《动物认知》是一本跨学科期刊，提供来自多个学科（行为学、行为生态学、动物行为和学习、认知科学、比较心理学和进化心理学）的最新研究，涉及进化框架中动物（和人类）认知的各个方面。 《动物认知》发表关于生物根源认知智力结构的机制和进化的原创经验和理论著作、评论、方法论文、简短的通讯和信件。该杂志探讨了动物时间的感知和使用；因果关系检测；固有的反应模式和固有的学习基础；数字能力和频率预期；符号的使用；沟通;问题解决、动物思维和工具的使用，以及思维的模块化。

Animal Cognition is an interdisciplinary journal offering current research from many disciplines (ethology, behavioral ecology, animal behavior and learning, cognitive sciences, comparative psychology and evolutionary psychology) on all aspects of animal (and human) cognition in an evolutionary framework. Animal Cognition publishes original empirical and theoretical work, reviews, methods papers, short communications and correspondence on the mechanisms and evolution of biologically rooted cognitive-intellectual structures. The journal explores animal time perception and use; causality detection; innate reaction patterns and innate bases of learning; numerical competence and frequency expectancies; symbol use; communication; problem solving, animal thinking and use of tools, and the modularity of the mind.