Current Issue:
Volume 21, 2026
- Introduction
- Donald R. Griffin’s Question of Animal Awareness
- Don Griffin and the Dawn of Cognitive Ethology: A Personal Reflection
- Unconventional Models
- Noxious Nomenclature: Inconsistent Language Hampers Our Assessment of Invertebrate Pain, Sentience, and Awareness
- Spider Research—Are We the Killjoys at the Animal-Consciousness Party?
- Overlooked Minds: Reptiles and Amphibians in the Debate on Nonhuman Animal Awareness
- Invertebrate Consciousness: Taking Precautions or Finding the Truth?
- Comments on Consciousness in Grey Parrots (Psittacus erithacus)
- Consciousness Skeptics
- Declaring Animal Consciousness Does Not Benefit Comparative Cognition
- Endorsing Nonhuman Consciousness Is Defensible Ethics but Dubious Science
- Self-Awareness Is a Uniquely Human Problem
- The Siren Song of Animal Consciousness
- Improving the Science
- Behaving from Within: Refining Markers for Consciousness in Cognitive Ethology
- A Definition Stuck in the Past: Episodic Memory Remains Tethered to Outdated Views of Animal Consciousness
- Are Animals Aware of What They Are Looking for in the Course of Exploratory Actions?
- Why Positive Emotions Matter in Animal Sentience
- Varieties of Consciousness
- Consciousness in Animal Behavior: Applying Tinbergen’s Framework to Current Research on Nonhuman Animal Awareness
- Where Is the Lust? Reproductive Affects at the Emergence of Experience
- The Question of Animal Awareness Revisited
- Articles
- Cognitive Evolution in Major Vertebrate Clades: The Lack of Attentional Control Hypothesis and the Cognition–Opportunities–Needs Framework
- Serial Pattern Learning: Rats and Pigeons Predict the Future but It May Result in Suboptimal Choice
- Target Article
- Commentaries
- What an Animal Cognition Researcher Who Did Not Think They Studied Occasion Setting Might Take Home From This Conversation
- Occasion Setting in Humans: Norm or Exception?
- Occasion Setting in Animal Cognition Research: Some Unaddressed Issues
- What Does Studying Occasion Setting Mean? Commentary on Leising et al. (2025) “Are You Studying Occasion Setting? A Review for Inquiring Minds”
- Setting the Occasion for Suboptimal Choice
- Maybe We Are, But …: Occasion Setting in Intraverbal Behavior
- Stimuli, Responses and State Dependence: Occasion Setting as a General Mechanism of Associative Control
- Occasion Setting, Disjunctive Problem Structures, and the Art of Rationalizing Mistakes
- Yes, We Are Studying Occasion Setting: A Configural Complement to Leising et al.
- Are You Studying Occasion Setting? Be Cautious
- Articles
- Editorial
- Welfare and Conservation
- Taking Welfare into Account in Comparative Cognition Research
- The Future of Comparative Cognition? Conservation!
- Beyond “Far” Transfer and “Happy” Therapy Dogs: Comparative Psychology Gets the Facts Right
- Nontraditional Animal Models
- Comparative Cognition: Insights from Miniature Brains
- The Benefits of Increasing Livestock Species in Comparative Cognition Research
- Advancing Our Understanding of Cognition by Including Amphibians and Reptiles in Comparative Cognition Research
- Where Should Comparative Cognition Be Going? To the Invertebrates
- Philosophy of Science
- Toward a Selectionist Future in Comparative Cognition
- Where Is the Cognizing in Comparative Cognition?
- Differences Teach Us More Than Similarities: The Need for Evolutionary Thinking in Comparative Cognition
- Reconsidering the Subject and Object of Comparative Cognition
- Humane Rather than Human Endpoints for Comparative Psychology
- Scientific Practices
- Comparative Cognition Needs Big Team Science: How Large-Scale Collaborations Will Unlock the Future of the Field
- The Critical Human Elements in Using Artificial Intelligence in Comparative Cognition Studies
- The Future of Comparative Cognition: Answering Developmental Questions with Big Team Science
- Toward Interdisciplinary Integration in the Study of Comparative Cognition: Insights from Studying the Evolution of Multimodal Communication
- Insights from Animals to Build Better Artificial Language Learners
- A Comparative Approach to the Study of Cumulative Cultural Evolution: Where Are We Now, and Where Do We Go?
- The Future Is Computational Comparative Cognition
- Scientific Outreach
- A Letter From the Incoming Editor
- In Celebration of the 30th Meeting of the Conference on Comparative Cognition
- Theoretical Mechanisms of Paradoxical Choices Involving Information
- Eye Tracking in Dogs: Achievements and Challenges
- ManyDogs Project: A Big Team Science Approach to Investigating Canine Behavior and Cognition
- Comparative Approaches to the Natural Ecology of Metacognition
- Snakes: Slithering from Sensory Physiology to Cognition
- The Importance of Reproductive Behavior Tests in Bull Breeding Soundness Evaluation
- The Links Between Pitch, Timbre, Musicality, and Social Bonding From Cross-Species Research
- The Natural History of Musical Rhythm: Functional and Mechanistic Theories on the Evolution of Human Rhythm Cognition and the Relevance of Rhythmic Animal Behaviors
- Elephants and Sirenians: A Comparative Review across Related Taxa in Regard to Learned Vocal Behavior
- Learning Theory for Comparative Psychologists
- From Saliva to Faeces and Everything in Between: A Guide to Biochemical Analysis Using Animal Samples for Biomarker Detection
- It’s Hard to Be Social Alone: Cognitive Complexity as Transfer Within and Across Domains
- Special Section: Comparative Perception
- Functional Performance of the Visual System in Dogs and Humans: A Comparative Perspective
- A Comparison of Hearing and Auditory Functioning Between Dogs and Humans
- Is the Susceptibility to Visual Illusions Related to the Relative Brain Size? Insights from Small-Brained Species
- Crocodilians Are Promising Intermediate Model Organisms for Comparative Perception Research
- The Importance of Sensory Perception in an Elephant’s Cognitive World
- Avian Olfaction: A Review of the Recent Literature
- Articles
- What Suboptimal Choice Tells Us About the Control of Behavior
- Commentaries
- All Hail Suboptimal Choice! Now, Can We “Fix” It?
- Meliorating the Suboptimal-Choice Argument
- Clarifying Contrast, Acknowledging the Past, and Expanding the Focus
- Evolved Psychological Mechanisms as Constraints on Optimization
- Response
- Behavioral and Cognitive Factors That Affect the Success of Scent Detection Dogs
- Cognition Beyond Representation: Varieties of Situated Cognition in Animals
- Commentaries
- Musings on Comparative Directions for Situated Cognition
- Yesterday the Earwig, Today Man, Tomorrow the Earwig?
- Examining the “Species” of Situated Cognition in Humans
- Situated Cognition and the Function of Behavior
- Collaboration, Exploitation, and Distributed Animal Cognition
- Response
- Beyond Brain Size: Uncovering the Neural Correlates of Behavioral and Cognitive Specialization
- Commentaries
- Embodied (Embrained?) Cognitive Evolution, at Last!
- Where the Standard Approach in Comparative Neuroscience Fails and Where It Works: General Intelligence and Brain Asymmetries
- Response
- Animal Models of Episodic Memory
- Note: Two New Article Types to CCBR
- Special Section: Animal Music Perception
- Preface to the Special Section on Animal Music Perception
- Animal Pitch Perception: Melodies and Harmonies
- Why Doesn’t a Songbird (the European Starling) Use Pitch to Recognize Tone Sequences? The Informational Independence Hypothesis
- Consonance Processing in the Absence of Relevant Experience: Evidence from Nonhuman Animals
- Music Perception in a Comparative Context: Relational Chord Perception by Pigeons
- Articles
- From the Pigeon Lab to the Courtroom
- When Humans and Other Animals Behave Irrationally
- Comparative Cognition Outside the Laboratory
- Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Domestic Dog: Research, Methodology, and Conceptual Issue
- What Can Nest-Building Birds Teach Us?
- The Organization of Behavior Over Time: Insights from Mid-Session Reversal
- Developmental Stress and Correlated Cognitive Traits in Songbirds
- Environmental Influences on Spatial Memory and the Hippocampus in Food-Caching Chickadees
- Mechanisms of Individual Differences in Impulsive and Risky Choice in Rats
- Experimental Divergences in the Visual Cognition of Birds and Mammals
- In Memory of Ronald G. Weisman (September 14, 1937 – January 27, 2015)
- A Social History of the Founding of the Conference on Comparative Cognition and the Comparative Cognition Society
- Forgetting from Short-Term Memory in Delayed Matching to Sample: A Reinforcement Context Model
- Imitating Sounds: A Cognitive Approach to Understanding Vocal Imitation
- Recent Advances in the Genetics of Vocal Learning
- Where Apes and Songbirds Are Left Behind: A Comparative Assessment of the Requisites for Speech
- Social Cognition in Ravens
- What Hummingbirds Can Tell Us About Cognition in the Wild
- Neurobiological Foundations of an Attribute Model of Memory
- Animals Prefer Reinforcement that Follows Greater Effort: Justification of Effort or Within-Trial Contrast?
- Two Fields Are Better Than One: Developmental and Comparative Perspectives On Understanding Spatial Reorientation
- How to Navigate Without Maps: The Power of Taxon-like Navigation in Ants
- Neurophysiological Studies of Learning and Memory in Pigeons
- Optimal and Non-optimal Behavior Across Species
- The Predictably Unpredictable Operant
- Information Seeking in Animals: Metacognition?
- Cerebral and Behavioural Asymmetries in Animal Social Recognition
- Comparative Cognition & Behavior Reviews: the first six years
- Welcome Editorial
- Social Influences on Rat Spatial Choice
- Associative Learning in Insects: Evolutionary Models, Mushroom Bodies, and a Neuroscientific Conundrum
- A History of Dogs as Subjects in North American Experimental Psychological Research
- FOCUS ARTICLE – Determining When Birds Perceive Correspondence Between Pictures and Objects: A Critique
- Commentaries
- Replies
- Articles
- Special Section: Metacognition
- Commentaries
- Articles
- Special Section: Monograph
- Articles
- Social Influences on the Mate Choices of Male and Female Japanese Quail
- Concept Learning in Animals
- Echoic Object Recognition by the Bottlenose Dolphin
- Pattern Structure and Rule Induction in Sequential Learning
- The social interaction role of song in song sparrows: implications for signal design
- An Evolutionary Framework for the Acquisition of Symbolic Cognition by Homo sapiens
- Use of multiple dimensions in learned discriminations
- Tool-Related Cognition in New Caledonian Crows
- Comparative Social Cognition: From wolf and dog to humans
- Comparative Cognition, Hippocampal Function, and Recollection
- Individual Differences and Animal Personality
- Issues in the Comparative Cognition of Abstract-Concept Learning
- Auditory Category Perception as a Natural Cognitive Activity in Songbirds
- Spatial Navigation: Spatial Learning in Real and Virtual Environments
- What are Animals? Why Anthropomorphism is Still Not a Scientific Approach to Behavior
- Special Section: Commentaries on Wynne’s “What are Animals? Why Anthropomorphism is Still Not a Scientific Approach to Behavior”
- Special Section: In Memoriam
- The Prospective Cognition of Food Caching and Recovery by Western Scrub-Jays (Alphelocoma californica)
- Comparative Cognition of Object Recognition
- An Ontology for Comparative Cognition: A Functional Approach
- Time, Place and Content
- Challenges Facing Contemporary Associative Approaches to Acquired Behavior