College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Edward Wasserman
Stuit Professor of Experimental Psychology
Education:
Ph.D., Indiana University, 1972
Office:
224 SLP
Office Phone:
319-335-2445
Fax Number:
319-335-0191
Curriculum Vitae:
Lab Website
Research Interests
Comparative analysis of learning, memory, and cognition; special interests in conceptualization, causation, and visual perception
Training Areas
Representative Publications
Zentall, T. R., & Wasserman, E. A. (2012). Oxford handbook of comparative cognition. New York: Oxford University Press.
Lazareva, O. F., Shimizu, T., & Wasserman, E. A. (2012). How animals see the world. New York: Oxford University Press.
Wasserman, E. A., Brooks, D. I., & McMurray, B. (2015). Pigeons acquire multiple categories in parallel via associative learning: A parallel to human word learning? Cognition, 136, 99-122.
Levenson, R. M., Krupinski, E. A., Navarro, V. M., & Wasserman, E. A. (2015). Pigeons (Columba livia) as trainable observers of pathology and radiology breast cancer images. PLoS ONE.
Castro, L., & Wasserman, E. A. (2016). Executive control and task switching in pigeons. Cognition, 146, 121-135.
Wasserman, E. A. (2016). Conceptualization in pigeons: The evolution of a paradigm. Behavioural Processes, 123, 4-14.