Psychology

PSY-161, Term 9, May 2004, Prof. Lori Nelson

General Psychology

Rocky

Rocky wearing headphones
Photo: Schusterman group, Long Marine Lab
Rocky with researcher Ron Schusterman
Photo: Colleen Kastak/UCSC Currents
Rio in a cognition study
Photo: Schusterman group, Long Marine Lab

Research with Rocky
Research with Rocky and Rio
More on research with Rocky
Sea lion cognition research (with Rocky and others)
Rocky researcher Ron Schusterman
How Rocky researcher Schusterman got interested in this research, summary of his research written at the time of his recent retirement

Watch an on-line video showing Rocky's performance
Look for If Only They Could Speak
At the same site, you might also want to watch Who Needs Words Anyway?

A video with a segment on Rocky, Signs of the Apes, Songs of the Whales, will be shown in class.
This video is also on reserve at the library so you can view it again.

There is also a chapter about Rocky in the book, The Cognitive Animal, which is on reserve at the library:
Schusterman, R. J., Kastak, C. R., & Kastak, D. (2002). The cognitive sea lion: Meaning and memory in the laboratory and in nature. In M. Bekoff, C. Allen & G. Burghardt (Eds.), The Cognitive Animal. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

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Lori Nelson, PSY-161, Term 9, May 2004

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