Research
Our lab is involved in a number of different experimental studies to understand the behavioral, cognitive and neural bases for social cognition in nonhuman primates. We are particularly interested in the way in which chimpanzees and rhesus monkeys recognize faces and facial expressions. We conduct tasks where subjects are required to discriminate among the faces of unfamiliar conspecifics and manipulate the type of configural information present. We also present studies where subjects are required to categorize facial expressions and ask what types of features are the most important for accurate recognition.
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