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
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
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...