Research Interests

The study of how animals use their cognitive abilities in the context of their natural history. Current specific interests are the use of spatial memory by seed-caching corvids, search images and the evolution of cryptic prey, and the drawing inferences about social relationships.

Recent Publications

• Lewis, J. L., & Kamil, A. C.  2006.  Interference effects in the memory for serially presented locations in Clark's nutcrackers, Nucifraga columbiana.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes.  32: 407-418.
• Kamil, A. C., & Bond, A. B.  2006.  Selective Attention, Priming and Foraging Behavior.  In E.A. Wasserman & T. R. Zentall (Eds.)  Comparative Cognition: A Natural Science Approach to the Study of Animal Intelligence.  Oxford University Press.
• Bond, A. B., & Kamil, A. C.  2006.  Spatial Heterogeneity, Predator Cognition, and the Evolution of Color Polymorphism in Virtual Prey.  Proceedings National Academy of Science. 103:3214-3219.
• Gibson, B. M., & Kamil, A. C.  2005.  The fine-grained spatial abilities of three seed-caching corvids.  Learning and Behavior.  33:59-66.
• Paz-y-Miño, G, Bond, A. B., Kamil, A. C., & Balda, R. P.  2004.  Pinyon jays use transitive inference to predict social dominance.  Nature.  430:778-782.
• Goodyear, A.  J., & Kamil, A.  C.  2004.  Clark=s nutcrackers (Nucifraga columbiana) and the effects of goal‑landmark distance on overshadowing.  Journal of Comparative Psychology.  118:258-264.
• Bond, A. B., Kamil, A. C., & Balda, R. P. 2003.  Social complexity and transitive inference in corvids.  Animal Behaviour. 65: 479-487. 
• Bond, A. B., & Kamil, A. C.  2002. Visual Predators Select for Crypticity Polymorphism in Virtual Prey.  Nature.  415:609-614.
• Kamil, A. C., & Cheng, K.  2001.  Way-finding and landmarks: the multiple-bearings hypothesis.  Journal of Experimental Biology.  204: 103-113.