MICO is just getting started! When MICO-enabled papers have been published, they will be listed here.

Papers published by MICO associates

Bastos, A. P. M., Houghton, Z. N., Naranjo, L., & Rossano, F. (2024). Soundboard-trained dogs produce non-accidental, non-random and non-imitative two-button combinations. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 28771. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-79517-6

Bastos, A. P. M., Evenson, A., Wood, P. M., Houghton, Z. N., Naranjo, L., Smith, G. E., … Rossano, F. (2024). How do soundboard-trained dogs respond to human button presses? An investigation into word comprehension. PLOS One, 19(8), e0307189. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0307189

Bastos, A. P. M., & Rossano, F. (2023). Soundboard-using pets? Introducing a new global citizen science approach to interspecies communication. Interaction Studies: Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems, 24(2), 311–334. https://doi.org/10.1075/is.22050.pin

Smith, G. E., Bastos, A. P. M., Evenson, A., Trottier, L., & Rossano, F. (2023). Use of Augmentative Interspecies Communication devices in animal language studies: A review. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews. Cognitive Science, 14(4), e1647. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcs.1647

Data and databases

• Historical anecdotes database (2021)
• Pre-registration and data for 2024 Scientific Reports paper
• Pre-registration and data for 2024 PLOS One paper

Science enabled

• Longitudinal studies of communication behavior, validated by camera-based communicator identity
• Video analysis of communicator behavior when sounds produced are unexpected
• Relationship between press behavior and words heard by communicating non-human animal