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.

Graduate Students

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

Erin Colbert-White
Email: colbere@uga.edu

Research Interests: Comparative cognition, animal communication/ language, symbolic representation.

Jessica Crast
Email: crastj@uga.edu

Research Interests: Social learning, particularly in foraging and problem solving, conformity.

Allison Eury
Email: aeury@uga.edu

Research Interests: Decision making in a spatial context; travel route efficiency as it correlates to resource availability and landscape features.

Tephillah Jeyaraj
Email: jtephi@uga.edu

Research Interests: Social behavior, fairness and exchange.

Qing Freya Liu
Email: freyal@uga.edu

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

Jing Pan
Email: pan@uga.edu

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

Desiree Sharpe
Email: dsharpe@uga.edu

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

Elizabeth Simpson
Email: simpsone@uga.edu
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: Embodied cognition, problem solving, object manipulation, multisensory integration.

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

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