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Name: Robert Cook
Title: Professor of Psychology
Departmental Affiliation: Psychology Department
Degrees: Ph.D. University of California at Berkley; M.A. University of California at Berkley; B.S. The Ohio State University
Expertise: Animal Cognition
Major Awards: Leibner Award for Distinguished Teaching and Advising, Fellow in APA Div 3 & 6
E-mail: Robert.Cook@tufts.edu

Other websites: http://www.pigeon.psy.tufts.edu
Scholarship & Research: National Science Foundation Research Grants, (1988-2007)

Chair of Psychology Dept

Co-Editor of Comparative Cognition and Behavior Reviews

Consulting Editor, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes

Books:

Cook, R. G. (2001). Avian visual cognition. Available: www.pigeon.psy.tufts.edu/avc

Brown, M. F. & Cook, R. G. (2006). Animal Spatial Cognition. Available: www.pigeon.psy.tufts.edu/avc

Recent Papers:

Cook, R. G. & Wasserman, E. A. (2006). Relational learning in pigeons. In E. A. Wasserman & T. Zentall (Eds), Comparative cognition: Experimental explorations of animal intelligence. (pp. 307-324). Oxford University Press.

Schmidt, G. F. & Cook, R.G. (2006). Mind the gap: Means-end discrimination by pigeons. Animal Behaviour, 71, 599-608.

Fagot, J., & Cook, R. G. (2006). Evidence for large long-term memory capacities in baboons and pigeons and its implication for learning and the evolution of cognition. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 103, 17564-17567.

Cook, R. G., & Smith, J. D. (2006). Stages of abstraction and exemplar memorization in pigeon category learning. Psychological Science, 17, 1059-1067.

Cavoto, B., & Cook, R. G. (2006). The contribution of monocular depth cues to scene perception by pigeons. Psychological Science, 17, 628-634.

Cook, R. G., & Wasserman, E. A. (2006). Relational learning in pigeons. In E. A. Wasserman & T. Zentall (Eds.), Comparative cognition: Experimental explorations of animal intelligence (pp. 307-324). London: Oxford University Press.

Schmidt, G. F., & Cook, R. G. (2006). Mind the gap: Means-end discrimination by pigeons. Animal Behaviour, 71, 599-608.

Cook, R. G., & Blaisdell, A. P. (2006). Item memory in successive same/different discriminations. Behavioural Processes, 72, 255-264.

Gibson, B., Wasserman, E. A., & Cook, R. G. (2006). Not all same-different discriminations are created equal: Evidence contrary to a unidimensional account of same-different learning. Learning & Motivation, 37, 189-208.

Blaisdell, A. P. & Cook, R. G. (2005). Integration of spatial associations in pigeons. Animal Cognition, 8, 7-16.

Blaisdell, A. P. & Cook, R. G. (2005). Two-item same-different concept learning by pigeons. Learning & Behavior, 33, 67-77.

Cook, R. G., Goto, K, Brooks, D. (2005). Avian detection of perceptual structure in randomized noise. Behavioural Processes, 69, 79-95.

Cook, R. G., Levison, D., Gillett, S. & Blaisdell, A. P. (2005). Capacity and limits of associative memory in pigeons. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 12, 350-358.

Zhang, G., Wang, X., Kong, L., Sun, M., Lee, B., Franklin, C., Cook, R. G. & Geller, A. I (2005). Genetic enhancement of visual learning by activation of protein kinase C pathways in small groups of rat cortical neurons. Journal of Neuroscience. 25, 8468-8481

Cook, R. G. , Katz, J. Cavoto, B. R. (1997) Same-Different learning and transfer across multiple stimulus classes. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 23, 417-430.

Cook, R. G., Katz, J. S, & Cavoto, B. R. (in press). Processes of visual cognition in the pigeon. In S. Soraci & B. McIlvane (Eds.) Perspectives on Fundamental Processes in Intellectual Functioning, Volume 1: A survey of research approaches. Greenwich, CT: Ablex.

Greene, C. & Cook, R.G. (1997). Landmark geometry controls spatial navigation in rats. Animal Learning & Behavior,, 25, 312-323.

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