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Alexis Breen

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Postdoctoral Researcher

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Department of Human Behavior, Ecology and Culture
Deutscher Platz 6
04103 Leipzig

Phone: +49 341 3550 775
Office: B1.12

E-mail: alexis_breen@[>>> Please remove the text! <<<]eva.mpg.de
Personal webpage: alexisbreen.com

Research Interests
Publications

Research Interests

My research examines the causes and consequences of variation in animal behaviour, with a particular focus on animal material technology, such as nest building and tool use. Currently, I am applying Bayesian learning models to tease apart the influence of asocial and social cues on decision making. My research, to date, relies on birds as study systems, in both a field and laboratory setting. 

Publications

Breen, A. J., Healy, S. D., & Guillette, L. M. (2021). Reproductive consequences of material use in avian nest construction. Behavioural Processes, 193: 104507.
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Breen, A. J. (2021). Animal culture research should include avian nest construction. Biology Letters, 17: 20210327.
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Breen, A. J., Sugasawa, S., & Healy, S. D. (2021). Manipulative and technological skills do not require a slow life history. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 9: 635802.
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Breen, A. J., Lovie, K. E., Guerard, C., Edwards, S. C., Cooper, J., Healy, S. D., & Guillette, L. M. (2020). Juvenile socio-ecological environment shapes material technology in nest-building birds. Behavioral Ecology, 31(4), 892-901.
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Breen, A. J., Bonneaud, C. C., Healy, S. D., & Guillette, L. M. (2019). Social learning about construction behaviour via an artefact. Animal Cognition, 22(3), 305-315.
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Neilands, P. D., Jelbert, S. A., Breen, A. J., Schiestel, M., & Taylor, A. H. (2016). How insightful Is ‘insight’? New Caledonian crows do not attend to object weight during spontaneous stone dropping. PLoS One, 11(12): e0167419.
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Breen, A. J., Guillette, L. M., & Healy, S. D. (2016). What can nest-building birds teach us? Comparative Cognition & Behavior Reviews, 11, 83-102.
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Logan, C. J., Breen, A. J., Taylor, A. H., Gray, R. D., & Hoppitt, W. J. E. (2016). How New Caledonian crows solve novel foraging problems and what it means for cumulative culture. Learning Behavior, 44(1), 18-28.
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Logan, C. J., Jelbert, S. A., Breen, A. J., Gray, R. D., & Taylor, A. H. (2014). Modifications to the Aesop's fable paradigm change New Caledonian crow performances. PLoS One, 9(7): e103049.
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