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...treks over to Divinity Avenue, goes to the 10th floor of William James Hall, walks through a door that reads “Authorized Personnel Only” and says hello to the 12 vervet monkeys and 24 cotton-top tamarins that call Professor of Psychology Marc D. Hauser??s primate lab their home...
Spaulding, a biological anthropology concentrator, was fortunate to get into Hauser??s lab research class, Psychology 1152, which is limited to 12 spaces usually reserved for psychology concentrators. She spends her time in the lab testing how well Pinker, Newport, Hrdy and Wrangham—four tamarins named after scientists—can work with tools. She conducts means-means-end experiments to determine whether the tamarins can realize that by using one tool, they can move another tool which will bring them a sugar-coated marshmallow...
...When you work with these animals you really get a sense of what they are capable of doing,” says Laurie R. Santos ’97, one of Hauser??s graduate students, who worked in the lab as an undergraduate as well. Both Santos and Spaulding say that while working with the monkeys is often rewarding, it can also be frustrating. “They all have personalities,” Spaulding says. “You learn that this monkey is really nervous, and that one doesn’t want to come...
Gustavo M. Gonzalez ’02, a psychology concentrator, wrote his thesis about communication and mate choice among rhesus monkeys based on research he did at Hauser??s field site in Cayo Santiago, an island off the coast of Puerto Rico inhabited by monkeys but not humans. The days in Puerto Rico start at 7 a.m. with a boat ride to Cayo Santiago, after which students research on the island until 3 p.m. and then have free time for the rest...
...undergraduate, Santos studied tamarins to discover whether or not they know that other individuals have beliefs and desires. She found that they do not, in fact, have “a theory of mind,” which appears to be a uniquely human characteristic. Researchers in Hauser??s lab have studied several problems related to the question of what makes humans uniquely human, including ability to communicate and recognize numbers. Justin A. Junge ’03 assisted Jonathan I. Flombaum ’02, who wrote his thesis on the ability of rhesus monkeys to recognize...