Alex Kacelnik - Publications

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Zoology University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom 
Area:
Choice Behavior
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2023 Ajuwon V, Cruz BF, Carriço P, Kacelnik A, Monteiro T. GoFish: A low-cost, open-source platform for closed-loop behavioural experiments on fish. Behavior Research Methods. PMID 36622558 DOI: 10.3758/s13428-022-02049-2  0.717
2022 Kacelnik A, Vasconcelos M, Monteiro T. Testing cognitive models of decision-making: selected studies with starlings. Animal Cognition. 26: 117-127. PMID 36482119 DOI: 10.1007/s10071-022-01723-4  0.786
2022 Ajuwon V, Ojeda A, Murphy RA, Monteiro T, Kacelnik A. Paradoxical choice and the reinforcing value of information. Animal Cognition. PMID 36306041 DOI: 10.1007/s10071-022-01698-2  0.732
2021 Monteiro T, Hart T, Kacelnik A. Imprinting on time-structured acoustic stimuli in ducklings. Biology Letters. 17: 20210381. PMID 34582734 DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2021.0381  0.701
2020 Monteiro T, Vasconcelos M, Kacelnik A. Choosing fast and simply: Construction of preferences by starlings through parallel option valuation. Plos Biology. 18: e3000841. PMID 32833962 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pbio.3000841  0.792
2019 Martinho-Truswell A, McGregor B, Kacelnik A. Ducklings imprint on chromatic heterogeneity. Animal Cognition. PMID 31183592 DOI: 10.1007/S10071-019-01273-2  0.367
2018 Bayern AMPV, Danel S, Auersperg AMI, Mioduszewska B, Kacelnik A. Compound tool construction by New Caledonian crows. Scientific Reports. 8: 15676. PMID 30356096 DOI: 10.1038/S41598-018-33458-Z  0.302
2018 Sasaki T, Pratt SC, Kacelnik A. Parallel vs. comparative evaluation of alternative options by colonies and individuals of the ant Temnothorax rugatulus. Scientific Reports. 8: 12730. PMID 30143679 DOI: 10.1038/S41598-018-30656-7  0.428
2018 Versace E, Martinho-Truswell A, Kacelnik A, Vallortigara G. Priors in Animal and Artificial Intelligence: Where Does Learning Begin? Trends in Cognitive Sciences. PMID 30097305 DOI: 10.1016/J.Tics.2018.07.005  0.337
2018 Smith AP, Zentall TR, Kacelnik A. Midsession reversal task with pigeons: Parallel processing of alternatives explains choices. Journal of Experimental Psychology. Animal Learning and Cognition. 44: 272-279. PMID 29985044 DOI: 10.1037/Xan0000180  0.454
2018 Ojeda A, Murphy RA, Kacelnik A. Paradoxical choice in rats: subjective valuation and mechanism of choice. Behavioural Processes. PMID 29608942 DOI: 10.1016/J.Beproc.2018.03.024  0.47
2018 Scardamaglia RC, Kacelnik A, Reboreda JC. Roosting behaviour is related to reproductive strategy in brood parasitic cowbirds Ibis. 160: 779-789. DOI: 10.1111/Ibi.12587  0.313
2017 Martinho A, Kacelnik A. Response to Comments on "Ducklings imprint on the relational concept of 'same or different'". Science (New York, N.Y.). 355: 806. PMID 28232550 DOI: 10.1126/Science.Aai8397  0.328
2016 Martinho A, Kacelnik A. Ducklings imprint on the relational concept of "same or different". Science (New York, N.Y.). 353: 286-8. PMID 27418508 DOI: 10.1126/Science.Aaf4247  0.319
2016 Dener E, Kacelnik A, Shemesh H. Pea Plants Show Risk Sensitivity. Current Biology : Cb. PMID 27374342 DOI: 10.1016/J.Cub.2016.05.008  0.324
2015 Vasconcelos M, Monteiro T, Kacelnik A. Irrational choice and the value of information. Scientific Reports. 5: 13874. PMID 26350951 DOI: 10.1038/Srep13874  0.78
2015 Porritt F, Shapiro M, Waggoner P, Mitchell E, Thomson T, Nicklin S, Kacelnik A. Performance decline by search dogs in repetitive tasks, and mitigation strategies Applied Animal Behaviour Science. 166: 112-122. DOI: 10.1016/J.Applanim.2015.02.013  0.692
2014 Gallup AC, Chong A, Kacelnik A, Krebs JR, Couzin ID. The influence of emotional facial expressions on gaze-following in grouped and solitary pedestrians. Scientific Reports. 4: 5794. PMID 25052060 DOI: 10.1038/Srep05794  0.522
2014 Winkler DW, Jørgensen C, Both C, Houston AI, McNamara JM, Levey DJ, Partecke J, Fudickar A, Kacelnik A, Roshier D, Piersma T. Cues, strategies, and outcomes: how migrating vertebrates track environmental change Movement Ecology. 2. DOI: 10.1186/2051-3933-2-10  0.372
2013 Auersperg AM, Kacelnik A, von Bayern AM. Explorative learning and functional inferences on a five-step means-means-end problem in Goffin's cockatoos (Cacatuagoffini). Plos One. 8: e68979. PMID 23844247 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0068979  0.326
2013 Vasconcelos M, Monteiro T, Kacelnik A. Context-dependent preferences in starlings: linking ecology, foraging and choice. Plos One. 8: e64934. PMID 23705019 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0064934  0.801
2013 Monteiro T, Vasconcelos M, Kacelnik A. Starlings uphold principles of economic rationality for delay and probability of reward. Proceedings. Biological Sciences / the Royal Society. 280: 20122386. PMID 23390098 DOI: 10.1098/Rspb.2012.2386  0.798
2013 Kacelnik A, El Mouden C. Triumphs and trials of the risk paradigm Animal Behaviour. 86: 1117-1129. DOI: 10.1016/J.Anbehav.2013.09.034  0.404
2012 Auersperg AM, Szabo B, von Bayern AM, Kacelnik A. Spontaneous innovation in tool manufacture and use in a Goffin's cockatoo. Current Biology : Cb. 22: R903-4. PMID 23137681 DOI: 10.1016/J.Cub.2012.09.002  0.333
2012 Vasconcelos M, Hollis K, Nowbahari E, Kacelnik A. Pro-sociality without empathy. Biology Letters. 8: 910-2. PMID 22859561 DOI: 10.1098/Rsbl.2012.0554  0.634
2012 Gallup AC, Hale JJ, Sumpter DJ, Garnier S, Kacelnik A, Krebs JR, Couzin ID. Visual attention and the acquisition of information in human crowds. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 109: 7245-50. PMID 22529369 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.1116141109  0.544
2012 Vasconcelos M, Monteiro T, Kacelnik A. On the flexibility of lizards' cognition: a comment on Leal & Powell (2011). Biology Letters. 8: 42-3; discussion 44-. PMID 22158735 DOI: 10.1098/Rsbl.2011.0848  0.75
2012 Aw J, Monteiro T, Vasconcelos M, Kacelnik A. Cognitive mechanisms of risky choice: is there an evaluation cost? Behavioural Processes. 89: 95-103. PMID 22001371 DOI: 10.1016/J.Beproc.2011.09.007  0.796
2012 Shapiro MS, Schuck-Paim C, Kacelnik A. Risk sensitivity for amounts of and delay to rewards: adaptation for uncertainty or by-product of reward rate maximising? Behavioural Processes. 89: 104-14. PMID 21925575 DOI: 10.1016/J.Beproc.2011.08.016  0.748
2011 Freidin E, Kacelnik A. Rational choice, context dependence, and the value of information in European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris). Science (New York, N.Y.). 334: 1000-2. PMID 22096203 DOI: 10.1126/Science.1209626  0.431
2011 Auersperg AM, von Bayern AM, Gajdon GK, Huber L, Kacelnik A. Flexibility in problem solving and tool use of kea and New Caledonian crows in a multi access box paradigm. Plos One. 6: e20231. PMID 21687666 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0020231  0.355
2011 Wimpenny JH, Weir AA, Kacelnik A. New Caledonian crows use tools for non-foraging activities. Animal Cognition. 14: 459-64. PMID 21184124 DOI: 10.1007/S10071-010-0366-1  0.345
2011 Aw JM, Vasconcelos M, Kacelnik A. How costs affect preferences: Experiments on state dependence, hedonic state and within-trial contrast in starlings Animal Behaviour. 81: 1117-1128. DOI: 10.1016/J.Anbehav.2011.02.015  0.632
2011 Kacelnik A, Vasconcelos M, Monteiro T, Aw J. Darwin's "tug-of-war" vs. starlings' "horse-racing": How adaptations for sequential encounters drive simultaneous choice Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 65: 547-558. DOI: 10.1007/S00265-010-1101-2  0.803
2011 Seed A, Clayton N, Carruthers P, Dickinson A, Glimcher PW, Güntürkün O, Hampton RR, Kacelnik A, Shanahan M, Stevens JR, Tebbich S. Planning, memory, and decision making Animal Thinking: Contemporary Issues in Comparative Cognition. 121-147.  0.405
2010 Rutz C, Bluff LA, Reed N, Troscianko J, Newton J, Inger R, Kacelnik A, Bearhop S. The ecological significance of tool use in New Caledonian crows. Science (New York, N.Y.). 329: 1523-6. PMID 20847272 DOI: 10.1126/Science.1192053  0.331
2010 Pompilio L, Kacelnik A. Context-dependent utility overrides absolute memory as a determinant of choice. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 107: 508-12. PMID 19966285 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.0907250107  0.357
2010 Vasconcelos M, Monteiro T, Aw J, Kacelnik A. Choice in multi-alternative environments: a trial-by-trial implementation of the sequential choice model. Behavioural Processes. 84: 435-9. PMID 19948210 DOI: 10.1016/J.Beproc.2009.11.010  0.783
2010 Bluff LA, Kacelnik A, Rutz C. Vocal culture in New Caledonian crows Corvus moneduloides Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 101: 767-776. DOI: 10.1111/J.1095-8312.2010.01527.X  0.306
2009 Freidin E, Aw J, Kacelnik A. Sequential and simultaneous choices: testing the diet selection and sequential choice models. Behavioural Processes. 80: 218-23. PMID 20522312 DOI: 10.1016/J.Beproc.2008.12.001  0.386
2009 von Bayern AM, Heathcote RJ, Rutz C, Kacelnik A. The role of experience in problem solving and innovative tool use in crows. Current Biology : Cb. 19: 1965-8. PMID 19913421 DOI: 10.1016/J.Cub.2009.10.037  0.37
2009 Wimpenny JH, Weir AA, Clayton L, Rutz C, Kacelnik A. Cognitive processes associated with sequential tool use in New Caledonian crows. Plos One. 4: e6471. PMID 19654861 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0006471  0.359
2009 Aw JM, Holbrook RI, Burt de Perera T, Kacelnik A. State-dependent valuation learning in fish: banded tetras prefer stimuli associated with greater past deprivation. Behavioural Processes. 81: 333-6. PMID 18834933 DOI: 10.1016/J.Beproc.2008.09.002  0.39
2009 Freidin E, Cuello MI, Kacelnik A. 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  0.363
2008 Shapiro MS, Siller S, Kacelnik A. 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 Processes. 34: 75-93. PMID 18248116 DOI: 10.1037/0097-7403.34.1.75  0.761
2007 Schuck-Paim C, Kacelnik A. Choice processes in multialternative decision making Behavioral Ecology. 18: 541-550. DOI: 10.1093/Beheco/Arm005  0.47
2006 Weir AA, Kacelnik A. A New Caledonian crow (Corvus moneduloides) creatively re-designs tools by bending or unbending aluminium strips. Animal Cognition. 9: 317-34. PMID 17024509 DOI: 10.1007/S10071-006-0052-5  0.338
2006 Pompilio L, Kacelnik A, Behmer ST. State-dependent learned valuation drives choice in an invertebrate. Science (New York, N.Y.). 311: 1613-5. PMID 16543461 DOI: 10.1126/Science.1123924  0.35
2006 Kenward B, Rutz C, Weir AAS, Kacelnik A. Development of tool use in New Caledonian crows: inherited action patterns and social influences Animal Behaviour. 72: 1329-1343. DOI: 10.1016/J.Anbehav.2006.04.007  0.347
2005 Kenward B, Kenward RE, Kacelnik A. An automatic technique for selective feeding and logging of individual wild squirrels Ethology Ecology and Evolution. 17: 271-277. DOI: 10.1080/08927014.2005.9522597  0.36
2005 Pompilio L, Kacelnik A. State-dependent learning and suboptimal choice: When starlings prefer long over short delays to food Animal Behaviour. 70: 571-578. DOI: 10.1016/J.Anbehav.2004.12.009  0.423
2005 Fernández-Juricic E, Smith R, Kacelnik A. Increasing the costs of conspecific scanning in socially foraging starlings affects vigilance and foraging behaviour Animal Behaviour. 69: 73-81. DOI: 10.1016/J.Anbehav.2004.01.019  0.314
2004 Schuck-Paim C, Pompilio L, Kacelnik A. State-dependent decisions cause apparent violations of rationality in animal choice. Plos Biology. 2: e402. PMID 15550984 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pbio.0020402  0.412
2004 Marsh B, Schuck-Paim C, Kacelnik A. Energetic state during learning affects foraging choices in starlings Behavioral Ecology. 15: 396-399. DOI: 10.1093/Beheco/Arh034  0.402
2004 Fernández-Juricic E, Siller S, Kacelnik A. Flock density, social foraging, and scanning: An experiment with starlings Behavioral Ecology. 15: 371-379. DOI: 10.1093/Beheco/Arh017  0.345
2004 Fernández-Juricic E, Kacelnik A. Information transfer and gain in flocks: The effects of quality and quantity of social information at different neighbour distances Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 55: 502-511. DOI: 10.1007/S00265-003-0698-9  0.369
2002 Chappell J, Kacelnik A. Tool selectivity in a non-primate, the New Caledonian crow (Corvus moneduloides). Animal Cognition. 5: 71-8. PMID 12150038 DOI: 10.1007/S10071-002-0130-2  0.378
2002 Marsh B, Kacelnik A. Framing effects and risky decisions in starlings. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 99: 3352-5. PMID 11867709 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.042491999  0.354
2002 Kacelnik A, Brunner D. Timing and foraging: Gibbon's scalar expectancy theory and optimal patch exploitation Learning and Motivation. 33: 177-195. DOI: 10.1006/Lmot.2001.1110  0.377
2002 Schuck-Paim C, Kacelnik A. Rationality in risk-sensitive foraging choices by starlings Animal Behaviour. 64: 869-879. DOI: 10.1006/Anbe.2003.2003  0.441
2002 Kacelnik A, Marsh B. Cost can increase preference in starlings Animal Behaviour. 63: 245-250. DOI: 10.1006/Anbe.2001.1900  0.429
2001 Rodríguez-Gironés MA, Kacelnik A. Relative importance of perceptual and mnemonic variance in human temporal bisection. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. a, Human Experimental Psychology. 54: 527-46. PMID 11394060 DOI: 10.1080/713755980  0.336
2001 Scharlemann JPW, Eckel CC, Kacelnik A, Wilson RK. The value of a smile: Game theory with a human face Journal of Economic Psychology. 22: 617-640. DOI: 10.1016/S0167-4870(01)00059-9  0.341
2000 Vásquez RA, Kacelnik A. Foraging rate versus sociality in the starling Sturnus vulgaris. Proceedings. Biological Sciences / the Royal Society. 267: 157-64. PMID 10687821 DOI: 10.1098/Rspb.2000.0981  0.309
1999 Cotton PA, Wright J, Kacelnik A. Chick Begging Strategies in Relation to Brood Hierarchies and Hatching Asynchrony. The American Naturalist. 153: 412-420. PMID 29586619 DOI: 10.1086/303178  0.331
1999 Rodriguez-Girones MA, Kacelnik A. Behavioral adjustment to modifications in the temporal parameters of the environment. Behavioural Processes. 45: 173-91. PMID 24897535 DOI: 10.1016/S0376-6357(99)00017-0  0.333
1999 Hauber ME, Clayton NS, Kacelnik A, Reboreda JC, DeVoogd TJ. Sexual dimorphism and species differences in HVC volumes of cowbirds. Behavioral Neuroscience. 113: 1095-9. PMID 10571492 DOI: 10.1037//0735-7044.113.5.1095  0.453
1998 Kacelnik A, Brito e Abreu F. Risky choice and Weber's Law. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 194: 289-98. PMID 9778440 DOI: 10.1006/Jtbi.1998.0763  0.37
1997 Clayton NS, Reboreda JC, Kacelnik A. Seasonal changes of hippocampus volume in parasitic cowbirds. Behavioural Processes. 41: 237-43. PMID 24896856 DOI: 10.1016/S0376-6357(97)00050-8  0.462
1997 Kacelnik A, Bateson M. Risk-sensitivity: crossroads for theories of decision-making. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 1: 304-9. PMID 21223933 DOI: 10.1016/S1364-6613(97)01093-0  0.366
1997 Bateson M, Kacelnik A. Starlings' preferences for predictable and unpredictable delays to food. Animal Behaviour. 53: 1129-42. PMID 9236010 DOI: 10.1006/Anbe.1996.0388  0.347
1996 Reboreda JC, Clayton NS, Kacelnik A. Species and sex differences in hippocampus size in parasitic and non-parasitic cowbirds. Neuroreport. 7: 505-8. PMID 8730816 DOI: 10.1097/00001756-199601310-00031  0.474
1996 Kacelnik A, Bateson M. Risky Theories—The Effects of Variance on Foraging Decisions Integrative and Comparative Biology. 36: 402-434. DOI: 10.1093/Icb/36.4.402  0.41
1996 Bateson M, Kacelnik A. Rate currencies and the foraging starling: The fallacy of the average revisited Behavioral Ecology. 7: 341-352. DOI: 10.1093/Beheco/7.3.341  0.392
1996 Cotton PA, Kacelnik A, Wright J. Chick begging as a signal: Are nestlings honest? Behavioral Ecology. 7: 178-182. DOI: 10.1093/Beheco/7.2.178  0.333
1996 Brunner D, Kacelnik A, Gibbon J. Memory for inter-reinforcement interval variability and patch departure decisions in the starling, Sturnus vulgaris Animal Behaviour. 51: 1025-1045. DOI: 10.1006/Anbe.1996.0105  0.403
1995 Bateson M, Kacelnik A. Preferences for fixed and variable food sources: variability in amount and delay. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior. 63: 313-29. PMID 7751835 DOI: 10.1901/Jeab.1995.63-313  0.355
1995 Kacelnik A, Cotton PA, Stirling L, Wright J. Food allocation among nestling starlings: Sibling competition and the scope of parental choice Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 259: 259-263. DOI: 10.1098/Rspb.1995.0038  0.305
1995 Bateson M, Kacelnik A. Accuracy of memory for amount in the foraging starling, Sturnus vulgaris Animal Behaviour. 50: 431-443. DOI: 10.1006/Anbe.1995.0257  0.376
1992 Kacelnik A, Bernstein C, Krebs JR. Reply from kacelnik, bernstein and krebs. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 7: 313-4. PMID 21236043 DOI: 10.1016/0169-5347(92)90232-Z  0.402
1992 Kacelnik A, Krebs JR, Bernstein C. The ideal free distribution and predator-prey populations. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 7: 50-5. PMID 21235950 DOI: 10.1016/0169-5347(92)90106-L  0.476
1991 Bernstein C, Kacelnik A, Krebs JR. Individual decisions and the distribution of predators in a patchy environment. II. The influence of travel costs and structure of the environment Journal of Animal Ecology. 60: 205-225. DOI: 10.2307/5455  0.52
1991 Bernstein C, Krebs JR, Kacelnik A. Distribution of birds amongst habitats: theory and relevance to conservation Bird Population Studies. 317-345.  0.437
1990 Cuthill IC, Kacelnik A, Krebs JR, Haccou P, Iwasa Y. Starlings exploiting patches: the effect of recent experience on foraging decisions Animal Behaviour. 40: 625-640. DOI: 10.1016/S0003-3472(05)80692-X  0.553
1986 Kacelnik A, Houston AI, Schmid-Hempel P. Central-place foraging in honey bees: the effect of travel time and nectar flow on crop filling Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 19: 19-24. DOI: 10.1007/Bf00303838  0.301
1984 Krebs JR, Kacelnik A. Time horizons of foraging animals. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 423: 278-91. PMID 6588792 DOI: 10.1111/J.1749-6632.1984.Tb23437.X  0.479
1984 Kacelnik A, Krebs J, Stephens D. Foraging in a changing environment: Models and experiments Behavioural Processes. 9: 297. DOI: 10.1016/0376-6357(84)90052-4  0.468
1983 Kacelnik A, Krebs JR. The dawn chorus in the great tit ( Parus major): proximate and ultimate causes Behaviour. 83: 287-309.  0.41
1981 Roberts J, Hunter ML, Kacelnik A. The ground effect and acoustic communication Animal Behaviour. 29: 633-634. DOI: 10.1016/S0003-3472(81)80132-7  0.393
1981 Kacelnik A, Houston AI, Krebs JR. Optimal foraging and territorial defence in the Great Tit (Parus major) Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 8: 35-40. DOI: 10.1007/BF00302841  0.507
1978 Krebs JR, Kacelnik A, Taylor P. Test of optimal sampling by foraging great tits Nature. 275: 27-31. DOI: 10.1038/275027A0  0.463
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