Dr. Lori Marino
Faculty Affiliate
Living Links Center
Yerkes National Primate Research Center
Senior Lecturer, Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology
Emory University
Email: lmarino@emory.edu
Curriculum Vitae
Dolphin Brain Atlas (MRI images)
My research interest is in brain and behavioral evolution in mammals. My interdisciplinary research program focuses on cross-taxonomic comparisons of neurobiology, behavioral ecology, life history, and cognition in cetaceans and primates as a vehicle for examining the evolution of mammalian intelligence. At present, I have several ongoing projects which employ cetacean-primate comparisons in the following areas:
1) the relationship between behavioral ecology, life history, and encephalization
2) comparative neuroanatomical organization and function
3) cognitive development
4) paleoneurology and behavioral evolution.
1995; Ph.D. Psychobiology; State University of New York at Albany
1989; M.A. Psychology, Miami University, Ohio
1982; B.A. Psychology, New York University
Contact information:
Lori Marino, Ph.D.
Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology Program
Emory University
Atlanta, GA 30322
Phone: (404) 727-7582
FAX: (404) 727-0372
Publications:
Marino, L. 2002. Convergence of complex cognitive abilities in cetaceans and primates. Brain, Behavior and Evolution 59:21-32.
Reiss, D. and Marino, L. (2001). Mirror self-recognition in the bottlenose dolphin:
A case of cognitive convergence. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 98:5937–5942.