《動(dòng)物認(rèn)知》是一本跨學(xué)科的期刊，提供動(dòng)物行為學(xué)、行為生態(tài)學(xué)、動(dòng)物行為與學(xué)習(xí)、認(rèn)知科學(xué)、比較心理學(xué)和進(jìn)化心理學(xué)等多個(gè)學(xué)科在進(jìn)化框架下對(duì)動(dòng)物(和人類)認(rèn)知各方面的最新研究。《動(dòng)物認(rèn)知》出版了關(guān)于生物根源的認(rèn)知-智力結(jié)構(gòu)的機(jī)制和進(jìn)化的原始經(jīng)驗(yàn)和理論著作、綜述、方法論文、簡(jiǎn)短的交流和通信。該雜志探索了動(dòng)物的時(shí)間感知和使用;因果關(guān)系檢測(cè);先天反應(yīng)模式和先天學(xué)習(xí)基礎(chǔ);數(shù)值能力和頻率期望;符號(hào)使用;溝通;解決問題，動(dòng)物思維和工具的使用，以及思維的模塊化。

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.