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Schedule of events

New Fellows seminar

Symposium program

Early-career researchers program

Teacher awards

Teachers program

Welcome Professor Kurt Lambeck President, Australian Academy of Science

The Rutherford Memorial Lecture, The Royal Society – plenary address Cognition and instinct Professor Sir Patrick Bateson Professor of Ethology, Cambridge University, UK

Opening comment Chair: Professor Lesley Rogers Professor of Neuroscience and Animal Behaviour, University of New England, Armidale, New South Wales

Small brains, smart minds: Perception, learning and 'cognition' in honeybees Professor Mandyam Srinivasan The Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland, Queensland

The cognitive chicken: Higher mental processing in a humble brain Professor Giorgio Vallortigara Professor of Psychobiology and Physiological Psychology and Dean of the Faculty, University of Trieste, Italy

Apes, corvids and the evolution of cognition Dr Nathan Emery Royal Society University Research Fellow, Sub-Department of Animal Behaviour, University of Cambridge, UK

Higher cognition and communication in apes and birds, with special reference to the vocal repertoire of Australian magpies Professor Gisela Kaplan Centre for Neuroscience and Animal Behaviour, University of New England, Armidale, New South Wales

General questions of all speakers

Chair: Professor Ross Day Adjunct Professor, School of Psychological Science, La Trobe University, Melbourne

Memories of tomorrow: Do animals remember the past and plan for the future? Professor Nicola Clayton Professor of Comparative Cognition, Department of Experimental Psychology and Director of Studies in Natural Sciences (Biological), Clare College Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, UK

Communication and cognition in birds Professor Christopher Evans Director, Centre for the Integrative Study of Animal Behaviour, Macquarie University, Sydney

Tool manufacture, cognition and culture in New Caledonian crows Professor Russell Gray Department of Psychology, University of Auckland, New Zealand

Panel discussion and summing up Professor Lesley Rogers Professor of Neuroscience and Animal Behaviour, University of New England, Armidale, New South Wales

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