Recherches et engagements
Fagot, Joël (2017). Orthographic processing in animals : implications for comparative psychologists. Learning and Behavior, 45(3), 209-210 Abstract – Two recent studies have shown that pigeons and baboons can discriminate written English words from nonwords, and these findings were interpreted as demonstrating that orthographic processing is possible in absence of linguistic knowledge. Here, I […]
Wasserman, E.A., Castro, L. & Fagot, J. (2015). Relational Thinking in Animals and Humans: From Percepts to Concepts” : In APA Handbook of Comparative Psychology, Volume 2, Perception, Learning and Cognition. Call et al. (Eds, pp 359-384). Washington DC, USA, American Psychological Association. Abstract – “The power of abstraction has its germ in sense-experience […]
Castro, L., Wasserman, E, Fagot, J. Maugard, A. (2014). Object-specific and relational learning in pigeons. Animal Cognition. 10.1007/s10071-014-0790-83 Abstract – Relational stimulus processing requires an organism to appreciate the interrelations between or among two or more stimuli (e.g., same or different, less than or greater than). In the current study, we explored the role […]
Fagot, J., & Parron, C. (2010). Picture perception in birds : Perspective from primatologists. Comparative Cognition & Behavior Reviews, 5 , 132-135 Abstract – In their target article, Weisman and Spetch (2010) question the validity of pictures to present real things to birds, mostly because pictures are primarily made for the human eye, and […]
Cook, R. & Fagot, J. (2009). First trial rewards promote 1-trial learning and prolonged memory in pigeon and baboon. PNAS, 103, 17564-17567 Abstract – There is a long-standing debate in educational settings on the influence of positive and negative consequences on learning. Although positive rewards seem desirable from an ethical perspective, 1-trial learning has […]
Fagot, J. & Cook, R. (2006). Evidence for large long-term memory capacities in baboons and pigeons and its implications for learning and the evolution of cognition. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA (PNAS), 103, 17564-17567 Abstract – Previous research has shown that birds and primates have a rich repertoire of […]
Fagot, J., Wasserman, E. & Young, M. (2004). Catégorisation d’objets visuels et concepts relationnels chez l’animal. In Kreutzer, M. & Vauclair, J. (Ed.s) Ethologie cognitive (pp 117-136). Abstract – Cette revue de question présente les méthodes et critères utilisés pour inférer l’existence de concepts relationnels chez l’animal, et l’illustre par une série de travaux […]