Comparative Cognition Lab

05/10/2021

Check out this new article on Dr. Rossano's work with Bunny the Sheepadoodle!

The Internet's beloved Sheepadoodle is using AAC buttons to ask what she is. Is she becoming self-aware?

04/06/2021

UCSD's Comparative Cognition Lab has tons of fun online studies for children aged 3 through 8. These studies takes place over Zoom and are exciting and engaging for kids! You can sign up here: https://ucsd.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0JuJLsWqFMmpNCS

03/29/2021

UC-San Diego’s Comparative Cognition Lab has several exciting, online studies for kids to participate in! All studies are run via Zoom and explore young children’s understanding of the social world!

Click the link below to sign up and a researcher will then contact you!

03/26/2021

We are currently running an exciting online study for 4- and 6-year-old children about the relationship between sharing and collaboration. This study takes place over Zoom at a time that best suits your schedule. All kids need to during this study is watch a few different videos and answer some questions 😃

It is a fun, interactive study that I think participants will really enjoy! Participants will receive a coloring page and a certificate as a reward 🎉

Sign up here:

03/21/2021

This is our lab's new page! Please follow and share this page from now on!

We will be posting updates on our studies, and how to get involved in research! Stay tuned!!

03/21/2021

We are the Comparative Cognition Lab at the University of California, San Diego, most interested in human sociality: How it develops through ontogeny (development), what makes human social life possible and sustainable (cognitively, emotionally, behaviorally), and how similar it is to the social life of other animals. Comparative cognition offers a way to determine which socio-cognitive skills are uniquely human, and to what degree there is continuity between our human abilities and those of our closest relatives (the great apes) — and other non-human animals. Through this work, we can explore the evolutionary origins of the human mind.