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PSY 4930 Section 2D10:

Fall 2019 Class Time: Wednesday 8:30-11:30 am (2nd - 4th Periods) Class Venue: MAT 0112 Instructor: Nicole R. Dorey, Ph.D. Office: PSY 355 Office Hours: Wednesday 3-4 pm Email: [email protected]

essential because we will not have time to go Overview back over basic terms in perception, , , reasoning, -formation, The topics of Animal Cognition include etc. etc. imitation, memory, number , insight, and . We will do little The course requires reading and critiquing more than scratch the surface…but I original journal articles. There will not be a hope that the representative topics and text book for this course. papers will at least serve to excite interest in the field Course Goals

The aim of this course is to examine 1. To teach you the science behind how apparent intelligent behavior in non- animal’s think and how it differs from the human , to consider if is necessary media’s interpretation. to invoke 'cognitive processes' for their 2. To provide you with an introduction to explanation and if so what the of the different methods scientists’ use to those processes might be. study animal cognition. Familiarity with concepts used to describe 3. To teach you the concepts in the area and learning and cognition in humans is how to apply these concepts when reading

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media’s interpretation. 1) Extensions or make-ups will not be These goals will be met by the quizzes, given for students-based on technical discussions and writing assignments. difficulties on any course material. This is includes but is not limited to: a. Forgetting to hit the submit Students with Special Needs button on any of the course material. If you are a student with a disability and b. Accidently not including all the would like to request disability-related files or uploading the wrong accommodations, you are encouraged to file. contact the Disability Resource Center as 2) Do not wait until the last minute to early in the semester as possible. The complete course materials as things Disability Resource Center is located in happen. 001 Building 0020 (Reid Hall). Their 3) If Canvas website experiences course phone number is 392-8565. If you have a wide technical difficulties deadlines documented disability you must then will be adjusted to allow for provide this documentation to the completion of assignments. instructor as soon as possible. 4) Announcements will be made periodically about class issues. These Requirements will be visible on Canvas. Students are Keeping up with this course is the responsible for all announcements student's responsibility (i.e., not mine). made there. Thus you must check You can expect this class to be demanding Canvas on a daily bases so you don’t but hopefully personally and intellectually miss any course announcement. fulfilling. The course requires you to read, 5) For course assignments it is YOUR think, write, and apply what you are responsibility to make sure that the learning. Syllabus, assignments and correct file is uploaded and that all the required readings are only accessible files needed for the assignment are through the course website. Assignments uploaded and in the correct format. must be submitted electronically through 6) I sometimes communicate with you the course website as well. I will NOT via email, thus you are responsible to accept your assignment via email or in- check your UF email address (and the person. In anticipation of technical email you used to email us) every 24 difficulties, make sure you turn in hours. assignments early. You must use a 7) All interactions with me and class hardwired connection to upload your members are expected to be assignments. If you experience technical professional and appropriate. difficulties you need to contact (call or chat. Don’t email) the UF help desk I’m here to help you learn. Please make use of within 24 hours. Explain the situation and office hours, announcements and email to send me your incident number via the communicate with me. For questions sent course email address. through email, I will typically reply within 24 hours if the email is sent during the work All deadlines are in Eastern Standard week. Please allow more time for emails sent Time (EST). on official UF holidays, Fridays, or over the weekend. circumstances.

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Make-ups Points Grade

329 or Above A NO MAKE-UPS WILL BE GIVEN 328-315 A- ON ANY MATERIAL FOR THIS 314-304 B+ COURSE, except for university excused absences with adequate documentation. 303-294 B Documentation should be provided at 293-280 B- least 7 hours before the course material is 279-269 C+ due unless there are extenuating 268-259 C circumstances. Doctor’s notes etc. must 258-245 C- be provided as soon as possible. Make-ups 244-234 D+ need to be completed no later than a week 233-224 D after the material was due (including 223-213 D- weekends and holidays). Thus if the 212or Below E (Fail) material was due on Wednesday then it The good news is – these grades are firm – must be completed by the following there is no curve. Everybody in the class can Wednesday unless there are extenuating get an A grade (and I hope you do). circumstances. The bad news is – these grades are firm – there is no curve. If you score just a 1/2 point Assessment below the cutoff then you will get the lower grade. 1). 14 Weekly in class quizzes 104 pts

(Dropping lowest grade) 2). Assignments: Policy for disputing a grade a. Reflection paper part I 5 pts b. Media vs. Science 20 pts You will have one week (including weekends c. 20 pts and holidays) after any course material grade d. Reflection paper part II 5 pts has been posted to dispute your grade. 3). 14 Inter-teaching discussions: Disputes will NOT be accepted after that date. 130 pts (Dropping lowest grade) If you want to dispute a grade you will need to 4). Group participation rating for write a paragraph explaining the dispute and a each inter-teaching discussion 65 paragraph explaining why your answer is pts (dropping your lowest score) correct with references to the material in the articles for each question in quizzes or writing Total points 349 assignment. Then send a private email with this information to the course email address.

Grading Honor Code

Your final grade is based on the total It is important that you understand that I am number of points you accumulate. Your not willing to give a passing grade to those grade will be calculated by summing the who do not abide by the UF honor code. Any points you earned. student who cheats or helps another student cheat will receive an E (Fail) in this class. Do NOT trust Canvas grade calculations. When students enroll at the university, they Always calculate your own grade. commit themselves to the standard drafted and enacted by students.

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Preamble: In adopting this honor code, period opens, and can complete evaluations the students of the University of Florida through the email they receive from GatorEvals, in recognize that academic honesty and their Canvas course menu under GatorEvals, or integrity are fundamental values of the via https://ufl.bluera.com/ufl/. Summaries of university community. Students who course evaluation results are available to students enroll at the university commit to holding at https://gatorevals.aa.ufl.edu/public-results/. themselves and their peers to the high standard of honor required by the honor Sexual Harassment code. Any individual who becomes aware of a violation of the honor code is bound Sexual Harassment is not tolerated in this class, by honor to take corrective action. The in the Department of Psychology, or at the quality of a University of Florida University of Florida. Sexual harassment education is dependent upon community includes: the inappropriate introduction acceptance and enforcement of the honor of sexual activities or comments in a situation code. where sex would otherwise be irrelevant. Sexual Honor Pledge: We, the members of the harassment is a form of sex discrimination and a University of Florida community, pledge to hold violation of state and federal laws as well as of ourselves and our peers to the highest standards of the policies and regulations of the honesty and integrity by abiding by the Honor university. All UF employees and students must Code. adhere to UF’s sexual harassment policy which On all work submitted for credit by students at can be found here: https://hr.ufl.edu/forms- the University of Florida, the following pledge is policies/policies-managers/sexual- either required or implied: "On my honor, I have harassment/. Please review this policy and neither given nor received unauthorized aid in contact a university official if you have doing this assignment." any questions about the It should be clear that academic policy. As mandatory reporters, university dishonesty, such as cheating, is NOT employees (e.g., administrators, managers, tolerated at the University of Florida. supervisors, faculty, teaching assistants, staff) Cheating is defined in the University are required to report of Handbook, and it is the student’s sexual harassment to UF’s Title IX responsibility to be familiar with its many coordinator. For more information about UF’s forms (including plagiarism). If there is a Title IX office see: https://titleix.ufl.edu/. You suspected academic honesty violation, the can also complete a Sexual Harassment Report Student Honor Code Procedures will be online (Title IX) at: https://titleix.ufl.edu/title-ix- followed. reporting-form/.

*Note the contents of this syllabus may be Course evaluations changed during the semester. If changes are made to this syllabus there will be an announcement via Students are expected to provide professional email and/or Canvas. It is your responsibility to and respectful feedback on the quality of check your university email and Canvas on a daily instruction in this course by completing bases. course evaluations online via GatorEvals. Guidance on how to give feedback in a professional and respectful manner is available at https://gatorevals.aa.ufl.edu/students/. Students will be notified when the evaluation

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This schedule is tentative—depending on what papers are published during the course; reading may be altered to include newer material. Please check canvas for updates.

Date Topic: Reading Aug. 21st Introduction No reading for this week for class. Aug. 28th Theory of Rooijen (2010) Do dogs and bees possess a ? Animal Behaviour, 79, e7-e8.

Penn, D.C. and Povinelli, D.J. (2007). On the lack of evidence that non-human animals possess anything remotely resembling a ‘theory of mind’. Philosophical Transactions of the royal society, 362, 731-744.

Call and Tomasello 2008. Does the have a theory of mind? 30 years later. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 12, 187-192.

Sept. 4th Self-recognition Rachel Dale & Joshua M. Plotnik. 2017. know when their bodies are obstacles to success in a novel transfer task. Scientific Reports 7, article number: 46309

Plotnik, de Waal and Reiss 2006. Self-recognition in an Asian . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 103, 17053-17057.

Reiss and Marino. 2001. Mirror self-recognition in the bottlenose : A case of cognitive convergence. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 88, 5937-5942

Broom. D.M. 2010. Cognitive

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ability and awareness in domestic animals and decisions about obligations to animals. Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 126, 1-11. Sept. 11th Elephant Hart, B. L., Hart, L. A., cognition McCoy, M., & Sarath, C. R (2001). Cognitive behaviour in Asian elephants: use and modification of branches for fly switching. Animal Behaviour, 62, 839-847.

Plotnik, J.M, Lair, R. Suphachoksahakun, W. de Waal, F.B.M. (2011) Elephants know when they need to helping trunk in a cooperative task. PNAS 108, 12.

Video: https://youtu.be/gRpLgQm2 p-s

Foerder, P. Galloway, M. Barthel, T Moore, DE II Reiss D (2011). Insightful problem solving in an . PLoS ONE 6 (8).

Dale, Rachel & M Plotnik, Joshua. (2017). Elephants know when their bodies are obstacles to success in a novel transfer task. Scientific Reports. 7. Sept. 18th Memory Hanggi, E. B., & Ingersoll, J. F (2009). Long-term memory for categories and concepts in (Equus caballus). Animal Cognition, 12, 451-462.

Zentall. 2005. Animals may not be stuck in time. Learning and Motivation, 36, 208-225.

Inoue and Matsuzawa. 2007.

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Working memory of numerals in . Current Biology, 17(23), R1004-R1005 (also read the supplement data and view the video) Sept. 25th Navigation Wiltschko and Wiltschko. 2003. Avian navigation: from historical to modern concepts. Animal Behaviour, 65, 257-272.

Fiset. 2007. Landmark-based search memory in the domestic dog. Journal of , 121, 345- 352.

Mauck, Glaser, Schlosser and Dehnhardt. 2008. Harbour seals can steer by the stars. Animal Cognition, 11, 715-718.

Podcast: https://the1a.org/shows/2019 -06-27/supernavigators- extraordinary-animals-find- their-way-home Oct. 2nd Language Gardner and Gardner. 1969. Teaching sign language to a chimpanzee. Science, 165, 664- 672.

Terrance. 1979. How changed my mind. Psychology Today, 13, 65-71

Podcast: https://www.npr.org/2011/07 /20/138467156/project-nim- a-chimps-very-human-very- sad-life

Savage-Rumbaugh and Rumbaugh. 1980. Do apes use language. American Scientist, 68, 49-61.

Ted talk:

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https://www.ted.com/talks/s usan_savage_rumbaugh_on_a pes_that_write

Oct. 9th Non-primate Pepperberg. 2006. Cognitive Language and communicative abilities of Grey . Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 100, 77-86.

Kaminski, Call and Fischer. 2004. Word learning in a Domestic Dog: Evidence for “Fast Mapping”. Science, 11, 1682-1683.

Kako. 1999. Elements of syntax in the systems of three language-trained animals. Animal learning and behaviour, 27, 1-14.

Herman and Uyeyama (1999). The dolphin’s grammatical competency: Comments on Kako (1999). Animal learning and Behavior, 27, (1), 18-23.

Ted talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/th e_interspecies_internet_an_ide a_in_progress?language=en#t- 409497 Oct. 16th Animal Sitja, I.P., Salazar, M.O., Sempo, Personality G. and Deneubourg, J.L. (2017). Emigration dynamics of cockroaches under different disturbance regimes do not depend on individual personalities. Scientific reports 7,

Amber J. de Vere and Stan A. Kuczaj, Where are we in the study of animal emotions?, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: , 7, 5, (354- 362), (2016)

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Jacoby, David & Fear, Lauren & Sims, David & Croft, Darren. (2014). Shark personalities? Repeatability of social network traits in a widely distributed predatory . and . 68. 1995-2003. Podcast: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sound s/play/p02f8nb6 Oct. 23rd Tool Use Weir and Kacelnik. 2006. A creatively re-designs tools by bending or unbending aluminium strips. Animal Cognition, 9, 317-334.

Hart, B. L., Hart, L. A., McCoy, M., & Sarath, C. R (2001). Cognitive behaviour in Asian elephants: use and modification of branches for fly switching. Animal Behaviour, 62, 839-847.

Amant and Horton. 2008. Revisiting the definition of animal tool use. Animal Behaviour, 75, 1199-1208

Video: https://www.youtube.com/wa tch?v=HRVGA9zxXzk

Oct. 30th Responsiveness Miklosi and Soproni. 2006. A to human comparative analysis of gestures animals understanding of the human pointing gesture. Animal Cognition, 9, 81-93.

Smet, A.F. & Byrne, R. (2013). African Elephants Can Use Human Pointing Cues to Find Hidden Food. Current biology.

Herman, Abichandani, Elhajj,

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Herman, Sanchez and Pack. 1999. Dolphin comprehend the referential character of the human pointing gesture. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 113, 347-364. Nov. 6th Imitation Zentall. 2006 Imitation: definitions, evidence, and mechanisms. Animal Cognition, 9, 335-353.

Heyes and Saggerson. 2002. Testing for imitative and nonimitative social learning in the budgerigar using a two- object/two-action test. Animal Behaviour, 64, 851-859.

Topal, Byrne and Miklosi. 2006. Reproducing human actions and action sequences: “Do as I Do” in a dog. Animal Cognition, 9, 355-367. Nov. 13th Bee cognition Loukola, Olli & J. Perry, Clint & Coscos, Louie & Chittka, Lars. (2017). Bumblebees show cognitive flexibility by improving on an observed complex behavior. Science. 355. 833-836.

Avargues-Weber, A., Portelli, G.,Benard, J., Dyer, A., Giurfa, M. Configural processing enables discrimination and of face-like stimuli in honeybees. Journal of Experimental Biology 213, 2010, 593-601.

Alem S, Perry CJ, Zhu X, Loukola OJ, Ingraham T, et al. (2016). Correction: Associative Mechanisms Allow for Social Learning and Cultural Transmission of String Pulling in an Insect.

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PLOS Biology 14(12)

New way to study bee’s video.

Nov. 20th Bat Cognition Ratcliffe, J. M., Fenton, M. B., & Galef, B. B (2003). An exception to the rule: common vampire bats do not learn taste aversions. Animal Behaviour, 65, 385-389.

Eklof, J., & Jones, G (2003). Use of vision in prey detection by brown long-eared bats, Plecotus auritus. Animal Behaviour, 66, 949-953.

Page, R. and Ryan, M. (2005). Flexibility in Assessment of Prey Cues: Frog-eating bats and frog calls. Proceedings: Biological Sciences, 272, 841- 847. Nov. 27th No class Thanksgiving Break Dec. 4th Dog cognition Osthaus, B. Marlow, D. Ducat, P. (2010). Minding the gap: spatial perseveration error in dogs. Animal Cognition, 13, 881- 885.

Herberlein and Turner (2009). Dogs, find hidden food by observing and interacting with a conspecific. Animal Behavior, 78, 385-391.

Miller, H.C., Rayburn-Reeves, R. and Zentall, T.R. (2009). What do dogs know about hidden objects. Behavioural Processes, 81, 439-446.

Molnar, Pongracz, Farago, Doka, Miklosi (2009). Dogs discriminate between barks: The effects on contect and identity of the coler.

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Behavioral Processes, 82, 198- 201

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