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  1. Putting flexible animal prospection into context: escaping the theoretical box

    Article • Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Cognitive Science, November 2015, Wiley

    Dr Mathias Osvath

  2. The future of future-oriented cognition in non-humans: theory and the empirical case of the great apes

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, September 2014, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Mathias Osvath

  3. Object caching in corvids: Incidence and significance

    Article • Behavioural Processes, February 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Mathias Osvath

  4. An Exploration of Play Behaviors in Raven Nestlings

    Article • Animal Behavior and Cognition, January 2014, Animal Behavior and Cognition

    Dr Mathias Osvath

  5. Sub-adult Ravens Synchronize their Play: A Case of Emotional Contagion?

    Article • Animal Behavior and Cognition, January 2014, Sciknow Publications

    Dr Mathias Osvath

  6. Independent Evolution of Similar Complex Cognitive Skills: The Importance of Embodied Degrees of Freedom

    Article • Animal Behavior and Cognition, January 2014, Animal Behavior and Cognition

    Dr Mathias Osvath

  7. Great apes can defer exchange: a replication with different results suggesting future oriented behavior

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, January 2013, Frontiers

    Dr Mathias Osvath

  8. Foresight, function representation, and social intelligence in the great apes

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, June 2012, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Mathias Osvath, Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  9. Spontaneous Innovation for Future Deception in a Male Chimpanzee

    Article • PLoS ONE, May 2012, PLOS

    Dr Mathias Osvath

  10. The Tripod Effect: Co-evolution of Cooperation, Cognition and Communication

    Article • November 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Mathias Osvath, Professor Peter Gärdenfors

  11. Great ape foresight is looking great

    Article • Animal Cognition, July 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Mathias Osvath

  12. Spontaneous planning for future stone throwing by a male chimpanzee

    Article • Current Biology, March 2009, Elsevier

    Dr Mathias Osvath

  13. Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) and orangutan (Pongo abelii) forethought: self-control and pre-experience in the face of future tool use

    Article • Animal Cognition, June 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Mathias Osvath

  14. What are the evolutionary causes of mental time travel?

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, June 2007, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Mathias Osvath, Professor Peter Gärdenfors