NBID80 · 7.5 credits · Advanced level (A1F) · Biologi
Animal Cognition: Learning, Memory and Evolution
Active · next start HT 2026
100%
passed the latest ordinary exam
TEN1 · 17 Jan 2026 · 20 students
87%
passed the ordinary exams, all sittings over the last 5 years
TEN1 · 39 students
45%
Harder than 45% of courses at advanced level
Compared with 285 courses at the same level, ordinary exams over the last three academic years. 39 students.
Part of 1 programme
Exam
TEN1 Written examination
- 5
- 4
- 3
- U
Ordinary exams
87% passed · 39 students
- 100%20
- 74%19
Re-exams
80% passed · 5 students
- 80%5
- Pass the re-exam: 80% (5 students), compared with 87% (39 students) on the ordinary exam
- Get 4 or 5: 55% (44 students)
Show small sittings (3)
Sittings with fewer than 5 students, often credit transfers or special sittings. They are not part of any figure on this page.
- 100%1
- 100%1
- 50%2
Other modules
Partial exams, hand-ins and labs. They are not part of the figures at the top.
Hand-in or lab
LAB1 Laboratory work
- G
Main rounds
100% passed · 42 students
- 100%22
- 100%20
Later rounds
No sittings with at least 5 students.
Hand-in or lab
UPG1 Seminar participation
- G
Main rounds
100% passed · 42 students
- 100%22
- 100%20
Later rounds
No sittings with at least 5 students.
About the course
Aim
After completing the course, the student will be able to:
- Give an account of general and species-specific aspects of cognitive mechanisms in animals, and their evolution
- Apply cognitive theories and learning models
- Reflect on and discuss different theories of animal intelligence, and to assess the scientific corpus on this topic critically
Content
The course revolves around three themes: 1) Cognitive mechanisms and behavioural flexibility, 2) Modelling learning and memory, and 3) Evolution of cognition. The these themes cover the following topics:
- Cognitive mechanisms of animals, including memory, learning and specialized capacities
- Behaviour systems and flexibility
- Social learning and culture in animals
- Evolution of animal intelligence
- Ethology and animal psychology
- Computer exercise in modelling learning, memory and behaviour
- Overview of competing theories of complex cognition
- Examiner
- Rie Henriksen
- Scheduled hours
- 120 h
- Main field of study
- Biologi