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Charles I. Abramson at Oklahoma State University
Email: charles@okstate.edu
- Invertebrate Learning
- Africanized Honey Bees
- Use of Honey Bees as Models of Alcoholism
- Effect of Agrochemicals on Animal behavior
- Apparatus Design and Evaluation
- Development of Teaching Exercises in Comparative Psychology
- History of Comparative Psychology: Charles Henry Turner
Robert W. Allan at Lafayette College
Email: allanr@lafayette.edu
- Behavior modification
- Learning perception
- Animal learning
Colin Allen at Indiana University
Email: colallen at indiana dot edu
- Cognitive ethology
- Philosophy of the mind
- Neural networks of memory processes
- Evolution of the mind
Brent Alsop at Otago University
Email: balsop@psy.otago.ac.nz
- How distribution of resources determines animals' choices
- Quantitative models of foraging behavior
- Effects of reward and response on judgments
Suzette Astley at Cornell College
Email: sastley@cornellcollege.edu
- Object perception and categorization
- Stimulus control
- Memory
A. G. Baker at McGill University
Email: andy@hebb.psych.mcgill.ca
- The mechanisms by which humans estimate the covariance between events and make causality judgments
- The relationship between impulsive behavior and cognition in normal humans and those with impulsive disorders
Peter Balsam at Barnard College Columbia Univeresity
Email: balsam@columbia.edu
- The roles of experience in behavioral development.
- How new responses emerge during the lifetime of an individual
Lewis Barker at Baylor University
Email: Lewis_Barker@baylor.edu
- Appetite and taste aversion conditioning
- History and philosophy of wedding evolutionary thinking to laboratory animal learning
- Bridging human and non-human animal psychology
Jennifer A. Basil at CUNY Graduate Biology
Email: jbasil@brooklyn.cuny.edu
- Spatial Cognition
- Learning
- Sensory Biology
- Invertebrate Behavior
Melissa Bateson at the University of Newcastle
Email: Melissa.Bateson@ncl.ac.uk
- Psychological mechanisms of decision-making specifically in relation to foraging and mate choice
- Temporal information processing
- Risk-sensitivity
- Contextual effects on decision-making
Jacques P. Beaugrand at the UQAM
Email: Beaugrand.Jacques@uqam.ca
- Ethnometry
- Dominance
- Social Organization
- Individual Recognition
- Learning Through Observation
- Transitive Inference
- Research Methodology
Bennett G. Galef Jr. at McMaster University
Email: galef@mcmaster.ca
- Role of social learning in development of adaptive patterns of behavior
- Social influences on feeding site selection
- Behavioral and sensory processes supporting social learning
Gerald B. Biederman at the University of Toronto
Email: bieder@lake.scar.utoronto.ca
- Pavlovian and operant conditioning
- Conditioned antisickness response in rats
- Conditioned taste aversion in rats
- Observational learning processes in pigeons
- Olfactory detection of trace vapors by rats
- Remediational strategies in developmentally delayed children and the role of verbal and non-verbal reinforcement
Lewis A. Bizo at Southern Cross University
Email: lewis.bizo@scu.edu.au
- Timing and time perception
- Human instrumental conditioning
- Gambling, drug, and alcohol addiction
- Psychology of learning: reinforcement theory
- Psychology of learning: co-operative learning
Charles Blaha at The University of Memphis
Email: cblaha@memphis.edu
- Neuroscience
- Incentive-motivated behaviors
- Neuropsychiatric disorders
- Drug addiction
Donald S. Blough at Brown University
Email: Donald_Blough@brown.edu
- Visual information processing in pigeons
- Relating inter-form similarity to features dimensions or other units of analysis
- Effects of context and memory load on recognition after short delays
- Expectation and attention
Patricia M. Blough at Brown University
Email: Patricia_Blough@brown.edu
- Visual information processing
- Basic sensory psychophysics
- Stimulus control
Robert Boakes at the University of Sydney
Email: bobb@psych.usyd.edu.au
- Implicit learning underlying the taste properties of odors
- Psychological factors in chemotherapy treatment for cancer patients
- Attentional factors in autistic children
- Goal-directed and automatic behavior in rats
- Food aversion learning in rats
Mark Bouton at the University of Vermont
Email: mbouton@zoo.uvm.edu
- Context memory and learning
- Inhibitory processes in animal memory
- Associative learning
- Connections with behavioral neuroscience and behavioral therapy
Sarah Boysen at Ohio State University
Email: boysen.1@osu.edu
- Animal cognition
- Acquisition of counting abilities and numerical competence in nonhuman primates
- Cognitive development in the great apes
- Social behavior and tool use in captive lowland gorillas
Marc Branch at the University of Florida
Email: branch@psych.ufl.edu
- Behavioral pharmacology
- Operant and respondent behavior
- Conceptual and methodological foundations of behavioral science
Elizabeth M. Brannon at Duke University
Email: brannon@duke.edu
- Animal Cognition
- Cognitive Development
- The development and evolution of numerical cognition
David Brodbeck at Algoma University
Email: dave.brodbeck@algomau.ca
- Animal learning and behavior
- Evolution of specializations in cognition
- Spatial and temporal aspects of animal cognition
Daniel I. Brooks at University of Iowa
Email: daniel-brooks@uiowa.edu
- Same / Different Learning
- Perception of music and chord structure
- Pattern detection and visual search
- All things computer
Bruce L. Brown at Queens College-CUNY
Email: bruce.brown@qc.cuny.edu
- Animal timing
- The role of temporal factors in animal learning
- Associative learning in Pavlovian and operant conditioning
Michael F. Brown at Villanova University
Email: michael.brown@villanova.edu
- Spatial memory and spatial choice in rats and honeybees
- Spatial pattern learning
Darren Burke at Macquarie University
Email: darren@galliform.bhs.mq.edu.au
- Ecological/evolutionary approaches to spatial and visual cognition
- Human visual perception
Antonio Candido at the University of Granada
Email: acandido@platon.ugr.es
- Avoidance learning
- Fear conditioning
- Covariation judgments in humans
Ken Cheng at MacQuarie University
Email: ken@galliform.bhs.mq.edu.au
- Landmark-based spatial memory in pigeons rats honeybees and humans.
- Spatial and temporal cognition in pigeons and humans
- Analysis of single trials of pigeon timing performance
- Comparative research on the perception of symmetry
Dana Church at Ottawa Canada.
- Language learning by nonhuman primates
- Communication in nonhuman primates
- Working memory and pattern learning by bumblebees
Russell Church at Brown University
Email: Russell_Church@brown.edu
- Time estimation in humans and rats
- Behavioral cognitive and biological duration discrimination
- Learning, memory, and decision processes of animals
Pamela Citrynell at the University of Exeter
Email: PJpongo@aol.com
- Cognitive mapping in orangutans
- Arboreal versus terrestrial behavior of captive orangutans
- Problem-solving strategies of white-bellied spider monkeys
- Environmental and cognitive enrichment for captive primates
- Cetacean cognition behavior and communication
Jerry Cohen at the University of Windsor
Email: A77@uwindsor.ca
- Cognitive processes in the rat
- Working and reference memory
Ruth M. Colwill at Brown University
Email: Ruth_Colwill@brown.edu
- Pavlovian conditioning
- Effects of early experience on cognitive development
- Canid communication
- Dog bite prevention
- Environmental enrichment
Robert G. Cook at Tufts University
Email: Robert.Cook@tufts.edu
- Visual cognition in pigeons
- Comparative perception
- Concept and discrimination learning in animals
- Serial and temporal organization of behavior
- Computational and neural mechanisms of cognition in birds
- Spatial behavior in rats
Jonathon Crystal at the University of Georgia
Email: jcrystal@uga.edu
- Time Perception
- Animal Memory
- Behavioral Pharmacology
Michael C. Davison at the University of Auckland
Email: m.davison@auckland.ac.nz
- Experimental analysis of behavior
- Behavior manipulation
- Animal behavior processes
Andrew Delamater at Brooklyn College-CUNY
Email: andrewd@brooklyn.cuny.edu
- Associative structures of Pavlovian and instrumental conditioning
- Perceptual learning acquired equivalence and categorization
- Connectionist and neural network models of learning
Winand Dittrich at the University of Hertfordshire
Email: w.dittrich@herts.ac.uk
- Visual perception and cognition
- Selective attention and action control
- Evolution and design of signal systems and memory systems
- Emotion, causality, intentionality, consciousness and volition
- Systems and Theory of Behaviour
- Applied aspects in medicine and economics and sports
Michael Domjan at the University of Texas at Austin
Email: domjan@psy.utexas.edu
- Animal learning
- Biological constraints on learning
- Learning mechanisms in reproductive behavior
- Comparative psychology
Robert J. Dooling at the University of Maryland
Email: Dooling@psyc.umd.edu
- The relation between the perception of complex acoustic signals and vocal learning and development in birds
- Psychoacoustic capabilities in several species of small birds known for vocal learning
- How small birds perceive human speech sounds to determine the extent to which perception of the phonetic categories of speech is a uniquely human characteristic
Colin G. Ellard at the University of Waterloo
Email: cellard@watarts.uwaterloo.ca
- The evolution of visual pathways in mammals by comparing the functions and neural architecture of vision in different species
- Visually guided movement
- Visual object recognition for natural classes of objects
Jacky Emmerton at Purdue University
Email: jemmert@psych.purdue.edu
- Visual perception/information processing in pigeons
- Serial ordering of numbers by pigeons
- Visual cognition in birds
Abdelkader Ennaceur
Email: ennaceur@sunderland.ac.uk>abdelennaceur@sunderland.ac.uk
- Learning memory and attention in rats and mice
- Object recognition 3D maze spatial navigation
- Visual delayed matching/non-matching tasks
- Neural mechanisms of cognitive functions
- Pharmacology lesions and genetics
Joseph M. Erwin at the Foundation for Comparative and Conservation B
Email: agingapes@gmail.com
- Primate communication patterns
- Neuronbiological correlates of cognition
- Aging and cognition in humans and other primates
- Promotion of psychological well-being in captive primates
- Conservation of natural primate populations
Chris Evans at Macquarie University Sydney Australia
Email: chris@galliform.bhs.mq.edu.au
- Acoustic communication in birds: cognition and function
- Dynamic visual signals: design and evolution
- Visual processing in a unique modular system
Joel Fagot at the Center for Research in Cognitive Neuroscience
Email: fagot@lnf.cnrs-mrs.fr
- Comparative visual cognition especially involving nonhuman primates
- Hemispheric specialization
- Haptic perception and handedness
Ed Fantino at the University of California San Diego
Email: efantino@ucsd.edu
- Learning and motivation
- Conditioned reinforcement and sources of multiple stimulus control in humans and in pigeons
- Operant analogues to foraging behavior including assessment of behavioral ecology theories with operant choice technology and optimal choice in humans and pigeons
Greg Fetterman at the University of Indiana
Email: gfetter@iupui.edu
- Time perception
- Working memory
- Relational learning
- Evolution learning and foraging
Sylvain Fiset at University of Moncton at Edmundsom
Email: sfiset@umca.ca
- Spatial representation in pets (cats and dogs)
- Animal Cognition
- Cognitive development in animals
Stephen B. Fountain at Kent State University
Email: sfountai@kent.edu
- Animal Cognition
- Serial-pattern learning and memory
- How animals (including humans) organize complex behavior and learn about complex sequences of events
- Rule learning counting/timing and associative processes in pattern learning
- Computational and psychobiological models of cognitive processes in rats
Barrie Frost at Queen's University
Email: frost@psyc.queensu.ca
- Neural processing of dynamic auditory and visual stimuli
- Visual control of posture and locomotion
- Multisensory integration in the nervous system
- Virtual realities and cognitive maps
- Neuroethology of avian courtship behavior
Kazuo Fujita at Kyoto University
Email: kfujita@bun.kyoto-u.ac.jp
- Comparative cognition and perception
- Primate Intelligence
- Social Cognition
Randy Gallistel at the University of California Los Angeles
Email: galliste@ruccs.rutgers.edu
- Electrical self-stimulation of the brain
- Neural basis of learning and motivation
- Computational processes by which animals construct representations of space time number and conditional rate
Carlos Gershenson at Brusseis University
Email: cgershen@vub.ac.be
- Animal and animate behavior
- Animal societies
- Models of emotions
- Action selection mechanisms
Gordon G. Gallup Jr. at the State University of New York at Albany
Email: gallup@albany.edu
- Evolution and human behavior
- Human reproductive competition
- Self-awareness and social cognition
Kazuhiro Goto at Keio University
Email: kgoto@psy.flet.keio.ac.jp
- Mechanisms of visual cognition and attention
- Mechanisms of metacognition
Doug Grant at the University of Alberta
Email: douglas.grant@ualberta.ca
- Learning memory and information processing in animals.
- Mechanisms and processes of short-term retention in pigeons
- Whether the short-term retention system in pigeons is automatic or controlled
James Grau at Texas A & M University
Email: J-Grau@tamu.edu
- Role of learning and memory in pain modulation
- Sensitization anxiety and hyperalgesia
- Opiate sensitization
- Learning and memory at different levels of the nervous system
- Pain measurement
Australian Learning Group
Email: bobb@psychvax.psych.usyd.edu.au
- Maintains list of researchers studying animal cognition in Australia
- Focuses on basic principles of conditioning in animals
- Concerned with application of these principles to human behavior
Steve Haggbloom at Western Kentucky University
Email: steven.haggbloom@wku.edu
- Comparative cognition
- Animal Learning and Memory
- Contextual clues and retrieval of competing memories
- Remote associations in rat serial learning
- Oddity concept learning in rats
Geoffrey Hall at the University of York
Email: gh1@york.ac.uk
- Mechanisms by which organisms become adapted to environmental circumstances as a result of learning
- Environmental and perceptual learning
- Uncovering the neural systems of the brain connected with motivation and reinforcement
Evelyn B Hanggi
Email: EquiResF@aol.com
- Equine learning cognition and behavior
- Equine training management and welfare
Marc D. Hauser at Harvard University
Email: mdh@wjh.harvard.edu
- Cognitive evolution
- Perceptual abilities of rhesus macaques
- Primate deception in context of food sex
- Numerical competence and object concept in nonhuman primates
- Intercommunity aggression in chimpanzees
Suzanne Held at the University of Bristol
Email: suzanne.held@bris.ac.uk
- Cognitive abilities of farm animals
- Social tactics/Mental state attribution in pigs
Nancy S. Hemmes at Queens College-CUNY
Email: nancy.hemmes@qc.cuny.edu
- Temporal discrimination and timing
- Serial learning
- Factors governing the performance of learned behavior
Louis M. Herman
- Dolphin Cognition
- Dolphin Sensory Perception
David E. Hogan at Northern Kentucky University
Email: hogan@nku.edu
- Social learning and behavior in pigeons
- Stimulus equivalence relationships
- Superstitious behavior
Peter Holland at Johns Hopkins
Email: pch@jhu.edu
- How learning memory and attention are involved in the organization of behavior
- Occasion setting and conditional discrimination learning
- Role of the amygdala central nucleus in processes of attention
- Psychopharmocological manipulations and excitotoxic lesion techniques in the study of behavior
- Mathematical modeling of learning processes
Karen L. Hollis at Mount Holyoke College
Email: khollis@mtholyoke.edu
- Role of learning in species-specific behavior
- Territorial aggression and reproduction
- Pavlovian conditioning
Robert Honey at the University of Wales Cardiff
Email: Honey@cardiff.ac.uk
- The role of learning and memory in categorizing experiences
- Neural mechanisms of learning and memory
- The role of stimulus comparison in perceptual learning
- Negative priming in associative learning
Ludwig Huber at the University of Vienna
Email: ludwig.huber@univie.ac.at
- Categorization in pigeons
- Learning in fish
- Social Intelligence in primates
Stewart H. Hulse at Johns Hopkins University
Email: hulse@jhu.edu
- Complex auditory perception and communication
- Music perception
- Learning and memory
- Animal cognition
Eduardo Mercado III at the University at Buffalo SUNY
Email: emiii@buffalo.edu
- Cetacean cognition
- Comparative bioacoustics
- Computational neuroscience
- Memory for events
Nancy Innis at the University of Western Ontario
Email: ninnis@uwo.ca
- The history of psychology particularly in the role of social and technological factors
- The work of the noted learning theorist Edward C. Tolman
- Temporal and spatial memory in animals
- Models and mechanisms of the temporal control of response
- The utilization of 'cognitive maps' and the role of motivational variables in spatial learning and memory
Iver Iversen at theUniversity of North Florida
Email: iiversen@unf.edu
- Acquisition of Novel Behavior in RatsOperant Conditioning
- Complex Motor performance
- Acquisition of complex human-likebehavior in chimpanzees
- Teaching completely paralyzed patients touse a computer for communication
Alex Kacelnik at Oxford University
Email: alex.kacelnik@zoo.ox.ac.uk
- Decision-making in animals and humans
- Optimal foraging theory
- Behavioral timing
- Tool use in crows
- Brood parasitism in South American cowbirds
Alan Kamil at the University of Nebraska
Email: akamil@unlserve.unl.edu
- The evolution of cognitive abilities
- How animals use these abilities to solve problems that actually confront them in nature
- The use of spatial memory by seed-caching birds
- Investigating the roles of learning and attention in the detection of cryptic prey
Miranda Alderson Karson at University of Maryland
Email: mkars001@umaryland.edu
- Discrimination reversal learning in cuttlefish
- Animal learning and behavior (particularly molluscan)
- Evolution of learning
- Spatial cognition
E. James Kehoe at University of New South Wales
Email: j.kehoe@UNSW.EDU.AU
- Conditioning of the rabbit's nictitating membrane response
- Animal psychophysics
- Computer-based training
- Conditioning and Learning
Donald F. Kendrick at Middle Tennessee State University
Email: psyskip@mtsu.edu
- Animal learning and behavior
- Animal cognition
- Pigeon intelligence: geographic environments and optometric navigation systems
Raymond P. Kesner at the University of Utah
Email: rpkesner@behsci.utah.edu
- Neurobiological basis of learning and memory
- Animal models paralleling mnemonic symptoms in brain damaged patients
Peter Killeen at Arizona State University
Email: Killeen@asu.edu
- Choice behavior
- Temporal control
- Foraging
Kimberly Kirkpatrick at the University of York
Email: kk12@york.ac.uk
- Temporal control
- Perception
- Classical conditioning
- Computational models of behavior
John K. Kruschke at Indiana University
Email: KRUSCHKE@indiana.edu
- Attention in learning
- Models of learning and attention
Stan Kuczaj at the University of Southern Mississippi
Email: skuczaj@ocean.st.usm.edu
- Comparative cognition
- Dolphin communication abilities
- Human face discrimination by killer whales
- Self-recognition by dolphins
- Problem solving by dolphins and killer whales
France Landry at University of Ottawa Canada.
Email: flandry@uottawa.ca
- Pattern recognition in pigeons
- Spatial cognition in bumble bees and hummingbirds
- Animal ethics: How cognition is related to animal welfare
Tom Langen at Clarkson University
Email: tlangen@clarkson.edu
- Sequential information sampling and choice
- Social learning
- Comparative trends in avian vocal communication
- Integration of cognitive and functional accounts of behavior
David Larom at Qualcomm Inc.
Email: dlarom@qualcomm.com
- Meteorological influences on long-distance communication of terrestrial animals (ducting shadowing wind-induced directionality)
- Acoustic location and tracking of terrestrial animals
- Seismic communication
Stephen E. G. Lea at the University of Exeter
Email: s.e.g.lea@exeter.ac.uk
- Pattern recognition and concept formation in birds
- Psychological mechanisms of foraging behavior
- Laboratory studies of pigeons and hamsters and field studies of squirrels and diving birds
- Psychological measurements of utility
- Psychological impacts of the tourist industry
- The psychology of debt and poverty
Charles Locurto at the College of Holy Cross
Email: clocurto@holycross.edu
- Comparative intelligence
- Individual differences in problem solving
- Nature/nurture influences on animal behavior
Alexandra W. Logue at CUNY-Baruch College
Email: Alexandra.Logue@mail.cuny.edu
- Learning and motivation
- Choice behavior
- Self-control
- Food aversions and preferences
Celia M. Lombardi at the Argentine Museum of Natural History
Email: celia@mail.retina.ar
- Social learning
- Visual communication
- Research methodology
Suzanne MacDonald at York University
Email: suzmac@yorku.ca
- Mating rituals in cheetahs
- Reproduction and behavior in black-footed ferrets
- Behavior modification in African elephants
- Naturalistic sleeping sites in gorilla communities
- Hormonal and behavioral predictors of estrus in Indian rhinos
- Vocalizations as enrichment in white-handed gibbons
Euan M. MacPhail at York University
Email: emm1@york.ac.uk
- The avian forebrain and intelligence
- Recent memory in pigeons
Antonio Maldonado at University of Granada Spain.
Email: anmaldo@platon.ugr.es
- Avoidance leaning
- Learned irrelevance and learned helplessness
- Human covriation judgment
Lori Marino at Emory University
Email: lmarino@emory.edu
- Brain and cognitive evolution in cetaceans
- Cetacean-Primate comparative psychology
- Evolution of large brains
- Evolution of intelligence
- Self-awareness
Helena Matute at Deusto University Spain
Email: univem05@sarenet.es
- Associative learning in rats and humans
- Human causal learning
Warren Meck at Duke University
Email: meck@psych.duke.edu
- Time perception and spatial navigation
- Anatomical and physiological basis of spatial and temporal memory
- Neural pacemaker systems involved in interval timing and counting processes
- Computer-assisted behavioral histological and morphometric techniques
- Effects of neurotrophic growth factors on psychological processes
Ralph R. Miller at the State University of New York at Binghamton
Email: rmiller@binghamton.edu
- Information processing in animals
- Elementary evolutionarily-derived fundamentals of learning and memory that generalize across species
- Perception acquisition storage retention retrieval and response generation in rats
Jay Moore at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
Email: jcm@uwm.edu
- Conditioning and Learning
- Animal Learning and Behavior
- History and Philosophy of Psychology
John Moore at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
Email: jwmoore@psych.umass.edu
- The neurobiological bases of associative learning using the classically conditioned nictitating membrane response of the rabbit
- The interface between neuroscience and computer science
- The identification of neural circuits essential for conditioned and unconditioned responses.
Yasuo Nagasaka at University of Iowa
Email: yasuo-nagasaka@uiowa.edu
- Surface representation
- Face perception
- Causality perception
Ian Neath at Memorial University of Newfoundland
Email: ineath@mun.ca
- Memory as a discrimination process with remembering and forgetting as outcomes of the discrimination decision
- Developing and evaluating models of animal memory particularly memory of order
- Imagery and the characteristics of memory representations
Julie Neiworth at Carleton College
Email: jneiwort@carleton.edu
- Object identification by movement cues in pigeons
- Imagery in pigeons and monkeys
- Ability of monkeys to categorize natural kinds
- Spatial and episodic processing in rats
Lowell K. Nicolaus at Northern Illinois University
Email: nicolaus@adninternet.com
- Foraging of free-ranging vertebrates
- The effect of conditioned taste aversion on free-ranging vertebrates
Britta Osthaus at University of Exeter
Email: b.osthaus@ex.ac.uk
- Cognition in dogs
- Animal-human interaction (in dogs and horses)
- Comparative cognition
Bruce Overmier at the University of Minnesota
Email: psyjbo@tc.umn.edu
- Cognitive and biological stress
- Conditioning learning and memory and their biological mechanisms.
Michael J. Owren at Cornell University
Email: mjo9@cornell.edu
- Vocal communication in nonhuman primates
- Nonlinguistic aspects of human vocal behavior
- Speech evolution
Bill Palya at Jacksonville State University
Email: palya@sebac.jsu.edu
- Animal learning
- Organization of behavior in time
- Behavior dynamics
MauricioR. Papini at Texas Christian University
Email: m.papini@tcu.edu
- The comparative analysis of learning in situations involving frustrative changes in reinforcement
- Learning theory response competition inhibitory conditioning and context-cue interactions
- Effects of unsignaled reward presentations in Pavlovian conditioning
James L. Pate at Georgia State University
Email: jpate@gsu.edu
- How imagery can influence the magnitude of the von Restorff effect
- Relationship between a subject's characteristics and attributes of material to be recalled
- Organizational histories
- Handbooks in the history of psychology
- Departmental histories
John Pearce at the University of Wales Cardiff
Email: PearceJM@cardiff.ac.uk
- Theoretical analysis of associative learning
- Structure and content of associations formed in learning tasks
- How attentional processes influence associative learning
- Conditioning and categorization across species
- Problem solving and spatial cognition in animals
Irene Pepperberg at Arizona University
Email: impepper@media.mit.edu
- The capabilities of parrots to talk and understand.
- Studies of avian versus mammalian brain function
- Programs for teaching language to dysfunctional children
- Targeting parrots for wildlife conservation initiatives
Gail B. Peterson at the University of Minnesota
Email: peter004@tc.umn.edu
- Psychology of learning and behavior
- Comparative and evolutionary psychology
Catherine Plowright at the University of Ottawa
Email: cplowrit@aix1.uottawa.ca
- Temporal processing and pattern learning in pigeons
- Mechanisms of foraging choices in bumble bees
Spanish Society of Comparative Psychology at Spain
Email: pipsico@platon.ugr.es
- Maintaining a list of people interested in learning
- Having annual meetings on animal and human learning
Michael Rashotte at Florida State University
Email: rashotte@psy.fsu.edu
- Mechanisms of energy regulation and feeding
- Metabolic and thermal adaptations to extreme climatic conditions
- Sleep nutrition and energy balance.
- Circadian patterns and the mechanisms underlying those patterns
R. A. Rescorla at the University of Pennsylvania
Email: rescorla@cattell.psych.upenn.edu
- The nature of elementary associative learning processes especially as exemplified by Pavlovian conditioning and instrumental training
- The circumstances that produce associative learning
- The development of a quantitative model of conditioning
- The exploration of the role of such perceptual variables as similarity in determining associative learning
- Encoding of events in Pavlovian conditioning
- Rules for mapping learning into performance
Zhanna Reznikova at Inst. for Animal Systematics and Ecology, Russia
Email: zhanna@reznikova.net
- Invertebrate learning
- Communication
- Interspecies Relations
- Applying the ideas of Information Theory to study animal communication
- Ethology, Comparative Ethology
- Ecology and Evolution
- Hot Spots in Animal Behavior
Mark E. Rilling at Michigan State University
Email: Mark.Rilling@ssc.msu.edu
- Animal cognition
- Visual information processing
- Theories of comparative object recognition
Robert Batsell Jr. at Kalamazoo College
Email: rbatsell@kzoo.edu
- Taste-aversion learning
- Changes in memory systems across time
- Illness learning in cancer patients and individuals with eating disorders
- Chemocommunication: rats communicating via odors
William A. Roberts at the University of Western Ontario
Email: roberts@julian.uwo.ca
- Exploring memory systems and depth of processing in pigeons
- Numerical processing in monkeys
- Timing counting and ordinality
- Pattern tracking and foraging behavior
- Face processing
Herb Roitblat at the University of Hawaii
Email: roitblat@hawaii.edu
- Mechanisms of comparative cognition
- Dolphin echolocation
- Modeling of animal behavior using neural networks
Robert A. Rosellini at the State University of New York Albany
Email: rar93@cas.albany.edu
- Associative processes in invertebrates (Drosophilamelanogaster)
- Animal learning and behavior
- Controllability and predictability of stress
- Animal models of psychopathology and addiction
Duane Rumbaugh at Georgia State University
Email: drumbaugh@gsu.edu
- Biobehavioral foundations of language and cognition
- How chimpanzees master important aspects of language and speech comprehension
Lisa Saksida at Carnegie Mellon University
Email: saksida@ln.nimh.nih.gov
- Constructing computational-level models of animal learning
- Testing these models on mobile robots
- Comparing predictions based on robots to behavior of real animals
Angelo Santi at Wilfrid Laurier University
Email: asanti@wlu.ca
- Increasing understanding of how animals encode and retain information
- Neurochemical bases of the above mechanisms
- The nature of memory representation for temporal and numerical attributes
- Effects of various drugs on time perception and temporal memory in both pigeons and rats.
Sue Savage-Rumbaugh at Georgia State University
Email: esavage-rumbaugh@gsu.edu
- Primate work at NASA to prepare monkeys for the space station
- Comparative primate cognition
- Developing new technologies for working with primates
Peter M. "Skip" Scheifele at Animal Science Dept., University of Connecticut
Email: peter.scheifele@uconn.edu
- Animal Neuroaudiology
- Acoustical behavior and communication of mammals (specifically, marine mammals, canines, and exotics)
- Animal vocalizations and vocal systems
- Behavior modification and learning (specifically, marine mammals, canines, and exotics)
- Training of marine mammals
- Impacts of noise on animal communication
Nestor Schmajuk at Duke University
Email: nestor@acpub.duke.edu
- Mechanistic and neuropsychologically plausible principles of associative learning
- Design of neural networks that describe behaviors in real time such as classical conditioning place learning maze learning and avoidance
Ron Schusterman at Long Marine Laboratory at the University of Calif
Email: rjschust@cats.ucsc.edu
- Stimulus equivalence and animal social cognition
- Marine mammal sensory ecology
- Pinniped communication
Bennett L. Schwartz at Florida International University
Email: bennett.schwartz@fiu.edu
- Comparative Cognition
- Memory in Non-Human Primates
David Sherry at the University of Western Ontario
Email: sherry@julian.uwo.ca
- Spatial Memory
- Foraging
- Evolution of memory
- Comparative neuroanatomy
Sara J. Shettleworth at the University of Toronto
Email: shettle@psych.utoronto.ca
- Role of learning and memory in foraging and other aspects of behavior
- Comparative studies of memory in food-storing and non-storing birds
- Analysis of the decision processes involved in detecting and selecting prey
Charles Shimp at the University of Utah
Email: charlie.shimp@psych.utah.edu
- Comparative cognition especially attention memory and perception
- How these processes interact in the production of behavior in non-human animals
Peter Shizgal at Concordia University
Email: shizgal@csbn.concordia.ca
- Brain reward circuitry
- Choice
- Behavioral economics
- Computation of utility
Shepard Siegel at McMaster University
Email: siegel@mcmaster.ca
- Pavlovian conditioning and its contribution to physiological and behavioral regulation.
- Contribution of conditioning to understanding drug tolerance
Alan Silberberg at American University
Email: asilber@american.edu
- Experimental analysis of behavior
- Behavioral economics
- Choice behavior in nonhuman primates
Norman E. Spear at the State University of New York at Binghamton
Email: nspear@binghamton.edu
- Developmental changes in learning and memory particularly during infancy
- Infantile amnesia
- Effect of alcohol including prenatal alcohol on learning and memory during development
- Experiments with rats of different ages to see the effects of age-specific encoding
Marcia L. Spetch at the University of Alberta
Email: mspetch@ualberta.ca
- Spatial cognition
- The extent to which pigeons can extract 3-dimensional information from 2-dimensional images of objects or scenes
- Perception and retention of temporal information
- Stimulus generalization in spatial and temporal domains
- Choice behavior in situations involving uncertain outcomes
John Staddon at Duke University
Email: staddon@psych.duke.edu
- Evolution and mechanisms in animal learning
- Timing and memory
- Feeding regulation
- Ways in which pigeons and rats adapt to reward schedules
Alan Stubbs at the University of Maine
Email: alan_stubbs@voyager.umeres.maine.edu
- Perception learning and animal behavior
- Behavior of human and nonhuman species
- Graphical perception and the effects of different kinds of computer displays
Christopher Sturdy at the University of Alberta
- Neuroethology of songbird acoustic communication
- Animal cognition
- Animal behavior
Karyl Swartz at the City University of New York Lehman College
Email: kbslc@cunyvm.cuny.edu
- Comparative and developmental psychology
- Memory learning and conceptual processes in nonhuman primates
Herb Terrace at Columbia University
Email: terra@paradox.psych.columbia.edu
- Animal cognition
- Comparative psychology of serial memory
- Language-like behavior in apes
J.P. Thivierge at University of Ottawa
Email: gizmostyle@hotmail.com
- Animal cognition
- Computer-based neuronal modeling
- Visual pattern recognition in lower-order species
Roger K. Thomas at the University of Georgia
Email: rkthomas@uga.edu
- Animal cognition
- History of psychology animal psychology & neuroscience
Roger Thompson at Franklin and Marshall College
Email: R_THOMPSON@FandM.edu
- Comparative psychology
- Animal cognition and behavior
- Conceptual matching tasks in chimpanzees
- Self-awareness in animals and humans
William D. Timberlake at Indiana University
Email: timberla@indiana.edu
- Analyzing the temporal and stimulus control of sequential motivational states underlying behavior
- Clarifying the unique circadian control of anticipation of food
- Understanding the perceptual motor and motivational structure underlying behavior
Luca Tommasi at the University of Padova Italy
Email: ltommasi@psico.unipd.it
- Spatial cognition
- Visual perception
- Cerebral lateralization in chicks
F. Robert Treichler at Kent State University
Email: rtreich1@kent.edu
- Emeritus Professor
- Comparative issues in serial list memory and organization, especially primate performances
- Special Topics: Behavioral Primatology
- Organization of Memory
- History of Animal Cognition
Claudia Uller at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Email: uller@louisiana.edu
- Nonhuman primate numerical representations
- Interface between cognition and language in primates
- Evolution of cognitive capacities
- Comparative cognition
Peter Urcuioli at Purdue University
Email: uche@psych.purdue.edu
- Acquired equivalence
- Discrimination learning and animal memory
Giorgio Vallortigara at the University of Trieste
Email: vallorti@univ.trieste.it
- Spatial cognition
- Brain lateralization
- Visual perception
Jacques Vauclair at the Center for Research in Cognitive Neuroscience
Email: vauclair@lnf.cnrs-mrs.fr
- Comparative cognition
- Hemispheric specialization in primates
- Categorization of stimuli
- Comparative developmental approaches
- Visual perception
Federico Villalobos at Universidad Industrial de Santander
Email: fvilla@b-manga.cetcol.net.co
Doug Wallace at Kent University
Email: dwallac1@kent.edu
- Animal cognition
- Computational models of animal learning
David A. Washburn at Georgia State University
Email: dwashburn@gsu.edu
- Comparative cognition
- Attention memory and executive functions
- Psychological well-being
Edward A. Wasserman at the University of Iowa
Email: ed-wasserman@uiowa.edu
- Comparative analysis of learning memory and cognition
- Short-term memory causal perception conceptualization stimulus control and operant behavior
Ronald G. Weisman at Queen's University
Email: ron@psyc.queensu.ca
- The perceptual basis of song in songbirds
- The evolution of brain structures that make possible song production perception and recognition
- Auditory perception in humans
K. Geoffrey White at Otago University
Email: kgwhite@psy.otago.ac.nz
- The contribution of stimuli/situations/behavioral consequences to memory processes
- Quantifying the ability to remember
- Variables that influence perceptibility of stimuli vs. variables that influence rate of forgetting
Donald M. Wilkie at the University of British Columbia
Email: dwilkie@cortex.psych.ubc.ca
- Empirical and theoretical study of spatial and temporal cognitive processes that underlie animals' behaviors
- The study of the neurobiological bases of these processes
Ben A. Williams at the University of California San Diego
Email: bawilliams@ucsd.edu
- Basic learning processes involved in operant and Pavlovian conditioning
- Contingency effects in both Pavlovian and operant conditioning
- Mechanisms of behavioral control by delayed reinforcement
- Conditioned reinforcement
Anthony A. Wright at The University of Texas - Houston Medical School
Email: Anthony.A.Wright@uth.tmc.edu
- Animal and human learning memory and decision processes
- Short-term and long-term memory processing in animals and humans
- Concept learning in pigeons
Clive Wynne at the University of Western Australia
Email: clive@psy.uwa.edu.au
- Evolution of learning processes
- Variance in psychological abilities across species
- Psychological differences among humans and other species
- Neurological basis of psychological abilities
Thomas Zentall at the University of Kentucky
Email: zentall@pop.uky.edu
- Social learning and imitation
- Stimulus class formation
- Memory strategies and coding processes
- Value transfer and contrast phenomena
Shaowu Zhang at the Australian National University
Email: shaowu.zhang@anu.edu.au
- Visual guidance behavior of flying insects
- Pattern recognition in the insect visual system
- Learning and memory in honeybees