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Recent Presentations (2008-2009)

Erin Colbert-White

Colbert-White, E.N., Fragaszy, D., Craige, B.J. (2009). An African Grey Parrot's Use of Language to Regulate Social Relationships. Poster presented at the Psi Chi Convention of Behavioral Sciences, Athens, GA.

Colbert-White, E.N., Fragaszy, D., Craige, B.J. (2009). An African Grey Parrot's Use of Language to Regulate Social Relationships. Poster presented at the International Conference on Comparative Cognition, Melbourne, FL.

Jessica Crast

Crast, J., Fragaszy, D., and Menzel, C. (2010 tentative). The enriching effects of foraging tasks in research with captive primates. To be presented at the 23 rd biannual congress of the International Primatological Society in Kyoto, Japan, September, 2010.

Crast, J. and Fragaszy, D. (2009). Effects of social relationships on visual attention in capuchin monkeys. Poster presented at the 32 nd annual meeting of the American Society of Primatologists, held in San Diego, CA.

Crast, J. (2009). A pilot study of the social facilitation of foraging activity. Poster presented at the 16 th annual meeting of the Comparative Cognition Society in Melbourne, FL.

Allison Eury

Eury, A. (2009). The Traveling Salesman Problem: How do capuchin monkeys choose efficient routes? Talk presented at the University of Georiga "First Year Talks" symposium, Athens, GA.

Jing Pan

Pan, J., Kennedy, E., Fragaszy, D., and Pickering, T. (2009) Development of spatial planning by capuchins (Cebus apella) to complete two–dimensional mazes : Evaluating the effects of practice. Poster presented at 2009 meeting of the American Society of Primatologists, San Diego, CA.

Elizabeth Simpson

Simpson, E., Varga, K., Frick, J., Fragaszy, D. (2009). Infant and adult face discrimination beyond primates: Perceptual narrowing of facial identity. Poster presented at the Cognitive Development Society Conference, San Antonio, TX.

Varga, K., Simpson, E., and Crast, J. (2009). Bringing animals into the classroom: the use of live streaming to demonstrate psychological concepts. Poster presented at the 21st Southeastern Conference on the Teaching of Psychology in Atlanta, GA.

Brian Stone

Evans, T. A., Stone, B. W. , Menzel, C. R., Fragaszy, D. M. (2008). Monkeys get the point: Capuchins use lasers to select and rank distant rewards. Talk presented at the 22 nd International Primatological Society Congress, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Stone, B. W., Menzel, C. R., Evans, T. A., Benoit, J., & Fragaszy, D. M. (2008). Capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella) learn to point with a laser. Talk presented at the 14th Annual Conference of the American Society of Primatologists, West Palm Beach, FL.

Stone, B. W. (2009). Combinatory manipulation in capuchin monkeys: Stacking and rotation of irregularly-shaped blocks. Poster presented at the 32 nd Annual Convention of the Behavioral Sciences, Athens, GA.

Tori Vratanina and Desiree Sharpe

Vratanina, T.L. & Sharpe, D.I. (2009). Symbolic quantity discrimination and summation in captive western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla). Poster presented at 32nd Meeting of the American Society of Primatologists, San Diego, CA.

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