The Cognitive Zoology Group
Projects in Cognitive Zoology
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Ongoing projects
- The cradle of avian social cognition – the sociality of extinct dinosaurs
- Pyrocognition: the evolution of understanding fire and cooking
- Where does human cooperation come from? The evolutionary origins of the ability to infer shared goals and motivations
- The order of things: the evolution of sequential planning
- The development of social-cognitive abilities in a Sumatran orangutan infant
- The Evolution of Social Cognition in the Archosauria
- The evolution of musicality: Synchronisation behaviours and rhythm perception in chimpanzees
- The Cradle of Mammalian Intelligence
- Dinosaur Cognition – reconstructing the cradle of the avian mind
- Infrastructure consolidation for remote eye-tracking with great an lesser apes at Lund University Primate Research Station Furuvik
Finished projects
- Comparing chimpanzees’ preparatory responses to known and unknown future outcomes
- The social intelligence hypothesis and the episodic memory system – the role of memories in the social skills of cognitively complex animals
- Remote eye-tracking with chimpanzees and orang-utans
- Planning in corvid and great apes
- Can great apes imagine cocktails?
- Ingredients of complex physical cogntion – comparisons between crow birds and great apes
- Social bonding as a facilitator of intra- and cross-species imitation
- Precursors of Sign Use in Intersubjectivity and Imitation
- Phylogenetic reconstruction of the human skill to imagine
- Development of touchscreen interface for cognitive testing of primates
- Eye-tracking with great apes
- Development of permanent infrastructure for research and education on great ape cognition at Lund University Primate Research Station Furuvik