Sara Shettleworth

Sara Shettleworth is an American-born, Canadian experimental psychologist and zoologist. Her research focusses on animal cognition. She is a professor of psychology and ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Toronto.

Shettleworth's research focuses on adaptive specializations of learning and the evolution of cognition. She has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a Visiting Fellow at Magdalen College, Oxford University, and an American Psychological Association Distinguished Scientist Lecturer.[1] Her research has been supported continuously since 1974 by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.[2]

Shettleworth was honoured by the Comparative Cognition Society at their 2008 annual meeting for her contributions to the study of animal cognition.[3] In 2012 the Canadian Society For Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science honoured her with the Donald Hebb award for her distinguished contributions to psychological science.[4]

References

  1. ↑ APA Distinguished Scientist Lecturer Program
  2. ↑ People in the Shettleworth Lab
  3. ↑ http://www08.homepage.villanova.edu/michael.brown/co3/2008%20FINAL%20Complete%20Program.pdf
  4. ↑ http://www.csbbcs.org/hebbrec12.html

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