What is #animalcognition ? 🧵 One common misconception is that #cognition is the same as intelligence, but they are NOT equivalent! Intelligence is an arbitrary term, as it is not possible to evaluate one species as 'smarter' than another. (1/4) 
Cognition refers to the pathways and mechanisms of an organism taking in environmental information (sights, smells, sounds) and responding ✅ #DYK there are a variety of cognitive processes. (2/4)
A few sub-disciplines of cognition include: 1️⃣ #distributedcognition (study of information "flow" among individuals, such as an animal monitoring and responding to the attentional states of others in their social group), … (3/4)
… 2️⃣ #spatialcognition (how organisms use information to map resources or navigate their movement), & 3️⃣ #socialcognition (how organisms perceive, interpret, and respond to information from conspecifics)! #animalbehavior #ucdavis (4/4)
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