Cognitive & Behavioral Neuroscience
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.
Seminar: #603
Founded: 1986
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Cognitive & Behavioral Neuroscience
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Seminar Administration
Co Chairs:
Yaacov Stern
Professor of Neurology
Columbia University, Sergievsky Center
212.305.9194
ys11@columbia.edu
Herbert S. Terrace
Professor of psychology
Columbia University
212.854.4544
terrace@columbia.edu
Rapporteur:
Gregory Jensen
Columbia University, Psychology
ggj2102@columbia.edu
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