e-mail: eharris11[at]student.gsu.edu

Education: Graduated from Duke University in 2002 with a BS in biological anthropology and anatomy, a minor in psychology, and a cerificate in neuroscience. M.A. received from Georgia State University in 2004.

I am a fifth-year graduate student who works mainly with the monkeys at the LRC. I am studying comparative cognition with a focus on numerical competence and emotion in nonhuman primates. I am currently working on projects with Dr. Washburn as well as finishing work on my doctoral dissertation.

Tim Flemming

e-mail: tflemming1[at]student.gsu.edu

Education: Graduated from Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania in 2003 with a BA in Biological Foundations of Behavior - Animal Behavior and a minor in Classical Archaeology and Ancient History. M.A. received from Georgia State University in Dec 2006.

Previously, I worked with capuchin and squirrel monkeys on tool-using tasks. At F&M, I was also part of a team working on a same/different discrimination project involving capuchin and rhesus macaque monkeys as well as children. My currect research interests focus on analogical reasoning and concept acquisiton in various primate species. I am now a fifth-year graduate student in the Cognitive Psychology Program at GSU working on projects with Dr. Washburn with the rhesus monkeys, capuchin monkeys, and chimpanzees. Currently, I am teaching Cognitive Psychology (Psyc 4100) and Learning & Behavior (Psyc 4120) for the Georgia State Undergraduate Psychology program. In addition, I am beginning work on my doctoral dissertation.

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Megan Hoffman

email: mhoffman5[at]student.gsu.edu

Education: Graduated from Florida International University, Miami, Florida in 2004 with a BA in Psychology. M.A. received from Georgia State University in December 2007.

I am a fourth-year graduate student in the Cognitive Psychology Ph.D. Program at GSU.
As an undergraduate I worked on research examining episodic-like memory in a gorilla and working memory in lar gibbons. As a graduate student at GSU, I am working with David Washburn and designing comparative studies to examine episodic-like memory in monkeys and apes.

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Natasha Barrett

email: nbarrett[at]student.gsu.edu

Education: Graduated from Georgia State University in December of 2001 with a B.S. in Psychology.

I am presently a third-year student in Cognitive Psychology working with Dr. David Washburn in the attention and executive function lab.

Lisa Heimbauer

e-mail: lheimbauer1[at]student.gsu.edu

Education: Received a B.A. degree from SUNY at Stony Brook in December 2004, with a major in Anthropology and a minor in Biology.

I am a second-year graduate student in the Cognitive Psychology Ph.D. program at Georgia State University. My previous research experience was in the field of primate behavioral ecology. Currently I work with Dr. Michael Owren on both human and non-human primate vocalization research projects. I am beginning work on my master's thesis research, which pertains to chimpanzee auditory perception.

Darby Proctor

e-mail: dproctor3[at]student.gsu.edu

Education: Graduated from the University of Florida in 2002 with a B.A. in anthropology and a minor in history. M.S. in business management received from the University of Florida in 2003. M.A. in biological anthropology received from Georgia State University in 2007.

I am a graduate student working with Dr. Sarah Brosnan on issues of non-human primate behavioral economics. I am also interested in non-human primate culture and the impact of humans living in close proximity to non-human primates. Most of my work with non-human primates to this point has been comducted with chimpanzees at the Living Links Center at Yerkes National Primate Research Center. At the Living Links Center I have been involved with various cultural and cognitive research projects. Additionally, I did field work with a project headed by the University of Cape Town exploring spatial ecology of Chacma baboons in the cape region of South Africa.

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