About the Comparative Cognition Society
Founded in 1999, the Comparative Cognition Society (CCS) is a scientific society dedicated to gaining a broad scientific understanding of the nature and evolution of cognition in human and nonhuman animals. The Comparative Cognition Society is a nonprofit scientific society with no doctrine or philosophy, except the scientific method as it is commonly understood in all natural sciences. Anyone who studies perception, learning, memory, or any other cognitive or representational process in animals is welcome. Our members include faculty members, animal behavior professionals, and students in psychology, biology, anthropology, applied animal behavior science, and related fields.
Membership in the society supports the following activities:
- A primary activity of CCS is sponsorship of the annual International Conference on
Comparative Cognition (CO3), which has been held annually each March in Melbourne, Florida since
1994. Both Faculty/Professional Scientist members and Student members of CCS receive a discount on
CO3 conference fees. To promote student interest in comparative cognition, student
conference fees are kept at a minimum.
- CCS has been a leader in electronic publishing and in an effort to provide the products of
our science to scientists, students, and the general public at no cost and in a format that allows
dynamic illustrations of animal behavior and analyses of that behavior. The current portfolio of
electronic publications supported by members of the society includes:
- Comparative Cognition and Behavior Reviews - The first three volumes of this annual online journal of reviews are available.
- Two cyberbooks have been published in cooperation with the society
- Avian Visual Cognition
- Animal Spatial Cognition: Comparative, Neural, and Computational Approaches
- Proceedings of the Annual Conference on Comparative Cognition - conference
proceedings include some full-text PowerPoint™ presentations
We hope that you will choose to support these current activities of the society and our ability to take on future activities by becoming a member of the Comparative Cognition Society.
