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Sara J Shettleworth

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Miller N, Shettleworth S
J Exp Psychol Anim Behav Process . 2013 Jul; 39(3):287-93. PMID: 23815387
Miller and Shettleworth (2007) used an associative model of instrumental choice to explain a confusing pattern of results in the geometry learning literature. Dupuis and Dawson (in press) identified a...
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Shettleworth S
Can J Exp Psychol . 2012 Dec; 66(4):217-26. PMID: 23231629
We cannot test animals for insight's distinctive phenomenology, the "aha" experience, but we can study the processes underlying insightful behaviour, classically described by Köhler as sudden solution of a problem...
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Shettleworth S
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci . 2012 Aug; 367(1603):2794-802. PMID: 22927578
Darwin's claim 'that the difference in mind between man and the higher animals … is certainly one of degree and not of kind' is at the core of the comparative...
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Shettleworth S
Curr Biol . 2010 Nov; 20(21):R910-1. PMID: 21105221
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Shettleworth S
Trends Cogn Sci . 2010 Aug; 14(11):477-81. PMID: 20685155
From the process of organic evolution to the analysis of insect societies as self-organizing systems, biology is full of awe-inspiring examples of complexity arising from simplicity. Yet in the contemporary...
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Shettleworth S
Curr Biol . 2009 Dec; 19(22):R1039-40. PMID: 19948142
A 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...
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Shettleworth S
Nature . 2009 May; 459(7246):506. PMID: 19478765
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Shettleworth S
Behav Processes . 2008 Oct; 80(3):210-7. PMID: 18824222
In "The Snark is a Boojum", Beach [Beach, F.A., 1950. The snark was a boojum. American Psychologist. 5, 115-124] famously asserted that animal psychology embraced too few species and too...
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Miller N, Shettleworth S
J Exp Psychol Anim Behav Process . 2008 Jul; 34(3):419-22. PMID: 18665724
In a recent article, the authors (Miller & Shettleworth, 2007) showed how the apparently exceptional features of behavior in geometry learning ("reorientation") experiments can be modeled by assuming that geometric...