Alice Auersperg
Assoc. Prof. Priv.-Doz. Dr. rer. nat.Member of the Young Academy since 2021
- Messerli Research Institute, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna
alice.auersperg(at)vetmeduni.ac.at
Orcid-ID:
0000-0001-7405-9791
Research Areas:
- Biology
- Animal ecology
- Behavioural biology
- Developmental psychology
- Cognitive science
Profile:
Publications:
Selected Memberships:
- The Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour
- Die Ethologische Gesellschaft
- The Comparative Cognition Society
Selected Prizes:
- START-Preis des FWF
- WWTF Cognitive Science Project
- FWF-Einzelprojekte
- Scientist of the Year Award (Kategorie: Drittmittel) der Vetmeduni Wien
- Erwin-Schrödinger-Stipendium des FWF
Selected Publications:
- Biology Letters. 12, 20160689 (2016) Goffin's cockatoos make the same tool type from different materials. Auersperg, A.M.I., Borasinski, S., Laumer, I, Kacelnik, K. Citations 32.
- Proceedings of the Royal Society, Series B. 281(1793) 20140972. (2014) Social Transmission of Tool Use in the Goffins cockatoo. Auersperg, A.M.I, von Bayern, A.M.P., Weber, S., Szapari, A., Bugnyar, T., Kacelnik, A.
- Plos ONE 8 (7) e68979 (2013) Explorative learning and functional inferences on a five-step means-meansend problem in Goffin’s cockatoos (Cacatua goffini). Auersperg, A.M.I., Kacelnik, K, von Bayern, A.M.P.
- Current Biology. 22 (21): 903 - R904 (2012) Spontaneous innovation of tool manufacture and use in a Goffin’s cockatoo. Auersperg, A.M.I., Szabo, B. von Bayern, A.M.P., Kacelnik, A.
- PLoS ONE 6 (6): e20231. (2011) Flexibility in problem solving and tool use of kea and New Caledonian crows in a Multi Access Box paradigm. Auersperg, A.M.I., von Bayern, A.M.P., Gajdon, G.K., Huber, L., Kacelnik, A.