In this special episode of Princeton Insights: The Highlights, we interview show host Thiago Tarraf Varella, a third year graduate student in the Psychology department. We discuss his research, which was done with his advisor, Dr. Asif Ghazanfar, a professor and researcher in the Princeton Psychology Department focused on developmental and evolutionary bases for communication in humans. Thaigo’s research investigates altriciality, cooperative breeding, and reinforcement learning in marmoset monkeys and their ties to evolution.
This episode of The Highlights was produced under the 146th Managing Board of The Daily Princetonian. Thiago Tarraf Varella is a graduate student in Princeton’s Psychology department in Professor Ghazanfar’s lab. He can be reached at tvarella@princeton.edu.
To view the transcript for this episode, click “More Info” and then “Full Transcript” in the episode player.
RESOURCES
Princeton Insights Coverage: https://insights.princeton.edu/2022/01/marmosets-infants-learn-to-speak/
Original paper: Varella, T. T., & Ghazanfar, A. A. (2021). Cooperative care and the evolution of the prelinguistic vocal learning. Developmental Psychobiology.
Marmoset audio: D. Y. Takahashi et al., Science 349, 734 (2015)
CREDITS
Written and hosted by Senna Aldoubosh and Sophia Villacorta
Edited by Sophia Villacorta and Senna Aldoubosh
Produced by Senna Aldoubosh
Original Insights coverage by Sarah McFann
“Family of Common Marmosets” by Francesco Veronesi / CC BY-SA 2.0
Image of Thiago Varella Courtesy of Thiago Varella, taken by Rohini Majumdar
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