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Like Humans, Chimpanzees Know What They Know
The ability to think about thinking, or metacognition, helps us to recognize what we know, and what we don’t know. A new study suggests chimpanzees may share this cognitive ability. ... More>
Nicholas Turk-Browne
Princeton University www.princeton.edu/ntblab What does your research focus on? The research in my lab seeks to understand key components of cognition, such as perception and memory. These components are often ... More>
Observation
NAS Receives Gift From Atkinson for Prize in Psychological and Cognitive Sciences
The National Academy of Science has received a gift of $3.5 million from APS Fellow Richard C. Atkinson to establish the NAS Prize in Psychological and Cognitive Sciences. Beginning in 2014, a $200,000 prize will be given biennially to an individual (or pair of individuals) "responsible for significant advances in the psychological and cognitive sciences with important applications for formal and systematic theory in these fields.” ... More>
Kristen Lindquist
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill www.unc.edu/~kal29 What does your research focus on? My research focuses on understanding the nature of human emotion. I’m broadly interested in understanding what ... More>
