New paper: Search strategies in dogs

Our first search dog study has just been published in a top olfaction journal, Chemical Senses. As we discuss in this paper, it is amazing how few studies on olfactory cognition, particularly olfactory spatial cognition, have been done on the domestic dog, considering...

The navigational nose

Published today in the Journal of Experimental Biology Jacobs, L. F. 2019. The navigational nose: a new hypothesis for the function of the human external pyramid. Journal of Experimental Biology. 222: jeb186924 doi: 10.1242/jeb.186924        PDF:  J Exper Biol 2019...

Judy shows that geckos walk on water

From the New York Times today, a great write-up of Judy’s work that she started as a student project in Bob Full’s amazing class on biomechanics!”Dr. Nirody, who will start research at Rockefeller University this coming year, and Judy Jinn, were...

Aslan Brown: from squirrels to law

Aslan has just accepted the offer from UC Hastings, to begin law school this fall.  But we know him as a squirrel person first – when Mikel Delgado pioneered the development of this non-invasive method to collect DNA from wild squirrels, Aslan Brown was our...

MURI: the science of embodied cognition

“Animals are constantly performing both mechanical and mental processing of the information and energy flows at work in their environment. ‘Embodied intelligence’ refers to the integrated physical problem solving and innovative capabilities that emerge from this...

iNav 2018 in Quebec

Lucia gives invited talk at iNav 2018, the 2nd meeting of the iNav conference. From the iNav website: “In 2016, researchers from a variety of disciplines surrounding the cognitive neuroscience of navigation met in the Austrian mountains to discuss new...