When Darwin wrote The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, published in 1872, the scientific community was still pondering the question: Do other animals think? The subsequent prodigious scientific study of animal cognition and behavior has answered this question with an emphatic “yes”! The question now has advanced to: To what degree do other animals think and what are they thinking about?
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This is a past event that happened on Saturday, May 16, 2015 2:30-4:30 pm.
Participants
Theodore Dimon
Director of The Dimon Institute; adjunct assistant professor, Columbia Teachers College.
Theodore (Ted) Dimon is the founder and director of The Dimon Institute and an adjunct assistant professor at Columbia Teachers College. Dimon’s pioneering work covers the study of the human mental and physical ‘operating system’ as a holistic entity and how it works in activity. Based on a multi-disciplinary approach that includes work in neuroscience,... read more! »
Stuart Firestein
Professor of Neuroscience. Columbia University
Former Chair of Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University
Stuart Firestein is Professor of Neuroscience and former Chair of the Department of Biological Sciences at Columbia University. His laboratory is one of the world’s leading laboratories on the neuroscience of our sense of smell. He has published over 100 scientific papers in journals such as Nature, Science, PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of... read more! »
Alexandra Horowitz
Professor of Psychology, Barnard College
Dr. Alexandra Horowitz is a researcher and professor at Barnard College, Columbia University, where she teaches seminars in canine cognition, creative nonfiction writing, and audio storytelling. As Senior Research Fellow, she heads the Dog Cognition Lab at Barnard, studying the behavior and mind of owned dogs. She has long been interested in understanding the umwelt... read more! »
Irene Pepperberg
Research Associate, Harvard University
Irene Pepperberg (S.B, MIT, ’69; Ph.D., Harvard, ’76) is a Research Associate and lecturer at Harvard. She has been a visiting Assistant Professor at Northwestern University, a tenured Associate Professor at the University of Arizona, a visiting Associate Professor at the MIT Media Lab and an adjunct Associate Professor at Brandeis University. She received John... read more! »
Diana Reiss
Professor of Psychology, Hunter College; Professor of Biopsychology & Behavioral Neuroscience, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Diana Reiss, Ph.D. is a cognitive psychologist and professor in the Department of Psychology at Hunter College and the Biopsychology and Behavioral Neuroscience sub-program at the Graduate Center, CUNY. Dr. Reiss directs a dolphin cognitive research program at the National Aquarium in Baltimore and is a research associate at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo in Washington, D.C.... read more! »