Talk:Cognition in Cats

Merger proposal
Should this page possibly be merged with the general cat page? Tripnoted (talk) 03:56, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
 * After reviewing the cat page and the Cat intelligence pages, I think this one should be combined with one of them, maybe Cat intelligence. Neither article seems great by itself. Tripnoted (talk) 00:25, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
 * I think merging the articles is a good idea, too. If only someone would do it... 72.131.118.3 (talk) 05:37, 24 July 2012 (UTC)

cognition
"Cognition is a measure of how much one retains in memory. "

Memory is a very small part of cognition, and not particularly the most interesting. Attention, problem solving, communication (language), executive function, etc etc. An interesting avenue concerning cats would be consciousness and self awareness. Though, the debate would be controversial and endless. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.145.115.196 (talk) 12:33, 5 April 2012 (UTC)

References?
Can whoever added these references please post where they found them? I can find no evidence of an article by Andrea Thompson in Feb 2010 on livescience.com. Diakinesis (talk) 08:10, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

Since this hasn't been replied to yet, I removed the section. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.27.107.248 (talk) 02:58, 1 October 2012 (UTC)

Dates of articles referenced
Peer reviewed journal articles from the 1950s and 1960s are references on memory (and its correlation to intelligence.) in the cat intelligence section which are superseded by more recent research and journal publication in the cognition article. Some of the earlier articles used test animals gathered from the feral population which are know to behave differently around humans than animals which are more habituated to our behavior and hence less problematic to normal behavior for the species.

IANJSB1965 (talk) 10:39, 1 August 2012 (UTC)

Andrea Thompson is a staff writer at live science with a number of years of articles to peruse. It is hard to NOT find anything. Google Scholar finds peer reviewed submissions similar to those in any college/university library data holding. — Preceding unsigned comment added by IANJSB1965 (talk • contribs) 10:47, 1 August 2012 (UTC)

Update As others have said before I think this may need to be integrated with something else such as the Cat Inteligence page suggested. However, if you are going to keep it seperate there needs to be some adjustments made. The first thing I noticed were the subtitles. It's good that there are subtitles dividing the subject matter, but they are all about memory. The introduction suggests that the article will provide information not only about memory, but also attention and decision making. Also, as the article goes on the sections get shorter and shorter. It would be nice to read as much about memory in kittens as the diseases that affect memory in the speices. That being said more sources would not only give you more authority but more information to give each section more depth.

TuesdayF — Preceding unsigned comment added by TuesdayF (talk • contribs) 19:34, 12 September 2012 (UTC)