Dogs have multi-modal mental imagery of items and objects that are familiar to them. When a dog thinks about an object, they imagine the object's different sensory features.
Differences in sound properties, including pitch and timbre, help dogs to recognize the voice of their owners over that of a stranger.
Gorillas not only recognize familiar human voices, they can also connect the voices to pleasant, or not-so-pleasant memories of the person.
After 14,000 years of domestication, dogs have an edge in both cognition and people-reading skills over wolves.
Researchers report Asian elephants appear to possess numerical abilities similar to humans.
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Whether a person is familiar to the animal or not, horses integrate human facial expressions and vocal tones to perceive human emotion, a new study reports.
Researchers examined the role of animal cognition in different types of human-wildlife conflict. The study reveals some animals may take more risks if they habituate urban surroundings.
Researchers reveal bees are able to grasp complex numerical concepts, such as the value of zero.
A new study looks at how mother and infant chimpanzees communicate with each other.
Researchers report ravens share some human ability to think abstractly about other ravens, and adapt their behavior by attributing their own perceptions to others.
A new study provides evidence for a face selective region in the temporal cortex of dogs.
