Alex H Taylor
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Recent Articles
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Rault J, Bateson M, Boissy A, Forkman B, Grinde B, Gygax L, et al.
Biol Lett
. 2025 Jan;
21(1):20240382.
PMID: 39837489
The concept of animal welfare is evolving due to progress in our scientific understanding of animal biology and changing societal expectations. Animal welfare science has been primarily concerned with minimizing...
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Kean D, Taylor A
Learn Behav
. 2025 Jan;
PMID: 39789381
In a clever adaptation of the two-cups task, a recent paper tested for reasoning by exclusion in bees. Although further work is necessary to rule out competing hypotheses, this study...
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Taylor A, Johnston M
Curr Biol
. 2024 Oct;
34(20):R996-R999.
PMID: 39437743
The natural world is full of examples of animals interacting with their physical environment in surprising ways: capuchin monkeys crack open nuts with rocks; dolphins use sponges as 'gloves' on...
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Taylor A
Curr Biol
. 2024 Jan;
34(1):R21-R23.
PMID: 38194922
A new study shows a falcon species, the striated caracara, displays similar levels of behavioural innovation to tool-using parrots when solving a battery test in the wild.
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Miller R, Davies J, Schiestl M, Garcia-Pelegrin E, Gray R, Taylor A, et al.
PLoS One
. 2023 Dec;
18(12):e0289197.
PMID: 38055711
Self-control underlies goal-directed behaviour in humans and other animals. Delayed gratification - a measure of self-control - requires the ability to tolerate delays and/or invest more effort to obtain a...
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Nelson X, Taylor A, Cartmill E, Lyn H, Robinson L, Janik V, et al.
Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc
. 2023 May;
98(5):1548-1563.
PMID: 37127535
The nature and evolution of positive emotion is a major question remaining unanswered in science and philosophy. The study of feelings and emotions in humans and animals is dominated by...
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Armitage K, Suddendorf T, Bulley A, Bastos A, Taylor A, Redshaw J
Dev Psychol
. 2023 Apr;
59(6):995-1005.
PMID: 37104806
A cardinal feature of adult cognition is the awareness of our own cognitive struggles and the capacity to draw upon this awareness to offload internal demand into the environment. In...
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Smith G, Bastos A, Chodorow M, Taylor A, Pepperberg I
Sci Rep
. 2022 Dec;
12(1):21012.
PMID: 36470911
No abstract available.
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Smith G, Bastos A, Chodorow M, Taylor A, Pepperberg I
Sci Rep
. 2022 Oct;
12(1):17415.
PMID: 36258015
Contrafreeloading-working to access food that could be freely obtained-is rarely exhibited and poorly understood. Based on data from Grey parrots (Psittacus erithacus), researchers proposed a correlation between contrafreeloading and play:...
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Taylor A, Bastos A, Brown R, Allen C
Trends Cogn Sci
. 2022 Jun;
26(9):738-750.
PMID: 35773138
Making inferences from behaviour to cognition is problematic due to a many-to-one mapping problem, in which any one behaviour can be generated by multiple possible cognitive processes. Attempts to cross...