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Alex Kacelnik

Principal Investigator

Behavioral Biology

University of Oxford

 

Email:
alex.kacelnik@biology.ox.ac.uk

 

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Alex Kacelnik

Alex Kacelnik

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Alex Kacelnik FRS is a behavioural ecologist that works on animal behaviour and its underlying psychological mechanisms. His research includes studies of decision making, learning and memory in birds, mammals, insects and other animals. In SCioI he collaborates with Oliver Brock and Alice Auersperg in research on intelligence in cockatoos and its emulation in artificial systems. He is also is a member and promotor of the Oxford-Berlin partnership.

Projects

Alex Kacelnik is member of Project 04, Project 49.

Rat-Fischer, L., Plunkett, K., von Bayern, A., & Kacelnik, A. (2024). Object Play and Problem-Solving in Infancy: Insights into Tool Use. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 244. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2024.105957
Chidambaram, S., Wintergerst, S., & Kacelnik, A. (2024). Serial reversal learning in nectar-feeding bats. Animal Cognition, 27. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10071-024-01836-y
Baum, M., Schattenhofer, L., Rössler, T., Osuna-Mascaro, A., Auersperg, A., Kacelnik, A., & Brock, O. (2024). Mechanical Problem Solving in Goffin’s Cockatoos - Towards Modeling Complex Behavior. Adaptive Behavior. https://doi.org/10.1177/10597123241270764
Hamann, F., Ghosh, S., Martínez, I. J., Hart, T., Kacelnik, A., & Gallego, G. (2024). Low-power, Continuous Remote Behavioral Localization with Event Cameras. CVPR. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2312.03799
Kacelnik, A., Vasconcelos, M., & Monteiro, T. (2023). Testing cognitive models of decision-making: selected studies with starlings. Animal Cognition, 26, 117–127. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10071-022-01723-4
Chamberlain, M. L., Kacelnik, A., Bush, A., & Hauber, M. E. (2023). A systematic review of methodologies for studying behavioral imprinting. Ethology, 130. https://doi.org/10.1111/eth.13416
Ajuwon, V., Cruz, B., Carriço, P., Champalimaud, Kacelnik, A., & Tiago Monteiro, T. (2023). GoFish: A low-cost, open-source platform for closed-loop behavioural experiments on fish. Behavior Research Methods. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-022-02049-2
Ajuwon, V., Ojeda, A., Murphy, R., Monteiro, T., & Kacelnik, A. (2022). Paradoxical choice and the reinforcing value of information. Animal Cognition, 26. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10071-022-01698-2
Baum, M., Schattenhofer, L., Rössler, T., Osuna-Mascaro, A., Auersperg, A., Kacelnik, A., & Brock, O. (2022). Yoking-Based Identification of Learning Behavior in Artificial and Biological Agents. SAB 2022. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16770-6_6
Monteiro, T., Hart, T., & Kacelnik, A. (2021). Imprinting on time-structured acoustic stimuli in ducklings. Biology Letters, 17. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2021.0381
Lois-Milevicich, J., Cerrutti, M., Kacelnik, A., & Reboreda, J. (2021). Sex differences in learning flexibility in an avian brood parasite, the shiny cowbird. Behavioural Processes. Behavioural Processes, 189. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2021.104438

Research

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