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Sara J. Shettleworth (born 1943) is an American-born, Canadian experimental psychologist and zoologist. Her research focuses on animal cognition. She is professor emerita of psychology and ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Toronto.

She was brought up in Maine and is a graduate of Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania. She started her PhD at the University of Pennsylvania and transferred to the University of Toronto, where she finished her doctoral studies in comparative psychology.[1] She has lived in Canada since 1967. She is married to biologist Nicholas Mrosovsky.[2]

Shettleworth's research focuses on adaptive specializations of learning and the evolution of cognition. She has been a Guggenheim Fellow and a Visiting Fellow at Magdalen College and Oxford University. Her research has been supported continuously since 1974 by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.[3]

Shettleworth was honoured by the Comparative Cognition Society at their 2008 annual meeting for her contributions to the study of animal cognition.[4] In 2012 the Canadian Society For Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science honoured her with the Donald Hebb award for her distinguished contributions to psychological science.[5][6]

Sara Shettleworth
Born1943
NationalityAmerican-born, Canadian
EducationUniversity of Pennsylvania & University of Toronto
Occupation(s)Psychologist and Zoologist
SpouseNicholas Mrosovsky

Selected bibliography

Books

  • Shettleworth, S. J. (2012). Fundamentals of Comparative Cognition (Fundamentals in Cognition). Oxford University Press.[7]
  • Shettleworth, S. J. (2009). Cognition, Evolution, and Behavior (2nd ed). Oxford University Press.[8]

Scientific Publications

  • Shettleworth, S. J. (2012). Do Animals Have Insight, and What Is Insight Anyway? The Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 66(4), 217–226.[9]
  • Shettleworth, S. J. (2010). Clever animals and killjoy explanations in comparative psychology. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 14(11), 477–481.[10]
  • Sutton, J. E. & Shettleworth, S. J. (2008). Memory without awareness: Pigeons do not show metamemory in delayed matching-to-sample. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 34(2), 266–282.[11]  
  • Miller, N. Y.; Shettleworth, S. J. (2007). "Learning about environmental geometry: An associative model". Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes. 33 (3): 191–212. doi:10.1037/0097-7403.33.3.191. PMID 17620021.
  • Cheng, K., & Shettleworth, S. J., Huttenlocher, J., & Rieser, J. (2007). Bayesian integration of spatial information. Psychological Bulletin, 133(4), 625–637.[12]

A full list of publications can be found here

References

  1. ^ "Current Biology Q and A" (PDF). Retrieved February 7, 2019.
  2. ^ "Sara J. Shettleworth" (PDF). University of Toronto. Retrieved 1 January 2019.
  3. ^ People in the Shettleworth Lab
  4. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2008-07-04. Retrieved 2008-03-16.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-08-24. Retrieved 2012-05-22.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. ^ "Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour & Cognitive Science: Dr. Sara Shettleworth". www.csbbcs.org. Retrieved 2019-02-08.
  7. ^ J., Shettleworth, Sara (2013). Fundamentals of comparative cognition (1st ed.). New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195343106. OCLC 772774131.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  8. ^ J., Shettleworth, Sara (2010). Cognition, evolution, and behavior (2nd ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199717811. OCLC 488647761.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  9. ^ Shettleworth, Sara J. (2012). "Do animals have insight, and what is insight anyway?". Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology. 66 (4): 217–226. doi:10.1037/a0030674. ISSN 1878-7290. PMID 23231629.
  10. ^ Shettleworth, Sara J. (2010-11-01). "Clever animals and killjoy explanations in comparative psychology". Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 14 (11): 477–481. doi:10.1016/j.tics.2010.07.002. ISSN 1364-6613. PMID 20685155. S2CID 13908581.
  11. ^ Sutton, Jennifer E.; Shettleworth, Sara J. (2008). "Memory without awareness: Pigeons do not show metamemory in delayed matching to sample". Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes. 34 (2): 266–282. doi:10.1037/0097-7403.34.2.266. ISSN 1939-2184. PMID 18426309.
  12. ^ Cheng, Ken; Shettleworth, Sara J.; Huttenlocher, Janellen; Rieser, John J. (2007). "Bayesian integration of spatial information". Psychological Bulletin. 133 (4): 625–637. doi:10.1037/0033-2909.133.4.625. ISSN 1939-1455. PMID 17592958.


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