Challenges and promises of big team comparative cognition

Authors
  • N. Alessandroni
  • D. Altschul
  • H.A. Baumgartner
  • M. Bazhydai
  • S.F. Brosnan
  • K. Byers-Heinlein
  • J. Call
  • L. Chittka
  • M. Elsherif
  • J. Espinosa
  • M.S. Freeman
  • B. Gjoneska
  • O. Güntürkün
  • L. Huber
  • A. Krasheninnikova
  • V. Mazza
  • R. Miller
  • D. Moreau
  • C. Nawroth
  • E. Pronizius
  • S. Ruiz-Fernández
  • R. Schwing
  • V. Šlipogor
  • I. Visser ORCID logo
  • J. Vonk
  • J. Yeager
  • M. Zettersten
  • L. Prétôt
Publication date 02-2025
Journal Nature Human Behaviour
Volume | Issue number 9 | 2
Pages (from-to) 240–242
Organisations
  • Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG) - Psychology Research Institute (PsyRes)
Abstract Big team science has the potential to reshape comparative cognition research, but its implementation — especially in making fair comparisons between species, handling multisite variation and reaching researcher consensus — poses daunting challenges. Here, we propose solutions and discuss how big team science can transform the field.
Document type Comment/Letter to the editor
Language English
Published at
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-024-02081-6 (Final published version)
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