Publications

Osvath M, Němec, P., Brusatte, S. L., Witmer, L. M. (2024) Thought for food: the endothermic brain hypothesis, TICS

Some publications from the different teams, relevant for deep time cognition:

Cognitive Zoology

Osvath M, Johansson M (2024) A short natural history of mental time travels: a journey still travelled? Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B

Rejsenhus Jensen T, Anikin A, Osvath M, Reber, S. A (2023) Knowing a fellow by their bellow: acoustic individuality in the bellows of the American alligator. Animal Behaviour

Rejsenhus Jensen T, Zeiträg C, Osvath M (2023)The selfish preen: absence of allopreening in Palaeognathae and its socio-cognitive implications. Animal Cogntion

Zeiträg C, Reber, S. A, Osvath M (2023) Gaze following in Archosauria - Alligators and palaeognath birds suggest dinosaur origin of visual perspective taking. Science Advances.

Zeiträg C, Rejsenhus Jensen T, Osvath M (2023) Play in juvenile greater rheas – different modes and their evolutionary and socio-cognitive implications. International Journal of Play,

Zeiträg C, Rejsenhus Jensen T, Osvath M (2022) Gaze-following: a socio-cognitive skill rooted in deep time. Frontiers in Psychology 13:950935 

Jacobs I, Kabadayi C, Osvath M (2019) The development of sensorimotor cognition in common ravens (Corvus corax) and its comparative evolution. Animal Behavior and Cognition 6: 194-212

Kabadayi C, Osvath M (2017) Ravens parallel great apes in flexible planning for tool-use and bartering. Science 357: 202-204 pp 103-114 

Reber, S. A., Nishimura, T., Janisch, J., Robertson, M. & Fitch, W. T. (2015). A Chinese alligator in heliox : formant frequencies in a crocodilian. Journal of Experimental Biology, 218, 2442-2447.

Neuroanatomy

Sol, D., Olkowicz, S., Sayol, F., Kocourek, M., Zhang, Y., Marhounová, L., Osadnik, C., Corssmit, E., Garcia-Porta, J., Martin, T.E., Lefebvre, L., and Němec, P. (2022) Neuron numbers link innovativeness with both absolute and relative brain size in birds.  Nature Ecology & Evolution vol 6, p1381–1389

Kverková, K., Marhounová, L., Polonyiová, A., Kocourek, M., Zhang, Y., Olkowicz, S., Straková, B., Pavelková, Z., Vodička, R., Frynta, D., and Němec, P. (2022) The evolution of brain neuron numbers in amniotes. PNAS. 119 (11) e2121624119

Palaeontology

Bertrand, O. C., Shelley, S. L., Williamson, T. E., Wible, J. R., Chester, S. G. B., Flynn, J. J., Holbrook, L. T., Lyson, T. R., Meng, J., Miller, I. M., Puschel, H. P., Smith, T., Spaulding, M., Tseng, Z. J., and Brusatte, S. L. (2022) Brawn before brains in placental mammals after the end-Cretaceous extinction. Science, 376, 80-85.

Schwab, J. A., Young, M. T., Herrera, Y., Witmer, L M., Walsh, S. A., Katsamenis, O. L., and Brusatte, S. L. (2021) The braincase and inner ear of ‘Metriorhynchus’ cf. ‘M.’ brachyrhynchus – implications for aquatic sensory adaptations in crocodylomorphs. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 41, e1912062.

Bertrand, O. C., Püschel, H. P., Schwab, J. A., Silcox, M. T., and Brusatte, S. L. (2021) The impact of locomotion on the brain evolution of squirrels and close relatives. Communications Biology, 4, 460 

Schwab, J. A., Young, M. T., Neenan, J. M., Walsh, S., Witmer, L. M., Herrera, Y., Allain, R., Brochu, C. A., Choiniere, J.N., Clark, J. M., Dollman, K. N., Etches, S., Fritsch, G., Gignac, P. M., Ruebenstahl, A. Sachs, S., Turner, A. H., Vinaud, P., Wilberg, E. W., Xu, X., Zanno, L. E., and Brusatte, S. L. (2020) Inner ear sensory system changes as extinct crocodylomorphs transitioned from land to water. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA), 117, 10422-10428.

McKeown, M., Brusatte, S. L., Williamson, T. E., Schwab, J. A., Carr, T. D., Butler, I. B., Muir, A., Schroeder, K., Espy, M. A. Hunter, J. F., Losko, A. S., Nelson, R. O., Gautier, D. C., and Vogel, S. C. (2020) Neurosensory and sinus evolution as tyrannosauroid dinosaurs developed giant size: insight from the endocranial anatomy of Bistahieversor sealeyi. The Anatomical Record, 303, 1043-1059.

Bertrand, O. C., Shelley, S. L., Wible, J. R., Williamson, T. E., Holbrook, L. T., Chester, S. G. B., Butler, I. B., and Brusatte, S. L. (2020) Virtual endocranial and inner ear endocasts of the Paleocene ‘condylarth’Chriacus: New insight into the neurosensory system and evolution of early placental mammals. Journal of Anatomy, 236, 21-49. 

Cameron, J., Shelley, S. L., Williamson, T. E., and Brusatte, S. L. (2019) The brain and inner ear of the early Paleocene 'condylarth' Carsioptychus coarctatus: implications for early placental mammal neurosensory biology and behavior. The Anatomical Record, 302, 306-324.

Csiki-Sava, Z., Vremir, M., Meng, J., Brusatte, S. L., and Norell, M. A. (2018) Dome-headed, small-brained island mammal from the Late Cretaceous of Romania. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA), 115, 4857-4862.

Brusatte, S. L., Muir, A., Young, M. T., Walsh, S., Steel, L., and Witmer, L. M. (2016) The braincase and neurosensory anatomy of an Early Jurassic marine crocodylomorph: implications for crocodylian sinus evolution and sensory transitions. The Anatomical Record, 299, 1511-1530.

Brusatte, S. L., Averianov, A., Sues, H.-D., Muir, A., and Butler, I. B. (2016) New tyrannosaur from the mid-Cretaceous of Uzbekistan clarifies evolution of giant body sizes and advanced senses in tyrant dinosaurs. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA), 113, 3447-3452.