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Wilson Lab
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A lab that explores the relationship between cognition and emotion in non-human primates.
AboutAbout the lab
Testing the minds of primates through experiments.
The Wilson Lab uses experimental methods from human psychology to study the relationship between cognition and emotion in non-human primates.
Its fields are comparative psychology, primatology, ethology, and animal welfare, with attention, face recognition, and facial expressions as key research topics.
Duncan Wilson, Lecturer, teaches courses on comparative psychology and on primate behavior and cognition.
Students join this lab at the graduate level, conducting research as graduate students in the Psychology Program of the Graduate School of Letters.
Key terms
- Comparative psychology
- The field that compares how the mind works in humans and other animals, and explores how the mind is formed from their similarities and differences
- Animal welfare
- The field that considers whether captive animals are living in good condition both mentally and physically, and works to improve it
- Common marmoset
- A small monkey native to South America
ResearchResearch themes
This lab aims to understand the relationship between cognition and emotion in non-human primates using experimental methods from human psychology. It has studied chimpanzees, common marmosets, and other species, focusing on attention and facial expressions.
Cognition and Emotion in Primates
The lab uses experimental methods from human psychology to investigate the relationship between cognition and emotion in non-human primates. One study examined how chimpanzees search for faces that signal a threat and how they direct their attention to them.
Marmoset Facial Expressions
The lab studied pain expressions in common marmosets using geometric morphometric analysis, a method of measuring facial shape geometrically. It also took part in developing CalliFACS, a method for describing marmoset facial expressions, and in a collaborative study of hormonal and behavioral responses to social visual cues.
MembersFaculty
- LecturerWILSON Duncan
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