Dr. Roger K. R. Thompson
P.O. Box 3003
Lancaster PA 17604-3003
Ph: (717) 291-4181
Em: Roger.Thompson@fandm.edu |
Dr. Roger K. R. Thompson
Dr. E. Paul & Frances H. Reiff Professor, Department of Psychology, Franklin & Marshall College
Roger Thompson is the Dr. E. Paul and Frances H. Reiff Professor of
Biological Sciences and Schnader House Don at Franklin & Marshall
College where he is a member of the Psychology Department and
Biological Foundations of Behavior Program. He has taught also in
France, Bulgaria and Croatia.
Prof. Thompson received his undergraduate and Masters (Hons) degrees
in Psychology from the University of Auckland, New Zealand and
completed his doctoral degree in Psychology from the University of
Hawaii at Manoa where he studied sensory and memory processes in
bottle-nosed dolphins.
Prof. Thompson’s primary research and teaching interests lie in the
comparative analysis of cognition which — in their quest for
understanding “other” animal minds — his colleagues, students, and he
have explored in chimpanzees, old- and new-world monkeys, human
infants and our bipedal ‘cousins’ — birds. |
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