Collection

Genetics of Animal Cognition

Animals possess an incredibly broad variety of cognitive skills across phylogeny. From innovative problem-solving in cockatoos opening trash bins, to basic arithmetic in honeybees, lifelong song learning in whales, cache location recalling abilities of a chickadee, or social acumen of baboons navigating the intrigues of their hierarchical society, animal cognition has been studied from many angles, but its genetic bases remain poorly understood across taxa. In this special issue, we present a collection of papers from some of the most influential researchers in the field focused on uncovering the genetic basis of such cognitive behaviors. The articles encompass a broad range of cognitive abilities examined in both wild and captive animals. While the questions asked and techniques used vary, they all share the goal of understanding animal cognition as the cumulative product of genes and their action, selected upon over millennia to produces the abilities we see today. This is an invitation only collection. If you would like to submit to this collection, please contact the Guest Editor in advance.

For more details, please read our submission guidelines. Articles will undergo the journal’s standard peer-review process and are subject to all the journal’s standard policies. Articles will be added to the Collection as they are published. The Editors have no competing interests with the submissions which they handle through the peer-review process. The peer-review of any submissions for which the Editors have competing interests is handled by another Editorial Board Member who has no competing interests.

Editors

  • Jean-Nicolas Audet

    The Rockefeller University Field Research Center, USA Howard Hughes Medical Institute, USA Laboratory of Neurogenetics of Language, The Rockefeller University, USA Researcher's Website

  • Matthew Davenport

    Laboratory of Neurogenetics of Language, The Rockefeller University, USA

Articles

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