School of Life Sciences
Faculty of Science
Senior Lecturer (2011-present) School of Life Sciences, University of Lincoln Lecturer (2010-2011) Department of Biological Sciences, University of Lincoln Postdoctoral fellowship (2007-2010) Department of Cognitive Biology, University of Vienna, Austria
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Kirkpatrick, K., Wilkinson, A., & Johnston, S. (2007). Pigeons discriminate continuous vs. discontinuous line segments. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 33, 273-286.
Wilkinson, A., Chan, H. M., & Hall, G. (2007). A study of spatial learning and memory in the tortoise (Geochelone carbonaria). Journal of Comparative Psychology, 121, 412-418.
Wilkinson, A., Coward, S., & Hall, G. (2009). Visual and response-based navigation in the tortoise (Geochelone carbonaria) Animal Cognition, 12, 779-787.
Wilkinson, A., & Kirkpatrick, K. (2009). Visually-guided capture of a moving stimulus by the pigeon (Columba livia). Animal Cognition, 12, 127-144.
Huber, L., & Wilkinson, A. (2010). The evolutionary approach to perception. In B. Goldstein (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Perception. London: SAGE.
Wilkinson, A., & Kirkpatrick, K. (2010). Tracking and capture of constant and varying velocity stimuli: A cross-species comparison of pigeons and humans. Animal Cognition, doi: 10.1007/s10071-010-0343-8.
Wilkinson, A., Kuenstner, K., Mueller, J., & Huber, L. (2010). Social learning in a non-social reptile. Biology Letters, 6, 614-616.
Wilkinson, A., Mandl, I., Bugnyar, T., & Huber, L. (2010). Gaze following in the red-footed tortoise (Geochelone carbonaria). Animal Cognition, 13, 765-769.
Wilkinson, A., Specht, H. L., & Huber, L. (2010). Pigeons can discriminate group mates from strangers using the concept of familiarity, Animal Behaviour, 80, 109-115.
Mueller, J., Wilkinson, A., & Hall, G. (2011). Spatial Cognition in Reptiles. In F. Columbus (Ed.) Reptiles: Biology Behavior and Conservation. Nova Science Publishers: New York.
Wilkinson, A., Sebanz, N., Mandl, I., & Huber, L. (2011). No evidence of contagious yawning in the red-footed tortoise (Geochelone carbonaria)? Current Zoology, 57, 477−484.
Wilkinson, A., & Huber, L. (2012). Cold-blooded cognition: Reptilian cognitive abilities. In J. Vonk & T. K. Shackelford (Eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Evolutionary Psychology. Oxford University Press: New York.
Huber, L., & Wilkinson, A. (2012). Cognitive evolution: A comparative approach. In F. G. Barth, P. Giampieri-Deutsch & H-D. Klein (Eds.) Sensory Perception: Mind and Matter. Springer: New York.
Mueller-Paul, J., Wilkinson, A., Hall, G., & Huber, L. (2012). Radial arm maze behaviour of the red-footed tortoise (Geochelone carbonaria). Journal of Comparative Psychology. doi: 10.1037/a0026881.
Mueller-Paul, J., Wilkinson, A., Hall, G., & Huber, L. (2012). Response-based navigation in the jeweled lizard (Lacerta lepida). Herpetological Notes 5, 243-246.
Stephan, C., Wilkinson, A., & Huber, L. (2012). Have we met before? Pigeons recognise familiar human faces. Avian Biology Research, 5, 75-80.
Wascher, C., Szipl, G., Boeckl, M., & Wilkinson, A. (2012). You sound familiar- Carrion crows can differentiate between the calls of known and unknown heterospecifics. Animal Cognition, 15, 1015-1019.
Wilkinson, A., Mueller-Paul, J., & Huber, L. (2013). Picture-object recognition in the red-footed tortoise (Chelonoidis carbonaria). Animal Cognition, 16, 99-107.
I teach on a variety of courses including Animal Cognition, Animal Learning and Training, Human-Animal Interactions and Research Methods.
Animal Cognition