SummaryA new study of how experience contributes to apparently insightful problem-solving by tool-using crows has shown that operating an apparatus with the beak or a stick promotes novel use of stones on the same apparatus
Parrots and corvids show outstanding innovative and flexible behaviour. In particular, kea and New C...
SummaryAttention facilitates perception and can bring stimuli too faint to see into consciousness. A...
). While sequential tool use has often been interpreted as evidence for advanced cognitive abilities...
SummaryCreative problem solving and innovative tool use in animals are often seen as indicators of a...
Creative problem solving and innovative tool use in animals are often seen as indicators of advanced...
This work was supported by a Rutherford Discovery Fellowship (AHT). SAJ would like to thank the ERC ...
Although rooks are considered non-tool-using animals, a recent study has shown that they learn to so...
Background: Using tools to act on non-food objects-for example, to make other tools-is considered to...
BACKGROUND: Using tools to act on non-food objects--for example, to make other tools--is considered ...
It is highly difficult to pinpoint what is going through an animal's mind when it appears to solve a...
SummaryA recent study found that tool-manufacturing New Caledonian crows spontaneously solved a meta...
The bird approaches the transparent vertically oriented tube and looks down its opening with apparen...
The phenomenon of insight (also called "Aha!" or "Eureka!" moments) is considered a core component o...
The extent to which non-humans understand their physical world is controversial, due to conceptual a...
Discussions of the evolution of intelligence have focused on monkeys and apes because of their close...
Parrots and corvids show outstanding innovative and flexible behaviour. In particular, kea and New C...
SummaryAttention facilitates perception and can bring stimuli too faint to see into consciousness. A...
). While sequential tool use has often been interpreted as evidence for advanced cognitive abilities...
SummaryCreative problem solving and innovative tool use in animals are often seen as indicators of a...
Creative problem solving and innovative tool use in animals are often seen as indicators of advanced...
This work was supported by a Rutherford Discovery Fellowship (AHT). SAJ would like to thank the ERC ...
Although rooks are considered non-tool-using animals, a recent study has shown that they learn to so...
Background: Using tools to act on non-food objects-for example, to make other tools-is considered to...
BACKGROUND: Using tools to act on non-food objects--for example, to make other tools--is considered ...
It is highly difficult to pinpoint what is going through an animal's mind when it appears to solve a...
SummaryA recent study found that tool-manufacturing New Caledonian crows spontaneously solved a meta...
The bird approaches the transparent vertically oriented tube and looks down its opening with apparen...
The phenomenon of insight (also called "Aha!" or "Eureka!" moments) is considered a core component o...
The extent to which non-humans understand their physical world is controversial, due to conceptual a...
Discussions of the evolution of intelligence have focused on monkeys and apes because of their close...
Parrots and corvids show outstanding innovative and flexible behaviour. In particular, kea and New C...
SummaryAttention facilitates perception and can bring stimuli too faint to see into consciousness. A...
). While sequential tool use has often been interpreted as evidence for advanced cognitive abilities...