Seminars

For more than 100 years, comparative psychologists have sought to understand the evolution of human intelligence. New paradigms for studying cognitive processes in animals—in particular symbol use and memory—have, for the first time, allowed psychologists and neuroscientists to compare higher thought processes in animals and human beings.  New imaging approaches have also facilitated exploring the neural basis of behavior and both animals and humans.  Questions concerning the nature of animal and human cognition have defined the themes of this seminar whose members include specialists in cognition, ethology, philosophy and neuroscience.

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Co-Chairs
Professor Christopher Baldassano
c.baldassano@columbia.edu

Professor Herbert S. Terrace
terrace@columbia.edu

Rapporteur
Camille Gasser
cg3083@columbia.edu