《动物认知》是一本跨学科的期刊，提供动物行为学、行为生态学、动物行为与学习、认知科学、比较心理学和进化心理学等多个学科在进化框架下对动物(和人类)认知各方面的最新研究。《动物认知》出版了关于生物根源的认知-智力结构的机制和进化的原始经验和理论著作、综述、方法论文、简短的交流和通信。该杂志探索了动物的时间感知和使用;因果关系检测;先天反应模式和先天学习基础;数值能力和频率期望;符号使用;沟通;解决问题，动物思维和工具的使用，以及思维的模块化。
Animal Cognition is an interdisciplinary journal offering current research from many disciplines (ethology, behavioral ecology, animal behavior and learning, cognitive sciences, comparative psychology and evolutionary psychology) on all aspects of animal (and human) cognition in an evolutionary framework.Animal Cognition publishes original empirical and theoretical work, reviews, methods papers, short communications and correspondence on the mechanisms and evolution of biologically rooted cognitive-intellectual structures.The journal explores animal time perception and use; causality detection; innate reaction patterns and innate bases of learning; numerical competence and frequency expectancies; symbol use; communication; problem solving, animal thinking and use of tools, and the modularity of the mind.
