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School of the Biological Sciences

 

Professor of Comparative Cognition, Department of Psychology

Nicola Clayton works on the contemporary study of comparative cognition, integrating a knowledge of both biology and psychology to introduce new ways of thinking about the evolution and development of intelligence in non-verbal animals and pre-verbal children. Learn more

 

Research Areas


Comparative cognition
Convergent evolution
Problem solving
Mental time travel
Theory of mind
Magic

Techniques


Behavioural testing
Problem solving

 

 

Research Themes