Comparative Cognition Society

Members of the CCS include university professors, postdoctoral fellows and graduate students. Members come from many different disciplines including psychology, biology, anthropology and applied animal behaviour.

Membership to the society supports the annual International Conference on Comparative Cognition (CO3) in Melbourne, Florida. The CCS also organizes a Fall Meeting conference, coordinated with the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society.[http://www.comparativecognition.org/fallmeeting.php CCS | CCS Fall Meeting 2013]

The society was formed in 1999 by 100 or so active researchers in the area of comparative cognition.[http://www.comparativecognition.org/founding_members.php CCS | Founding Members] The society's founding president (1999-2000) was Ron Weisman. Since its formation, CCS has been run by both new and founding members, elected as part of the executive board.

One of the primary functions of the society is sponsorship of the annual Conference on Comparative Cognition (CO3).[http://www.comparativecognition.org/conference.php CCS | CO3 2013] The first informal meeting of the conference was held in March, 1994 in Melbourne, Florida. With the founding of the CCS in 1999, CO3 became a formalized conference.{{Cite book|title=The Oxford handbook of comparative cognition|date=2012|publisher=Oxford University Press|others=Zentall, Thomas R., Wasserman, Edward A.|isbn=9780195392661|location=Oxford|oclc=707628145}} Over the years, CO3 has included talks on over 100 species by scientists from over a dozen countries. CO3 brings together new and returning researchers from across the world who present talks and posters about their work.

Each year at CO3, an eminent researcher in the field is honoured with the CCS Research Award and asked to give a master lecture.{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/user/comparativecognition|title=comparativecognition|website=YouTube|language=en|access-date=2017-12-09}} Past honourees include Sara Shettleworth, Alex Kacelnik, Alan Kamil, Thomas Zentall, Edward Wasserman, Karen Hollis and Ron Weisman.[http://www.comparativecognition.org/research_award.php CCS | CCS Research Award] A special paper session is held discussing the impact of the honouree on the scientific community each year, and an issue of the journal Behavioural Processes including articles related to the talks at the special session is published.[http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/03766357/93 Behavioural Processes | Vol 93, Pgs 1-166, (February, 2013) | ScienceDirect.com]

Beginning in 2008 CCS has sponsored a fall meeting in cooperation with the Psychonomic Society. The fall meeting coincides with the annual meeting of the Psychonomic society.

CCS publishes the online journal, Comparative Cognition and Behavior Reviews.[http://comparative-cognition-and-behavior-reviews.org CCBR Main Page] Comparative Cognition & Behavior Reviews is an open-access, peer-reviewed electronic journal of substantive reviews and constructive critiques in the area of animal cognition. The topics for these reviews and critiques include all aspects of research on cognition, perception, learning, memory and behavior in animals.

Current issue: Volume 12 (2017) - Co-editors: Marcia Spetch, Christopher Sturdy, & Anna Wilkinson.{{Cite web|url=http://comparative-cognition-and-behavior-reviews.org/|title=Comparative Cognition & Behavior Reviews|website=comparative-cognition-and-behavior-reviews.org|language=en-US|access-date=2017-12-09}}

The CCS has also published two electronic books: Avian Visual Cognition[http://pigeon.psy.tufts.edu/avc/ Avian Visual Cognition] and Animal Spatial Cognition: Comparative, Neural, and Computational Approaches.[http://pigeon.psy.tufts.edu/asc/ Animal Spatial Cognition]

Beginning with the ninth annual CO3 conference, the society has published the proceedings of the conference online.{{Cite web|url=https://sites.google.com/site/comparativecognition/co3|title=co3 - comparativecognition|website=sites.google.com|access-date=2017-12-09}}

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• [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL875806C90844C838 CO3 Master lecture videos]
• [http://www.comparativecognition.org/ Official website]

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