[CS] Orthographic processing in baboons

[Joanna Morris]

Some of you may have heard my  longtime collaborator Jonathan Grainger on NPR recently discussing a fascinating finding that baboons can do lexical decision.  This finding suggests that word recognition initially taps into brain regions that recognize different objects by sight and that evolved in all primates. 

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/339869/title/Baboons_show_their_word_skills



 
Joanna Morris, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psycholinguistics and Cognitive Science
School of Cognitive Science
Hampshire College
893 West Street
Amherst, MA 01002
E-mail: jmorris at hampshire.edu



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