Comparative Cognition Society

Save the Date 📆 ! The conference dates for #CO32027 have been announced. Join us in Montréal April 14th - 17th! Conference Registration opens in October 2026. Check out the website for details: comparativecognition.org/conference.php

Our latest microgrant funding round is open now! 📢 Below is a reminder of what we do and don't fund. This round closes October 30th! Want to help us support students? Please spread the word, and donate if you can! For more informaition and to apply: opencollective.com/animal-behaviour-collective

!! Call for articles !! This year marks the 100th anniversary of Pavlov's 'Conditioned Reflexes,' and to celebrate, CCBR is interested in brief (~2,500 words) commentaries. More information can be found on our website.

Thank you to the organisers of @ecbb2026.bsky.social for allowing us to spread the word about our microgrants & mentorship at their brilliant, inclusive conference! #ECBB2026 Our next migrogrant funding round opens this month! Save the date 🗓️

Join Jessica Bodily of Auburn University at Montgomery and me as we talk about suboptimal choices in reinforcement, gambling and other cool comparative cognition stuff! Oh yeah, also, Jess is @compcogsoc.bsky.social president. www.spitandtwitches.com/2026/09/epis... #ComparativeCognition #Podcast

Apply to our #postdoc program! 🤓🧑‍🔬 Applications are now open until October 13th, 2026 - don’t miss your chance to take your research to the next level with expert mentorship, workshops, coaching and more. www.mpg.de/en/max-planc...

ManyDogs wants to know what YOU want to know about dogs! 🤔 Take our quick, 10-minute survey to help guide our future studies. 📝 And please share with dog lovers near and far! 🐩🐕🐕‍🦺 #Dogs #DogResearch #DogScience #CanineResearch #CanineScience

It is with great sorrow that we acknowledge the passing of our colleague and friend Dr. Anthony “Tony” Wright. Tony was a member of CCS for many years, and his contributions to his students and our field will be felt for years to come.

📣 Call for Papers! Guest Editors (Victor Ajuwon, Laura S. Lewis, and Tiago Monteiro) for Animal Cognition are seeking papers for a special issue on curiosity and information-seeking in animals. Manuscripts due November 30, 2026! Curious already? Check it out 👇🏼 link.springer.com/collections/...

Call for collaborators! Join a global study on reversal learning across animal species ManyManys - manymanys.github.io Invite - calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0... Registration - forms.fillout.com/t/n4fxVFpHQWus Questions - email both nicolas.alessandroni@concordia.ca and lpretot@pittstate.edu.

Andddddd that's a wrap on #CO32026! A big thank you to all the presenters, both in talks and posters, to everyone who travelled to Montréal, and, of course, to the amazing organizers who made this conference such a success. We are already looking forward to #CO32027! Can't wait to see you there!

Who knew we'd be doing the time warp in the last talk of #CO32026? In his Honoree Lecture, Dr. Bob Cook explored the evolution of #art and #cognition, asking whether the roots of artistic expression extend beyond #humans, and connecting cognition and creativity in fascinating ways!

The special lecture by Dr. Robert Cook is starting! 🎉 A leader in #ComparativeCognition, he is presenting work on #VisualPerception, #Learning, and #Memory, examining how #Animals, from pigeons to humans, process and act on complex sensory information #CO32026 🧪 #ComparativePsychology

As a warm-up to our feature session honoree lecture by Bob Cook, we are fascinated by the #cognitive capacities of #pigeons! Our final symposium covered topics from visual search to spatial maps, and we learned that pigeons reveal powerful associative and flexible cognitive processes. #CO32026

In honor of Dr. Robert Cook's contributions to the field of #ComparativeCognition, this #CO32026 symposium spotlights research on visual cognition and learning in pigeons and beyond, revealing how complex #Behavior can emerge from fundamental perceptual and associative processes 🧪

Rethinking #theory of mind across species! This session examined how #animals track others’ knowledge, follow gaze, and potentially use symbolic representations, displaying diverse pathways to “mindreading” that extend beyond and are akin to human-like #cognition. #CO32026

From #Apes to #CapuchinMonkeys, this session explores #MentalStates and imagery, examining how #Animals attribute knowledge, use gaze and social cues, and whether they form #MentalRepresentations similar to humans. #CO32026 🧪 #AnimalBehavior #ComparativeCognition

What does #positive #affect look like in #behavior? In bonobos, high-value rewards elicited specific responses, such as head movements, whereas in humans, mood influences how dog emotions are perceived, demonstrating both behavioural signals and observer bias. #CO32026

How do we define and measure #Emotion and #Personality in #Animals? From #Bonobo behavior to human perceptions of #Dog emotion, this session explores how we identify, interpret, and standardize #IndividualDifferences across species. #CO32026 🧪

What does “self” look like in #animalbehavior? Our #Development session speaker suggested that #selfhood may emerge through how animals organize experiences into meaningful sequences, moving beyond mirror tests to focus on #agency, goals, and #behavior. #CO32026

How does #Cognition develop across species? From ravens' antipredator behavior to calves engaging with enrichment and new ideas about animal selfhood, this session explores how #Learning, #Behavior, and cognition emerge and change over #Development #CO32026 🧪 🐦‍⬛🐮 #AnimalBehavior

Brittany Greene tending to a culvert clogged by Castor canadensis below a motion-triggered predator sound device. #ouanimalbehavior #oubiosci

@ba-whittaker shared interesting new data on individual preferences of paired Taeniopygia guttata nest-building decisions in our #CO32026 Decision Making & Learning session this morning 🪺

How do #Animals make decisions and learn? From cichlid fish, and cowbirds to zebra finches, zebrafish, and ants, this session explores how social context shapes learning, decision-making and collective behavior across species. #CO32026 🧪

Ready for round 2 of posters?! Our second #CO32026 Academic Poster Session is about to begin in all four conference rooms. Yes, the cash bar is open once again! Come meet the next generation of students presenting their #ComparativeCognition research 🧪

How do you consider undergrad participation in #AnimalBehavior research? Join this open meeting for faculty, post-docs, and graduate students to discuss undergraduate engagement strategies in #ComparativeCognition #CO32026

Join Dr. Carolyn Ristau, Dr. Stevan Harnad, Dr. James Simmons, Dr. Kristin Andrews and Dr. Colin Allen in a thoughtful digestion of Donald R. Griffin's "Question of Animal Awareness and Beyond" in our upcoming #CO32026 symposium. #Ethology #AnimalMinds #Philosophy 🧪

Forked tubes & a four cup task were featured in a beautifully interconnected #reasoning session at #CO32026. To close it out, Dr Olga Lazareva identified a gap in our literature by highlighting known and unknown similarities & differences between #transitivity & #transitive inference 🧠 #intringuing

New developments in #RelationalLearning theories and supportive technology will be featured in the upcoming #Reasoning session #CO32026 🧪 #AnimalBehavior #ComparativeCognition #ComparativePsychology

Innovation seemed to be the theme of our #CO32026 #mazes and #detours session! Dr. Joshua Wolf shared his exciting new #apparatus for running amphipod escape behaviour trials and Dr. Fiona Cross shared the detour apparatus she developed for Portia africana motivation trials. 🕷️

Attend the #AnimalWelfare & #Conservation session to gain insights on evidence-based best practices in managed care & the conservation impacts on wild counterparts. #CO32026 🧪 📷 by Athena Rycyk #AnimalBehavior #Manatee

New findings in wild parent-offspring feeding interactions of Parus major were shared by Dr. Shana Caro in our #communication session. Welcome to #CO32026 Dr. Caro!

Under what conditions do specialized #Navigation skills falter? Inverted rats, escaping amphipods and intraspecific motivated jumping spiders will all be featured in the mazes and detours #CO32026 session 🧪 📷 Fiona Cross #AnimalBehavior #ComparativeCognition

#ComparativeCognition research presented in the #Communication session reveals new findings on how information is conveyed and processed by #Primates, #Avians, #Honeybees, and #Dolphins #CO32026 🧪 🐒🐬🦜🐝 #AnimalBehavior #ComparativePsychology

The #AuditoryDiscrimination session at #CO32026 featured cross-modal matching in honeybees, auditory enrichment trials for two groups of elephants in human care, and several new comparative studies in songbird #vocalizations and auditory processing 🐝🐘🐦

#Joy in #Animals isn’t just observed, it’s being tested! Live from #CO32026, this symposium explored how positive #affect is elicited and measured across species, and how it influences #Cognition and social interactions.

Vibrational cues, #Acoustic enrichment, vocalizations and predator sounds will all be featured in our upcoming #CO32026 #AuditorydDscrimination session! 🧪 #ComparativePsychology #AnimalBehavior #DidYouHearThat

A big #Congratulations to our Early Career Award Winner, Stephen Ferrigno! His work with #memory systems suggests that #monkeys not only have the ability to represent recursive sequences but do so like #humans. #CO32026

How do we measure #Joy across species? From #Kea parrots (thermal + hormones) to #Dolphins (vocalizations) and #Bonobos (attention to play faces), this #Symposium explores how positive #Affect can be identified and compared across animals #CO32026 🧪 #AnimalBehavior #ComparativeCognition

#FeatureSession Alert! #EarlyCareerAwardWinner Stephen Ferrigno Stephen Ferrigno presents his work showing that monkeys and humans use similar, queue-like memory systems for hierarchical sequences, challenging traditional models of how structured information is represented #CO32026 🧪

Looking to connect? The #CO32026 #Mentoring Session in the Opus Room brings together students and researchers at all career stages for guidance, discussion, and community-building! 🧪

It's time for the first poster session of the conference if you're attending #CO32026, join in on the riveting discussions around budding new research #CO32026 🧪 #AnimalBehavior #ComparativeCognition

In the #CO32026 EDI event this evening, these resources were shared: • 5calls.org • www.goodsuniteus.com • resist.bot • turnup.us • tmt.newtactics.org • Volunteer for a local organization • Write a letter of a support for someone in your institution

#CO32026 warmly welcomes all to attend "Allyship and EDI" in Opus this evening. Join your #ComparativeCognition colleagues in #Equality, #Diversity and #Inclusion discussions as we work together to create safe spaces across our field. 🧪

New tools are transforming #canine #cognition! This symposium covered eye-tracking and scent-based research, as well as soundboards and touchscreens. Through these methods, this symposium showed us innovative ways to study how dogs perceive, learn, and communicate across various contexts. #CO32026

Chaired by Dr. Tiago Monteiro, our #Canine #Symposium features novel methodology for studying behaviour and #Cognition. From touchscreens to mobile eye-tracking, this #CO32026 session highlights new age technology and new findings in canine #ComparativeCongnition. 🧪 #AnimalBehavior #DogCognition

How do #dogs navigate the world? Our #CanineCognition session explored perspective-taking, cue use, and learning, revealing both the strengths and limitations in canine cognition. From social biases to context-specific self-control, dogs don't always "read our minds" as we may expect. #CO32026