MEMBER HIGHLIGHT: Ellen Furlong, Associate Professor of Psychology & Neuroscience, Transylvania University. Ellen studies dog cognition and behavior. Check out her lab website: transy.edu/dog-lab/

The origins of human musicality remain poorly understood. Cook tested four pigeons in three experiments for their capacity to discriminate the intervals of the chromatic scale. doi.org/10.1037/com0...

Check out Caratti, N., et al., (2025). Naturalistic housing condition promotes behavioral flexibility and increases resilience to stress in rats. Behavioral Neuroscience, 139(2), 53–59. doi.org/10.1037/bne0...

When offered a simultaneous choice between a larger-later reward and a smaller-sooner reward blue jays, monkeys, humans, and rats often prefer the SS option. When choosing between staying at a location for a reward or leaving for a different reward, these same species tend to prefer the LL reward.

MEMBER HIGHLIGHT: Michael Beran, Professor of Psychology, Georgia State University. Michael studies comparative cognition with an emphasis on metacognition, self-control, prospective cognition, numerical cognition, perception, and decision making. Check out his lab website: sites.gsu.edu/comic-lab/

Check out the August Issue of the Behavioral Neuroscience Journal!

Colbert-White et al. assessed the influence of a high, rising, positive “Oooh!” sound on dogs’ choice of differing quantities of food. The idea behind this experiment is that dogs may use human-delivered cues to aid them in making choices. doi.org/10.1037/com0...

MEMBER HIGHLIGHT: Philip Jean-Richard-dit-Bressel, PhD, UNSW Sydney School of Psychology. Philip is interested in the psychological and neurobiological mechanisms of motivated learning and decision-making. Learn more: unsw.edu.au/staff/philip-jean-richard-dit-bressel

Minshall et al., (2025) study examined an adaptation of stress-enhanced fear learning, or SEFL, in which rats were exposed to footshock stress early in life (17-days old) and later as adults (around 90 days old) received footshock paired with a novel context. doi.org/10.1037/bne0000608

Steckley et al. assessed play behavior in adolescent female rats. Their interest was in the role that such play has in social relationships. They used an “isolation versus separation” protocol to identify behaviors that reflected relationship renewal. doi.org/10.1037/com0...

Want to learn about the ins and outs of the roles of animals in psychological practice? Join us for APA convention – DIV 6 program in Denver (+ Virtual) August 7-9.

MEMBER HIGHLIGHT: Chris Krupenye, Assistant Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Johns Hopkins University. Chris studies how humans and other animals think and navigate their social worlds. Check out his lab website: www.social-cognitive-origins.com

Div. 6 was established by APA in 1944 originally named the Physiological Psychology and Comparative Psychology. In 2015 the name was changed to the Society for Behavioral Neuroscience and Comparative Psychology. Learn more about our history, apadivisions.org/division-6/about/history.pdf

The August issue’s featured article, Caldicott et al. assessed the best way to train dogs to detect scents and then generalize that training effectively to other scents. doi.org/10.1037/com0... The editor’s feature essay about this paper can be found here: doi.org/10.1037/com0...

Join us! Div. 6 membership is open to professionals and students with an interest in the goals of the society. Div. 6 currently has four membership categories: Fellow, Member, Affiliate and Student Affiliate. Learn More: apadivisions.org/division-6/membership

We're excited to feature articles from the APA Division 6 journals: Behavioral Neuroscience & Comparative Psychology. From groundbreaking neuroscience to animal behavior research, stay tuned for the latest findings and discussions! #BehavioralNeuroscience #ComparativePsychology #APA

Society for Behavioral Neuroscience and Comparative Psychology members are devoted to studying the biology of behavior. Our focus is on behavior and its relation to perception, learning, memory, cognition, motivation, and emotion. #BehavioralNeuroscience #ComparativePsychology #APA