Publications

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  • Boogert, N.J., *Madden, J., *Morand-Ferron J., *Thornton, A. 2018. Measuring and Understanding Individual Differences in Cognition. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 373 (1756), 20170280. *Shared first authorship.

  • Cauchoix M.*, Chow PKY*, van Horik JO*, Atance CM, Barbeau EJ, Barragan-Jason G, Bize P, Boussard A, Buechel SD, Cabirol A, Cauchard L, Claidière N, Dalesman S, Devaud JM, Didic M, Doligez B, Fagot J, Fichtel C, Henke-von der Malsburg J, Hermer E, Huebner F, Kappeler PM, Klein S, Langbein J, Langley EJG, Lea SEG, Lihoreau M, Lovlie H, Matzel LD, Nakagawa S, Nawroth C, Oesterwind S, Sauce B, Smith E, Sorato E, Tebbich S, Whiteside MA, Wilkinson A, Chaine A.S.*, and Morand-Ferron J.* 2018. The repeatability of cognitive performance: A meta-analysis. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 373 (1756), 20170281. *Shared first and last authorship.

  • Hermer E., Cauchoix M., Chaine A. S., and Morand-Ferron, J. 2018. Elevation-related difference in serial reversal learning ability in a nonscatter hoarding passerine. Behavioral Ecology, 29: 840–847.

  • Evans J.C., Devost I., Jones T.B., and Morand-Ferron J. 2018. Inferring dominance interactions from temporal data. Ethology, 124: 188-195.

  • Evans J.C., Jones T.B., and Morand-Ferron J. 2018. Dominance and the initiation of group feeding events: the modifying effect of sociality. In press, Behavioral Ecology, 29: 448-458.

  • Sherratt T. and Morand-Ferron J. 2018. The adaptive significance of age-dependent changes in the tendency of individuals to explore. In press, Animal Behaviour, 138: 59-67.
  • Cauchoix M., Hermer E., Chaine A.S., and Morand-Ferron J. 2017. Cognition in the field: comparison of reversal learning performance in captive and wild passerines. Scientific Reports, 7: 12945.
  • Morand-Ferron J. 2017. Why learn? The adaptive value of associative learning in wild populations. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 16: 73-79.
  • Jones T.B., Aplin L.M., Devost I., and Morand-Ferron J. 2017. Individual and ecological determinants of social information transmission in the wild. Animal Behaviour, 129: 93-101.
  • Aplin L.M. and Morand-Ferron J. 2017. Stable producer-scrounger dynamics in wild birds: sociability and learning speed covary with scrounging behaviour. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London: Biological Sciences, 284: 20162872.
  • Whelan S.W., Strickland D. Morand-Ferron J., and Norris D.R. 2017. Reduced reproductive performance associated with warmer ambient temperatures during incubation in a winter-breeding, food-storing passerine. Ecology & Evolution, 7: 3029-3036.
  • Devost I., Jones T.B., Cauchoix M., Montreuil-Spencer C., Morand-Ferron J. 2016. Personality does not predict social dominance in wild groups of black-capped chickadees, Poecile atricapillus. Animal Behaviour, 122: 67–76. 
  • Whelan S., Strickland D., Morand-Ferron J., Norris D.R. 2016. Male experience buffers female laying date plasticity in a winter-breeding, food-storing passerine. Animal Behaviour, 121: 61–70.
  • Morand-Ferron J., Cole E. and Quinn J.L. 2016. Studying the evolutionary ecology of cognition in the wild: a review of practical and conceptual challenges. Biological Reviews, 91: 367-389.
  • Reader S.M., Morand-Ferron J., Flynn E. 2016. Animal and human innovation: novel problems and novel solutions. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 371: 20150182.
  • Quinn J.L., Cole E.F., Reed T.E., Morand-Ferron J. 2016. Environmental and genetic determinants of innovativeness in a natural population of birds. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 371: 20150184.
  • Morand-Ferron J., Hamblin S., Cole E., Aplin L. and Quinn J.L. 2015. Taking the operant paradigm into the field: associative learning in wild great tits. PLos One, e0133821.
  • Aplin L., Farine D.R., Morand-Ferron J., Cockburn A., Thornton A. and Sheldon B.C. 2015. Counting conformity: evaluating the units of information in frequency-dependent social learning. Animal Behaviour, 110: e5-e8.
  • Aplin L., Farine D.R., Morand-Ferron J., Cockburn A., Thornton A., Sheldon B.C. 2015. Experimentally induced innovations lead to persistent culture via conformity in wild birds. Nature 518: 538-541.  
  • Morand-Ferron J. and Quinn J.L. 2015. The evolution of cognition in natural populations. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 19: 235-237.
  • Quinn J. , Cole E. F. and Morand-Ferron J. 2014. Studying micro-evolutionary processes in cognitive traits: a comment on Rowe and Healy. Behavioral Ecology, 25: 1297-1298. 
  • Aplin L., Farine D.R., Morand-Ferron J., Cole E., Cockburn A. and Sheldon B.C. 2013. Individual personalities and social behaviour in wild networks of great tits (Parus major). Ecology Letters, 16:1365-1372. Article recommended by F1000, Feb 2014. 
  • Aplin L., Sheldon, B., Morand-Ferron J. 2013. Milk-bottles revisited: Social learning and individual variation in the blue tit (Cyanistes caeruleus). Animal Behaviour, 85:1225-1232. Community Choice (‘the most viewed papers in Science’) in the Research Highlights of Nature, 15 August 2013 Issue. 
  • Cole E. F.*, Morand-Ferron J.*, Hinks A. and Quinn J. L. 2012. Cognitive ability influences reproductive life history variation in a wild population. Current Biology, 22:1808-1812. *Joint first authors. 
  • Aplin L., Farine D. R., Morand-Ferron J. and Sheldon B. C. 2012. Social networks predict patch discovery in a wild population of songbirds. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 279:4199-4205. 
  • Morand-Ferron J.and Quinn J. L. 2011. Larger groups of passerines are more efficient problem solvers in the wild. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108:15898-15903. 
  • Morand-Ferron J., Cole E. F., Rawles J. E. C., and Quinn J. L. 2011. Who are the innovators? A field experiment with two passerine species. Behavioral Ecology22:1241-1248. 
  • Morand-Ferron J., Wu G.-M. and Giraldeau L.-A. 2011. Persistent individual differences in tactic use in a producer-scrounger game are group dependent. Animal Behaviour 82:811-816. 
  • Morand-Ferron J., Varennes E. and Giraldeau L.-A. 2011. Individual differences in plasticity and sampling when playing behavioural games. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences278:1223-1230. 
  • Desrochers A., Bélisle M., Morand-Ferron J. and Bourque J. 2011.Integrating GIS and homing experiments to study avian movement costs. Landscape Ecology 26: 47-58. 
  • Morand-Ferron J., Doligez B., Dall S. R. X. and Reader S. M. 2010. Social information use. In: Breed M. D. and Moore J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior, pp. 242-250, Oxford: Academic Press. 
  • Dubois F., Morand-Ferron J. and Giraldeau L.-A. 2010. Learning in a game context: strategy choice by some keeps learning from evolving in others. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 277: 3609-3616. 
  • Rieucau G., Morand-Ferron J. and Giraldeau L.-A. 2010. Group size effect in nutmeg mannikin: between-individuals behavioral differences but same plasticity. Behavioral Ecology 21: 684-689. 
  • Morand-Ferron J. and Giraldeau L.-A. 2010. Learning behaviorally stable solutions to producer-scrounger games. Behavioral Ecology 21: 343-348. 
  • Hamblin S., Mathot K. J., Morand-Ferron J., Nocera J. J., Rieucau G. and Giraldeau L.-A. 2010. Predator inadvertent social information use favours reduced clumping of its prey. Oikos 119: 286-291. 
  • Morand-Ferron J., Lalande É. and Giraldeau L.-A. 2009. Large-scale input matching by urban feral pigeons (Columba livia). Ethology 115: 707-712. 
  • Overington S. E., Morand-Ferron J., Boogert N. J. and Lefebvre L. 2009. Technical innovations drive the relationship between innovativeness and residual brain size in birds. Animal Behaviour 78: 1001-1010. 
  • Overington S. E., Cauchard L., Morand-Ferron J. and Lefebvre L. 2009. Innovation in groups: does the proximity of others facilitate or inhibit performance? Behaviour 146: 1543-1564. 
  • Morand-Ferron J., Sol D. and Lefebvre L. 2007. Food-stealing in birds: brain or brawn? Animal Behaviour 74: 1725-1734.
    Monthly Feature “The mind of a thief” by M. Breed, Animal Behaviour 74: 1605.
    Article recommended by the Faculty of 1000 Biology, ID 1097746 
  • Morand-Ferron J., Giraldeau L.-A. and Lefebvre L. 2007. Wild Carib grackles play a producer-scrounger game. Behavioral Ecology 18: 916-921. 
  • Giraldeau L.A., Lefebvre L. and Morand-Ferron J. 2007. Can restrictive definitions lead to biases and tautologies? Behavioral and Brain Sciences 30: 411-412. 
  • Morand-Ferron J. and Lefebvre L. 2007. Flexible expression of a food-processing behaviour: determinants of dunking rates in wild Carib grackles of Barbados. Behavioural Processes 76: 218-221. 
  • Careau V., Morand-Ferron J. and Thomas D. 2007. Basal metabolic rate of canidae from hot deserts to cold arctic climate. Journal of Mammalogy 88: 394-400. 
  • Morand-Ferron J., Veillette M. and Lefebvre L. 2006. Stealing of dunked food in Carib grackles (Quiscalus lugubris). Behavioural Processes 73: 342-347. 
  • Morand-Ferron J. 2005. Dunking behavior in American Crows. Wilson Bulletin 117: 405-407. 
  • Morand-Ferron J., Lefebvre L., Reader S. M., Sol D. and Elvin S. 2004. Dunking behaviour in Carib grackles. Animal Behaviour 68: 1267-1274.
  • Reader S.M., Morand-Ferron J., Côté I. and Lefebvre L. 2003.Unusual feeding behaviors in five species of Barbadian birds. El Pitirre 15:117-123.