Email
    awilkinson@lincoln.ac.uk
    Telephone
    01522 83 5465
    Post
    University of Lincoln
    Brayford Pool
    Lincoln
    Lincolnshire
    LN6 7TS
    United Kingdom

    Dr Anna Wilkinson

    Senior Lecturer

    School of Life Sciences
    Faculty of Science

    About Anna Wilkinson

    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.

    Department Responsibilities

    I teach on a variety of courses including Animal Cognition, Animal Learning and Training, Human-Animal Interactions and Research Methods.

    Subject Specialism

    Animal Cognition

    Qualifications

    • PhD 2004 – 2007: Avian visual perception - Department of Psychology, University of York
    • BSc 1999 – 2003: Department of Psychology, University of Stirling

    Awards

    • My research has been supported by a variety of sources including
    • The Royal Society
    • European Science Fund
    • Austrian Science Foundation
    • Awards and Honours
    • Ignobel prize in physiology (Sept 2011)
    • Awarded the KM Stott Prize for the best PhD thesis of 2008 by the University of York.
    • Journal Editor: Avian Biology Research (July 2011-present).

    Professional Affiliations

    • Comparative Cognition Society
    • Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour

    Research in the Lincoln Repository

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