{"title":"Why we should study animal consciousness.","authors":"Noam Miller","doi":"10.3758/s13420-024-00639-y","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The New York Declaration on Animal Consciousness (Andrews et al., 2024) highlights increasing empirical evidence supporting the existence of sentience in many animal species. The views in the declaration rest on an increasingly popular theoretical approach that comparative psychologists could use to guide research on non-human consciousness.</p>","PeriodicalId":49914,"journal":{"name":"Learning & Behavior","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9000,"publicationDate":"2024-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Learning & Behavior","FirstCategoryId":"102","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13420-024-00639-y","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The New York Declaration on Animal Consciousness (Andrews et al., 2024) highlights increasing empirical evidence supporting the existence of sentience in many animal species. The views in the declaration rest on an increasingly popular theoretical approach that comparative psychologists could use to guide research on non-human consciousness.
期刊介绍:
Learning & Behavior publishes experimental and theoretical contributions and critical reviews concerning fundamental processes of learning and behavior in nonhuman and human animals. Topics covered include sensation, perception, conditioning, learning, attention, memory, motivation, emotion, development, social behavior, and comparative investigations.