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Joshua M. Plotnik
Researcher at City University of New York
Publications - 26
Citations - 1784
Joshua M. Plotnik is an academic researcher from City University of New York. The author has contributed to research in topics: Elephas & Cognition. The author has an hindex of 11, co-authored 21 publications receiving 1458 citations. Previous affiliations of Joshua M. Plotnik include Yerkes National Primate Research Center & Emory University.
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The evolution of self-control
Evan L. MacLean,Brian Hare,Charles L. Nunn,Elsa Addessi,Federica Amici,Rindy C. Anderson,Filippo Aureli,Filippo Aureli,Joseph M. Baker,Amanda E. Bania,Allison M. Barnard,Neeltje J. Boogert,Elizabeth M. Brannon,Emily E. Bray,Joel Bray,Lauren J. N. Brent,Judith M. Burkart,Josep Call,Jessica F. Cantlon,Lucy G. Cheke,Nicola S. Clayton,Mikel M. Delgado,Louis DiVincenti,Kazuo Fujita,Esther Herrmann,Chihiro Hiramatsu,Lucia F. Jacobs,Kerry E. Jordan,Jennifer R. Laude,Kristin L. Leimgruber,Emily J. E. Messer,Antonio Christian de A. Moura,Ljerka Ostojić,Alejandra Morales Picard,Michael L. Platt,Joshua M. Plotnik,Friederike Range,Simon M. Reader,Rachna B. Reddy,Aaron A. Sandel,Laurie R. Santos,Katrin Schumann,Amanda M. Seed,Kendra B. Sewall,Rachael C. Shaw,Katie E. Slocombe,Yanjie Su,Ayaka Takimoto,Jingzhi Tan,Ruoting Tao,Carel P. van Schaik,Zsófia Virányi,Elisabetta Visalberghi,Jordan C. Wade,Arii Watanabe,Jane Widness,Julie K. Young,Thomas R. Zentall,Yini Zhao +58 more
TL;DR: It is suggested that increases in absolute brain size provided the biological foundation for evolutionary increases in self-control, and implicate species differences in feeding ecology as a potential selective pressure favoring these skills.
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Self-recognition in an Asian elephant.
TL;DR: A successful MSR elephant study is reported and striking parallels in the progression of responses to mirrors among apes, dolphins, and elephants are reported to suggest convergent cognitive evolution most likely related to complex sociality and cooperation.
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Elephants know when they need a helping trunk in a cooperative task
TL;DR: It is shown that elephants can learn to coordinate with a partner in a task requiring two individuals to simultaneously pull two ends of the same rope to obtain a reward.
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Asian elephants ( Elephas maximus ) reassure others in distress
TL;DR: It is found that elephants affiliated significantly more with other individuals through directed, physical contact and vocal communication following a distress event than in control periods, and is best classified with similar consolation responses by apes, possibly based on convergent evolution of empathic capacities.
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Thinking with their trunks: elephants use smell but not sound to locate food and exclude nonrewarding alternatives
TL;DR: Elephants relied on olfaction to locate food and to exclude nonrewarding food locations, but failed to use auditory information (when it was the only cue presented) to do the same.