Publications

Astié, A. , Kacelnik, A. & Reboreda, R.C.. (1999) Sexual differences in memory in shiny cowbirds. Animal Cognition 1: 77-82.

Aw, J. M., Holbrook, R. I., Burt de Pererea, T., & Kacelnik, A. (In press). State-dependent Valuation Learning in Fish: Banded Tetras prefer stimuli associated with greater past deprivation. Behavioural Processes. DOI 10.1016/j.beproc.2009.09.002

Bateson, M., & Kacelnik, A. (1998) Risk-sensitive foraging: Decision-making in variable environments. In: Cognitive Ecology Dukas, R. (ed) Chicago University Press. pp 297-341.

Bateson, M., & Kacelnik, A. (1997) Starlings preferences for predictable and unpredictable delays to food. Anim. Beha.v 53, 1129-1142.

Bateson, M. & Kacelnik, A. (1996) Rate currencies and the foraging starling: the fallacy of the averages revisited. Behavioural Ecology 7, 341-352.

Bateson, M. & Whitehead, S. C. (1996). The energetic costs of alternative rate currencies in the foraging starling. Ecology 77, 1303-1307.

Bateson, M. & Kacelnik, A. (1995). Preferences for fixed and variable food sources: variability in amount and delay. J. Exp. Anal. Behav. 63, 313-329.

Bateson, M. & Kacelnik A. (1995) Accuracy of memory for amount in the foraging Starling (Sturnus vulgaris). Anim. Behav. 50, 431-443.

Bautista L M, Tinbergen J, Wiersma P. & Kacelnik A. (1998) Optimal foraging and beyond: how starlings cope with changes in food availability. Am. Nat. 152, 545-563.

Bautista, L.M., Tinbergen, J. & .Kacelnik A.To walk or to fly: how birds choose among foraging modes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences2001, 98: 1089-1094.

Beauchamp, G & Kacelnik, A. (1991) Effects of the knowledge of partners on learning rates in zebra finches Taeniopygia guttata. Anim. Behav. 41, 247-254.

Beauchamp, G; Ens, B.J. & Kacelnik, A. (1991) A dynamic model of allocation of food to nestlings. Behavioral Ecology. 2, 21-37.

Beauchamp, G & Kacelnik, A. (1990) On the fitness functions relating parental care to reproductive value. J. Theor. Biol. 46, 513-522.

Bernstein, C; Kacelnik, A & Krebs, JR. (1991) Individual decisions and the distribution of predators in a patchy environment II: the influence of travel costs and structure of the environment. J. Animal Ecology 60, 205-226.

Bernstein, C; Krebs JR. & Kacelnik, A. (1991) Distribution of birds among habitats: Theory and practice. In: Bird Population Studies. Relevance to Conservation and Management. Eds: C M Perrins, J-D Lebreton and GJM Hirons. Oxford University Press.

Bluff, L.A. & Rutz, C. (2008). A quick guide to video-tracking birds. Biology Letters 4 319-322. DOI 10.1098/rsbl.2008.0075. Download a [PDF] here. (joint first authors)

Bluff, L.A., Weir, A.A.S., Rutz, C., Wimpenny, J.H. & Kacelnik, A. (2007). Tool-related cognition in New Caledonian crows. Comparative Cognition & Behavior Reviews 2: 1-25. Link to online source. Download a [PDF] here.

Brito e Abreu, F. & Kacelnik, A. (1999). Energy budgets and risk-sensitive foraging in starlings. Behavioral Ecology 10, 338-345.

Brunner, D.; Kacelnik, A. & Gibbon, J. (1996) Memory for inter-reinforcement interval variability and patch departure decisions in the Starling, Sturnus vulgaris. Anim. Behav. 51, 1025-1045.

Brunner, D., Kacelnik, A. & Gibbon, J. (1992). Optimal foraging and timing processes in the starling (Sturnus vulgaris): effect of inter-capture interval. Anim. Behav. 44, 597-61.

Caraco, T; Kacelnik, A; Mesnick, N & Smulewitz M. (1992) Short-term rate maximization when rewards and delays covary. Anim. Behav. 44, 441-447.

Cassini, M.H. & Kacelnik, A. (1994) Patch choice in guinea pigs: is patch recognition important? Behavioural Processes. 31, 145-156.

Cassini, M.H., Lichtenstein, G., Ongay, J.P. & Kacelnik, A. (1993) Foraging behaviour in guinea pigs: Further tests of the marginal value theorem. Behavioural Processes. 29, 99-112.

Cassini, M, Kacelnik, A. and Segura, ET. (1990) The tale of the hairy screaming armadillo, the guinea pig and the Marginal Value Theorem. Anim. Behav. 39, 1030-1050.

Chappell, J., & Kacelnik, A. (2002). Tool selectivity in a non-mammal, the New Caledonian crow (Corvus moneduloides). Animal Cognition 5: 71-78. Click here to view a PDF of the paper. The original publication is available via Springer LINK at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10071-002-0130-2 (© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2002).

Chappell, J., & Kacelnik, A. (2004). Selection of tool diameter by New Caledonian crows Corvus moneduloides. Animal Cognition 7: 121-127. Click here to view a PDF of the paper. The original publication is available via Springer LINK at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10071-003-0202-y (© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2004).

Clayton, N., Reboreda, J.C. & Kacelnik, A. (1997) Seasonal changes in hippocampus volume in parasitic cowbirds. Behavioral Processes. 41, 237-243.

Cotton, P.A., Wright, J. & Kacelnik, A. (1999) Chick begging strategies in relation to brood hierarchies and hatching asynchrony. American Naturalist 153, 412-420.

Cotton, P.A.; Kacelnik, A. & Wright, J. (1996) Chick begging as a signal: are nestlings honest?. Behav. Ecol. 7, 178-182.

Cuthill, I.C., Haccou, P & Kacelnik, A. (1994) Starlings (Sturnus vulgaris) exploiting patches: response to long-term changes in travel time. Behav. Ecol. Vol 5 (1), 81-90.

Cuthill, IC & Kacelnik, A. (1990) Central place foraging: a re-appraisal of the "loading effect". Anim. Behav. 40,1087-1101.

Cuthill, IC; Kacelnik, A., Krebs, JR., Iwasa, Y & Haccou P. (1990) Starlings exploiting patches: the effect of recent experience on foraging decisions. Anim. Behav. 40, 625-641.

Davies, N.B., Brooke, M.L., & Kacelnik, A. (1996) Recognition errors and probability of parasitism determine whether reed warblers should accept or reject mimetic cuckoo eggs. Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. B. 263, 925-931.

Driessen, G.; Bernstein, C. ; van Alphen, J.J M. & Kacelnik, A. (1995) A count-down mechanism for host search in the parasitoid Venturia canescens. J. Anim. Ecol. 64, 117-125.

Freidin, E., Aw, J. & Kacelnik, A. (2009). Sequential and simultaneous choices: Testing the diet selection and sequential choice models. Behavioural Processes, 80, 3, 218-223. DOI 10.1016/j.beproc.2008.12.001

Freidin, E, Cuello, M I, and Kacelnik, A. (2009) Successive negative contrast in a bird: starlings’ behaviour after unpredictable negative changes in food quality. Animal Behaviour 77:857-865. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2008.12.010

Hauber, M.E., Clayton, N.S., Kacelnik, A., Reboreda, J.C. & DeVoogd, T.J. (1999) Sexual dimorphism and species differences in HVC volumes of cowbirds. Behavioral Neuroscience 113, 1095-1099

Kacelnik, A., Chappell, J., Weir, A.A.S., & Kenward, B. (2006). Cognitive adaptations for tool-related behaviour in New Caledonian Crows. In: Comparative cognition: experimental explorations of animal intelligence (eds. Wasserman, E.A., & Zentall, T.R.), pp. 515-528. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Kacelnik, A., Ed. (2005). Meanings of rationality. In Rational Animals? Oxford, OUP.

Kacelnik, A., & Brunner, D. (2002). Timing and foraging: Gibbon's scalar expectancy theory and optimal patch exploitation. Learning and Motivation 33 (1): 177-195.

Kacelnik A & Norris S. (1998) Signalling via testosterone: communicating health and vigour? Commentary on target article for BES by Allan Mazur and Alan Booth: Testosterone and dominance. Men. Brain and Behavioral Sciences.

Kacelnik A. & Brito e Abreu F. (1998) Risky choice and Weber's Law. J. Theor. Biol. 194, 289-298.

Kacelnik A. Normative and descriptive models of decision making: time discounting and risk sensitivity. Ch 3 in: Rational Models of cognition (Eds: M. Oaksford, N. Chater), Oxford University Press, Oxford. [Reproduced from publication 81].

Kacelnik, A. & Krebs, J.R. (1997) Yanomamö dreams and starling prey loads: The logic of optimality. Chapter 2 in: Human Nature: a critical reader. Betzig, Laura (ed) O.U.P.

Kacelnik, A. (1997) Normative and descriptive models of decision making: time discounting and risk sensitivity. In: Characterizing human psychological adaptations. (Eds:GR Bock, G Cardew); Wiley, Chichester (Ciba Foundation Symposium 208)

Kacelnik, A. & Bateson. (1997) Risk-sensitivity: cross-roads for theories of decision making. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 1, 304-309.

Kacelnik, a. & Bateson, M. (1996) Risky Theories: the effects of variance on foraging decisions. American Zoologist 36(4), 402-434.

Kacelnik, A., Cotton, P.A., Stirling, L. & Wright, J. (1995) Food allocation among nestling starlings: sibling competition and the scope for parental choice. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B. 259, 259-263.

Kacelnik, A. Sexualidad y Biologia. Psicoanalisis. (1995) 16 (2). In addition to its original publication, this paper was reprinted twice already, in Portuguese in: Psicanalise: A revolucao do olhar. Pellanda, L.E.C & Pellanda, N.M.C. (eds). Vozes, Petropolis and in Spanish in: Anuario de Sexologia [Journal of Asoc. Estatal de Profesionales de la Sexologia (Spain). 1995, 1, 99-113]

Kacelnik, A.; Wright, J.; Cotton, P.A. & Stirling, L. (1995) Food allocation among nestling starlings: sibling competition and the scope for parental choice. Proc. Royal. Soc. Lond. B. 259, 259-263.

Kacelnik A. & Bernstein, C. (1994). Optimalidad. Chapter 8 in ETOLOGIA, J. Carranza (ed) Universidad de Extremadura.

Kacelnik, A. (1993) Leaf-cutting ants tease optimal foraging theorists. TREE 8(10), 346-348.

Kacelnik, A. & Todd, I. (1992) Psychological mechanisms and the marginal value theorem: environments with same mean travel time and different travel variability. Anim. Behav. 43, 313-222.

Kacelnik, A, Bernstein, C & Krebs JR. (1992) The ideal free distribution and predator-prey interactions. TREE 7(2), 50-55.

Kacelnik, A and Cuthill, I C. (1990) Central Place foraging in starlings (Sturnus vulgaris) II: food allocation to chicks. J. Animal Ecology 59, 655-674.

Kacelnik, A, Brunner, D & Gibbon, J. (1990) Timing mechanisms in optimal foraging: some applications of scalar expectancy theory. In: R N Hughes (ed) Behavioural mechanisms of food selection. NATO ASI Series, Series G: Ecological Sciences, Volume 20, pp 61-82. Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, NY.

Kenward, B., Rutz, C., Weir, A.A.S., & Kacelnik, A. (2006). Development of tool use in New Caledonian crows: inherited action patterns and social influence. Animal Behaviour 72: 1329-1343. DOI 10.1016/j.anbehav.2006.04.007. Download a [PDF] here

Kenward, B., Rutz, C., Weir, A.A.S., Chappell, J., & Kacelnik, A. (2004). Morphology and sexual dimorphism of the New Caledonian Crow Corvus moneduloides, with notes on its behaviour and ecology. Ibis 146, 652-660. DOI 10.1111/j.1474-919x.2004.00299.x. Click here to view a PDF of the paper.

Kenward, B., Weir, A.A.S., Rutz, C., & Kacelnik, A. (2005). Tool manufacture by naive juvenile crows. Nature 433, 121. DOI 10.1038/433121a. Click here to view a PDF of the paper.

Krebs, J.R. & Kacelnik, A. (1997) Risk: a scientific view. In: Science Policy and Risk. pp 31-43. The Royal Society.

Krebs, JR & Kacelnik, A. (1991) Decision Making. Chapter in Behavioural Ecology, Krebs JR and Davies NB (eds) 3rd edition. Blackwell's.

Nair-Roberts, R., J. Erichsen, et al. (2006). "The distribution of Substance P reveals a novel subdivision in the hippocampus of parasitic South American cowbirds." Journal of Comparative Neurology 496: 610-626.

Pompilio, L., A. Kacelnik, et al. (2006). "State-Dependent Learned Valuation Drives Choice in an Invertebrate." Science 311: 1613-1615.

Pompilio, L. and A. Kacelnik (2005). "State dependent learning and suboptimal choice: when starlings prefer long over short delays to food." Animal Behaviour 70: 571-578.

Reboreda, J.C.; Clayton, N.S. & Kacelnik, A. (1996) Species and sex differences in hippocampus size in parasitic and non-parasitic cowbirds. Neuroreport. 7(2), 505-508.

Reboreda and Kacelnik, A. (1993) Reinforcement, autoshaping and cooperation in a two player game between starlings. J. Exp. Anal. Behav. 60, 67-83.

Reboreda and Kacelnik, A. (1991) Risk sensitivity in starlings. Behavioural Ecology 2, 301-309.

Reboreda JC & Kacelnik, A. (1990) On cooperation, Tit-for-Tat and Mirrors. Anim. Behav. 40, 1188-1189.

Rodriguez-Girones, M.A., Kacelnik, A. (1999). Behavioral adjustment to modifications in the temporal parameters of the environment. Behavioral Processes 45,173-191.

Rodriguez-Gironés, M.A & Kacelnik A.(2001) Relative Importance of Perceptual and Mnemonic Variance in Human Temporal Bisection. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Rodriguez-Girones, M.A., Drummond, H. & Kacelnik A. (1996) Effect of food deprivation on dominance status in blue-footed booby (Sula nebouxii) broods. Behavioural Ecology 7, 82-88.

Rodriguez-Girones, M.A., Cotton, P. & Kacelnik A. (1996) The evolution of begging: signalling and sibling competition. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 93, 14637-14641.

Rodriguez-Girones, M.A & Kacelnik A. (1995) Interval bisection with and without reference memory. In: M. Richelle, V. de Keyser, G. d'Ydewalle & A. Vandierendonck (Eds). Time and the dynamic control of behavior. Interuniversity Pole of Attraction, Universite de Liege, Liege.

Rutz, C. (2008). The establishment of an urban bird population. Journal of Animal Ecology 77, in press. [pdf]

Rutz, C., & Bluff, L.A. (2008). Animal-borne imaging takes wing, or the dawn of 'wildlife video-tracking'. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 23 292-294. DOI 10.1016/j.tree.2008.01.011. Download a [PDF] here. (joint first authors)

Rutz, C., Bluff, L.A., Weir, A.A.S., & Kacelnik, A. (2007). Video cameras on wild birds. Science 318: 765. DOI 10.1126/science.1146788. [PDF download link]

Scharlemann, J., E. CC, et al. (2001). "The Value of a Smile: Game theory with a human face." Journal of Economic Psychology 22(5): 617-640.

Schuck-Paim, C. and A. Kacelnik (2002). "Rationality in risk-sensitive foraging choices by starlings." Animal Behaviour 64: 869-879.

Schuck-Paim, C., L. Pompilio, et al. (2004). "State-dependent decisions cause apparent violations of rationality in animal choice." PLOS Biology 2(12): 2305-2315.

Martin S. Shapiro, Steven Siller, and Alex Kacelnik, (2008). Simultaneous and Sequential Choice as a Function of Reward Delay and Magnitude: Normative, Descriptive and Process-Based Models Tested in the European Starling (Sturnus vulgaris). Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior 34: 75–93. DOI: 10.1037/0097-7403.34.1.75.

Todd I. & Kacelnik, A. (1993) Psychological mechanisms and the marginal value theorem: the dynamics of scalar memory for travel time. Anim. Behav. 46, 765-775.

Vasquez, R. & Kacelnik, A. (1997) Animal foraging: more than met the eye. (commentary on Perry G. & Pianka, E.R.), TREE 12, 360-364.

Vásquez, R. & Kacelnik, A. (2000) Foraging rate versus sociality in the starling Sturnus vulgaris. Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond.B. 267:157-164

Weir, A.A.S., & Kacelnik, A. (2006). A New Caledonian crow (Corvus moneduloides) creatively re-designs tools by bending or unbending aluminium strips. Animal Cognition, 9: 317-334. DOI 10.1007/s10071-006-0052-5. Download a [PDF] here.

Weir, A.A.S., Chappell, J., & Kacelnik, A. (2002). Shaping of hooks in New Caledonian crows. Science 297: 981. (DOI 10.1126/science.1073433). Click here to view full text of the paper.

Weir, A.A.S., Kenward, B., Chappell, J., & Kacelnik, A. (2004). Lateralization of tool use in New Caledonian crows (Corvus moneduloides). Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B (Suppl.), 271: S344–S346. DOI 10.1098/rsbl.2004.0183. Click here to view a PDF of the paper.

Wimpenny JH, Weir AAS, Clayton L, Rutz C, Kacelnik A (2009) Cognitive Processes Associated with Sequential Tool Use in New Caledonian Crows. PLoS ONE 4(8): e6471. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0006471.