My research concerns the experimental investigation of cognitive processes in animal behavior, with particular interests in comparing cognition and perception in human and nonhuman animals. Specific research topics include: conceptual behavior, visual pattern recognition, short-term memory, and causal perception.
http://www.psychology.uiowa.edu/faculty/wasserman/
Selected Publications
Wasserman, E. A. (1993). Comparative cognition: Beginning the second century of the study of animal intelligence. Psychological Bulletin, 113, 211-228.
Wasserman, E. A. (1995). The conceptual abilities of pigeons. American Scientist, 83, 246-255.
Wasserman, E. A. (1997). Animal cognition: Past, present, and future. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 23, 123-135. Invited paper.
Wasserman, E. A., & Zentall, T. R. (2006). Comparative cognition: Experimental explorations of animal intelligence. New York: Oxford University Press.