KARYL B. SWARTZ

Professor, Department of Psychology, Lehman College and the Graduate School, City University of New York
Adjunct Professor, CUNY Graduate Program in Anthropology
Ph. D., Psychology, Brown University, 1977

Fields of Study

Cognition in non-human primates; specifically, learning, memory, and perception by macaque monkeys and cognitive factors in mirror self-recognition by Great Apes.

Current Research Interests

My basic interest is in understanding the cognitive factors that underlie the non-human primate's understanding of its world. I have focused on social perception, list learning and list memory by macaque monkeys. I use laboratory experimental techniques to determine how monkeys perceive and remember faces and photographs of other natural objects. I am also interested in the cognitive capacities that support the ability of some chimpanzees and other Great Apes to recognize themselves in mirrors.

Selected Publications

Swartz, K. B. (1994). Povinelli's "Reconstructing the evolution of the mind:" All smoke and mirrors. American Psychologist, 49, 759-760.

Swartz, K. B., & Evans, S. (1994). Cognitive and social factors in chimpanzee and gorilla mirror behavior and self-recognition. In S. T. Parker, R. W. Mitchell, & M. L. Boccia (Eds.), Self-awareness in animals and humans: Developmental perspectives. Pp. 189-206. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Swartz, K. B., & Sackett, G. P. (1994). Social preferences by and for pigtailed macaques (Macaca nemestrina) with Trisomy 18. American Journal on Mental Retardation, 99, 141-150.

Swartz, K. B., Chen, S., & Terrace, H. S. (1991). Serial learning by rhesus monkeys: I. Acquisition and retention of multiple four-item lists. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 17, 396-410.

Swartz, K. B., & Evans, S. (1991). Not all chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) show self-recognition. Primates, 32, 483-496.

Swartz, K. B. (1990). The concept of mind in comparative psychology. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 602, 105-111.

Gunderson, V. M., & Swartz, K. B. (1985). Visual recognition in infant pigtailed macaques after a 24-hour delay. American Journal of Primatology, 8, 259-264.

Swartz, K. B. (1983). Species discrimination in infant pigtail macaques with pictorial stimuli. Developmental Psychobiology, 16, 219-231.

Swartz, K. B. (1982). A comparative perspective on perceptual, cognitive, and social development. Journal of Human Evolution, 11, 315-320.

Swartz, K. B., & Rosenblum, L. A. (1980). Operant responding by bonnet macaques for color videotape recordings of social stimuli. Animal Learning & Behavior, 8, 311-321.

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