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News & Publications

Recent News

Members

Leslie Kay

• Leslie Kay named panelist for Motherhood & Success in Science.

• Leslie Kay named new Director of University of Chicago's Institute for Mind and Biology

• Brain waves

   

• Olfactory oscillations: the what, how, and what for

Dario Maestripieri

• Face Time With a Female Aids Males Bent on Monkey Business

• Our Inner Monkey

• Political Animals (Yes, Animals)

• Queen Kong? In rhesus realm, females rule. Machiavellian ways of primates revealed

Martha McClintock

• Poor neighborhoods can kill

• Isolation and Stress Identified as Contributing to Breast Cancer Risk

• Breast cancer in black women may be connected to neighborhood conditions

• Temperament linked to onset of cancer and early death in female rats

Jill Mateo

• Smells may help birds identify their relatives

• Cortisol's role in ground squirrel survival skills provides clues to human learning

• Stressed Squirrels Wig Out

• Correct Levels Of Stress Hormones Boost Learning, Squirrel Study Suggests

Brian Prendergast

• Season for change

Steve Shevell

• Psychologist Steve Shevell breaks down how the brain processes what the eye sees

• Color plays "musical chairs" in the brain

• Color Binding in the Brain

Fellows

Elizabeth Allen

• Elizabeth Allen, Psychology and IMB Fellow, was awarded Best Poster Prize for her presentation showing the relation between working memory and color constancy at the 2011 International Color Vision Society conference in Norway, Sweden.

Rachel Shlomit Brezis

• Rachel Shlomit Brezis was awarded a UCLA Foundation for Psychocultural Research post-doctoral fellowship.  She will conduct at research and serve as the local director of UCLA's new center for research on autism in Delhi.

Jason Bruck

• Dolphins recognize voices of other dolphins, research finds

• Dolphin Research at Texas State Aquarium.

Katie Brooks

• Katie Brooks is the recipient of the 2010 Elizabeth Horner Award; best proposal of this years Grant-in-Aid of Research applications.  Her name will be announced at the annual meeting of the American Society of Mammalogists.

Andy Dosmann

• Andy Dosmann received Valentine Eastern Sierra Reserve Graduate Student Research Grant for "Temperament in Belding's ground squirrels: The evolutionary dynamics of a complex phenotype"

Sarah Elliott

• Sarah Elliott postdoctoral scholar in the Shevell Lab and IMB Fellow, was recently awarded a National Research Service Award from NIH.  Dr. Elliott's project is "Color appearance and it's relation to perceptual organization".

Matt Heintz

• Matt Heintz, Committee on Evolutionary Biology and IMB Fellow, received NSF Graduate Research Fellowship to examine (1) how play behavior correlates with stress, health and development as indicators of immediate benefits and (2) how play during infancy correlates with stress and adult success as indicators of delayed benefits. He will be collecting field data from Gombe National Park.

Tara Mandalaywala

• Tara Mandalaywala, Comparative Human Development and IMB Fellow, received NSF Graduate Reasearch Fellowship to gather behavioral, physiological, and genetic data on the rhesus macaques on Cayo Santiago, Puerto Rico to look at issues of social cognition.

Carson Murray

• Carson Murray received National Institutes of Health Grant for chimpanzee research.

 

Publications

Ables, EM., Kay, LM., Mateo, JM. (2007) Rats assess degree of relatedness from human odors. Physiology and Behavior, 90: 726-732.

Maestripieri, D. (2007). Macachiavellian Intelligence. How rhesus macaques and humans have conquered the world. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.

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