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Sarah Jelbert

Lecturer, University of Bristol
Verified email at bristol.ac.uk
Cited by 1028

Self‐control in crows, parrots and nonhuman primates

R Miller, M Boeckle, SA Jelbert… - Wiley …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Self‐control is critical for both humans and nonhuman animals because it underlies
complex cognitive abilities, such as decision‐making and future planning, enabling goal‐directed …

[HTML][HTML] Using the Aesop's fable paradigm to investigate causal understanding of water displacement by New Caledonian crows

SA Jelbert, AH Taylor, LG Cheke, NS Clayton… - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Understanding causal regularities in the world is a key feature of human cognition. However,
the extent to which non-human animals are capable of causal understanding is not well …

Beyond brain size: uncovering the neural correlates of behavioral and cognitive specialization

…, S Jelbert, D Lukas, R Mares, AF Navarrete, S Shigeno… - 2018 - ore.exeter.ac.uk
… This introduces a degree of stochasticity in an animal’s … Imo’s brain may be no more
innovative than her peers: She … One possible conclusion is that Imo’s innovative ability is due …

New Caledonian crows infer the weight of objects from observing their movements in a breeze

SA Jelbert, R Miller, M Schiestl… - … of the Royal …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Humans use a variety of cues to infer an object's weight, including how easily objects can be
moved. For example, if we observe an object being blown down the street by the wind, we …

[HTML][HTML] A systematic review of the effect of university positive psychology courses on student psychological wellbeing

C Hobbs, J Armitage, B Hood, S Jelbert - Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
… The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original
author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is …

Benefits of a psychoeducational happiness course on university student mental well-being both before and during a COVID-19 lockdown

B Hood, S Jelbert, LR Santos - Health Psychology Open, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
We tested whether a psychoeducational course improved well-being in three cohorts. Study
1 found significantly higher mental well-being in first year undergraduates who took the …

[HTML][HTML] Mental template matching is a potential cultural transmission mechanism for New Caledonian crow tool manufacturing traditions

SA Jelbert, RJ Hosking, AH Taylor, RD Gray - Scientific Reports, 2018 - nature.com
… credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a … ’s Creative Commons license,
unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s

Reasoning by exclusion in New Caledonian crows (Corvus moneduloides) cannot be explained by avoidance of empty containers.

SA Jelbert, AH Taylor, RD Gray - Journal of Comparative …, 2015 - psycnet.apa.org
… As this bird’s performance did not fit with any of our strategies—and as he failed to reach
criterion on even the first inference condition—we classified this bird as choosing at random. …

[HTML][HTML] Modifications to the Aesop's Fable paradigm change New Caledonian crow performances

CJ Logan, SA Jelbert, AJ Breen, RD Gray, AH Taylor - PLoS One, 2014 - journals.plos.org
… experiments in Jelbert and colleagues [13] to ensure that our results were consistent with
results from previous studies on New Caledonian crows. We also replicated Jelbert and …

Does absolute brain size really predict self-control? Hand-tracking training improves performance on the A-not-B task

SA Jelbert, AH Taylor, RD Gray - Biology letters, 2016 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Large-scale, comparative cognition studies are set to revolutionize the way we investigate
and understand the evolution of intelligence. However, the conclusions reached by such work …