Episode 10 - Jennifer Vonk

Jennifer gets 2 pics because BATS Jennifer Vonk is a comparative/cognitive psychologist with primary research interests in two overlapping areas: (1) animal cognition, and (2) cognitive development. Dr. Vonk only likes animals that rhyme She completed her undergraduate degree at McMaster University in Hamilton ON, conducting an honors thesis in behavioral endocrinology, a Masters deg ree in human memory at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, ON and a doctoral degree on the topic of concept formation in great apes at York University in Toronto. Her current work centers on social cognition, such as theory of mind, prosociality, and reasoning about emotions, as well as physical cognition, such as causal reasoning, analogical reasoning, numerosity, and natural concept formation. More recent work is focused on examining the effects of religiosity, attachment, and perspective-taking on human decision-making processes. We talked about some of her recent work including stuff on concept formation in bears , quantity estimation in gorillas , social and non social category discrimination , human emotion detection in domestic cats and kin discrimination in domestic dogs . (There were some feedback issues in this episode, I have cleaned up the audio best I could) Thanks again to Red Arms for letting me mash up their music in the closing theme. Buy their music now . mp3 download

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Episode 10 - Jennifer Vonk is an episode from Spit and Twitches: The Animal Cognition Podcast by Dr. Dave Brodbeck.

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This episode was published on Nov 23, 2015.

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