@ Robbe Goris, Ph.D.Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology University of Texas at Austin Title: Inference and introspection in the primate visual system To accomplish goals, humans and other animals must infer properties of theenvironment in the face of uncertainty and change. I will discuss psychophysical, physiological,and theoretical work from my lab that interrogates the computational […]

@ Lydia Hopper, Ph.D.Associate Professor, Department of Molecular & Comparative PathobiologyJohns Hopkins School of Medicine Title: Copy cats and aping apes: How social learning aids knowledge acquisition and the transmission of behavioral traditions Abstract: From ants to zebras, animals are influenced by the behavior of others. At the simplest level, social support can reduce neophobia, […]