Annie Fossum, Psych Care Manager
Julie Neiworth (with assistant Isabel), Faculty supervisor
MONKEY CREW
A compilation of photographs of student collaborators and caregivers from Dec, 1998 until now, organized by year.
Annie Fossum, Psych Care Manager |
Julie Neiworth (with assistant Isabel), Faculty supervisor |
MONKEY CREW A compilation of photographs of student collaborators and caregivers from Dec, 1998 until now, organized by year. |
It was the year of numbers for the monkeys, with Maren Sonstegard. 05, and Alison Lewis,'05, both testing tamarins' ability to discriminate small amounts (with Maren, with cheerios displayed on a 3-d matrix, and with Alison, with cheerios being dropped serially (and cereal-ly) into cups. We were given a few male monkeys from U-Wisconsin-Madison on Dec 19, 2004, and pictures are available on the tamarin photo site. We introduced Heron to Ophelia, and Vulture, Heron's brother and a member of the "bird" family, to Olympia. Since this initial set-up, we have moved monkeys around, and now Heron and Encore share the family cage. The summer of 2005 welcomed lots of research activity from Elizabeth Gray, '08, Katie Whillock, '08, and Aisha Kudura, '06. Elizabeth Gray and Aisha Kudura started working on a test of global/local groupings of numbers in monkeys which we believe will have implications for a clinical syndrome in humans, autism. Katie Whillock continued to test numerosity with matrices, and all three student researchers started trading tokens for food with the tamarins to establish a bartering system which we intend to examine later in the school year 2005-6. |
Student Care/Research: Mel Branco, in psychology, '05 Elizabeth Johnson, in psychology, '07 Maren Sonstegard, in psychology, '05 Alison Lewis, in psychology, '05 Rachael Klein, in psychology, '05 Amy Gleichman, in neuroscience, '05 Aisha Kudura, '06 Elizabeth Gray, '08 Julia Gatenby, '08 Peter Berry, '07 Greg Perryman, '07 Katie Whillock, '08
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Top (from left to right):Maren Sonstegard, Mel Branco, Alison Lewis.
Aisha Kudura, '06 (left) and Elizabeth Gray '08 (right). |
