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Comparative Cognition & Behavior Reviews

ISSN 1911-4745

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Behaving from Within: Refining Markers for Consciousness in Cognitive Ethology

Comparative Cognition & Behavior Reviews 2026 Simon Braem

The study of animal consciousness has long struggled between analogy-based interpretations of behavior and reductionist accounts that explain complex actions as nonconscious.Building on Donald Griffin's proposal to use animal behaviors as suggestive indications rather than direct evidence, I argue that progress lies in refining these markers by drawing on insights from both neurobiology and the...