How did human intelligence evolve? The release of the EVApeCognition dataset provides 18 years of standardized data on great ...

A pioneering project led by researchers from the University of Stirling and the Max Planck Institute has opened the door for ...

An international team has published EVApeCognition, the largest open-access dataset on great ape cognition, compiling 262 datasets from 150 studies over 18 years. Led by the University of Stirling and ...

After 18 years of research, scientists from the University of Stirling and the Max Planck Institute have released the largest open-access dataset on great ape cognition. The EVApeCognition Dataset ...

History is often shaped by moments of profound change—inflection points that redefine what’s possible, much like cosmic asteroids that strike the planet and alter the course of evolution. Today, we ...

The period preceding the emergence of behaviourally modern humans was characterised by dramatic climatic and environmental variability - it is these pressures, occurring over hundreds of thousands of ...

For his research on emerging experimental methods that combine cognitive-behavioral studies with machine learning algorithms to trace how knowledge is transmitted between people, William (Bill) ...

This is Part 4 of a five-part series on cognition and consciousness. Part 1 explored what we mean by "cognition." In Parts 2 and 3, we examined neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux’s strict definition, which ...

Researchers argue that cognitive studies in comparative psychology often wrongly take an anthropocentric approach, resulting in an over-valuation of human-like abilities and the assumption that ...