Comparative Cognition & Perception Lab News

Research involving North American river otters based at Monroe County’s Seneca Park Zoo has concluded the fascinating animals can visually discriminate between two-dimensional objects and detect differences in shapes and colors.

More than 250 student projects, representing all nine colleges, were on display at the 27th annual Undergraduate Research Symposium on Aug. 3 at RIT.

Research at RIT article on research in the humanities and social sciences at RIT, featuring my research involving students on visual perception in river otters

Charlie joins Dr Caroline DeLong to find out just how intelligent otters are.

The 25th annual RIT Undergraduate Research Symposium featured more than 250 student presentations. Undergraduates from all of RIT's colleges display the research work they have completed in the past year.

Caroline DeLong, an assistant professor of psychology at Rochester Institute of Technology, is a real-life Doolittle whose research focuses on object discrimination in goldfish and echolocation in dolphins to bring scientists closer to unlocking the mysteries of animal perception and cognition.

Caroline DeLong is a real-life Dr. Doolittle: Research on object perception in goldfish helps bring experts closer to unlocking mysteries of animal perception and cognition.

Caroline DeLong, Rochester Institute of Technology assistant professor of psychology, works with her goldfish, Poseidon, to demonstrate object recognition.

Yet even more evidence to quash the absurd three second memory myth that still abounds. Check out the video too!