Cognition has been extensively studied in primates while other, more distantly related taxa have been neglected for a long time. More recently, there has been an increased interest in avian cognition, with the focus mostly on big-brained species like parrots and corvids. However, the majority of bird species has never systematically been studied in diverse cognitive tasks other than memory and ...

This study discusses findings that replicate and extend the original work of Burns and Vollmeyer (2002), which showed that performance in problem-solving tasks was more accurate when people were engaged in a non-specific goal than in a specific goal. The main innovation here was to examine the goal specificity effect under both observation-based and conventional action-based learning conditions...

Excessive project budget overruns is a serious problem that may endanger long-term competitive advantage and financial viability of firms engaged with process development together with equipment suppliers. Joint development of new process technology often span organizational boundaries and are frequently described as both uncertain and equivocal. With the aim to propose better management method...

A substantial amount of economic activity involves problem solving, yet economics has few, if any, formal models to address how agents of limited abilities find good solutions to difficult problems. In this paper, we construct a model of heterogeneous agents of bounded abilities confronting difficult problems and analyze their individual and collective performance. By heterogeneity, we mean dif...