Dorothy Fragaszy
Email: doree@uga.edu
Office: Psychology, 604

Research Interests: Flexible instrumental behavior (problem-solving), manipulation, foraging and feeding in primates. I consider the developmental bases of flexible behavior, perception-action foundations of skill, and the contribution of social learning and social context to the expression of flexible behavior. In addition to nonhuman primates, I study skill development in children.

Post-Doc

Hika Kuroshima

Graduate Students

Erin Colbert-White
Jessica Crast
Noelle Gunst
Tephillah Jeyaraj
Qing Freya Liu
Jing Pan
Desiree Sharpe
Elizabeth Simpson
Brian Stone
Tori Vratanina

Erin Colbert-White
Email: colbere@uga.edu
Office: Psychology 614

Research Interests: Comparative cognition, animal communication/ language, equivalence class understanding, analogical reasoning.

Jessica Crast
Email: crastj@uga.edu
Office: Psychology 612

Research Interests: Social learning, particularly in foraging and problem solving; socioecology, social dynamics, and social influences on behavior.

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Tephillah Jeyaraj
Email: jtephi@uga.edu
Office: Psychology 614

Research Interests: Social behavior, fairness and exchange.

Qing Freya Liu
Email: freyal@uga.edu
Office: Psychology 612

Research Interests: Tool use, tool selection in wild capuchins.

Jing Pan
Email: pan@uga.edu
Office: Psychology 612

Research Interests: behavioral inhibition and decision making, a topic broadly associated with working memory and perception.

Desiree Sharpe
Email: dsharpe@uga.edu
Office: Psychology 614

Research Interests: social transmission, mammalian monogamy, primate endocrinology.

Elizabeth Simpson
Email: simpsone@uga.edu
Office: Psychology 215
Personal Website: http://simpsone.myweb.uga.edu/

Research Interests: Species-specific face & voice processing mechanisms, primate socioemotional perception, EEG, attention to social vs. nonsocial stimuli, social cognition, sex differences.

Research Interests: Problem solving, flexible behavior, social cognition.

Tori Vratanina
Email: vratanin@uga.edu
Office: Psychology 614

Research Interests: learning, tool use, and social transmission.