CCS is dedicated to gaining a broad understanding of the evolution of cognition & sponsors the intl. CO3 conference. @compcogsoc.bsky.social
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Show Your Comparative Cognition Love!🦝♥️ Order your CCS merchandise in our online shop. We have water bottles, hats, mugs & more. We still have the CO3 2025 shirts in honor of Suzanne MacDonald, ft. orangutans & raccoons & we'll make sporadic announcements as new items are added
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CO3 2026 will be in Montréal! 🇨🇦
📍 Delta Hotel, Montréal, QC
📅 April 15–18
After careful consideration, the CCS Executive Committee chose based on survey feedback, travel, safety, cost & character. We believe it’s the best option for our community & hope to see you there!
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🎇✨Congratulations Prof. Susan Healy, our 2027 Research Award recipient (Uni. St Andrews, UK). A symposium + banquet will honor her contributions at the 2027 conference & a special issue will be published March 2028: 'In Honour of the Contributions of Susan Healy' #WomenInSTEM
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✨What an incredible CO3 we had this year #CO3_2025 ! Thank you to all joined us and contributed your insights and energy to the talks, posters, events and great discussions. It was a truly inspiring event. Until next time💙🏳️🌈🌍🤝
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Maria Botero gives her talk discussing the exemplary work of Suzanne MacDonald and how she has contributed to the field of Comparative Cognition! Such a great tribute to a true leader and role model in our field! #CO3_2025 🧪🦝🐘
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Symposium in Honor of the Contributions of Suzanne MacDonald is starting soon! Join us for talks featuring A Tribute to Suzanne MacDonald, Dimensions of Mind Perception in Companion Animals, Human-Crow Relationships, Animal Cultures, & more! #CO3_2025 🧪🦧🐒🐦⬛
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The #Attention & #Memory session is about to begin! Come join us for talks about Cognitive Effort & Working Memory in Rheus monkeys, Reversed Attentional Boost Effect in Pigeons, Sensory Modality & Visual Working Memory, & Long-term Memory in Dolphins #CO3_2025 🧪🐬🐒
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Rebecca Westwick starts off the session presenting work on a #cognitive test battery with the #charismatic dung beetle 🪲💩#CO3_2025
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Good morning #CO3_2025! Come join us for a group visit to the New Mexico Museum of Natural History at 9:00am! A member of Team CO3 will lead a walking group from the hotel foyer for an approximate 10 minute walk. A reduced admission will be offered when showing your CO3 badge!
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The Perspective Taking & Social Perception session is starting at 4:54pm! Join us for talks discussing What Monkeys Know About Knowledge, Limits of Primate Gaze-Following, Deceiving Bonobos, Perspective-taking in Chimps, Dominance in Bonobos, & more! #CO3_2025 🦧🦍🧪
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Do dolphins understand cooperation and how do they coordinate it? Kelly Jaakkola shows us the strategies dolphins use to initiate and coordinate cooperation with partners 🐬 🧪 #CO3_2025
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Come back after the snack break for the #Communication session starting at 4:02 PM. We will hear about aspects of communication in #dolphins, #apes, #chickadees, and #ChatGPT. #CO3_2025
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Tanya Shoot presents her work discussing Cognition in Plants 🪴 🌱 suggesting that we should “move towards the idea of plants as active individuals, rather than passive factories”. What an interesting presentation! #CO3_2025
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Join us for the Emerging Topics in Comparative Cognition session starting at 2:41pm! Talks will be discussing Higher & Lower Cognition, Radicle Embodied Cognition in Plants 🪴 and Spontaneous Cognition in Bumblebees 🐝 #CO3_2025
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Francisca Diaz presents data showing that pigeons and humans tested using the same paradigm show the coherence effect 🐦🧒 #CO3_2025
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The #Discrimination session starts at 1:40PM. Learn about mental representations, visual #perception, visual discrimination, #numerosity, preferences for #auditory complexity, and hierarchical perception! 🧪🐶🐱🐵🐦🐀🦜#CO3_2025
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Stephanie Hargrave presents how #dogs discriminate between visual stimuli using a #touchscreen task 🐶🧪 #CO3_2025
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The #CanineCognition session is about to begin! Come listen to talks discussing Optimizing Automated Computer Touchscreens for Dog Cognition Testing, DogTouch- a portable touchscreen platform for behavioral and cognitive testing in dogs, and Canine Self-Control! #CO3_2025 🧪🐾🐕
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Liza Rothkoff presents that odor detection performance decreases when switching from low to moderate intensity exercise but detection is not as affected when decreasing exercise intensity. 🧪🐶👃#CO3_2025
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Very cool to see results from the big collaborative effort Many Birds @themanybirds.bsky.social
@drrmiller.bsky.social #CO3_2025 🧪🐤🐦🦜🦆
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The #CanineCognition: OlfactoryDiscrimination session is starting soon! Come join us for talks featuring Same-Different Odor Learning, Effects of Exercise & Physiology on Odor Detection, Effect of Arousal on Memory Consolidation in an Odor Detection Task and more! #CO3_2025🧪🐕🐾
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Come join us at 6:30 for our Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Event in Alvarado DE! This event is to serve as a safe space for discussing EDI concerns and challenges. All are warmly welcome to join, snack will be provided! Hope to see you all there! #CO3_2025
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Dogs show stress responses to an attention bias test when induced to a negative emotional state🐶🧪. @MolinaroHolly #CO3_2025
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Our last session of talks for Day 2 of #CO3_2025 is Animal Emotion, starting at 5:02 PM. These talks will provide some ideas of how to assess emotions in bonobos, dogs, budgerigars, and humans. 🧪🐶🐤🧍♀️
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@MariaBoter0 on the Impact of #Stress in #CognitivePerformance in Dogs & Welfare in Research 🐕🧪 showing that behavioral markers of stress were significantly negatively correlated with performance on puzzle tasks & positively associated with use of dissent behaviors #CO3_2025
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Join us for the #Cognition & #Welfare session starting soon! Listen to talks discussing the Impact of Environmental Enrichment on Hermit Crab Behavior, the Impact of Stress in Cognitive Performance in Dogs, and Motivation of Repetitive Barrier Interactions! #CO3_2025 🧪🦮🦀
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Zoe Johnson-Ulrich talks about how horses solve a multi-access box and inter-individual variation in this ability across species. 🐴🧪 #CO3_2025
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The SpatialCognition & Navigation session is about to begin! Come listen to talks discussing Amphipod Motivation & Memory, Collective Route Memories in Homing Pigeons, Cognitive Maps, Stimulus Response Parings & Full-Bore Representations, and Desert Ant Navigation #CO3_2025🧪🐜🐦
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The Serial Processing Session is starting at 1:53 PM. Find out more about cognitive studies of learning and time as well as methods to assess these data! #CO3_2025
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Benjamin Wilson presents his talk discussing the similarities and differences in abstract rule learning and generalization in humans and nonhuman primates! His work showed that nonhuman primates have less cognitive flexibility in rule learning compared to humans! #CO3_2025 🧪🦧🦍
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The Learning session is starting soon! Come listen to talks discussing #AbstractRuleLearning, #InformationSearch, and #GeometricIntuitions in human and nonhuman primates, and also #Reinforcement and #SameDifferentDiscriminations in Pigeons! 🧪🐦🦧🦍
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Why do homing pigeons loop when navigating? Rithwik Cherian presents that in early flights, loops increase efficiency for pigeons and could help encode landmarks along a flight path 🐦🧪#CO3_2025
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The Outstanding Student Presentation Competition is starting off Day 2 of #CO3_2025! Talks will cover research with dogs, zoo visitors, monkeys, pigeons, chickadees, and zebra finches. Vote for your favorite!
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Learning about the conversations and social communication involved in flamenco performance 💃 #CO3_2025
ALT Flamenco performers on a stage
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Sarah Jacobson presents her research showing that wild #AsianElephants that are tested near human-dominated areas are more attracted to novelty than elephants tested in a protected area! #CO3_2025 🧪🐘
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Individual Differences in Cognition session is about to begin! Come listen to talks about Shy-Boldness evolution, #IndividualVariation in responses to predator and new noises in Wild Asian Elephants, and how #AsianElephants tested in human-dominated areas prefer novelty #CO3_2025
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@AnneleenDewulf presents her talk discussing a two-stage model of #MotorInhibition in Herring Gulls where results showed that in most trials birds paused or slowed down in response to the stop signal which supports a two-stage model of stopping! #CO3_2025 🧪🥼🔬
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The Inhibitory Control session chaired by Mélisande Aellen is about to kick off! Come listen to talks about #DelayGratification and #InhibitoryControl in Asian Elephants, and #MotorInhibition in Herring Gulls! #CO3_2025
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Time for a short break! Join us afterwards for the #InhibitoryControl session starting at 8:10pm! #CO3_2025
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Our first talk of #CO3_2025! Chicks show the Bouba-Kiki effect approaching the spiky shape with the “Kiki” sound similar to humans. These crossmodal associations are not unique to mammals. 🐥🐢🧪
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Here are some other special events happening this weekend to watch out for! #CO3_2025
EDI event - Thursday 6:30-7:30pm
Mentor Session: How to Fail at Science - Friday 9:30-10:30am
Business Meeting - Saturday 10am
Photo - Saturday 11:40am
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The Associative Processes session is starting now in Alvarado FGH! Come see talks about crossmodality, inferential reasoning, choice by exclusion, conditioned inhibition, and reward contingencies. 🐦🐥🐢🦜🐵 🧪#CO3_2025
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About ten minutes until #CO3_2025 kicks off with Opening Remarks at 6:30pm! Who is ready to hear about the latest science happening in the field of comparative cognition!?!
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Welcome to #CO3_2025! 🐭🐶🐴🐦🧪
Come get your badges and set up posters for Poster Session 1 in Alvarado Room ABC from 3:00-6:00pm. There are also snacks and coffee available in the Atrium.
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Today is the day! #CO3_2025 kicks off today! Registration starts at 3pm and Opening Remarks will begin at 6:30pm! If you are already here, join us at the ABQ Biopark Zoo around 11am! Who is excited for today?!?
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Who is excited for CO3? It starts in only 4 days!! Check out the final program here: comparativecognition.org/doc…. Some things to pay attention to: on Wednesday morning join us at the ABQ Biopark! More information to come about this event! Get pumped everyone #CO3_2025
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In light of recent policy changes in the US and around the world, it is important to restate the Comparative Cognition Society’s commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice in our society and our field of research. More here: shorturl.at/ZPxXD
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☀️Sun's shining, ideas are brewing!☀️ Only 3 weeks until #CO3_2025 in Albuquerque! Prepare for inspiring talks on cutting edge science, & equally as important, the unparalleled warm and welcoming atmosphere of CO3 that fosters genuine connections. Program: shorturl.at/eZPKe
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Explore our range of CCS merchandise at our online shop. ✨Highlight✨: this adorable hanging orang t-shirt in honour of our Research Award honoree Suzanne MacDonald @YorkPsyc #CO3_2025 shop.comparativecognition.or…
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Remember to submit your talk slides to us 1 week before the conference (.ppt or .pdf).
Let us know if you will be using video📽️ so that we can make sure everything runs smoothly!
More info here: shorturl.at/NCrKG #CO3_2025
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