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Brain,
Behavior, and the Emergence of Cognitive Competence
A
program-project grant supported by the National Institute of Child
Health and Human Development (HD-38051)
    
Research
Updates:
  
 
RESEARCH
UPDATE - FEBRUARY 2004
ADMINISTRATIVE CORE
PRIMATE
SPATIAL COGNITION AND MEMORY
THE
EMERGENCE OF COGNITIVE CONTROL
THE
EMERGENCE OF UNCERTAINTY MONITORING
COMPARATIVE
STUDIES OF NUMERICAL COGNITION IN HUMAN AND NONHUMAN PRIMATES
(proposed
additional project in the B2EC2 program project)
ADMINISTRATIVE CORE
Festschrift
book. The collection of essays in honor of Duane Rumbaugh is under
review for publication by APA.
Hard
Data Café colloquia. The project continued its schedule of
meetings to discuss the latest scientific findings in conjunction
with the Hard Data Café colloquium series at Georgia State
University.
Intelligence
of Apes and Other Rational Beings. This book, co-authored by Dr.
Rumbaugh and Dr. Washburn and published by Yale University Press,
hit the shelves in June, 2003. A number of reviews of the book have
been published providing both support for the ideas contained within
it and recommendation.
PRIMATE SPATIAL COGNITION AND
MEMORY
Charles
Menzel gave a presentation at Cornell University on December 5,
2003. It was entitled "Spatial cognition and memory in symbol-using
chimpanzees."
THE
EMERGENCE OF COGNITIVE CONTROL
David
Washburn published a pair of papers in the International Journal
of Comparative Psychology reporting the performance of rhesus monkeys
in computerized visual-spatial tasks.
Washburn
also attended the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society in November
and was author or co-author on a number of papers reporting data
from this project.
Washburn
also will present the presidential address at the annual meeting
of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology in New Orleans
in April.
THE
EMERGENCE OF UNCERTAINTY MONITORING
David
Smith, Wendy Shields, and David Washburn published the article "The
comparative psychology of uncertainty monitoring and metacognition"
in Behavioral and Brain Sciences. The article received attention
in a number of feature articles in newspapers and on television
(for
example, click here for an article in The Washington Post).
COMPARATIVE
STUDIES OF NUMERICAL COGNITION IN HUMAN AND NONHUMAN PRIMATES
Michael
Beran and Mary Beran published a paper entitled "Chimpanzees
remember the results of one-by-one addition of food items to sets
over extended time periods" in Psychological Science in January.
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