APA Handbook of Comparative Psychology: Volume 1: Basic Concepts, Methods, Neural Substrate, and Behavior Volume 2: Perception, Learning, and Cognitio (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781433823480)

Josep Call, PhD, is a professor of the evolutionary origins of mind in the School of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of St. Andrews in St. Andrews, Scotland, and director and cofounder of the Wolfgang Kler Primate Research Center in the Leipzig Zoo in Leipzig, Germany. He received his BA in 1990 from the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona in Barcelona, Spain, and his MA in 1995 and PhD in 1997 from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. From 1997 to 1999, he was a lecturer at the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Liverpool in Liverpool, England. In 1999, he worked as a senior scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. A comparative psychologist specializing in primate cognition and cognitive evolution, Dr. Call's research focuses on elucidating the cognitive processes underlying technical and social problem solving in animals, with the ultimate goal of reconstructing the evolution of human and nonhuman cognition. He has published four books and more than 300 articles and book chapters on the behavior and cognition of great apes and other animals. He has been awarded the Irvine Memorial Medal and the Sheth Distinguished International Alumni Award, and has been elected a fellow of APA Division 6 (Society for Behavioral Neuroscience and Comparative Psychology), the Cognitive Science Society, and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Comparative Psychology and serves on the editorial board of several other academic journals.