Alan C Kamil
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Kelly D, Kamil A, Cheng K
Anim Cogn
. 2009 Jul;
13(1):175-88.
PMID: 19579038
Many species have been shown to encode multiple sources of information to orient. To examine what kinds of information animals use to locate a goal we manipulated cue rotation, cue...
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Bond A, Kamil A, Balda R
J Comp Psychol
. 2007 Dec;
121(4):372-9.
PMID: 18085920
In serial reversal learning, subjects learn to respond differentially to 2 stimuli. When the task is fully acquired, reward contingencies are reversed, requiring the subject to relearn the altered associations....
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Gibson B, Wasserman E, Kamil A
J Exp Psychol Anim Behav Process
. 2007 Jul;
33(3):244-61.
PMID: 17620024
The authors presented people (Experiment 1) and pigeons (Experiments 2 and 3) with a large number of 1-way traveling salesperson problems that consisted of 3, 4, and 5 identical stimuli...
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Lewis J, Kamil A
J Exp Psychol Anim Behav Process
. 2006 Oct;
32(4):407-18.
PMID: 17044743
The authors tested the spatial memory of serially presented locations in Clark's nutcrackers (Nucifraga columbiana). Birds were serially presented with locations in an open room. The authors buried a seed...
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Bond A, Kamil A
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
. 2006 Feb;
103(9):3214-9.
PMID: 16481615
Cryptically colored prey species are often polymorphic, occurring in multiple distinctive pattern variants. Visual predators promote such phenotypic variation through apostatic selection, in which they attack more abundant prey types...
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Gibson B, Kamil A
Learn Behav
. 2005 Jun;
33(1):59-66.
PMID: 15971493
We used a psychophysical method to examine the ability of three corvid species to discern fine-grained spatial information. Nutcrackers, pinyon jays, and scrub-jays were required to discriminate the distance between...
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Goodyear A, Kamil A
J Comp Psychol
. 2004 Oct;
118(3):258-64.
PMID: 15482053
Three groups of Clark's nutcrackers (Nucifraga columbiana) were trained to find a goal location defined by an array of 4 landmarks that varied in goal--landmark distance. The arrays for each...
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Paz-Y-Mino C G, Bond A, Kamil A, Balda R
Nature
. 2004 Aug;
430(7001):778-81.
PMID: 15306809
Living in large, stable social groups is often considered to favour the evolution of enhanced cognitive abilities, such as recognizing group members, tracking their social status and inferring relationships among...
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Kamil A
Trends Cogn Sci
. 2004 May;
8(5):195-7.
PMID: 15120676
Two recently published studies provide important new data relevant to the evolution of human intelligence. Both studies of social behavior in baboons, Bergman et al. demonstrated that baboons use two...
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Spetch M, Rust T, Kamil A, Jones J
J Comp Psychol
. 2003 Jul;
117(2):123-32.
PMID: 12856782
Pigeons (Columba livia) searched for a goal location defined by a constant relative spatial relationship to 2 landmark. For one group, landmark-to-goal bearings remained constant while distance varied. For another...