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.
Current Issue: Volume 21, 2026
See the Table of Contents, or click directly an article listed below.
- Introduction
- Unconventional Models
- Noxious Nomenclature: Inconsistent Language Hampers Our Assessment of Invertebrate Pain, Sentience, and Awareness
- Spider Research—Are We the Killjoys at the Animal-Consciousness Party?
- Overlooked Minds: Reptiles and Amphibians in the Debate on Nonhuman Animal Awareness
- Invertebrate Consciousness: Taking Precautions or Finding the Truth?
- Comments on Consciousness in Grey Parrots (Psittacus erithacus)
- Consciousness Skeptics
- Declaring Animal Consciousness Does Not Benefit Comparative Cognition
- Endorsing Nonhuman Consciousness Is Defensible Ethics but Dubious Science
- Self-Awareness Is a Uniquely Human Problem
- The Siren Song of Animal Consciousness
- Improving the Science
- Behaving from Within: Refining Markers for Consciousness in Cognitive Ethology
- A Definition Stuck in the Past: Episodic Memory Remains Tethered to Outdated Views of Animal Consciousness
- Are Animals Aware of What They Are Looking for in the Course of Exploratory Actions?
- Why Positive Emotions Matter in Animal Sentience
- Varieties of Consciousness
- Consciousness in Animal Behavior: Applying Tinbergen’s Framework to Current Research on Nonhuman Animal Awareness
- Where Is the Lust? Reproductive Affects at the Emergence of Experience
- The Question of Animal Awareness Revisited