Challenges and Promises of Big Team Comparative Cognition

Alessandroni, Nicolás and Altschul, Drew and Baumgartner, Heidi A and Bazhydai, Marina and Brosnan, Sarah and Byers-Heinlein, Krista and Call, Josep and Chittka, Lars and Elsherif, Mahmoud Medhat and Espinosa, Julia and Freeman, Marianne S. and Gjoneska, Biljana and Güntürkün, Onur and Huber, Ludwig and Krasheninnikova, Anastasia and Mazza, Valeria and Miller, Rachael and Moreau, David and Nawroth, Christian and Pronizius, Ekaterina and Ruiz-Fernández, Susana and Schwing, Raoul and Šlipogor, Vedrana and Visser, Ingmar and Vonk, Jennifer and Yeager, Justin and Zettersten, Martin and Prétôt, Laurent (2024) Challenges and Promises of Big Team Comparative Cognition. Nature Human Behaviour. ISSN 2397-3374

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Abstract

Big team science has the potential to reshape comparative cognition research, but its implementation — especially in making fair comparisons between species, handling multisite variation and reaching researcher consensus — poses daunting challenges. Here, we propose solutions and discuss how big team science can transform the field.