Research Overview:
All of DRC’s cognitive research relates to our overarching goal of mapping the dolphin mind – understanding how dolphins think and learn. And with as much time as we spend on figuring out the individual pieces, it’s also important visualize the entire picture. Recently, Oxford University Press invited DRC to write such a “big picture” chapter, detailing what is known about dolphin cognition, how the pieces fit together, and providing a roadmap of the next steps researchers should take to continue filling in that picture. The chapter “Cetacean Cognitive Specializations” will be in The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Evolutionary Psychology.
