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  0.716
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  0.785
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  0.729
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  0.7
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  0.361
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  0.408
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  0.326
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  0.434
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  0.449
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  0.312
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  0.317
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  0.31
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  0.32
2015 Vasconcelos M, Monteiro T, Kacelnik A. Irrational choice and the value of information. Scientific Reports. 5: 13874. PMID 26350951 DOI: 10.1038/Srep13874  0.781
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  0.688
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  0.634
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  0.361
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  0.315
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  0.393
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  0.324
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  0.632
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  0.65
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  0.752
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  0.743
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  0.413
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  0.339
2011 Abbot P, Abe J, Alcock J, Alizon S, Alpedrinha JA, Andersson M, Andre JB, van Baalen M, Balloux F, Balshine S, Barton N, Beukeboom LW, Biernaskie JM, Bilde T, Borgia G, ... ... Kacelnik A, et al. Inclusive fitness theory and eusociality. Nature. 471: E1-4; author reply E. PMID 21430721 DOI: 10.1038/Nature09831  0.526
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  0.335
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  0.801
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.  0.392
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  0.328
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  0.341
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  0.784
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  0.375
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  0.357
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  0.344
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  0.379
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  0.361
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  0.756
2007 Schuck-Paim C, Kacelnik A. Choice processes in multialternative decision making Behavioral Ecology. 18: 541-550. DOI: 10.1093/Beheco/Arm005  0.446
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  0.329
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  0.341
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  0.339
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  0.358
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  0.408
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 Fernández-Juricic E, Erichsen JT, Kacelnik A. Visual perception and social foraging in birds. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 19: 25-31. PMID 16701222 DOI: 10.1016/J.Tree.2003.10.003  0.301
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  0.397
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  0.392
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  0.365
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  0.367
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  0.344
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  0.378
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  0.424
2002 Kacelnik A, Marsh B. Cost can increase preference in starlings Animal Behaviour. 63: 245-250. DOI: 10.1006/Anbe.2001.1900  0.416
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  0.323
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  0.334
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  0.31
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  0.509
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  0.324
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  0.36
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  0.463
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  0.354
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  0.346
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 Davies NB, Brooke L, Kacelnik A. Recognition errors and probability of parasitism determine whether reed warblers should accept or reject mimetic cuckoo eggs Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 263: 925-931. DOI: 10.1098/Rspb.1996.0137  0.582
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  0.397
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  0.39
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  0.33
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  0.394
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  0.347
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  0.306
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  0.372
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  0.559
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  0.613
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  0.646
1991 Bernstein C, Krebs JR, Kacelnik A. Distribution of birds amongst habitats: theory and relevance to conservation Bird Population Studies. 317-345.  0.588
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  0.669
1990 Cuthill I, Kacelnik A. Central place foraging: a reappraisal of the 'loading effect' Animal Behaviour. 40: 1087-1101. DOI: 10.1016/S0003-3472(05)80175-7  0.689
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  0.573
1985 Schmid-Hempel P, Kacelnik A, Houston AI. Honeybees maximize efficiency by not filling their crop Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 17: 61-66. DOI: 10.1007/Bf00299430  0.545
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  0.613
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  0.608
1983 Kacelnik A, Krebs JR. The dawn chorus in the great tit ( Parus major): proximate and ultimate causes Behaviour. 83: 287-309.  0.566
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  0.394
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  0.636
1978 Krebs JR, Kacelnik A, Taylor P. Test of optimal sampling by foraging great tits Nature. 275: 27-31. DOI: 10.1038/275027A0  0.604
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