Arnon Lotem
Publications
Marković, Đ., Aljadeff, N.A., Aplin, L.M. and Lotem, A, 2023. Increased initial task difficulty drives social foragers to develop sub-optimal conformity instead of adaptive diversity. Royal Society Open Science, 10(7), p.230715.
Lotem, A., Kolodny, O., & Arbilly, M., 2023. Gene-culture coevolution in the cognitive domain. in Oxford handbook of cultural evolution.
Kolodny, O., Feldman, M.W., Lotem, A. and Ram, Y., 2022. Differential application of cultural practices at the family and individual levels may alter heritability estimates. Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 45.
Ben-Oren, Y., Truskanov, N. & Lotem, A. 2022. House sparrows use learned information selectively based on whether reward is hidden or visible. Anim Cogn. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10071-022-01637-1
Lotem, A., Vortman, Y., Safran J.B., 2022. The evidence for divergent sexual selection among closely related barn swallow populations is strong. Evolution https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.14506.
Prat, Y., Bshary, R., Lotem, A. 2022. Modelling how cleaner fish approach an ephemeral reward task demonstrates a role for ecologically tuned chunking in the evolution of advanced cognition. PLoS biology 20 (1), e3001519. PDF
Halpern, J.Y. & Lotem, A. 2021. The brain as a probabilistic transducer: an evolutionarily plausible network architecture for knowledge representation, computation, and behavior. arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.13388. PDF
Aljadeff, N. & Lotem, A. 2021. Task-dependent reversal learning dynamics challenge the reversal paradigm of measuring cognitive flexibility. Animal Behaviour 179, 183-197. PDF
Brodetzki, T.R., Lotem, A., Safran, R.J., Hauber, M.E. 2021. Lack of subspecies-recognition in breeding Barn Swallows (Hirundo rustica transitiva). Behavioural Processes 189, 104422. PDF
Aljadeff, N., Giraldeau, L.A. and Lotem, A., 2020. Competitive advantage of rare behaviours induces adaptive diversity rather than social conformity in skill learning. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B, 287 (1933), p.20201259. PDF
Quiñones, A.E., Leimar, O, Lotem, A., and Bshary, R., 2020. Reinforcement learning theory reveals the cognitive requirements for solving the cleaner fish market task. Am. Nat PDF
Tchernichovski, O., Parra, L. S., Fimiarz, D., Lotem, A., & Conley D., 2019. Crowd-wisdom enhanced by costly signaling in a virtual rating system. PNAS PDF
Linkovski, O., Weinbach, N., Edelman, S., Feldman, M.W., Lotem, A. and Kolodny, O., 2019. Beyond uncertainty: A broader scope for “incentive hope” mechanisms and its implications. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 42.
Truskanov, N., Rimon S., & Lotem, A., 2018. Context-specific learning and its implications for social learning. Behavioral Ecology, 29 , 1046-1055 Link
Arbilly, M & Lotem, A. 2017. Constructive anthropomorphism: a functional evolutionary approach to the study of human-like cognitive mechanisms in animals. Proc. R. Soc. B 284, 20171616; PDF
Lotem A., Halpern JY, Edelman S & Kolodny O, 2017. The evolution of cognitive mechanisms in response to cultural innovations. PNAS 114 (30) 7915-7922. PDF
Truskanov, N. & Lotem, A., 2017, Trial-and-error copying of demonstrated actions reveals how fledglings learn to ‘imitate’their mothers. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 284, No. 1849, p. 20162744. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2016.2744
Paul W. Ewald, Markus Herrmann, Frédéric Thomas, Sam P. Brown, Philipp Heeb, Arnon Lotem, and Benjamin Roche. 2017. Interventions to Control Damage from Infectious Disease: Integrating Ecological, Evolutionary, and Economic Perspectives. In: Investors and Exploiters in Ecology and Economics: Principles and Applications, edited by L-A. Giraldeau, P. Heeb, and M. Kosfeld. Strüngmann Forum Reports, vol. 21 J. Lupp, series editor. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press
Safran, R. J., Vortman, Y., Jenkins, B. R., Hubbard, J. K., Wilkins, M. R., Bradley, R. J., & Lotem, A. 2016. The maintenance of phenotypic divergence through sexual selection: An experimental study in barn swallows Hirundo rustica. Evolution, 70, 2074-2084. PDF
Safran RJ, Scordato ES, Wilkins MR, Hubbard JK, Jenkins BR, Albrecht T, Flaxman SM, Karaardıç H, Vortman Y, Lotem A, Nosil P. 2016. Genome‐wide differentiation in closely related populations: the roles of selection and geographic isolation. Molecular Ecology. 1;25:3865-83. PDF
Keynan, O. Ridley, A. & Lotem A. 2016. Task-dependent differences in learning by subordinate and dominant wild Arabian babblers. Ethology. 122, 1-12
Lotem, A., Kolodny, O., Halpern, Y. J., Onnis, L., & Edelman, S., 2016. The Bottleneck May Be the Solution, Not the Problem. A commentary on "The Now-or-Never Bottleneck: A Fundamental Constraint on Language". Behavioral and Brain Sciences . 39. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X1500088
Truskanov, N. & Lotem, A., 2015. The importance of active search for effective social learning: an experimental test in young passerines. Animal Behaviour. 108, 165-173. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2015.07.031
Kolodny, O., Edelman, S., & Lotem, A. 2015. Evolution of protolinguistic abilities as a byproduct of learning to forage in structured environments. Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. B. 282 (1811), 20150353. PDF
Kolodny, O., Edelman, S., & Lotem, A. 2015. Evolved to adapt: A computational approach to animal innovation and creativity.
Current Zoology, 61, 350-367. PDF
Vortman, Y., Safran, R. J., Reiner, B. T., Dor, R., & Lotem, A. 2015. Expression of multiple sexual signals by fathers and sons in the
East-mediterranean barn swallow: are advertising strategies heritable?. PloS one ,10(2), e0118054. PDF
Keynan, O., Ridley, A. R., & Lotem, A. 2014. Social foraging strategies and acquisition of novel foraging skills in cooperatively breeding Arabian babblers. Behavioral Ecology, 26:207-214. PDF
Katsnelson, E., Lotem, A., & Feldman, M. W. 2014. Assortative social learning and its implications for human (and animal?) societies. Evolution, 68(7), 1894-1906. PDF
Kolodny O, Lotem A & Edelman S 2014. Learning a generative probabilistic grammar of experience: a process-level model of language acquisition Cognitive Science 39: 227–267, DOI: 10.1111/cogs.12140, PDF
Kolodny, O., Edelman, S., & Lotem, A. 2014. The evolution of continuous learning of the structure of the environment. Journal of The Royal Society Interface, 11(92), 20131091. PDF
Lotem A & Biran-Yoeli I, 2014. Evolution of learning and levels of selection: a lesson from avian parent-offspring communication. Theoretical Population Biology. 91:58–74. PDF
Lotem, A., & Kolodny, O. 2014. Reconciling genetic evolution and the associative learning account of mirror neurons through data-acquisition mechanisms. (Commentary on: Mirror neurons: From origin to function by Cook et al. ). Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 37(02), 210-211. PDF
Ilan T, Katsnelson E, Motro U, Feldman MW & Lotem A. 2013. The role of beginner’s luck in learning to prefer risky patches by socially foraging house sparrows. Behavioral Ecology 24: 1398-1406. PDF
Vortman Y, Lotem A, Dor R, Lovette I, & Safran RJ. 2013. Multiple Sexual Signals and Behavioral Reproductive Isolation in a Diverging Population. The American Naturalist 182: 514-523. PDF
Belmaker A, Motro U, Feldman MW, and Lotem A 2012. Learning to choose among social foraging strategies in adult house sparrows (Passer domesticus). Ethology 118:1-11. PDF
Lotem A, and Halpern J Y. 2012. Co-evolution of learning and data acquisition mechanisms: a model for cognitive evolution. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, B. 367:2686-2694. PDF
Lotem A, 2012. Learning to avoid the behavioral gambit. Behavioral Ecology. doi: 10.1093/beheco/ars087. PDF
Dor R., R. J. Safran, Y. Vortman, A. Lotem, A. Mc.Gowen, M. R. Evans and I. J. Lovette. 2012. Population genetics and morphological comparisons of migratory European (Hirundo rustica rustica) and sedentary East-Mediterranean (H. r. transitiva) Barn Swallows. Journal of Heredity. 103: 55-63. doi: 10.1093/jhered/ESR114. PDF
Katsnelson E, Motro U, Feldman MW, and Lotem A. 2012. Evolution of learned strategy choice in a frequency-dependent game. Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. B . 279:1176-84. PDF
Dor R., I. J. Lovette, R. J. Safran, S. M. Billerman, G. Huber, Y. Vortman, A. Lotem, A. Mc.Gowen, M. R. Evans, C. B. Cooper, and D. W. Winkler. 2011. Low variation in the polymorphic Clock gene poly-Q region despite population genetic structure across Barn Swallow (Hirundo rustica) populations. PLoS ONE 6(12):e28843. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0028843. PDF
Arbilly M, E, Motro U, Feldman MW, and Lotem A. 2011. Recombination and the evolution of coordinated phenotypic expression in a frequency-dependent strategy game. Theoretical Population Biology. 80(4): 244-255. PDF
Vortman Y, Lotem A, Dor R, Lovette I, and Safran RJ, 2011. The sexual signals of the East-Mediterranean barn swallow (Hirundo rustica transitiva): a different swallow tale. Behavioral Ecology. 22: 1344-1352. PDF
Grodzinski U, Dor R, and Lotem A. 2011. Begging for a better future: how far can behavioral ecologists go without specifying mechanisms? Behavioral Ecology 22: 921-922. PDF
Arbilly M, Motro U, Feldman MW, and Lotem A. 2011. Evolution of social learning when high expected payoffs are associated with high risk of failure. J. R. Soc. Interface. 8:1604-1615. PDF
Katsnelson E, Motro U, Feldman MW, and Lotem A. 2011. Individual-learning ability predicts social-foraging strategy in house sparrows. Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. B. 278: 582-589. PDF.
Arbilly M, E, Motro U, Feldman MW, and Lotem A. 2010. Co-evolution of learning complexity and social foraging strategies.
J. Theor. Biol. 267: 573-581. PDF
Dor R. and Lotem A. 2010. Parental effort and response to nestling begging in the house sparrow: repeatability, heritability, and parent-offspring co-evolution. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 23: 1605-1612. PDF
Goldstein MH, Waterfall HR, Lotem A, Halpern JY, Schwade J, Onnis L, and S. Edelman, 2010 General cognitive principles for learning structure in time and space, Trends in Cognitive Sciences 14: 249-258. PDF
Grodzinski U, Hauber ME, and Lotem A. 2009. The role of feeding regularity and nestling digestive efficiency in parent-offspring communication: an experimental test. Functional Ecology, 23: 569-577. PDF
Dor R. and Lotem A. 2009. Heritability of nestling begging intensity in the house sparrow (Passer domesticus). Evolution,
63-3:738-748. PDF
Shafir S, Reich T, Tsur E, Erev I, and Lotem A. 2008. Perceptual accuracy and conflicting effects of certainty on risk-taking behaviour. Nature 453: 917-920 First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (221K) See also: Making the paper: Arnon Lotem, Nature podcast: interview with Ido Erev, media coverage
Lotem A. and Halpern J.Y. 2008. A Data-Acquisition Model for Learning and Cognitive Development and Its Implications for Autism. Cornell Computing and Information Science Technical Reports http://hdl.handle.net/1813/10178. PDF
Grodzinski U, Erev I, and Lotem A, 2008. Can hungry nestlings be trained to reduce their begging? Behavioral Ecology
19: 116-125. PDF
Katsnelson E, Motro U, Feldman MW, and Lotem A. 2008. Early experience affects producer-scrounger foraging tendencies in the house sparrow. Animal Behaviour, 75: 1465-1472. PDF
Adar E, Lotem A. and Barnea A, 2008. The effect of social environment on singing behavior in the zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata) and its implication for neuronal recruitment. Behavioural Brain Research 187: 178-84 (Available online 17 September 2007). PDF
Grodzinski U, Lotem A. 2007. The adaptive value of parental responsiveness to nestling begging. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B. 274 (1624): 2449-56. PDF
Dor R., Kedar H., Winkler WD. & Lotem 2007. Begging in the absence of parents: a "quick on the trigger" strategy to minimize costly misses. Behavioral Ecology, 18: 97-102. PDF
Munichor N., Erev I. & Lotem A. 2006 Risk attitude in small timesaving decisions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied.
12: 129-141. PDF
Werner N.Y. & Lotem A. 2006. Experimental evidence for male sequential mate preference in a lekking species. Ethology
112: 657-663. PDF
Ben-Dov A., Vortman Y. & Lotem A. 2006. First documentation of sibling cannibalism in a small passerine species. Ibis
148: 365-367. PDF (video link)
Lotem A. & Winkler DW. 2005 Defining the Concept of Public Information. Science 308: 354. PDF
Lotem A. & Winkler DW. 2004 Can reinforcement learning explain variation in early infant crying? Behavioral and Brain Sciences
27: 468. PDF
Werner N.Y., Balshine-Earn S., Leach B. & Lotem A. 2003. Helping opportunities and space segregation among helpers in co-operatively breeding cichlid. Behavioral Ecology. 14:749-756. PDF
Fishman MA, Stone L & Lotem A. 2003 Fertility assurance through extrapair paternity, and male paternity defense.
J. Theor. Biol. 221:96-107. PDF
Werner N.Y. & Lotem A. 2003 Choosy males in a haplochromine cichlid: first experimental evidence for male mate choice in a lekking species. Anim. Behav. 66:293-298. PDF
Lotem A, Fishman M.A., & Stone L. 2003 From reciprocity to unconditional altruism through signaling benefits. Proc.Roy. Soc.
Lond. B. 270:199-205. PDF
Ovadia O, Pinshow B. & Lotem A. 2002 Thermal imaging of house sparrow nestlings: the effect of begging behavior and nestling rank. The Condor 104:837-842. PDF
Fishman M.A., Lotem A & Stone L. 2001 Heterogeneity stabilizes reciprocal altruism interactions. J. Theor. Biol. 209, 87-95. PDF
Kedar H., Rodriguez-Girones M., Yedvab S., Winkler DW & Lotem A. 2000. Experimental evidence for offspring learning in parent-offsrping communication. Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. B. 267, 1723-1727. PDF
Lotem A., Fishman A. M., & Stone L. 1999. Evolution of cooperation between individuals. Nature 400:226-227. (see Electronic appendix). PDF
Rodriguez-Gironez M., Lotem A. 1999, How to detect a cuckoo egg: a signal detection theory model for recognition and learning. Amer. Natur. 153: 633-648. PDF
Lotem A. Wagner R.H. & Balshine-Earn S. 1999, The overlooked signaling component in non-signaling behavior. Behavioral Ecology. 10: 209-212. PDF
Lotem A. 1999 Manipulative begging by parasitic cuckoo nestlings and paradoxical host behaviour: a reply to Redondo. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 14: 107. PDF
Lotem A. 1998. Manipulative begging calls by parasitic cuckoo chicks: why should true offspring not do the same? Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 13: 342-343. PDF
Lotem A. 1998. Differences in begging behaviour among barn swallow (Hirundo Rustica) nestlings. Anim. Behav.
55:809-818. PDF
Lotem A. 1998. Brood reduction and begging behaviour in the Swift Apus apus;no evidence that large nestlings restrict parental choice. Ibis 140:507-511. PDF
Lotem A. 1998. Higher levels of begging behavior by small nestlings: a case of a negatively correlated handicap. Israel J. of Zool. 44:29-45. PDF
Balshine-Earn S., Lotem A. 1998. Experimental evidence for individual recognition from video playbacks in a cooperatively breeding cichlid (Neolamprologus brichardi). Behaviour 135:1-18. PDF
Rodriguez-Gironez M., Lotem A. 1998. Acceptance by the splendid fairy-wren of parasitism by Horsfield's bronze-cuckoo:
re-examination of Brooker and Brooker equilibrium model. Behavioral Ecology 9:419-420. PDF
Lotem A., & Nakamura H., 1998. Evolutionary equilibria in Avian brood parasitism: an alternative for the "arms race-evolutionary lag" concept. In Parasitic birds and their hosts: studies in coevolution. Ed. by S.I. Rothstein and S.K.
Robinson, pp. 223-235. Oxford University Press. Oxford. PDF
Lotem A. & Rothstein S.I. 1995. Cuckoo-host coevolution: from snapshots of an arms race to the documentation of microevolution. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 10:436-437. PDF
Lotem A., Nakamura H. & A. Zahavi. 1995. Constraints on egg discrimination and cuckoo-host coevolution. Anim. Behav.
49:1185-1209. PDF
Lotem A. 1993. Secondary sexual ornaments as signals: the handicap approach and three possible problems. Ethologia 3:209-218. Proceedings of the XXIII International Ethological Conference, Torremolinos, Spain (An invited plenary lecture). PDF
Lotem A. 1993. Learning to recognize nestlings is maladaptive for cuckoo Cuculus canorus host. Nature 362:743-745. PDF
Lotem A., Nakamura H. & A. Zahavi. 1992. Rejection of cuckoo eggs in relation to host age: a possible evolutionary equilibrium. Behavioral Ecology 3:128-132. PDF
Lotem A., Schechtman E. & G. Katzir. 1991. Little egrets' Egretta garzetta capture of submerged prey: Strike depth, strike angle and possible effects of light refraction. Anim. Behav. 42:341-346. PDF
Katzir, G., Lotem, A. & N. Intrator. 1989. Stationary underwater prey missed by reef herons, Egretta gularis: head position and light refraction at the moment of strike. J. Comp. Physiol. A. 165:573-576. PDF
Lotem, A., Kolodny, O., & Arbilly, M., 2023. Gene-culture coevolution in the cognitive domain. in Oxford handbook of cultural evolution.
Kolodny, O., Feldman, M.W., Lotem, A. and Ram, Y., 2022. Differential application of cultural practices at the family and individual levels may alter heritability estimates. Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 45.
Ben-Oren, Y., Truskanov, N. & Lotem, A. 2022. House sparrows use learned information selectively based on whether reward is hidden or visible. Anim Cogn. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10071-022-01637-1
Lotem, A., Vortman, Y., Safran J.B., 2022. The evidence for divergent sexual selection among closely related barn swallow populations is strong. Evolution https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.14506.
Prat, Y., Bshary, R., Lotem, A. 2022. Modelling how cleaner fish approach an ephemeral reward task demonstrates a role for ecologically tuned chunking in the evolution of advanced cognition. PLoS biology 20 (1), e3001519. PDF
Halpern, J.Y. & Lotem, A. 2021. The brain as a probabilistic transducer: an evolutionarily plausible network architecture for knowledge representation, computation, and behavior. arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.13388. PDF
Aljadeff, N. & Lotem, A. 2021. Task-dependent reversal learning dynamics challenge the reversal paradigm of measuring cognitive flexibility. Animal Behaviour 179, 183-197. PDF
Brodetzki, T.R., Lotem, A., Safran, R.J., Hauber, M.E. 2021. Lack of subspecies-recognition in breeding Barn Swallows (Hirundo rustica transitiva). Behavioural Processes 189, 104422. PDF
Aljadeff, N., Giraldeau, L.A. and Lotem, A., 2020. Competitive advantage of rare behaviours induces adaptive diversity rather than social conformity in skill learning. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B, 287 (1933), p.20201259. PDF
Quiñones, A.E., Leimar, O, Lotem, A., and Bshary, R., 2020. Reinforcement learning theory reveals the cognitive requirements for solving the cleaner fish market task. Am. Nat PDF
Tchernichovski, O., Parra, L. S., Fimiarz, D., Lotem, A., & Conley D., 2019. Crowd-wisdom enhanced by costly signaling in a virtual rating system. PNAS PDF
Linkovski, O., Weinbach, N., Edelman, S., Feldman, M.W., Lotem, A. and Kolodny, O., 2019. Beyond uncertainty: A broader scope for “incentive hope” mechanisms and its implications. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 42.
Truskanov, N., Rimon S., & Lotem, A., 2018. Context-specific learning and its implications for social learning. Behavioral Ecology, 29 , 1046-1055 Link
Arbilly, M & Lotem, A. 2017. Constructive anthropomorphism: a functional evolutionary approach to the study of human-like cognitive mechanisms in animals. Proc. R. Soc. B 284, 20171616; PDF
Lotem A., Halpern JY, Edelman S & Kolodny O, 2017. The evolution of cognitive mechanisms in response to cultural innovations. PNAS 114 (30) 7915-7922. PDF
Truskanov, N. & Lotem, A., 2017, Trial-and-error copying of demonstrated actions reveals how fledglings learn to ‘imitate’their mothers. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 284, No. 1849, p. 20162744. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2016.2744
Paul W. Ewald, Markus Herrmann, Frédéric Thomas, Sam P. Brown, Philipp Heeb, Arnon Lotem, and Benjamin Roche. 2017. Interventions to Control Damage from Infectious Disease: Integrating Ecological, Evolutionary, and Economic Perspectives. In: Investors and Exploiters in Ecology and Economics: Principles and Applications, edited by L-A. Giraldeau, P. Heeb, and M. Kosfeld. Strüngmann Forum Reports, vol. 21 J. Lupp, series editor. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press
Safran, R. J., Vortman, Y., Jenkins, B. R., Hubbard, J. K., Wilkins, M. R., Bradley, R. J., & Lotem, A. 2016. The maintenance of phenotypic divergence through sexual selection: An experimental study in barn swallows Hirundo rustica. Evolution, 70, 2074-2084. PDF
Safran RJ, Scordato ES, Wilkins MR, Hubbard JK, Jenkins BR, Albrecht T, Flaxman SM, Karaardıç H, Vortman Y, Lotem A, Nosil P. 2016. Genome‐wide differentiation in closely related populations: the roles of selection and geographic isolation. Molecular Ecology. 1;25:3865-83. PDF
Keynan, O. Ridley, A. & Lotem A. 2016. Task-dependent differences in learning by subordinate and dominant wild Arabian babblers. Ethology. 122, 1-12
Lotem, A., Kolodny, O., Halpern, Y. J., Onnis, L., & Edelman, S., 2016. The Bottleneck May Be the Solution, Not the Problem. A commentary on "The Now-or-Never Bottleneck: A Fundamental Constraint on Language". Behavioral and Brain Sciences . 39. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X1500088
Truskanov, N. & Lotem, A., 2015. The importance of active search for effective social learning: an experimental test in young passerines. Animal Behaviour. 108, 165-173. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2015.07.031
Kolodny, O., Edelman, S., & Lotem, A. 2015. Evolution of protolinguistic abilities as a byproduct of learning to forage in structured environments. Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. B. 282 (1811), 20150353. PDF
Kolodny, O., Edelman, S., & Lotem, A. 2015. Evolved to adapt: A computational approach to animal innovation and creativity.
Current Zoology, 61, 350-367. PDF
Vortman, Y., Safran, R. J., Reiner, B. T., Dor, R., & Lotem, A. 2015. Expression of multiple sexual signals by fathers and sons in the
East-mediterranean barn swallow: are advertising strategies heritable?. PloS one ,10(2), e0118054. PDF
Keynan, O., Ridley, A. R., & Lotem, A. 2014. Social foraging strategies and acquisition of novel foraging skills in cooperatively breeding Arabian babblers. Behavioral Ecology, 26:207-214. PDF
Katsnelson, E., Lotem, A., & Feldman, M. W. 2014. Assortative social learning and its implications for human (and animal?) societies. Evolution, 68(7), 1894-1906. PDF
Kolodny O, Lotem A & Edelman S 2014. Learning a generative probabilistic grammar of experience: a process-level model of language acquisition Cognitive Science 39: 227–267, DOI: 10.1111/cogs.12140, PDF
Kolodny, O., Edelman, S., & Lotem, A. 2014. The evolution of continuous learning of the structure of the environment. Journal of The Royal Society Interface, 11(92), 20131091. PDF
Lotem A & Biran-Yoeli I, 2014. Evolution of learning and levels of selection: a lesson from avian parent-offspring communication. Theoretical Population Biology. 91:58–74. PDF
Lotem, A., & Kolodny, O. 2014. Reconciling genetic evolution and the associative learning account of mirror neurons through data-acquisition mechanisms. (Commentary on: Mirror neurons: From origin to function by Cook et al. ). Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 37(02), 210-211. PDF
Ilan T, Katsnelson E, Motro U, Feldman MW & Lotem A. 2013. The role of beginner’s luck in learning to prefer risky patches by socially foraging house sparrows. Behavioral Ecology 24: 1398-1406. PDF
Vortman Y, Lotem A, Dor R, Lovette I, & Safran RJ. 2013. Multiple Sexual Signals and Behavioral Reproductive Isolation in a Diverging Population. The American Naturalist 182: 514-523. PDF
Belmaker A, Motro U, Feldman MW, and Lotem A 2012. Learning to choose among social foraging strategies in adult house sparrows (Passer domesticus). Ethology 118:1-11. PDF
Lotem A, and Halpern J Y. 2012. Co-evolution of learning and data acquisition mechanisms: a model for cognitive evolution. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, B. 367:2686-2694. PDF
Lotem A, 2012. Learning to avoid the behavioral gambit. Behavioral Ecology. doi: 10.1093/beheco/ars087. PDF
Dor R., R. J. Safran, Y. Vortman, A. Lotem, A. Mc.Gowen, M. R. Evans and I. J. Lovette. 2012. Population genetics and morphological comparisons of migratory European (Hirundo rustica rustica) and sedentary East-Mediterranean (H. r. transitiva) Barn Swallows. Journal of Heredity. 103: 55-63. doi: 10.1093/jhered/ESR114. PDF
Katsnelson E, Motro U, Feldman MW, and Lotem A. 2012. Evolution of learned strategy choice in a frequency-dependent game. Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. B . 279:1176-84. PDF
Dor R., I. J. Lovette, R. J. Safran, S. M. Billerman, G. Huber, Y. Vortman, A. Lotem, A. Mc.Gowen, M. R. Evans, C. B. Cooper, and D. W. Winkler. 2011. Low variation in the polymorphic Clock gene poly-Q region despite population genetic structure across Barn Swallow (Hirundo rustica) populations. PLoS ONE 6(12):e28843. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0028843. PDF
Arbilly M, E, Motro U, Feldman MW, and Lotem A. 2011. Recombination and the evolution of coordinated phenotypic expression in a frequency-dependent strategy game. Theoretical Population Biology. 80(4): 244-255. PDF
Vortman Y, Lotem A, Dor R, Lovette I, and Safran RJ, 2011. The sexual signals of the East-Mediterranean barn swallow (Hirundo rustica transitiva): a different swallow tale. Behavioral Ecology. 22: 1344-1352. PDF
Grodzinski U, Dor R, and Lotem A. 2011. Begging for a better future: how far can behavioral ecologists go without specifying mechanisms? Behavioral Ecology 22: 921-922. PDF
Arbilly M, Motro U, Feldman MW, and Lotem A. 2011. Evolution of social learning when high expected payoffs are associated with high risk of failure. J. R. Soc. Interface. 8:1604-1615. PDF
Katsnelson E, Motro U, Feldman MW, and Lotem A. 2011. Individual-learning ability predicts social-foraging strategy in house sparrows. Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. B. 278: 582-589. PDF.
Arbilly M, E, Motro U, Feldman MW, and Lotem A. 2010. Co-evolution of learning complexity and social foraging strategies.
J. Theor. Biol. 267: 573-581. PDF
Dor R. and Lotem A. 2010. Parental effort and response to nestling begging in the house sparrow: repeatability, heritability, and parent-offspring co-evolution. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 23: 1605-1612. PDF
Goldstein MH, Waterfall HR, Lotem A, Halpern JY, Schwade J, Onnis L, and S. Edelman, 2010 General cognitive principles for learning structure in time and space, Trends in Cognitive Sciences 14: 249-258. PDF
Grodzinski U, Hauber ME, and Lotem A. 2009. The role of feeding regularity and nestling digestive efficiency in parent-offspring communication: an experimental test. Functional Ecology, 23: 569-577. PDF
Dor R. and Lotem A. 2009. Heritability of nestling begging intensity in the house sparrow (Passer domesticus). Evolution,
63-3:738-748. PDF
Shafir S, Reich T, Tsur E, Erev I, and Lotem A. 2008. Perceptual accuracy and conflicting effects of certainty on risk-taking behaviour. Nature 453: 917-920 First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (221K) See also: Making the paper: Arnon Lotem, Nature podcast: interview with Ido Erev, media coverage
Lotem A. and Halpern J.Y. 2008. A Data-Acquisition Model for Learning and Cognitive Development and Its Implications for Autism. Cornell Computing and Information Science Technical Reports http://hdl.handle.net/1813/10178. PDF
Grodzinski U, Erev I, and Lotem A, 2008. Can hungry nestlings be trained to reduce their begging? Behavioral Ecology
19: 116-125. PDF
Katsnelson E, Motro U, Feldman MW, and Lotem A. 2008. Early experience affects producer-scrounger foraging tendencies in the house sparrow. Animal Behaviour, 75: 1465-1472. PDF
Adar E, Lotem A. and Barnea A, 2008. The effect of social environment on singing behavior in the zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata) and its implication for neuronal recruitment. Behavioural Brain Research 187: 178-84 (Available online 17 September 2007). PDF
Grodzinski U, Lotem A. 2007. The adaptive value of parental responsiveness to nestling begging. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B. 274 (1624): 2449-56. PDF
Dor R., Kedar H., Winkler WD. & Lotem 2007. Begging in the absence of parents: a "quick on the trigger" strategy to minimize costly misses. Behavioral Ecology, 18: 97-102. PDF
Munichor N., Erev I. & Lotem A. 2006 Risk attitude in small timesaving decisions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied.
12: 129-141. PDF
Werner N.Y. & Lotem A. 2006. Experimental evidence for male sequential mate preference in a lekking species. Ethology
112: 657-663. PDF
Ben-Dov A., Vortman Y. & Lotem A. 2006. First documentation of sibling cannibalism in a small passerine species. Ibis
148: 365-367. PDF (video link)
Lotem A. & Winkler DW. 2005 Defining the Concept of Public Information. Science 308: 354. PDF
Lotem A. & Winkler DW. 2004 Can reinforcement learning explain variation in early infant crying? Behavioral and Brain Sciences
27: 468. PDF
Werner N.Y., Balshine-Earn S., Leach B. & Lotem A. 2003. Helping opportunities and space segregation among helpers in co-operatively breeding cichlid. Behavioral Ecology. 14:749-756. PDF
Fishman MA, Stone L & Lotem A. 2003 Fertility assurance through extrapair paternity, and male paternity defense.
J. Theor. Biol. 221:96-107. PDF
Werner N.Y. & Lotem A. 2003 Choosy males in a haplochromine cichlid: first experimental evidence for male mate choice in a lekking species. Anim. Behav. 66:293-298. PDF
Lotem A, Fishman M.A., & Stone L. 2003 From reciprocity to unconditional altruism through signaling benefits. Proc.Roy. Soc.
Lond. B. 270:199-205. PDF
Ovadia O, Pinshow B. & Lotem A. 2002 Thermal imaging of house sparrow nestlings: the effect of begging behavior and nestling rank. The Condor 104:837-842. PDF
Fishman M.A., Lotem A & Stone L. 2001 Heterogeneity stabilizes reciprocal altruism interactions. J. Theor. Biol. 209, 87-95. PDF
Kedar H., Rodriguez-Girones M., Yedvab S., Winkler DW & Lotem A. 2000. Experimental evidence for offspring learning in parent-offsrping communication. Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. B. 267, 1723-1727. PDF
Lotem A., Fishman A. M., & Stone L. 1999. Evolution of cooperation between individuals. Nature 400:226-227. (see Electronic appendix). PDF
Rodriguez-Gironez M., Lotem A. 1999, How to detect a cuckoo egg: a signal detection theory model for recognition and learning. Amer. Natur. 153: 633-648. PDF
Lotem A. Wagner R.H. & Balshine-Earn S. 1999, The overlooked signaling component in non-signaling behavior. Behavioral Ecology. 10: 209-212. PDF
Lotem A. 1999 Manipulative begging by parasitic cuckoo nestlings and paradoxical host behaviour: a reply to Redondo. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 14: 107. PDF
Lotem A. 1998. Manipulative begging calls by parasitic cuckoo chicks: why should true offspring not do the same? Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 13: 342-343. PDF
Lotem A. 1998. Differences in begging behaviour among barn swallow (Hirundo Rustica) nestlings. Anim. Behav.
55:809-818. PDF
Lotem A. 1998. Brood reduction and begging behaviour in the Swift Apus apus;no evidence that large nestlings restrict parental choice. Ibis 140:507-511. PDF
Lotem A. 1998. Higher levels of begging behavior by small nestlings: a case of a negatively correlated handicap. Israel J. of Zool. 44:29-45. PDF
Balshine-Earn S., Lotem A. 1998. Experimental evidence for individual recognition from video playbacks in a cooperatively breeding cichlid (Neolamprologus brichardi). Behaviour 135:1-18. PDF
Rodriguez-Gironez M., Lotem A. 1998. Acceptance by the splendid fairy-wren of parasitism by Horsfield's bronze-cuckoo:
re-examination of Brooker and Brooker equilibrium model. Behavioral Ecology 9:419-420. PDF
Lotem A., & Nakamura H., 1998. Evolutionary equilibria in Avian brood parasitism: an alternative for the "arms race-evolutionary lag" concept. In Parasitic birds and their hosts: studies in coevolution. Ed. by S.I. Rothstein and S.K.
Robinson, pp. 223-235. Oxford University Press. Oxford. PDF
Lotem A. & Rothstein S.I. 1995. Cuckoo-host coevolution: from snapshots of an arms race to the documentation of microevolution. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 10:436-437. PDF
Lotem A., Nakamura H. & A. Zahavi. 1995. Constraints on egg discrimination and cuckoo-host coevolution. Anim. Behav.
49:1185-1209. PDF
Lotem A. 1993. Secondary sexual ornaments as signals: the handicap approach and three possible problems. Ethologia 3:209-218. Proceedings of the XXIII International Ethological Conference, Torremolinos, Spain (An invited plenary lecture). PDF
Lotem A. 1993. Learning to recognize nestlings is maladaptive for cuckoo Cuculus canorus host. Nature 362:743-745. PDF
Lotem A., Nakamura H. & A. Zahavi. 1992. Rejection of cuckoo eggs in relation to host age: a possible evolutionary equilibrium. Behavioral Ecology 3:128-132. PDF
Lotem A., Schechtman E. & G. Katzir. 1991. Little egrets' Egretta garzetta capture of submerged prey: Strike depth, strike angle and possible effects of light refraction. Anim. Behav. 42:341-346. PDF
Katzir, G., Lotem, A. & N. Intrator. 1989. Stationary underwater prey missed by reef herons, Egretta gularis: head position and light refraction at the moment of strike. J. Comp. Physiol. A. 165:573-576. PDF
