Additional readings [under construction!]

The intention here is not to be comprehensive, but to give you enough historical and current sources to be able to dig further into the literature on your own. General histories are grouped together near the top, but histories that have a narrower focus ard found under the topic headings. Sometimes, where to locate a piece of work is an imprecise judgement call.

NOTE: For convenience I've also included here items that are on the required list.

SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS

Many journals publish reports of empirical research in animal cognition, including Nature, Science, PNAS, Trends in Cognitive Science, Behavioural and Brain Sciences, PlosOne, Frontiers in Psychology, but the following tend to have the highest proportion of animal cognition empirical research reports:

• Animal Cognition
• Journal of Comparative Psychology
• Animal Behaviour
• Comparative Cognition & Behavior Reviews
• Learning & Behavior
• Animal Behavior and Cognition

19th-EARLY 20th C. ORIGINAL WORKS

• Charles Darwin 1871 — Descent of Man chapters 3 and 4.
• Charles Darwin 1873 — Origin of Species (6th edition) chapter 8, instinct
• George Romanes 1882 — Animal Intelligence
• George Romanes & Charles Darwin 1884 — Mental Evolution in Animals
• Conwy Lloyd Morgan 1894 — An Introduction to Comparative Psychology see chapters 1 and 2 for consciousness and chapter 3 for the method of double induction and the "canon" (or "basal principle" per the 1st edition)
• Margaret Floy Washburn 1903 — Animal Mind (A Textbook of Comparative Psychology)
  [See David Washburn 2010 — "The Animal Mind at 100" for a 'late' review.]
• Jakob von Uexküll 1909 — translated selection from Umwelt und Innenwelt der Tiere (Environment and Inner World of Animals)

HISTORIES (general)

• Gordon Burghardt 2020 — "Insights found in century-old writings on animal behaviour and some cautions for today"
• Greg Radick 2007 — The Simian Tongue: The Long Debate about Animal Language
• Richard Burkhardt 2005 — Patterns of Behavior: Konrad Lorenz, Niko Tinbergen, and the Founding of Ethology
• Donald Dewsbury 1992 — "Comparative psychology and ethology: a reassessment"
• Donald Dewsbury 1984 — Comparative Psychology in the Twentieth Century
• Robert Richards 1987 — Darwin and the Emergence of Evolutionary Theories of Mind and Behavior
• Robert Boakes 1984 — From Darwin to Behaviorism

COGNITION (general + methodology)

• Kristin Andrews SEP "Animal Cognition" article reference list
• Amalia Bastos, Alex Taylor, Rachael Brown, Colin Allen (under review) — "The signature-testing approach to mapping biological and artificial intelligences"
• Benjamin Farrar, Ljerka Ostojić, Nicola Clayton 2021 — "The hidden side of animal cognition research: Scientists’ attitudes toward bias, replicability and scientific practice"
• Daniel Povinelli 2020 — "Can Comparative Psychology Crack its Toughest Nut?"
• Hayley Clatterbuck 2016 — "The logical problem and the theoretician's dilemma"
• Cecilia Heyes 2016 — "Animal mindreading: what’s the problem?"
• Irina Mikhalevich 2015 — "Experiment and Animal Minds: Why the Choice of the Null Hypothesis Matters"
• Kristin Andrews & Brian Huss 2014 — "Anthropomorphism, anthropectomy, and the null hypothesis"
• Colin Allen 2014 — — "Models, Mechanisms, and Animal Minds" [doi: 10.1111/sjp.12072]
• Elliott Sober 2012 — "Anthropomorphism, parsimony, and common ancestry"
• Cameron Buckner 2011 — "Two Approaches to the Distinction between Cognition and ‘Mere Association’"
• William Timberlake 2002 "Niche-related learning in laboratory paradigms: the case of maze behavior in Norway rats"
• Marc Bekoff, Colin Allen & Gordon Burghardt (Eds.) 2002 — The Cognitive Animal: Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives on Animal Cognition open access book
• Gordon Burghardt 1997 — "Amending Tinbergen:a fifth aim for ethology"
• Peter Marler & Carolyn Ristau (Eds.) 1990 — Cognitive Ethology:Essays in Honor of Donald R. Griffin
• Daniel Dennett 1983 — "Intentional systems in cognitive ethology: The "Panglossian paradigm" defended" (note that main article ends p.13; the rest is commentary and response
• Donald Griffin 1976 — The Question of Animal Awareness: Evolutionary Continuity of Mental Experience

COMMUNICATION (AND LANGUAGE)

• Dorit Bar-On 2021 — "How to do things with nonwords: pragmatics, biosemantics, and origins of language in animal communication"
• Dorothy Cheney & Robert Seyfarth 2018 — "Flexible usage and social function in primate vocalizations"
• Philippe Schlenker et al. 2016 — "Formal monkey linguistics"
• Cristiane Cä̈sar, Klaus Zuberbü̈hler, Robert Young & Richard Byrne 2013 — "Titi monkey call sequences vary with predator location and type"
• Ulrich Stegmann (Ed.) 2013 — Animal Communication Theory: Information and Influence [contents incl. w/Allen 2013 below]
• Colin Allen 2013 — "Information and uncertainty in meerkats and monkeys"
• Robert Seyfarth, Dorothy Cheney, et al. 2010 — "The central importance of information in studies of animal communication"
• Michael Owren, Drew Rendall, Michael Ryan 2010 — "Redefining animal signaling: influence versus information in communication"
• See also Radick 2007 under HISTORIES above... and book symposium: Thomas Suddendorf, Mark E. Borrello, Colin Allen, & Gregory Radick 2012 — "If I could talk to the animals: Symposium on Gregory Radick's The Simian Tongue"
• Tania Munz 2005 — "The Bee Battles: Karl von Frisch, Adrian Wenner and the Honey Bee Dance Language Controversy"
• Eileen Crist 2004 — "Can an Insect Speak? The Case of the Honeybee Dance Language"
• Peter Marler 1961 — "The Logical Analysis of Animal Communication"

COMPARATIVE COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE

• Suzana Herculano-Houzel 2011 — "Not all brains are made the same: new views on brain scaling in evolution"
• Onur Güntürkün & Thomas Bugnyar 2016 — "Cognition without Cortex"
• Seweryn Olkovicz et al. 2016 — "Birds have primate-like numbers of neurons in the forebrain"
• See also Feinberg & Mallatt 2016 and Godfrey-Smith 2020 under CONSCIOUSNESS

CONCEPTS

• Susana Monsó & Antonio Osuna-Mascaró 2020 — "Death is common, so is understanding it: the concept of death in other species"
• Albert Newen & Tobias Starzak 2020 — "How to ascribe beliefs to animals"
• J. David Smith, Alexandria Zakrzewski et al. 2016 — "Categorization: The View from Animal Cognition"
• Colin Allen 2014 — "Umwelt or Umwelten? How should shared representation be understood given such diversity?"
• Jose Luis Bermúdez 2003 — "Thinking Without Words"
• Colin Allen 1999 — "Animal concepts revisited: the use of self-monitoring as an empirical approach"

CONSCIOUSNESS

• Open access journal: — Animal Sentience
• Colin Allen & Michael Trestman — SEP "Animal Consciousness" article reference list
• Jonathan Birch, Simona Ginsburg, and Eva Jablonka 2020 — "Unlimited Associative Learning and the origins of consciousness: a primer and some predictions"
• Dylan Black 2020 — "Analyzing the etiological functions of consciousness"
• Peter Godfrey-Smith 2020 — Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind
• Nicholas Humphrey 2017 — "The invention of consciousness"
• Todd Feinberg & Jon Mallatt 2016 — The ancient origins of consciousness: How the brain created experience ; see "The evolutionary and genetic origins of consciousness in the Cambrian Period over 500 million years ago" for an earlier draft of the theory.
• Dylan Black & Colin Allen 2017 — "Review of Feinberg & Mallatt 2016"
• Michael Tye 2016 — Tense Bees and Shell-Shocked Crabs: Are Animals Conscious?
• Paula Droege & Victoria Braithwaite 2014 — "A Framework for Investigating Animal Consciousness"
• Multiple authors 2012 — Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness 2012
• Colin McLear 2011 — "Kant on Animal Consciousness"
• Donald Griffin & Gayle Speck 2004 — "New evidence of animal consciousness"
• Eileen Crist 2002 — “The inner life of earthworms: Darwin’s argument and its implications”

EPISODIC MEMORY

• Jonathon Crystal 2018 — "Animal Models of Episodic Memory"

EMOTIONS, PAIN & FEELINGS

• Jaak Panksepp 2005 — "Affective consciousness: Core emotional feelings in animals and humans"
• Colin Allen 2004 — "Animal Pain"

ETHOLOGY/HISTORY

• Chen et al 2021 — "Unfinished instinct: Zing-yang Kuo and the anti-instinct movement in China"
• Gordon Burghardt & Richard Burkhardt 2018 — "Wallace Craig’s Appetites and Aversions as Constituents of Instincts: A Centennial Appreciation"
• Richard Burkhardt 2016 — "Niko Tinbergen: A Message in the Archives"
• Fred Keijzer 2013 — "The Sphex story: how the cognitive sciences kept repeating an old and questionable anecdote"
• Diane Rodgers 2013 — "Insects, Instincts and Boundary Work in Early Social Psychology"
• Karola Stotz & Colin Allen 2011 — "From Cell-Surface Receptors to Higher Learning: A Whole World of Experience"
• Ingo Brigandt 2005 — "The Instinct Concept of the Early Konrad Lorenz"
• Paul Griffiths 2004 — "Instinct in the ‘50s: the British reception of Konrad Lorenz’s theory of instinctive behavior"
• Robert Richards 1977 — "Lloyd Morgan’s Theory of Instinct: From Darwinism to Neo-Darwinism"
• Colin Beer 1975 — "Was Professor Lehrman an ethologist?"
• Niko Tinbergen 1963 — "On the aims and methods of ethology"
• Daniel Lehrman 1953 — "A critique of Konrad Lorenz's theory of instinctive behavior"

METACOGNITION

• HannaJoo et al. 2021— "Rats use memory confidence to guide decisions"
• Peter Carruthers 2021 — "Explicit nonconceptual metacognition"
• Jon Crystal & Allison Foote 2009 — "Metacognition in animals"
• J. David Smith, Wendy Shields & David Washburn 2004 — "The comparative psychology of uncertainty monitoring and metacognition"

MORGAN'S CANON

• Hayley Clatterbuck 2016 — Darwin, Hume, Morgan, and the verae causae of psychology
• Cameron Buckner 2013 — "Morgan's Canon, meet Hume's Dictum"
• Simon Fitzpatrick & Grant Goodrich 2017 — "Building a Science of Animal Minds"
• Sean Allen-Hermanson 2004 "Morgan's canon revisited"
• Greg Radick 2000 — "Morgan's canon, Garner's phonograph, and the evolutionary origins of language and reason"
• Elliott Sober 1998 "Morgan's canon"

NORMATIVITY'S ANIMAL ORIGINS

• Kristin Andrews 2018 — "Normative practices of other animals"
• Colin Allen & Marc Bekoff 2005 — "Animal Play and the Evolution of Morality: An Ethological Approach"

NUMBER

• Sam Clarke & Jacob Beck 2021 — "The number sense represents (rational) numbers"

REASONING & RATIONALITY

• Cameron Buckner 2019 — "Rational inference: the lowest bounds"
• Ronaldo Vigo and Colin Allen 2008 — "How to reason without words: inference as categorization"
• Susan Hurley and Matthew Nudds (Eds.) 2006 — Rational Animals? [Pitt library online availability]
  Includes:
  • Colin Allen 2006 — "Transitive inference in animals: reasoning or conditioned associations?"
  • David Papineau & Cecilia Heyes 2006 — "Rational or associative? Imitation in Japanese quail"
• Luciano Floridi 1997 — "Scepticism and Animal Rationality: the Fortune of Chrysippus' Dog in the History of Western Thought"
• Richard Sorabji 1995 — Animal Minds and Human Morals: The Origins of the Western Debate (first half for Ancient Greek views about animal cognition [scanned photocopy chapters 1-8])

SPATIAL COGNiTION

• Kelle Dhein 2020 — "What makes neurophysiology meaningful? Semantic content ascriptions in insect navigation research"

THEORY OF MIND / MINDREADING

• Kristin Andrews 2017 — "Chimpanzee mind reading: Don't stop believing"
• Chris Krupenye et al. 2016 — "Great apes anticipate that other individuals will act according to false beliefs"
• Robert Lurz 2009 — "If chimpanzees are mindreaders, could behavioral science tell? Toward a solution of the logical problem"
• Derek Penn & Daniel Povinelli — "On the lack of evidence that non-human animals possess anything remotely resembling a ‘theory of mind’"

TOOLS AND CAUSES

• Antonella Tramacere & Colin Allen (under review) — "Temporal binding: digging into animal minds through time perception"
• Teresa McCormack, Christoph Hoerl, & Stephen Butterfill (Eds.) — Tool Use and Causal Cognition
• Derek Penn and Daniel Povinelli 2007 — "Causal cognition in human and nonhuman animals: a comparative, critical review"

SELF AWARENESS

• Katja Guenther 2017 — "Monkeys, mirrors, and me: Gordon Gallup and the study of self-recognition"
• Rocco Gennaro 2009 — "Animals, Consciousness, and I-thoughts"

MISCELLANEOUS

• Jaimie Murdock, Colin Allen et al. 2017 — "Multi-level computational methods for interdisciplinary research in the HathiTrust Digital Library" [Application of digital methods to comparative psychology texts, including Washburn's textbook]
• Gordon Burghardt (in press) — "How comparative was (is) the Journal of Comparative Psychology? A reptilian perspective"

PEOPLE

A partial list of currently active principal investigators (and primary research animals) that you may want to check out in more detail:

• Sarah Benson-Amram (racoons and birds)
• Culum Brown (fish()
• Thomas Bugnyar (corvids and kea)
• Gordon Burghardt (reptiles)
• Judith Burkart (monkeys)
• Josep Call (primates)
• Erica Cartmill (apes)
• Lars Chittka (insects)
• Nicky Clayton (corvids)
• Jonathon Crystal (rats)
• Fred Dyer (bees)
• Julia Fischer (monkeys)
• Russell Gray (corvids)
• Brian Hare (dogs and primates)
• Kay Holekamp (hyenas)
• Alexandra Horowitz (dogs)
• Ludwig Huber (dogs)
• Vincent Janik (dolphins)
• Alex Kacelnik (crows)
• Heidi Lynn (apes and dolphins)
• Adam Miklosi (dogs and wolves)
• Ximena Nelson (kea)
• Onur Güntürkün (pigeons and magpies)
• Jennifer Mather (octopus)
• Frederike Range (dogs and wolves)
• Laurie Santos (monkeys)
• Alex Taylor (crows and kea)
• Michael Tomassello (apes)
• Elisabetta Visalberghi (capuchins)
• Natalie Uomini (crows)
• Sofia Viranyi (dogs and wolves)
• Ed Wasserman (pigeons)
• Clive Wynne (pigeons and dogs)
• Thomas Zentall (pigeons)
• Klaus Zuberbühler (monkeys)

A partial list of scientists who were actively doing comparative cognition research during in the post-Griffin era, but are retired, deceased, or otherwise currently inactive scientists whom you may want to check out in more detail.

• Marc Bekoff (canids)
• Sarah Boysen (chimpanzees)
• Maggie Chalmers (monkeys)
• Dorothy Cheney (monkeys)
• Roger Fouts (chimpanzees)
• James Gould (honeybees)
• Marc Hauser (monkeys)
• Louis Herman (dolphins)
• Brendan McGonigle (monkeys)
• Tetsuro Matsuzawa (apes)
• Irene Pepperberg (parrots)
• Daniel Povinelli (apes)
• Duane Rumbaugh (monkeys)
• Sue Savage-Rumbaugh (bonobos)
• Ron Schuster (sealions)
• Robert Seyfarth (monkeys)
• William Timberlake (rats)
• Carel van Schaik (primates)
• Rüdiger Wehner (ants)