Higher Cognition in Animals: outcomes
The major outcome from the workshop was an essay published in a leading biology journal, PLoS Biology. It was an editors’ pick in February 2008. It is available online, details below.
- Vallortigara G, Snyder A, Kaplan G, Bateson P, Clayton NS, et al. (2008) Are Animals Autistic Savants. PLoS Biol 6(2): e42 doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060042
- web address: dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0060042
The final report, including individual papers/summaries by the participants, is available for download as a PDF file:
| participant | title | pages |
|---|---|---|
| Lesley Rogers | What, if anything, does cerebral lateralization contribute to higher cognition? | 13–15 |
| Patrick Bateson | What is Cognition? | 16–17 |
| Nicola Clayton | In Defence of Animal Cognition | 18 |
| Nathan Emery | Issues of Ecological Validity & Context in Comparative Cognition | 19–21 |
| Russell Gray | “Remarkably similar, incredibly different”: Why phylogeny matters | 22 |
| Gisela Kaplan | Vocal Learning and Cognition | 23–26 |
| Allan Snyder | Are animals autistic? Creativity, Mindsets and Autism | 27–32 |
| Mandyam Srinivasan | How sophisticated is invertebrate behaviour? | 33–37 |
| Giorgio Vallortigara | Animals as “natural geometers” | 38–39 |
