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Gory, J.D. & Kuczaj, S.A. II. (in press). Experimental investigations of the role of planning in dolphin problem solving. Proceedings of the European Cetacean Society.

Kuczaj, S.A. II, Makecha, R.N., Trone, M., Paulos, R.D., & Ramos, J.A. (in press). The role of peers in cultural transmission and cultural innovation: Evidence from dolphin calves. International Journal of Comparative Psychology.

Kuczaj, S.A. II, Paulos, R., Ramos, J., Thames, R., Rayborn, G., Walker, C., Ioup, G., Ioup, J., Snyder, M., Field, R., Newcomb, J., Fisher, R., Caruthers, J., Goodman, R., & Sidorovskaia, N. (in press). Anthropogenic noise and sperm whale sound production. Proceedings of the European Cetacean Society.

Newcomb, J., Fisher, R., Field, R., Ioup, G., Ioup, J., Rayborn, G., Kuczaj, S., Caruthers, J., Goodman, R., & Sidorovskaia, N. (in press). Using Acoustic Buoys to Assess Ambient Noise and Sperm Whale Vocalizations. Proceedings of the Information Transfer Meeting of the Minerals Management Service.

Wright, A. J., Goold, J.C., Kuczaj, S.A. II, Thames, R., Newcomb, J., Mellinger, D. K. & Snyder, M. (in press). Bathymetry, meteorology and diurnal patterns in sperm whale behaviour. Proceedings of the European Cetacean Society.

Hernandez, E.N., Kuczaj, S., Houser, D.S., & Finneran, J.J. (2007). Middle- and long-latency auditory evoked potentials in bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) resulting from frequent and oddball stimuli. Aquatic Mammals, 33, 34-42.

Kuczaj, S.A. II & Yeater, D.B. (2007). Observations of rough-toothed dolphins (Steno bredanensis) off the coast of Utila, Honduras. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 87, 141-148.

Kuczaj, S.A. II & Walker, R.T. (2006). How do dolphins solve problems? In E.A. Wasserman & T.R. Zentall (Eds.), Comparative Cognition: Experimental Explorations of Animal Intelligence. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 580-600.

Kuczaj, S.A. & Yeater, D.B. (2006). Dolphin imitation: Who, what, when, and why? Aquatic Mammals, 32, 413-422.

Kuczaj, S.A. II & Highfill, L.E. (2005). Dolphin play; Evidence for cooperation and culture? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 28, 705.

Kuczaj, S.A. II, Paulos, R. D. & Ramos, J. A. (2005). Imitation in apes, children and dolphins: Implications for the ontogeny and phylogeny of symbolic representation. In L. Namy (Ed.), Symbol Use and Symbolic Development. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. pp. 221-243.

Trone, M., Kuczaj, S.A. II, & Solangi, M. (2005). Does participation in dolphin-human interaction programs affect bottlenose dolphin behaviour? Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 93, 363-374.

Kuczaj, S.A. II & Hill, H.M. (2004). How animals care for their young. In M. Bekoff (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior, Vol. 1. Phoenix, AZ: Greenwood Publishing. Pp. 185-191.

Xitco, M.J. Jr., Gory, J.D. & Kuczaj, S.A. II. (2004). Audience effects on dolphin pointing. Animal Cognition, 7, 231-238.

Kuczaj, S.A. II & Hendry, J. L. (2003). Does language help animals think? In D. Gentner & S. Goldin-Meadow (Eds.), Language in Mind: Advances in the Study of Language and Thought. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, pp. 237-275.

Kuczaj, S.A. II & Hill. H.M. (2003). Language Development. In A. Slater & J.G. Bremner (Eds.), Developmental Psychology. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers, pp. 211-236.

Kuczaj, S.A. II, Lacinak, C.T., Fad, O., Trone, M. Solangi, M. & Ramos, R. (2002). Keeping environmental enrichment enriching. International Journal of Comparative Psychology, 15, 127-137.

Kuczaj, S.A. II, Ramos, J.A. & Paulos, R.L. (2002). Dancing on thin ice. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 25, 629-630.

Kuczaj, S.A. II & Xitco, M.J. (2002). It takes more than fish: the comparative psychology of marine mammal training. International Journal of Comparative Psychology, 15, 186-200.

Kuczaj, S.A. II (2001). Cetacean culture: Slippery when wet. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 24, 340-341.

Kuczaj, S.A. II, Hartong, K., King, M. & Hill, H.M. (2001). When do words affect children's attention to objects? In M. Almgren, A. Barrena, M. Ezeizabarrena, I. Idiazabal & B. MacWhinney (Eds.), Research on Child Language Acquisition. Spain: Cascadilla Press, pp. 1142-1153.

Kuczaj, S.A. II, Tranel, K., Trone, M. & Hill, H.M. (2001). Are animals capable of deception or empathy?: Implications for animal consciousness and animal welfare. Animal Welfare, 10, 161-173.

Kuczaj, S.A. II & Trone, M. (2001). Why do dolphins and whales make their play more difficult? Genetic Epistemologist, 29, 57.

Williams, B. M., Luo, Y., Ward, C., Redd, K., Gibson, R., Kuczaj, S. A. II & McCoy, J.G. (2001). Environmental enrichment improves memory and induces hippocampal CREB expression. Physiology and Behavior, 74, 1-10.

Xitco, M.J., Gory, J.D. & Kuczaj, S.A. II (2001). Spontaneous pointing by bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops trucatus). Animal Cognition, 4, 115-123.

Berry, D.S. & Kuczaj, S.A. II (2000). Individual differences in evolutionary perspective. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 23, 592-593.

Williams, B.M., McCoy, J.G. & Kuczaj, S.A II (2000). Evidence for a primacy effect in nonspatial recognition memory in rats. Learning and Motivation, 31, 54-66.

Wright, K.L. & Kuczaj, S.A. II (2000). The effects of time of day on mother-infant association patterns of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in captivity. American Zoologist, 40, 1266-1267.

Kuczaj, S.A. II (1999). The world of words: Thoughts on the development of a lexicon. In M. Barrett (Ed.), The Development of Language. London: UCL Press. pp. 133-160.

Lacinak, C.T., Turner, T.N. & Kuczaj, S.A. II (1999). Training, enrichment, and behavior. In K. Ramirez (Ed.), Animal Training. Chicago: Shedd Aquarium. pp. 269-271.

Kuczaj, S.A. II , Gory, J.D. & Xitco, M.J. (1998). Using programs to solve problems: Imitation versus insight. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 21 , 695-696.

Kuczaj, S.A. II (1998). Is an evolutionary theory of language play possible? Current Psychology of Cognition, 17, 135-154.

Kuczaj, S.A. II, Lacinak, C.T., Garver, A. & Scarpuzzi, M. (1998). Can animals enrich their own environment? In V. J. Hare & K.E. Worley (Eds.) Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Environmental Enrichment. The Shape of Enrichment, Inc., pp.168-170.

Kuczaj, S.A. II, Lacinak, C.T. & Turner, T.N. (1998). Environmental enrichment for marine mammals. In D. Shepherdson, J. Mellen & M. Hutchins (Eds.), Environmental Enrichment for Captive Animals. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press,
pp. 314-328.

Lacinak, C.T., Turner, T.N. & Kuczaj, S.A. II (1998). Training, enrichment, and behavior. Soundings, 23, 25-26.

Lacinak, C.T., Turner, T.N. & Kuczaj, S.A. II ( 1997). When is environmental enrichment most effective? In B. Holst (Ed.), Environmental Enrichment. Copenhagen, Denmark: Copenhagen Zoo, pp. 309-313.

Kuczaj, S.A. II & Kirkpatrick, V.M., (1993). Similarities and differences in human and animal language research: Toward a comparative psychology of language. In H.L. Roitblat, L.M. Herman & P.E. Nachtigall (Eds.)., Language and Communication: Comparative Perspectives. Hillsdale, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 45-64.

Holder, M.D., Herman, L.M. & Kuczaj, S.A. II (1993). A bottlenosed dolphin's responses to anomalous sequences expressed within an artificial gestural language. In H.L. Roitblat, L.M. Herman & P.E. Nachtigall (Eds.), Language and Communication: Comparative Perspectives. Hillsdale, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 443-456.

Herman, L.M., Kuczaj, S.A. II & Holder, M.D. (1993). Responses to anomalous gestural sequences by a language-trained dolphin: Evidence for processing of semantic relations and syntactic information. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. 122, 184-194.

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