Jennifer Cunha

Northeastern University | NEU

Recent technological advances have made touchscreen devices more widely available for animal-computer interaction, but there is little consensus about methods for discrimination task training frameworks. Here we discuss the potential enrichment and communicative uses for touchscreen-based interactions as well as benefits and limitations of automate...

Reading is a cognitive process of decoding symbols to derive meaning. Although it has been assumed to be a uniquely-human skill, there is evidence that other species, e.g., pigeons and baboons, can master some orthographic processing skills-discriminating written words from written nonword letter combinations. An Umbrella cockatoo has also demonstr...

Research demonstrates that parrots are capable of high-level cognitive processing, including inference-by-exclusion, counting, music preference, symbol use, and abstract concept processing. Yet captive parrots also have high levels of stereotypy. Researchers have suggested that enhanced enrichment can include non-traditional learning opportunities...

Reading is a complex cognitive process of decoding symbols to derive meaning. It has been assumed that reading is a uniquely-human skill, although baboons and pigeons have been observed to successfully master orthographic processes. In this work, three cockatoos were trained with modified systematic phonics instruction on grapheme-phoneme correspon...