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December 2009 news update

We have a new Ph.D project available on the Neuroanatomical basis of tool manufacture .

September 2009 news

We have a dispatches article out in Current Biology on the possible role of imagination in problem solving by rooks and orang-utans.

May 2009 news update

We have an addendum to the PRSL causal reasoning paper published online in Communicative and Integrative Biology.

We have a new paper published in Proceedings of the Royal Society, London B (see full details on the Publications page). The PRSL paper reports causal reasoning in New Caledonian crows (see Press Release here). See the movie that accompanies the PRSL paper on our Videos page. Watch Alex Taylor discussing this work on the YouTube clip above (also see our Media page).

September 2008 news
Russell Gray gave a Royal Society/Radio New Zealand Darwin lecture on "What can evolution tell us about ourselves"

Two new YouTube clips: Russell Gray talks about New Caledonian crows and cognition (Part 1 and Part 2)

April 2008 news
We have a new paper published in Animal Cognition (see full details on the Publications page)

March 2008 news
We have a new paper published in Neuroscience Letters (see full details on the Publications page)