Alexis Breen
Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Deutscher Platz 6
04103 Leipzig
phone: +49 (0) 341 3550 276
e-mail:
alexis_breen@[>>> Please remove the text! <<<]eva.mpg.de
Research Interests
My research examines the causes and consequences of variation in animal behaviour, with a particular emphasis on animal material technology; namely, tool use and nest construction. Currently, I co-lead the Crow Cognition Group (CrowCoG)—a research group studying the socio-ecological, cognitive, and cultural underpinnings of tool-related and general foraging behaviour in New Caledonian crows. In this, and my previous research, I design and carry out non-invasive behavioural experiments in both a field and aviary setting; and I apply computational methods such as Bayesian (EWA) dynamic learning models to estimate social and asocial influence on individual decision making. I am adamant about annotating and archiving open-access (my) reproducible code.