Animal Cognition

期刊简介：Animal Cognition is an interdisciplinary journal offering current research from many disciplines (ethology, behavioral ecology, animal behavior and learning, cognitive sciences, comparative psychology and evolutionary psychology) on all aspects of animal (and human) cognition in an evolutionary framework.Animal Cognition publishes original empirical and theoretical work, reviews, methods papers, short communications and correspondence on the mechanisms and evolution of biologically rooted cognitive-intellectual structures.The journal explores animal time perception and use; causality detection; innate reaction patterns and innate bases of learning; numerical competence and frequency expectancies; symbol use; communication; problem solving, animal thinking and use of tools, and the modularity of the mind.

【译文】动物认知是一本跨学科的期刊，提供来自多个学科（动物学、行为生态学、动物行为与学习、认知科学、比较心理学和进化心理学）的最新研究，这些研究在进化框架内涵盖了动物（和人类）认知的所有方面。该期刊发表关于生物根植的认知-智力结构的机制和进化的原创实证和理论工作、综述、方法论文、简报和信件。该期刊探讨动物的时间感知和使用；因果检测；先天反应模式和学习的先天基础；数字能力和频率预期；符号使用；交流；问题解决、动物思维和工具使用，以及心智的模块化。