Comparative Cognition and Behavior Reviews

Comparative Cognition and Behavior Reviews publishes review articles on topics in comparative cognition, animal cognition, and animal behavior, with a focus on comprehensive high quality review articles and short constructive critiques. We also publish brief reviews, innovation articles and how-to articles. Submissions that synthesize or build theoretical and practical bridges between related fields are also encouraged.

Upcoming Issue: Volume 15, 2020

Due to the global pandemic, the publication of Volume 15 has been delayed. We anticipate having pre-press proofs up within two weeks for the entire volume. Thanks to the large comparative cognition community for your patience with the process.

Current Issue: Volume 14, 2019

See the Table of Contents, or click directly an article listed below.

• What Suboptimal Choice Tells Us About the Control of Behavior
• Commentaries
• All Hail Suboptimal Choice! Now, Can We “Fix” It?
• Meliorating the Suboptimal-Choice Argument
• Clarifying Contrast, Acknowledging the Past, and Expanding the Focus
• Evolved Psychological Mechanisms as Constraints on Optimization
• Response
• The Case for a Heuristic Approach to Account for Suboptimal Choice
• Behavioral and Cognitive Factors That Affect the Success of Scent Detection Dogs
• Commentaries
• The Future of Detector Dog Research
• Factors That May Affect the Success of Scent Detection Dogs: Exploring Nonconventional Models of Preparation and Deployment
• Response
• A Need for Greater Inclusivity and Diversity in Scent Detection Dog Research: A Reply to Lazarowski et al. and Byosiere et al.
• Probability Learning by Perceptrons and People

See Archive of Past Volumes