A complete list of peer-reviewed papers authored by members of the group.
- Measuring fish cognition: empirical-based guidance for designing cognition assays
Authors: Jones N.A.R., Frommen J.G., Fuss T., Newport C., DePasquale C., Webster M.M., Vila-Pouca C., Zavorka L., Gro Vea Salvanes, A.
Publication details: 2025. Journal of Fish Biology. | DOI: 10.1111/jfb.70240 - ManyFishes: a big team science collaboration on fish comparative cognition
Authors: Prétôt L., Agrillo C., Bluck B.C., Cabrera-Álvarez M.J., Héjja-Brichard Y., Irwin K., Klinke A., Lucon-Xiccato T., Newport C., Segev R., and Yeager J.
Publication details: 2025. Animal Cognition. | DOI: 10.1007/s10071-025-02031-3 - Detect+Track: robust and flexible software tools for improved tracking and behavioural analysis of fish
Authors: Dutta, A., Pérez-Campanero, N., Taylor, G., Zisserman, A., and Newport, C.
Publication details: 2025. Royal Society Open Science. | DOI: 10.1098/rsos.242086 - An educated guess: how coral reef fish make decisions under uncertainty
Authors: Newport, C., Sibeaux, A., Wallis, G., Wilkins, L., and Burt de Perera, T.
Publication details: 2024. Animal Behaviour. | DOI:10.1016/j.anbehav.2024.02.016 - Taking a shortcut: what mechanisms do fish use?
Authors: Sibeaux, A., Newport, C., Green, J., Engelmann, T., and Burt de Perera, T.
Publication details: 2024. Communications Biology. | DOI:10.1038/s42003-024-06179-5 - Distance estimation in goldfish (Carassius auratus)
Authors: Sibeaux, A., Karlsson, C., Newport, C., and Burt de Perera, T.
Publication details: 2023. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. | DOI:10.1098/rspb.2022.1220 - High turbidity levels alter coral reef fish movement in a foraging task
Author: Newport, C., Padget, O., Burt de Perera, T.
Publication details: 2021. Scientific Reports. | DOI:10.1038/s41598-021-84814-5 - Abstract concept learning in fish
Author: Newport, C.
Publication details: 2020. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences. | DOI: 10.1016/j.cobeha.2020.08.009 - Archerfish vision: Visual challenges faced by a predator with a unique hunting technique
Authors: Newport, C., Schuster, S.
Publication details: 2020. Seminars in Cell & Developmental Biology. | DOI: 10.1016/j.semcdb.2020.05.017 - Cognitive styles: speed-accuracy trade-offs underlie individual differences in archerfish
Authors: Jones, A.R., Webster, M., Newport, C., Templeton, C., Schuster, S., Rendell, L.
Publication details: 2020. Animal Behaviour. | DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2019.11.019 - Object recognition in fish: accurate discrimination across novel views of an unfamiliar object category (human faces)
Authors: Newport, C., Wallis, G., Siebeck, U.E.
Publication details: 2018. Animal Behaviour. | DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2018.09.002 - Comparison of functional and anatomical estimations of visual acuity in two species of coral reef fish
Authors: Parker, A. N., Fritsches, K. A., Newport, C., Wallis, G., Siebeck, U.E.
Publication details: 2017. Journal of Experimental Biology. | DOI: - Fish use colour to learn compound visual signals
Authors: Newport, C., Green, N.F., McClure, E.C., Osorio, D.C., Vorobyev, M., Marshall, J., Cheney, K.L.
Publication details: 2017. Animal Behaviour. 125: 93-100 | DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2017.01.003 - Discrimination of human faces by archerfish (Toxotes chatareus)
Authors: Newport, C., Wallis, G., Reshitnyk, Y., Siebeck, U.E.
Publication details: 2016. Scientific Reports, 6:27523 | DOI: 10.1038/srep27523
- Mate choice plasticity in a coral reef fish
Authors: Wacker, S., Ostlund-Nilsson, S., Forsgren, E., Newport, C., Amundsen, T.
Publication details: 2016. Behavioural Ecology |DOI: doi: 10.1093/beheco/arw050 - Same/different abstract concept learning by archerfish (Toxotes chatareus)
Authors: Newport, C., Wallis, G., Siebeck, U.E.
Publication details: 2015. PLOS ONE | DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0143401 - The use of three common psychophysical paradigms in the archerfish (Toxotes chatareus)
Authors: Newport, C., Wallis, G. and Siebeck, U.E.
Publication details: 2014. Frontiers in Neuroscience (Neural Circuits), 8, 1-13 | DOI: 10.3389/fncir.2014.00039 - Complex, context-dependent decision strategies of archerfish (Toxotes chatareus)
Authors: Newport, C., Wallis, G., Temple, S. and Siebeck, U.E.
Publication details: 2013. Animal Behaviour, 86, 1265-1274 | DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2013.09.031 - Colour vision and response bias in coral reef fish
Authors: Cheney, K.L., Newport, C., McClure, E.C. and Marshall, N.J.
Publication details: 2013. Journal of Experimental Biology, 216, 2967-2973 | DOI: 10.1242/jeb.087932 - Interspecific cleaning behaviour of adult cleaner wrasse, Labroides dimidiatus (Perciformes: Labridae)
Authors: Clague, G., Newport, C., Grutter, A.S.
Publication details: 2011. Marine Biodiversity Records, 4, e56.
I enjoy sharing the results of my research with the public as much as possible. One way I have done this is by writing or providing expertise for popular science publications.
- Scholastics SuperScience magazine, 2014
- Identifying the visual cues used for complex pattern discrimination in the Ambon damselfish (Pomacentrus amboinensis). In: Australian Coral Reef Society newsletter (www.australiancoralreefsociety.org/newsletters).
- Magazine article: Newport, C. Spring 2010. Coming up for light. In: Wildlife Australia Magazine. Wildlife Preservation Society of Queensland, Brisbane (http://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=418218021504319;res=IELHSS
- Magazine article: Newport, C. Summer Behind the glass: examining the impact of the ornamental aquarium industry. In: Wildlife Australia Magazine. Wildlife Preservation Society of Queensland, Brisbane (http://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=837366709491867;res=IELHSS).