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| For more than 100 years, comparative psychologists have sought to understand
the evolution of human intelligence. Until recently, these efforts
have been restricted to investigations of conditioned reflexes in human
and animal subjects. 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. Of special interest is the question,
how does an animal think without language? This and related questions
concerning the nature of animal cognition have defined the themes of this
seminar whose members include specialists in animal and human cognition,
ethology, philosophy and neuroscience.
The seminar maintains a web page at: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/psychology/terrace99/univseminar.html Seminar: #603
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| CO-CHAIRS: | Herbert S. Terrace
Professor of psychology, Columbia University terrace@columbia.edu (212) 854-4544 Peter Balsam
Yaakov Stern
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| RAPPORTEUR: | Mike Drew
Doctoral candidate, department of psychology, Columbia University mrd28@columbia.edu |
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