Are bigger brains better?

L Chittka, J Niven - Current biology, 2009‏ - cell.com
Attempts to relate brain size to behaviour and cognition have rarely integrated information
from insects with that from vertebrates. Many insects, however, demonstrate that highly …

Neuropeptides as regulators of behavior in insects

L Schoofs, A De Loof… - Annual Review of …, 2017‏ - annualreviews.org
Neuropeptides are by far the largest and most diverse group of signaling molecules in
multicellular organisms. They are ancient molecules important in regulating a multitude of …

[HTML][HTML] The adaptive value of numerical competence

A Nieder - Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2020‏ - cell.com
Evolution selects for traits that are of adaptive value and increase the fitness of an individual
or population. Numerical competence, the ability to estimate and process the number of …

What, if anything, can be considered an amodal sensory dimension?

C Spence, N Di Stefano - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 2024‏ - Springer
The term 'amodal'is a key topic in several different research fields across experimental
psychology and cognitive neuroscience, including in the areas of developmental and …

Numerical discrimination by frogs (Bombina orientalis)

G Stancher, R Rugani, L Regolin, G Vallortigara - Animal Cognition, 2015‏ - Springer
Evidence has been reported for quantity discrimination in mammals and birds and, to a
lesser extent, fish and amphibians. For the latter species, however, whether quantity …

Invertebrate learning and cognition: relating phenomena to neural substrate

CJ Perry, AB Barron, K Cheng - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews …, 2013‏ - Wiley Online Library
Diverse invertebrate species have been used for studies of learning and comparative
cognition. Although we have gained invaluable information from this, in this study we argue …

[كتاب][B] A brain for numbers: the biology of the number instinct

A Nieder - 2019‏ - books.google.com
How our intuitive understanding of numbers is deeply rooted in our biology, traceable
through both evolution and development. Humans' understanding of numbers is intuitive …

Quantity discrimination in salamanders

P Krusche, C Uller, U Dicke - Journal of Experimental …, 2010‏ - journals.biologists.com
We investigated discrimination of large quantities in salamanders of the genus Plethodon.
Animals were challenged with two different quantities (8 vs 12 or 8 vs 16) in a two-alternative …

Can angelfish (Pterophyllum scalare) count? Discrimination between different shoal sizes follows Weber's law

LM Gómez-Laplaza, R Gerlai - Animal cognition, 2011‏ - Springer
The ability to discriminate between larger and smaller quantities has been demonstrated in
several mammalian and avian species suggesting the possibility of evolutionary …

A sense of number in invertebrates

M Bortot, L Regolin, G Vallortigara - Biochemical and Biophysical Research …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Non-symbolic numerical abilities are widespread among vertebrates due to their important
adaptive value. Moreover, these abilities were considered peculiar of vertebrate species as …