Sara Shettleworth

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Sara Shettleworth is an American born, Canadian experimental psychologist and zoologist. Her research focusses on animal cognition. She is a professor of psychology and ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Toronto.

Shettleworth's research focusses on adaptive specializations of learning and the evolution of cognition. She has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a Visiting Fellow at Magdalen College, Oxford University, and an American Psychological Association Distinguished Scientist Lecturer[1]. Her research has been supported continuously since 1974 by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.[2]

Shettleworth was honoured by the Comparative Cognition Society at their 2008 annual meeting for her contributions to the study of animal cognition[3]

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  1. ^ APA Distinguished Scientist Lecturer Program
  2. ^ People in the Shettleworth Lab
  3. ^ http://www08.homepage.villanova.edu/michael.brown/co3/2008%20FINAL%20Complete%20Program.pdf

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