Irene Pepperberg - The Helix Center.
In Animal Cognition, Dr. Irene Pepperberg's students learn how to evaluate scholarly work on animal cognition by trying to think from the animal's point of view of the experiment.The entire course is set up so that students become critical consumers (and, at the end of the course, producers) of research.I am Dr. Irene Pepperberg, a researcher at Harvard University in the field of animal cognition, specifically of African Grey parrots. My work began with Alex, a colleague of mine for 30 years, who was shown to have the emotional age of about a 2 year old child and the intelligence of up to a 5-6 year old child. Our research in areas such as.Irene Maxine Pepperberg (born April 1, 1949 in Brooklyn, New York) is a scientist noted for her studies in animal cognition, particularly in relation to parrots.She is an adjunct professor of psychology at Brandeis University and a lecturer at Harvard University.Pepperberg also serves on the Advisory Council of METI (Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence).
Twenty years ago, Irene Pepperberg set out to discover whether large-brained, highly social parrots were capable of mastering complex cognitive concepts and the rudiments of referential speech. Her investigation and the bird at its center -- a male Grey parrot named Alex -- have since become almost as well known as their primate equivalents and no less a subject of fierce debate in the field.Research Associate, Dr. Irene Pepperberg, was recently elected Member-at-Large to Division 3 of the American Psychological Association. Dr. Pepperberg was also cited and quoted in the August 21, 2017 edition of Time magazine.
The final experiments with Alex, an African grey parrot (Psittacus erithacus) who amazed researchers with his language and cognitive abilities, have been published. The paper, written by Alex's primary trainer Irene Pepperberg, appears in the journal Animal Cognition. It shows that the parrot's mathematical skills, including adding multiple.
