Alex Taylor

ICREA Research Professor

[Animal Minds Lab @AnimalMindsLab]

🚨We're recruiting!🚨 Join our lab in Barcelona as a PhD student or postdoc. We study automated decision-making in rats 🐀 and run online human experiments with a comparative & cognitive science focus. Get in touch if you're interested! Links below. #Postdoc #PhDJobs #PostdocJobs

[Alex Taylor @AlexhTaylor]

Offering two postdoc positions in my lab:
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[Alex Taylor @AlexhTaylor]

Three full funded PhD positions are available in my lab, which is moving to UAB in Barcelona https://t.co/dGX2EGHcYQ

[Alex Taylor @AlexhTaylor]

Is signature testing a better way to compare human, animal and machine minds? Check out our new paper https://t.co/yu2vtM6HVd

[Alex Taylor @AlexhTaylor]

Our new paper on a disabled parrot using tools to preen has led to suggestions of printing him a 3D prosthetic beak. How do you ask a parrot if he would be happier with no beak and no vet trips, or a new beak, lots of vet trips, and the other kea playing with his shiny new beak?

[Alex Taylor @AlexhTaylor]

Our new paper out today on a disabled kea innovating stone tool use to preen, great article by the New York Times on it. https://t.co/ZnrSFxpPGX
Paper: https://t.co/xvf1w7P37E
Video: https://t.co/rQlnUjfgzD

[Dakota McCoy, Ph.D. @WildlifeMcCoy]

Tool use puts New Caledonian crows in a good mood! I'm so excited to have a new paper out in @CurrentBiology with coauthors from @AnimalMindsUoA: intrinsic enjoyment, not just material reward, motivates tool use in clever crows. https://t.co/l0Jf8Ty3U2 Some takeaways: (1/3)

[Quentin Atkinson @DrQueue]

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[Faculty of Science, University of Auckland @ScienceUoA]

Now here's something to crow about: new research by Dr Alex Taylor @AlexhTaylor from @PsychUoA @AnimalMindsUoA shows that, similar to a human playing chess, New Caledonian crows can use tools to plan up to 3 moves ahead. Read more on @NatGeo... #ScienceUoA
https://t.co/2i2BRl6sI8

[Alex Taylor @AlexhTaylor]

So we have an exciting paper out today show NC crows plan 3 behaviours into the future. Vid here https://t.co/8XQcEqbRYi. More info here https://t.co/5xxN9MVEuF

[Alex Taylor @AlexhTaylor]

Talking about bird intelligence @aspeninstitute with Jennifer Ackerman and Flora Lichtman flichtman #aspenideas #geniusofbirds https://t.co/VVKD9EwcY5

[Alex Taylor @AlexhTaylor]

So I am super happy that after 3 years of hard work our new paper showing NC crows can reverse engineer a tool from a mental image is out. For a nice summary have a read of this. https://t.co/vmGB7gsYqr
Full paper here https://t.co/Hr7Rmxfxhc

[Alex Taylor @AlexhTaylor]

Great feature by @AlisonBallance on some of the research we are running at our dog lab https://t.co/SVUK7qbANI

[Alex Taylor @AlexhTaylor]

@bford02 @blanchardathlet @_cb32 @HargraveHoops

[Alex Taylor @AlexhTaylor]

Our new dog lab is now ready, if you are and interested in learning more about your dog's intelligence click here https://t.co/h4mer59HmO

[Michelle Dickinson PhD @medickinson]

Are humans really the smartest animals? Find out when I ask @JeremyCorbett & @AlexhTaylor in episode 1 @sqfspodcast https://t.co/DJ3Juhe2kf

[Faculty of Science, University of Auckland @ScienceUoA]

Cheeky kea keen to team up on tasks: @AlexhTaylor from Psychology reveals the intelligence of our alpine parrot... https://t.co/SxkPNmXHB1

[Alex Taylor @AlexhTaylor]

Nice piece in the NZ Herald on our new kea papers https://t.co/iIQ9CiIefe

[Alex Taylor @AlexhTaylor]

@edyong209 Haha there is a body awareness test for children that is very similar, I wonder if a smarter kea would do better...