Current Issue:

Volume 17, 2022

• 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

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Past Issues:

Volume 16, 2021

• 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

Volume 15, 2020

• 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 Can We Learn About Navigation From Associative Learning?
• Teaching Animal Learning and Cognition: Adapting to the Online Environment

Volume 14, 2019

• 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
• The Case for a Heuristic Approach to Account for Suboptimal Choice
• Behavioral and Cognitive Factors That Affect the Success of Scent Detection Dogs
• Commentaries
• The Future of Detector Dog Research
• Factors That May Affect the Success of Scent Detection Dogs: Exploring Nonconventional Models of Preparation and Deployment
• Response
• A Need for Greater Inclusivity and Diversity in Scent Detection Dog Research: A Reply to Lazarowski et al. and Byosiere et al.
• Probability Learning by Perceptrons and People

Volume 13, 2018

• 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
• More Situated Cognition in Animals: Reply to Commentators
• 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
• Ingredients for Understanding Brain and Behavioral Evolution: Ecology, Phylogeny, and Mechanism
• Animal Models of Episodic Memory

Volume 12, 2017

• 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
• To Err Is (Not Only) Human: Fallibility as a Window Into Primate Cognition
• It’s All a Matter of Time: Interval Timing and Competition for Stimulus Control

Volume 11, 2016

• 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

Volume 10, 2015

• 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

Volume 9, 2014

• 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

Volume 8, 2013

• 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

Volume 7, 2012

• 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

Volume 6, 2011

• 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

Volume 5, 2010

• FOCUS ARTICLE – Determining When Birds Perceive Correspondence Between Pictures and Objects: A Critique
  • Commentaries
    • Picture Perception in Birds: Perspective from Primatologists
    • Do Animals Recognize Pictures as Representations of 3D Objects?
    • On Categories, Pictures, and the Goals of Comparative Psychology
    • What’s the use of Picture Discrimination Experiments
    • Comparative Vision Science: Seeing Eye to Eye
  • Replies
    • The Commentaries: Some are Visual Illusions
    • Understanding how Pictures are Seen is Important for Comparative Cognition
• Articles
  • Time and Associative Learning
  • The Comparative Psychology of Serially Organized Behavior
  • Resituating Cognition
  • Rudiments of mind: Insights through the chick model on number and space cognition in animals
  • Cross-species Assessment of the Linguistic Origins of Color Categories

Volume 4, 2009

• Special Section: Metacognition
  • Metacognition in Animals
  • Multiple demonstrations of metacognition in nonhumans: Converging evidence or multiple mechanisms?
  • Metacognition in animals: how do we know that they know?
  • Animal Metacognition: Problems and Prospects
• Commentaries
  • Metacognition in animals: Trends and challenges
  • Focusing the uncertainty about nonhuman metacognition
  • Reinforcement and Metacognition
  • The Curious Incident of the Capuchins
• Articles
  • Elephant cognition in primate perspective
  • Associative Basis of Landmark Learning and Integration in Vertebrates
  • Why Can Birds Be So Smart? Background, Significance, and Implications of the Revised View of the Avian Brain
  • Applying Signal Detection Theory to Contingency Assessment

Volume 3, 2008

• Special Section: Monograph
  • Connectionism and Classical Conditioning
• 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

Volume 2, 2007

• 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”
  • Critical Anthropomorphism, Uncritical Anthropocentrism, and Naïve Nominalism
  • Anthropomorphism Revisited
  • Anthropomorphism and Evidence
  • Conditioned Anti-anthropomorphism
  • Anthropomorphism and its Discontents
• Special Section: In Memoriam
  • In Memory of Eric Heinemann

Volume 1, 2006

• 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