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2026

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61
Citations
11638
World Ranking
3431
National Ranking
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in Austria Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Psychology in Austria Leader Award

Overview

Ludwig Huber is affiliated with the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna in Austria. Their research spans multiple domains within psychology and biology, focusing on areas where these disciplines intersect. The main fields of study include Psychology and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Within these broad categories, Huber's work is concentrated on subfields such as Social Psychology, Genetics, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

Huber's research topics demonstrate a strong emphasis on interactions between humans and animals, as well as behavioral studies across species. Key topics include:

  • Human-Animal Interaction Studies
  • Primate Behavior and Ecology
  • Child and Animal Learning Development
  • Animal Behavior and Reproduction
  • Neuroendocrine Regulation and Behavior
  • Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
  • Action Observation and Synchronization

The scientist actively publishes in a range of scholarly venues notable for research in animal cognition and related fields. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Animal Cognition
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Scientific Reports
  • Frontiers in Psychology

Huber collaborates regularly with a core group of co-authors, indicating integrated work across research projects. Frequent co-authors include Christoph J. Völter, Claus Lamm, Sabrina Karl, Magdalena Boch, and Lucrezia Lonardo.

Selected recent papers illustrate the thematic focus and methodological approaches in their research portfolio:

  • "Challenges in the comparative study of empathy and related phenomena in animals" (2020, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews)
  • "Exploring the dog-human relationship by combining fMRI, eye-tracking and behavioural measures" (2020, Scientific Reports)
  • "How Dogs Perceive Humans and How Humans Should Treat Their Pet Dogs: Linking Cognition With Ethics" (2020, Frontiers in Psychology)
  • "Selective overimitation in dogs" (2020, Learning & Behavior)
  • "Using an Innovation Arena to compare wild-caught and laboratory Goffin's cockatoos" (2020, Scientific Reports)

The work often integrates cognitive and behavioral methodologies to explore complex social interactions and learning processes between animals and humans, as well as intra-species behavioral patterns. This involves using advanced techniques including neuroimaging, behavioral observation, and experimental innovation arenas.

Best Publications

  • The absence of reward induces inequity aversion in dogs.

    Friederike Range;Lisa Horn;Zsófia Viranyi;Ludwig Huber

  • Social Cognition and the Evolution of Language: Constructing Cognitive Phylogenies

    W. Tecumseh Fitch;Ludwig Huber;Thomas Bugnyar

  • True imitation in marmosets

    Bernhard Voelkl;Ludwig Huber

  • Dogs Can Discriminate Emotional Expressions of Human Faces

    Corsin A. Müller;Kira Schmitt;Anjuli L.A. Barber;Ludwig Huber

  • The Evolution of Cognition

    Cecilia M. Heyes;Ludwig Huber

  • Flexibility in problem solving and tool use of kea and New Caledonian crows in a multi access box paradigm.

    Alice M. I. Auersperg;Auguste Marie Philippa von Bayern;Gyula K. Gajdon;Ludwig Huber

  • Selective Imitation in Domestic Dogs

    Friederike Range;Zsófia Viranyi;Zsófia Viranyi;Ludwig Huber

  • Social learning in a non-social reptile (Geochelone carbonaria)

    Anna Wilkinson;Karin Kuenstner;Julia Mueller;Ludwig Huber

  • Push or pull: an experimental study on imitation in marmosets

    Thomas Bugnyar;Ludwig Huber

  • Technical intelligence in animals: the kea model

    Ludwig Huber;Gyula K. Gajdon;Gyula K. Gajdon

  • Obey or not obey? Dogs (Canis familiaris) behave differently in response to attentional states of their owners.

    Christine Schwab;Ludwig Huber

  • Inferential reasoning by exclusion in pigeons, dogs, and humans

    Ulrike Aust;Friederike Range;Michael Steurer;Ludwig Huber

  • The Importance of the Secure Base Effect for Domestic Dogs – Evidence from a Manipulative Problem-Solving Task

    Lisa Horn;Ludwig Huber;Ludwig Huber;Friederike Range

  • The evolution of imitation: what do the capacities of non-human animals tell us about the mechanisms of imitation?

    Ludwig Huber;Friederike Range;Bernhard Voelkl;Andrea Szucsich

  • Social learning affects object exploration and manipulation in keas, Nestor notabilis

    Ludwig Huber;Sabine Rechberger;Michael Taborsky

  • Visual categorization of natural stimuli by domestic dogs.

    Friederike Range;Ulrike Aust;Michael Steurer;Ludwig Huber

  • A case of quick problem solving in birds: string pulling in keas, Nestor notabilis

    Dagmar Werdenich;Ludwig Huber

  • The repeatability of cognitive performance: a meta-analysis

    Maxime Cauchoix;P Chow;P Chow;J van Horik;C Atance

  • Gaze following in the red-footed tortoise (Geochelone carbonaria)

    Anna Wilkinson;Isabella Mandl;Thomas Bugnyar;Ludwig Huber

  • Testing social learning in a wild mountain parrot, the kea ( Nestor notabilis )

    Gyula K. Gajdon;Natasha Fijn;Ludwig Huber

  • Imitation as faithful copying of a novel technique in marmoset monkeys.

    Bernhard Voelkl;Ludwig Huber

  • Evolution of Cognition

    CM Heyes;L Huber

Frequent Co-Authors

Friederike Range
Friederike Range University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
Zsófia Virányi
Zsófia Virányi University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
Thomas Bugnyar
Thomas Bugnyar University of Vienna
Ádám Miklósi
Ádám Miklósi Eötvös Loránd University
Nikolaus F. Troje
Nikolaus F. Troje York University
Claus Lamm
Claus Lamm University of Vienna
Geoffrey Hall
Geoffrey Hall University of York
Cecilia Heyes
Cecilia Heyes University of Oxford
Natalie Sebanz
Natalie Sebanz Central European University
József Topál
József Topál Hungarian Academy of Sciences

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