Driven by both applied and theoretical goals, scientific interest in canine cognition has
experienced a rapid surge in popularity, especially over the last 15 years. Here we provide …

The great increase in the study of dog cognition in the current century has yielded insights
into canine cognition in a variety of domains. In this review, we seek to place our enhanced …

Working memory (WM) is fundamental to many aspects of human life, including learning,
speech and text comprehension, prospection and future planning, and explicit “system 2” …

Previous research on human infants has shown that violations of basic physical regularities
can stimulate exploration, which may represent a type of hypothesis testing aimed at …

Cardiac measures such as heart rate measurements are important indicators of both
physiological and psychological states. However, despite their extraordinary potential, their …

Human reasoning is characterized by psychological essentialism (Gelman in The essential
child: origins of essentialism in everyday thought. Oxford University Press, New York, 2003) …

Contact causality is one of the fundamental principles allowing us to make sense of our
physical environment. From an early age, humans perceive spatio-temporally contiguous …

Jays hide food caches, steal them from conspecifics and use tactics to minimize cache theft.
Jays are sensitive to the content of their own caches, retrieving items depending on their …

In the current study, we investigated the question of whether dogs were sensitive to the
information that they themselves had or had not acquired. For this purpose, we conducted …

In the past decade, the study of magic effects has started to gain attention from the scientific
community, particularly psychologists. This interest stems from what magic effects might …