In 2011 Huber received the
Ig Nobel Prize in
Physiology together with Anna Wilkinson and Natalie Sebanz for their study "No evidence of contagious yawning in the red-footed tortoise Geochelone carbonaria". In 2013 he was elected an honorary ambassador of the
Jane Goodall Institute Austria, and in 2015 he was elected a member of the scientific advisory board of the
Berlin Institute for Advanced Study.
Selected works
Huber, L. (2000). Psychophylogenesis: innovations and limitations in the evolution of cognition. In C. Heyes & L. Huber (Eds.), The evolution of cognition (pp. 23–41). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Voelkel, B., and Huber, L. (2000). "True imitation in marmosets," Anim. Behav. 60, 195–202.
Huber, L. (2001). "Visual categorization in pigeons," in Avian Visual Cognition, edited by R. Cook (Comparative Cognition Press, Medford, MA).
Huber, L., and Gajdon, G. K. (2006). "Technical intelligence in animals: the kea model," Anim. Cog 9, 295–305.
Huber, L., & Aust, U. (2006). A modified feature theory as an account of pigeon visual categorization. In E. A. Wasserman & T. R. Zentall (Eds.), Comparative cognition: Experimental explorations of animal intelligence (pp. 325–342). New York: Oxford University Press.
Huber, L. (2009). Degrees of rationality in human and non-human animals. In S. Watanabe, A. P. Blaisdell, L. Huber, & A. Young (Eds.), Rational Animals, Irrational Humans (pp. 3–21). Tokyo: Keio University Press.
Huber, L., Range, F., Voelkl, B., Szucsich, A., Viranyi, Z., & Miklosi, A. (2009). The evolution of imitation: what do the capacities of nonhuman animals tell us about the mechanisms of imitation? The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 364, 2299–2309.
Huber, L. (2010). Categories and Concepts: Language-Related Competences in Non-Linguistic Species. In M. Breed, D. & J. Moore (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior (pp. 261–266). Oxford: Academic Press.
Huber, L., & Wilkinson, A. (2012). Cognitive Evolution: A Comparative Approach. In F. G. Barth, P. Giampieri-Deutsch, & H.-D. Klein (Eds.), Sensory Perception: Mind and Matter (pp. 137–154). Wien, New York: Springer.
Huber, L. (2016). How dogs perceive and understand us. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 25(5), 339–344. doi:10.1177/0963721416656329