MM1

Learning is a fundamental ability present across species—from insects to humans—that allows individuals to adapt and respond to fluctuating environments. Researchers in fields such as behavioral ecology, biology, zoology, and psychology have developed methods and theories to understand learning within the species they study, but the typically isolated manner of this work has limited valid comparisons across species. To begin to unravel the mysteries of learning and its evolutionary origins, ManyManys 1 (MM1) will develop and implement an innovative task to measure, describe, and compare reversal learning abilities across animal taxa. While reversal learning has been investigated in numerous species, each study has typically focused on one at a time. ManyManys 1 will collect data from a wide range of taxa in a single study.

Our team believes in staying connected and fostering collaboration. We hold regular meetings and discuss ideas and plans using Slack. If you are interested in joining our network, you can reach out to the project leads —Nicolás Alessandroni and Laurent Prétôt— at themanymanys1@gmail.com!

The ManyManys 1 Lab Manual brings together everything needed to understand and participate in the study, from its scientific foundations to the practicalities of data collection. It is generously hosted by GitBook through their Community Plan and can be accessed following this link.

Nicolás Alessandroni [2023 - ]

Concordia University (Montréal, Canada)
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Laurent Prétôt [2023 - ]

Pittsburg State University (Pittsburg KS, USA)
[email]

• Ensar Acem (Kadir Has University, Turkey)
• Drew M. Altschul (University of Edinburgh, UK)
• Kristin Andrews (York University, Canada)
• Benjamin J. Ashton (Flinders University, Australia)
• Mine Ayanoğlu (Mardin Artuklu University, Turkey)
• Lisa P. Barret (ManyZoos, Indiana University Bloomington, USA)
• Heidi A. Baumgartner (Stanford University, USA)
• Marina Bazhydai (Lancaster University, UK)
• Mariana Bentosela (National Scientific and Technical Research Council, CONICET, Argentina)
• Michael Beran (Georgia State University, USA)
• Julie Bertels (Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)
• Laura Marina Biondi (Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras, UNMdP, CONICET, Argentina)
• Grace Blackburn (Central Queensland University, Australia)
• Andrew C. Blundsen (Macquarie University, Australia)
• Francesco Bonadonna (CNRS, France)
• Sarah F. Brosnan (Georgia State University, USA)
• Culum Brown (Macquarie University, Australia)
• Desiree Brucks (Humboldt University Berlin, Germany)
• Erin M. Buchanan (Harrisburg University of Science and Technology, USA)
• Daphna Buchsbaum (Brown University, USA)
• Krista Byers-Heinlein (Concordia University, Canada)
• Álvaro L. Caicoya (Research Institute for Farm Animal Biology, Germany)
• Josep Call (University of St Andrews, UK)
• Samuel P. Caro (Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France)
• Francesca M. Cassola (Anglia Ruskin University, UK)
• Lars Chittka (Queen Mary University of London, UK)
• Sarah Dalesman (Aberystwyth University, UK)
• Samara Danel (Centre in Ecology and Evolutionary Ecology, France)
• Alexandra A. de Sousa (Seattle, USA)
• Gabrielle L. Davidson (University of East Anglia, UK)
• Anushka Desai (Mumbai, Maharashtra)
• Fatma Nur Dolu (Konya Food and Agriculture University, Turkey)
• Mahmoud M. Elsherif (University of Leicester, UK)
• Julia Espinosa (Harvard University, USA)
• Anna Exner (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany)
• Carly F. Fisher (Brown University, USA)
• Lauren Frick (Western Washington University, USA)
• Marianne S. Freeman (University Centre Sparsholt, UK)
• Jordi Galbany (University of Barcelona, Spain)
• Clara García-Co (University of Antwerp, Belgium)
• Charlène Gémard (University of Ghent, Belgium)
• Alessandra Geraci (University of Catania, Italy)
• Molly E. Gilmour (University of Postdam, Germany)
• Biljana Gjoneska (Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts, North Macedonia)
• Vaitsa Giannouli (Democritus University of Thrace, Greece)
• Özdal Gökdal (Adnan Menderes University, Turkey)
• Miranda Gómez Díaz (Concordia University, Canada)
• Nayeli Gonzalez-Gomez (Oxford Brookes University, UK)
• Suzanne L. Gray (College of the Holy Cross, USA)
• Lauren M. Guillette (University of Alberta, Canada)
• Onur Güntürkün (Ruhr-Univesity Bochum, Germany)
• Priscilla Haney Hernandez (Concordia University, Canada)
• Elizabeth L. Haseltine (Georgia State University, USA)
• Daniel B. M. Haun (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany)
• Tomer Hazan (Concordia University, Canada)
• Yseult Héjja-Brichard (University of Maryland, USA)
• Ori Hendler (Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel)
• Ludwig Huber (Messerli Research Institute / University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Austria)
• Paula Ibáñez de Aldecoa (Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse, France)
• Jordan Iloski (University of Western Australia, Australia)
• Hoi-Lam Jim (Kyoto University Institute for Advanced Study, Japan)
• Marine Joly (University of Portsmouth, UK)
• Lindsey Johnson (University of South Alabama, USA)
• Jeffrey Katz (Aubern University, USA)
• Gwenaël Kaminski (University of Toulouse, France)
• Junko Kanero (Sabanci University, Turkey)
• Debbie M. Kelly (University of Manitoba, Canada)
• Kaan Kerman (Bilkent University, Turkey)
• Annabell Klinke (Macquarie University, Australia)
• Elizaveta Komyaginskaya (HSE University, Russia)
• Uta König von Borstel (University of Giessen, Germany)
• Marta Kowal (University of Wroclaw, Poland)
• Anastasia Krasheninnikova (Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence, Germany)
• Valerie A. Kuhlmeier (Queen's University, Canada)
• Megan Lambert (University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Austria)
• Christine R. Lattin (Louisiana State University, USA)
• Saein Lee (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
• Vadillo I. Loidi (University of Barcelona, Spain)
• Tyrone Lucon-Xiccato (University of Ferrera, Italy)
• Heidi Lyn (University of South Alabama, USA)
• Noa Magen (Université de Montréal, Canada)
• Lisandrina Mari (University of Jyväskylä, Finland)
• Frederick Matte (Concordia University, Canada)
• Julien Mayor (University of Oslo, Norway)
• Valeria Mazza (University of Potsdam / University of Tuscia, Germany / Italy)
• Rebecca K. Meagher (Dalhousie University, Canada)
• Joseph R. Mendelson III (Zoo Atlanta & Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
• Jeremy K. Miller (Willamette University, USA)
• Noam Miller (Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada)
• Rachael Miller (Anglia Ruskin University, UK)
• Gina Mireault (Vermont State University, USA)
• Kasturi Mondal (Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel)
• David Moreau (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
• Christian Nawroth (Research Institute for Farm Animal Biology, Germany)
• Paul Nealen (Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA)
• Mary Beth Neff (University of Oslo, Norway)
• Josh Nguyen (Orygen/Centre for Youth Mental Health, Australia)
• Eliza L. Nelson (Florida International University, USA)
• Victoria L. O'Connor (Oakland University / Bergen County Zoo, USA)
• Ljerka Ostojic (University of Rijeka, Croatia)
• Stefano Pagliarani (Educational Research Institute, Poland)
• José Ricardo Paula (MARE - Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)
• Annika Paukner (Nottingham Trent University, UK)
• Madeline H. Pelgrim (Brown University, USA)
• Stefanie Peykarjou (Charlotte Fresenius Hochschule Wiesbaden, Germany)
• Stefan Popp (Free University Berlin, Germany)
• Ekaterina Pronizius (University of Vienna, Austria)
• Michael J. Proulx (University of Bath, UK)
• Muhammad A. J. Qadri (College of the Holy Cross, USA)
• Simon M. Reader (McGill University, Canada)
• Olivia Reilly (Harvard University, USA)
• Amanda R. Ridley (University of Western Australia, Australia)
• Alba Motes Rodrigo (University of Lausanne, Switzerland)
• Jan P. Röer (Witten/Herdecke University, Germany)
• Tamal Roy (Humboldt University of Berlin / Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Germany)
• Susana Ruiz-Fernandez (Brandenburg University of Technology, Germany)
• Maria Santacà (University of Vienna, Austria)
• Adam Sandford (University of Guelph-Humber, Canada)
• Océane Schmitt (Justus-Liebig University of Giessen, Germany)
• Raoul Schwing (University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Austria)
• Carla Sebastián-Enesco (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)
• Ronen Segev (Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel)
• Christopher Shoukry (Florida International University, USA)
• Vedrana Šlipogor (University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic)
• Melanie Soderstrom (University of Manitoba, Canada)
• Aamir Sohail (University of Birmingham, UK)
• Carl D. Soulsbury (University of Lincoln, UK)
• Jeffrey R. Stevens (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)
• Lalitta Suriya-Arunroj (Chulalongkorn University, Thailand)
• Scott Swain (Clemson University, USA)
• Birgit Szabo (University of Bern, Switzerland)
• Lupin M. L. Teles (Federal University of Alagoas, Brazil)
• Christopher N. Templeton (Western Washington University, USA)
• Sandra Trigo (Universidade do Porto, BIOPOLIS, Portugal)
• Kees van Oers (Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), The Netherlands)
• Ariane Veit (Messerli Research Institute / University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Austria)
• Frederick Verbruggen (Ghent University, Belgium)
• Elisabetta Versace (Queen Mary University of London, UK)
• Jonas Verspeek (Royal Zoological Society of Antwerp, Belgium)
• Ingmar Visser (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
• Auguste M. P. von Bayern (Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence, Germany)
• Jennifer Vonk (Oakland University, USA)
• Lijun Wang (Wuhan University of Technology, China)
• Wen Wang (University of Essex, UK)
• Müller Wendt (University of Antwerp, Belgium)
• Stephanie Wermelinger (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
• Gert Westermann (Lancaster University, UK)
• Ben Whittaker (University of Alberta, Canada)
• Madison Williams (Concordia University, Canada)
• Marianne Wondrak (Henndorf am Wallersee, Austria)
• Justin Yeager (Universidad de las Americas, Ecuador)
• Martin Zettersten (Princeton University, USA)
• Lei Zhang (University of Birmingham, UK)
• Yucheng Zhang (University of Southampton, UK)
• Ethan Zlotnik (Concordia University, Canada)