Although mainstream cognitive science conducts its research on its privileged target organism, this means that humans, comparative cognition, and other disciplines such as cognitive ethology are interested in the study of cognitive processes in a wide range of organisms. However, these studies are not always conducted to understand the principles of natural cognitive systems as one might expect, but mainly with the biased goal of confirming the presence of exceptional human-like cognitive abilities in animals to test cognitive continuity between animals and humans. Although the study of social cognition in humans is currently very common through various tools that we have, we still have several limitations to reach a complete understanding of some aspects of social cognition that cannot be acquired by studying only humans, either due to management/ethical issues or because when studying more general questions, humans, by themselves, are not sufficiently
representative of all sociocognitive phenomena to address broader problems from a neurobiological, ecological and evolutionary point of view. In this symposium we will explore the potential of different models for the study of different cognitive and behavioral problems from a neurobiological, ecological and evolutionary point of view.