Human Robot Interactions 2017

Lucia gives keynote address on the evolution of human olfaction at HRI 2017 in Vienna, Austria.Abstract:We humans are the Cyrano de Bergerac’s of the primate world, with conspicuously large external noses compared to other great apes. To understand why our nose...

SICB 2017

Hunt, N., Frendberg-Mates, E., Jinn, J., Robin, A. N., Jacobs, L. F., & Full, R. J. (2017). Squirrels running on compliant branches: When to leap? Presented at the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, New Orleans,...

ASAB 2016

Lucia talks about squirrel scatter hoarding at the London Zoo, where Desmond Morris first coined the term in his study of captive green acouchis, for the Winter Meeting of the Association for the Study of Animal...

Allison Payne: Honors

Honor’s Thesis, Cognitive Science, UC Berkeley. “Keep Your Enemies Close”. Submitted in August 2016. 30 pp. Abstract Fox squirrels ( Sciurus niger) are scatter­hoarders who spread out their food stores to reduce the chance of pilferage by...

RSS 2016

2016 RSS was hosted by the University of Michigan. Lucia gave one of the three keynotes on olfactory...

Michelle Ramey

Michelle Ramey has been accepted in the PhD program in Neuroscience at UC Davis, where she will be studying how memory and visual attention interact, as well as the influence of lifestyle factors and stress on memory. Michelle is also an incredible photographer, check...