Sentences with phrase «comparative psychologists»

Dogs have become a favorite species of comparative psychologists over the last decade [1, 2].

Comparative psychologists study animal behavior to understand how they think.

Diana Reiss, a comparative psychologist at Hunter College in New York City who was involved in the dolphin and elephant mirror self - recognition studies, draws a distinction between animals using a mirror spontaneously and monkeys that do so after extensive training.

«They did find a nice link between sociality and success» on this task, says Evan MacLean, a comparative psychologist at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.

Comparative psychologist Daniel Povinelli of the University of Louisiana, Lafayette, says he doesn't find the results that surprising.

The orca's efforts were overall «recognizable» as attempted copies, comparative psychologist José Zamorano Abramson of Complutense University of Madrid and colleagues report January 31 in Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Just how close Wikie's imitations come to the originals depends on whether you're emphasizing the rhythm or other aspects of sound, Abramson says.

Hunter College comparative psychologist Diana Reiss, who has studied dolphin behavior since the 1980s, discovered that they're also able to communicate in surprisingly sophisticated ways.

That means that scientists can design more complex virtual environments to see where objects get hidden, notes comparative psychologist Brett Gibson of the University of New Hampshire, Durham, who did not take part in the research.

Comparative psychologist Eric Legge of the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, and colleagues started their experiment with 102 volunteers in a real room fitted with couches, tables, pictures, and other furnishings, as well as a dark corner to the left of the entrance and a window facing the outside in the corner opposite the entryway.

The study adds to a growing list of animals, including dogs, chimpanzees, and monkeys, that are sensitive to what others can see and hear, notes Juliane Brauer, a comparative psychologist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.

And that means that auditory information is a big part of their cognitive repertoire,» says Rachael Shaw, a behavioral ecologist at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, who led the new study while a graduate student in comparative psychologist Nicola Clayton's lab at Cambridge.

It is carefully — even beautifully — done, but I think this question of whether animals can and do have cumulative culture is still open,» says Claudio Tennie, a comparative psychologist at the University of Tübingen in Germany who was not involved with the work.

Sarah Marshall - Pescini, a comparative psychologist at the University of Vienna, is helping change that.

And there's very little study of them, says Clive Wynne, a comparative psychologist at Arizona State University in Tempe.

Still, the discovery will likely be a surprise to even the most experienced dog trainers, says Brian Hare, a comparative psychologist at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.

«It's particularly striking that the elephants were able to inhibit pulling» longer than chimpanzees do, says comparative psychologist Nicola Clayton of the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom.

In the video above of one of these experiments, comparative psychologist Irene Pepperberg of Harvard University asks Alex to pick out the set of colored blocks that equal the number seven.

But Heidi Harley, a comparative psychologist at the New College of Florida in Sarasota who has studied cetaceans at a variety of marine parks and was advising SeaWorld on improving its orca enclosure in San Diego, California, says important work on breeding and physiology was being done.

Job titles in this area might include cognitive psychologist, comparative psychologist, experimental psychologist, research psychologist, and social psychologist.

«It's the lightbulb going on,» said Preston Foerder, a comparative psychologist at the City University of New York.

Maybe if he'd been a comparative psychologist, some of the horses and cows would've lived past the age of three and the tomatoes would've had fewer worms, but in his heart he was more interested in black liberty than in pest management and the well - being of the animal kingdom.

Researched and partly filmed at Edinburgh Zoo, the Los Angeles based artist Rachel Mayeri collaborated with comparative psychologist Dr Sarah - Jane Vick to develop the work.

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Not exact matches

For example, Sara Shettleworth, a psychologist at the University of Toronto in Canada, argued in a widely cited 2010 article entitled, «Clever animals and killjoy explanations in comparative psychology,» that the zookeepers and researchers who observed Santino's stone - throwing over the course of a decade had not seen him gathering the stones, and thus could not know why he originally starting doing so.

At the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development's Laboratory of Comparative Ethology (LCE) in Poolesville, Md., headed by psychologist Stephen Suomi, infant monkeys are taken from their mothers often within hours of birth.

Leo, a psychologist, is hospitable if circumspect, but Ellen, a comparative literature professor, goes all in; once she meets Nancy and notes a physical resemblance to Brooke, her yearning for this strange woman to be her long - lost child turns into full - fledged conviction.