I am a Ph.D Student in Biological Anthropology at Emory University working with Dr. Marcela Benitez in the Social Cognition and Primate Behavior Lab. 

Using interdisciplinary methods in anthropology and comparative cognition, I am interested in the evolutionary origins and socio-ecological pressures shaping mental-state attribution and perspective-taking in nonhuman primates. My research explores whether capuchins know what information other capuchins have, and under what circumstances (if any) can they exploit that information (or lack thereof). Using translational experimental paradigms, I am investigating these questions using captive tufted capuchins (Cebus [Sapajus] apella) from the Language Research Center, Georgia State University, and wild white-faced capuchins (Cebus imitator) at Taboga. By translating captive experiments to the wild, perspective-taking can be explored across species and under the natural conditions in which it evolved. Before coming to Emory, I completed my Masters in Evolutionary and Comparative Psychology at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, and my undergraduate degree in Zoology and Psychology from the University of Guelph, Canada.