effects of experience and social context on prospective caching strategies in scrub jays. Nature, 414, 443-446. See also Nature, 414, ix, and Correction in Nature, 416, 349 (2002).

This paper is a reminder of earlier experiments showing that jays with prior experience of pilfering another bird's caches subsequently re-cached food in new cache site, but only if they had been observed caching (Experiment 4 and 5 seen in figures 4 and 5 of the paper from Sept 23).

Gácsi, M.; A. Miklósi; O. Varga; J. Topál; V. Csányi. 2004. Are readers of our face readers of our minds? Dogs (Canis familiaris) show situation-dependent recognition of human's attention. Animal Cognition 7: 144-153

Soproni, K; Á. Miklósi ;V. Csányi; and J. Topál. 2001. Comprehension of Human Communicative Signs in Pet Dogs (Canis familiaris). Journal of Comparative Psychology 115 (2): 122-126

Allen, Colin. Forthcoming. Macaque Mirror Neurons: Detecting Intentions Intentionally? Penultimate draft, in preparation for Grammont, F. (ed.) (2006?) Naturalizing Intention in Action, MIT Press. Comments welcome.

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