CURRICULM VITAE REGINA PAXTON GAZES, Ph.D. POSITION CONTACT INFORMATION Post Doctoral Fellow in Primate Research Zoo Atlanta Zoo Atlanta 800 Cherokee Avenue Atlanta, GA Atlanta GA, 30315 Advisor, Tara Stoinski, Ph.D. Phone: 404-624-5633 E-mail:
[email protected] www.psychology.emory.edu/lcpc/reginapaxton.html EDUCATION Post Doctoral Fellow in Advisor: Tara Stoinski. Primate Research Zoo Atlanta Ph.D. Psychology, 2012 Thesis: Evolution of social cognition and the Emory University neurocognitive basis of transitive inference in monkeys; Advisor: Robert Hampton. Committee Members: Jocelyn Bachevalier, Mark Wilson, Harold Gouzoules, Philippe Rochat. M.A. Psychology, 2007 Thesis: Tests of Planning and the Bischof-Kohler Emory University Hypothesis in Rhesus Monkeys (Macaca mulatta); Advisor: Robert Hampton. B.S. Animal Behavior, 2004 Honors Thesis: Familiar versus unfamiliar concept with honors formation in brown capuchin monkeys (Cebus Bucknell University apella); Advisor: Peter Judge PUBLICATIONS . Gazes, R. Paxton, Brown, E.K., Basile, B.M., Hampton, R.R. 2012. Automated cognitive testing of monkeys in social groups yields results comparable to individual laboratory based testing. Animal Cognition. 16, 445-458. doi: 10.1007/s10071-012-0585-8. Gazes, R. Paxton, Chee, N., & Hampton, R.R. 2012. Cognitive mechanisms for transitive inference performance in rhesus monkeys: Measuring the influence of associative strength and inferred order. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes. 38, 331-345. Paxton, R., Basile, B.M., Adachi, I., Suzuki, W.A., Wilson, M.E., & Hampton, R.R. 2010. Rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) rapidly learn to select dominant individuals in videos of artificial social interactions. Journal of Comparative Psychology. 124, 395-401.