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. In this paper, a group of authors propose solutions and discuss how big team science can transform the field.
Alessandroni N, Altschul D, Baumgartner HA, Bazhydai M, Brosnan SF, Byers-Heinlein K, Call J, Chittka L, Elsherif M, Espinosa J, Freeman MS, Gjoneska B, Güntürkün O, Huber L, Krasheninnikova A, Mazza V, Miller R, Moreau D, Nawroth C, Pronizius E, Ruiz-Fernández S, Schwing R, Šlipogor V, Visser I, Vonk J, Yeager J, Zettersten M, Prétôt L., Bringing Big Team Science to Comparative Cognition Research: Confronting Challenges and Forging Ways Forward, Nature Human Behaviour, 2025, 9: 240-242.
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. In this paper, a group of authors propose solutions and discuss how big team science can transform the field.
Alessandroni N, Altschul D, Baumgartner HA, Bazhydai M, Brosnan SF, Byers-Heinlein K, Call J, Chittka L, Elsherif M, Espinosa J, Freeman MS, Gjoneska B, Güntürkün O, Huber L, Krasheninnikova A, Mazza V, Miller R, Moreau D, Nawroth C, Pronizius E, Ruiz-Fernández S, Schwing R, Šlipogor V, Visser I, Vonk J, Yeager J, Zettersten M, Prétôt L., Bringing Big Team Science to Comparative Cognition Research: Confronting Challenges and Forging Ways Forward, Nature Human Behaviour, 2025, 9: 240-242.
