Experiment on learning by chimpanzees
Professor Verity Brown (vjb) – The neural basis of attention: investigation in the rat of the functions of frontal cortex and the basal ganglia; cognitive impairments in Parkinson’s Disease.
Dr Karen Spencer (kas21) – Behavioural endocrinology and neuroendocrinology, focusing on the long-termeffects of developmental environments on the hypothalamic- pituitary-adrenal axis and related physiological systems. Developmental programming of animal learning and cognition and the evolution of complex acoustic signals, such as bird song.
Origins Of Mind Research includes studies of social learning, communication and other aspects of social and physical cognition in human children and non-human species, including primates and non- primates both in field and laboratory conditions.
Professor Richard Byrne (rwb) – Evolution of cognitive and social skills using behavioural data from non-human primates and other animals. Currently: route planning, praxic skills and gestural communication in primates; cognition in domestic pigs and wild elephants.
Dr Juan Carlos Gómez (jg5) – Intentional communication and theory of mind in non- human primates; evolution of primate brains and minds. Development of prelinguistic intentional communication; joint attention and theory of mind; Autism; comparative cognitive development.
Dr Sue Healy (sdh11) – Spatial cognition in animals including humans. Investigating cognitive abilities in the field such as decision making in foraging hummingbirds, nest building in birds and vocal mimicry in birds.
Dr Amanda Seed (ams18) – Evolutionary origins of conceptual thought and causal knowledge, combining developmental and comparative studies of physical problem- solving.
Professor Andrew Whiten (aw2) – Observational and experimental studies of social learning and cultural transmission. Observational learning, imitation, theory of mind and its precursors in children and juvenile monkeys and apes.
Professor Klaus Zuberbühler (kz3) – Cognitive capacities of non-human primates. Semantic and syntactic understanding in the vocal behaviour of non-human forest primates.
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