Alex Kacelnik

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Alex Kacelnik is affiliated with the following schools: University of Oxford, Leiden University

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According to Wikipedia, Alejandro "Alex" Kacelnik, FRS is an Argentine-British zoologist, professor of behavioural ecology at Oxford University and E.P. Abraham Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford. Kacelnik heads the Behavioural Ecology Research Group at Oxford. The author of more than 200 peer reviewed publications, his research focuses on the evolution of behaviour and mathematical modelling. His work uses an interdisciplinary approach, combining data and methods from zoology, psychology and economic theory. In 2011 Kacelnik was honoured by the Comparative Cognition Society for his contributions to the field of animal cognition. He has also received the Cogito Prize for interdisciplinary research linking the natural and social sciences, shared with Professor Ernst Fehr of the University of Zurich, the de Robertis Medal of the Argentinian Society of Neurosciences, and the Raíces Prize for contributions to international collaborations between Argentinian and other scientists.

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Alex Kacelnik's Published Works

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Shaping of Hooks in New Caledonian Crows (2002) (568)
Risky Theories—The Effects of Variance on Foraging Decisions (1996) (529)
The Value of a Smile: Game Theory with a Human Face (2001) (441)
Inclusive fitness theory and eusociality (2011) (402)
Tool selectivity in a non-primate, the New Caledonian crow (Corvus moneduloides) (2002) (213)
Development of tool use in New Caledonian crows: inherited action patterns and social influences (2006) (212)
Visual perception and social foraging in birds. (2004) (202)
Behavioural ecology: Tool manufacture by naive juvenile crows (2005) (194)
Visual attention and the acquisition of information in human crowds (2012) (189)
Food allocation among nestling starlings: sibling competition and the scope of parental choice (1995) (187)
Scalar expectancy theory and choice between delayed rewards. (1988) (184)
Flexibility in Problem Solving and Tool Use of Kea and New Caledonian Crows in a Multi Access Box Paradigm (2011) (180)
Species and sex differences in hippocampus size in parasitic and non‐parasitic cowbirds (1996) (178)
Chick Begging Strategies in Relation to Brood Hierarchies and Hatching Asynchrony (1999) (166)
State-Dependent Learned Valuation Drives Choice in an Invertebrate (2006) (158)
State-Dependent Decisions Cause Apparent Violations of Rationality in Animal Choice (2004) (155)
Cost can increase preference in starlings (2002) (152)
Rate currencies and the foraging starling: the fallacy of the averages revisited (1996) (151)
Risk-sensitivity: crossroads for theories of decision-making (1997) (149)
Preferences for fixed and variable food sources: variability in amount and delay. (1995) (142)
Framing effects and risky decisions in starlings (2002) (142)
Meanings of rationality (2006) (137)
The Role of Experience in Problem Solving and Innovative Tool Use in Crows (2009) (136)
Chick begging as a signal: are nestlings honest? (1996) (131)
Cognitive Processes Associated with Sequential Tool Use in New Caledonian Crows (2009) (128)
Selection of tool diameter by New Caledonian crows Corvus moneduloides (2004) (125)
A New Caledonian crow (Corvus moneduloides) creatively re-designs tools by bending or unbending aluminium strips (2006) (123)
Cues, strategies, and outcomes: how migrating vertebrates track environmental change (2014) (121)
Normative and descriptive models of decision making: time discounting and risk sensitivity. (2007) (119)
Optimal foraging and timing processes in the starling, Sturnus vulgaris: effect of inter-capture interval (1992) (119)
Tool-related Cognition in New Caledonian Crows (2006) (112)
Seasonal changes of hippocampus volume in parasitic cowbirds (1997) (109)
Flock density, social foraging, and scanning: an experiment with starlings (2004) (109)
Darwin’s “tug-of-war” vs. starlings’ “horse-racing”: how adaptations for sequential encounters drive simultaneous choice (2010) (107)
Starlings’ preferences for predictable and unpredictable delays to food (1997) (107)
Spontaneous innovation in tool manufacture and use in a Goffin’s cockatoo (2012) (103)
Pro-sociality without empathy (2012) (101)
Information transfer and gain in flocks: the effects of quality and quantity of social information at different neighbour distances (2004) (100)
The evolution of begging: signaling and sibling competition. (1996) (98)
Video Cameras on Wild Birds (2007) (96)
Irrational choice and the value of information (2015) (93)
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). (2008) (87)
Increasing the costs of conspecific scanning in socially foraging starlings affects vigilance and foraging behaviour (2005) (84)
Risky choice and Weber's Law. (1998) (84)
The Ecological Significance of Tool Use in New Caledonian Crows (2010) (83)
Social transmission of tool use and tool manufacture in Goffin cockatoos (Cacatua goffini) (2014) (83)
Ducklings imprint on the relational concept of “same or different” (2016) (82)
Tool use by wild New Caledonian crows Corvus moneduloides at natural foraging sites (2010) (76)
Triumphs and trials of the risk paradigm (2013) (76)
Energetic state during learning affects foraging choices in starlings (2004) (75)
Morphology and sexual dimorphism of the New Caledonian crow Corvus moneduloides, with notes on its behaviour and ecology (2004) (69)
Timing and Foraging: Gibbon's Scalar Expectancy Theory and Optimal Patch Exploitation (2002) (65)
The wages of violence: mobbing by mockingbirds as a frontline defence against brood-parasitic cowbirds (2013) (64)
State-dependent learning and suboptimal choice: when starlings prefer long over short delays to food (2005) (63)
Rational Choice, Context Dependence, and the Value of Information in European Starlings (Sturnus vulgaris) (2011) (62)
Pea Plants Show Risk Sensitivity (2016) (58)
How costs affect preferences: experiments on state dependence, hedonic state and within-trial contrast in starlings (2011) (55)
O and A (2010) (53)
Successive negative contrast in a bird: starlings' behaviour after unpredictable negative changes in food quality (2009) (52)
Accuracy of memory for amount in the foraging starling, Sturnus vulgaris (1995) (51)
Tools for thought or thoughts for tools? (2009) (50)
Foraging rate versus sociality in the starling Sturnus vulgaris (2000) (50)
Combinatory actions during object play in psittaciformes (Diopsittaca nobilis, Pionites melanocephala, Cacatua goffini) and corvids (Corvus corax, C. monedula, C. moneduloides). (2015) (49)
Brood parasite eggs enhance egg survivorship in a multiply parasitized host (2012) (48)
Performance decline by search dogs in repetitive tasks, and mitigation strategies (2015) (47)
Explorative Learning and Functional Inferences on a Five-Step Means-Means-End Problem in Goffin’s Cockatoos ( Cacatua goffini ) (2013) (47)
State-dependent valuation learning in fish: Banded tetras prefer stimuli associated with greater past deprivation (2009) (47)
On the evolutionary and ontogenetic origins of tool-oriented behaviour in New Caledonian crows (Corvus moneduloides). (2011) (45)
Interval timing in mice does not rely upon the circadian pacemaker (2003) (45)
Context-dependent utility overrides absolute memory as a determinant of choice (2009) (44)
Cognitive adaptations for tool-related behaviour in New Caledonian Crows (2004) (43)
Rationality in risk-sensitive foraging choices by starlings (2002) (42)
The economics of nestmate killing in avian brood parasites: a provisions trade-off (2012) (40)
Compound tool construction by New Caledonian crows (2018) (40)
Relative Importance of Perceptual and Mnemonic Variance in Human Temporal Bisection (2001) (39)
Lateralization of tool use in New Caledonian crows (Corvus moneduloides) (2004) (38)
Priors in Animal and Artificial Intelligence: Where Does Learning Begin? (2018) (38)
Energy budgets and risk-sensitive foraging in starlings (1999) (37)
New Caledonian crows use tools for non-foraging activities (2011) (36)
Vocal culture in New Caledonian crows Corvus moneduloides (2010) (36)
Memory for inter-reinforcement interval variability and patch departure decisions in the starling, Sturnus vulgaris (1996) (35)
Group Report: Why and When Do Simple Heuristics Works? (2001) (34)
Goffin's cockatoos make the same tool type from different materials (2016) (34)
Shiny cowbirds share foster mothers but not true mothers in multiply parasitized mockingbird nests (2014) (33)
Sequential and simultaneous choices: Testing the diet selection and sequential choice models (2009) (31)
Choice in multi-alternative environments: A trial-by-trial implementation of the Sequential Choice Model (2010) (27)
Starlings uphold principles of economic rationality for delay and probability of reward (2013) (27)
Paradoxical choice in rats: Subjective valuation and mechanism of choice (2018) (24)
Host manipulation via begging call structure in the brood-parasitic shiny cowbird (2013) (24)
Object caching in corvids: Incidence and significance (2014) (23)
Monocular Tool Control, Eye Dominance, and Laterality in New Caledonian Crows (2014) (23)
Foraging behaviour in guinea pigs: further tests of the marginal value theorem (1993) (23)
The influence of emotional facial expressions on gaze-following in grouped and solitary pedestrians (2014) (23)
Strategic egg destruction by brood-parasitic cowbirds? (2014) (22)
Planning host exploitation through prospecting visits by parasitic cowbirds (2016) (21)
Effect of food deprivation on dominance status in blue-footed booby (Sula nebouxii) broods (1996) (21)
The Three-Spined Stickleback and the Two-Armed Bandit (1985) (20)
Choice processes in multialternative decision making (2007) (19)
The role of autoshaping in cooperative two-player games between starlings. (1993) (18)
Sexual dimorphism and species differences in HVC volumes of cowbirds. (1999) (16)
Opening a lockbox through physical exploration (2017) (15)
Cognitive mechanisms of risky choice: Is there an evaluation cost? (2012) (15)
Context-Dependent Preferences in Starlings: Linking Ecology, Foraging and Choice (2013) (15)
Distribution of substance P reveals a novel subdivision in the hippocampus of parasitic South American cowbirds (2006) (15)
Information primacy or preference for familiar foraging techniques? A critique of Inglis & Ferguson (1987) (15)
Evolution and Learning, R.C. Bolies, M.D. Beecher (Eds.). Lawrence Erlbaum, Hillsdale, New Jersey (1988), x (1990) (15)
Why and when do simple heuristics work (2001) (14)
7 Decision Making What Can Evolution Do for Us ? (2012) (13)
Parallel vs. comparative evaluation of alternative options by colonies and individuals of the ant Temnothorax rugatulus (2018) (13)
Behavioral adjustment to modifications in the temporal parameters of the environment (1999) (12)
Increasing the persistence of a heterogeneous behavior chain: Studies of extinction in a rat model of search behavior of working dogs (2016) (12)
Adaptations to different habitats in sexual and asexual populations of parasitoid wasps: a meta-analysis (2017) (12)
Asymmetric visual input and route recapitulation in homing pigeons (2015) (10)
On the structure and role of optimality models in the study of behavior. (2017) (10)
Sexual dimorphism and species differences in HVC volumes of cowbirds (1999) (9)
Midsession Reversal Task With Pigeons: Parallel Processing of Alternatives Explains Choices (2018) (9)
Risk sensitivity for amounts of and delay to rewards: Adaptation for uncertainty or by-product of reward rate maximising? (2012) (8)
Choosing fast and simply: Construction of preferences by starlings through parallel option valuation (2020) (8)
Maintaining performance in searching dogs: Evidence from a rat model that training to detect a second (irrelevant) stimulus can maintain search and detection responding (2018) (7)
Navigating in a volumetric world: Metric encoding in the vertical axis of space (2013) (7)
Sex differences in the use of spatial cues in two avian brood parasites (2020) (6)
Population dynamics and avian brood parasitism: persistence and invasions in a three-species system (2005) (6)
Planning, memory, and decision making (2011) (5)
Roosting behaviour is related to reproductive strategy in brood parasitic cowbirds (2018) (5)
Swapping mallards: monocular imprints in ducklings are unavailable to the opposite eye (2016) (3)
On the flexibility of lizards' cognition: a comment on Leal & Powell (2011) (2012) (3)
Response latencies in temporal bisection (1999) (2)
Crows: Encounters with the wise guys of the avian world (2006) (2)
Testing cognitive models of decision-making: selected studies with starlings (2022) (2)
Ducklings imprint on chromatic heterogeneity (2019) (2)
Sex differences in learning flexibility in an avian brood parasite, the shiny cowbird (2021) (2)
Development of physical problem-solving competences in human infants and corvids (2016) (2)
Paradoxical choice and the reinforcing value of information (2022) (1)
Dataset Individual Data Figure 5 - Irrational choice and the value of information (2015) (1)
Don't call me bird-brain (2004) (1)
Opinion piece Pro-sociality without empathy (2012) (1)
Interval timing does not rely upon the circadian pacemaker in mice (2000) (1)
Imprinting on time-structured acoustic stimuli in ducklings (2021) (1)
The ecological solution (1989) (0)
Reply from a. Kacelnik. (1994) (0)
Parallel vs. comparative evaluation of alternative options by colonies and individuals of the ant Temnothorax rugatulus (2018) (0)
Editorial Board (2016) (0)
Cues, strategies, and outcomes: how migrating vertebrates track environmental change (2014) (0)
Spatial Memory, Interference and the Hippocampus: Evidence from Comparative Studies of Food Storing and Non-Storing Birds (1994) (0)
Ducklings imprint on chromatic heterogeneity (2019) (0)
Supporting Online Material for Video Cameras on Wild Birds (2007) (0)
The possibility that tool use is a purely phenotypic trait can be safely excluded. (2009) (0)
Sequential Tool Use in the New Caledonian Crow: (603992013-058) (2006) (0)
The Ecological and Economic Conditions of Exploitation Strategies (2017) (0)
Guided by their differing goals and acceptability criteria, scholars in various disciplines have reached within-field consensus on workable (2004) (0)
Running-head: Roosting behaviour in brood parasitic cowbirds 2 Roosting behaviour is related to reproductive strategy in brood parasitic 3 cowbirds 4 (2018) (0)
Template Title : Same or different ? Ducks imprint on a relational concept (2016) (0)
Comparative cognition: function and mechanism in lab and field. A tribute to the contributions of Alex Kacelnik. (2012) (0)
Planning host exploitation through prospecting visits by parasitic cowbirds (2016) (0)
Shiny cowbirds share foster mothers but not true mothers in multiply parasitized mockingbird nests (2014) (0)
Behavioral risk compensation and the efficacy of nonpharmacological interventions (2021) (0)
Report Dominance , and Laterality in New Caledonian Crows (2014) (0)
Editorial Board (2017) (0)
GoFish: A low-cost, open-source platform for closed-loop behavioural experiments on fish (2022) (0)
Editorial overview: Behavioral ecology (2016) (0)
Weber's law predicts risk aversion for amounts and risk proneness for delay: (536982012-534) (1997) (0)
Symposium: The behavioral ecology of memory and perception (1994) (0)
Yoking-Based Identification of Learning Behavior in Artificial and Biological Agents (2022) (0)
9 Planning , Memory , and Decision Making (2011) (0)
Uncertainty avoidance versus conditioned reinforcement: exploring paradoxical choice in rats (2021) (0)
Response to Comments on “Ducklings imprint on the relational concept of ‘same or different’” (2017) (0)
Experimental studies in simple choice behaviour (2013) (0)
Risk-sensitivity in a plant Pea plants show risk sensitivity 1 2 (0)
Feathered friends (2006) (0)
Compound tool construction by New Caledonian crows (2018) (0)
Editorial Board (2016) (0)
Behavioral plasticity of Shiny Cowbirds when they parasitize hosts of different size: (598092013-076) (2011) (0)
Editorial Board (2017) (0)
Editorial Board (2016) (0)
Editorial Board (2015) (0)
State-dependent valuation learning: Fitness, state, reinforcement and choice: (603982013-048) (2007) (0)
Automated radio tracking provides evidence for social pair bonds in an obligate brood parasite (2022) (0)
R.C. Bolies M.D. Beecher (1990) (0)
Sex differences in the use of spatial cues in two avian brood parasites (2020) (0)

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