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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2003 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Sarah T. Boysen is affiliated with The Ohio State University in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within psychology and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology.

Their work primarily focuses on the study of primate behavior and ecology, as well as human-animal interaction studies. Other main topics of research include child and animal learning development, animal behavior and welfare studies, the use of ultrasound in clinical applications, animal vocal communication and behavior, and cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills.

Sarah T. Boysen has contributed to various fields of study with a particular emphasis on social psychology, genetics, developmental and educational psychology, small animals, and critical care and intensive care medicine.

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development
  • The Ultrasound Journal
  • Animal Cognition

Notable recent papers by Sarah T. Boysen include:

  • Joint Attention in Human and Chimpanzee Infants in Varied Socio-Ecological Contexts, 2021, Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development
  • Acquisition of a Joystick-Operated Video Task by Pigs (Sus scrofa), 2021, Frontiers in Psychology
  • Abstracts from the Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care Ultrasound Society, 2020, The Ultrasound Journal
  • Object use in communication of semi-wild chimpanzees, 2023, Animal Cognition
  • Editorial: Current Perspectives in Cognitive Processing by Domesticated Animals, 2021, Frontiers in Psychology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Sarah T. Boysen include:

  • Katherine Bruce
  • David A. Leavens
  • Kim A. Bard
  • Heidi Keller
  • Kirsty M. Ross

Sarah T. Boysen was awarded the title of Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2003.

Best Publications

  • Inferences About Guessing and Knowing by Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)

    Daniel J. Povinelli;Kurt E. Nelson;Sarah T. Boysen

  • Numerical competence in a chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes).

    Sarah T. Boysen;Gary G. Berntson

  • An approach to artifact identification: application to heart period data.

    Gary G. Berntson;Karen S. Quigley;Jaye F. Jang;Sarah T. Boysen

  • Responses to quantity: Perceptual versus cognitive mechanisms in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes).

    Sarah T. Boysen;Gary G. Berntson

  • Comprehension of role reversal in chimpanzees: Evidence of empathy?

    Daniel J. Povinelli;Daniel J. Povinelli;Kurt E. Nelson;Kurt E. Nelson;Sarah T. Boysen;Sarah T. Boysen

  • Quantity-based interference and symbolic representations in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes).

    S. T. Boysen;G. G. Berntson;M. B. Hannan;J. T. Cacioppo

  • The Development of numerical competence : animal and human models

    Sarah Till Boysen;E. John Capaldi

  • Language-Naive Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) Judge Relations Between Relations in a Conceptual Matching-to-Sample Task

    Roger K. R. Thompson;David L. Oden;Sarah T. Boysen

  • Comprehension of Cause-Effect Relations in a Tool-Using Task by Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)

    Luca Limongelli;Sarah T. Boysen;Elisabetta Visalberghi

  • Processing of ordinality and transitivity by chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes).

    Sarah T. Boysen;Gary G. Berntson;Traci A. Shreyer;Karen S. Quigley

  • Size matters: impact of item size and quantity on array choice by chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes).

    Sarah T. Boysen;Gary G. Berntson;Kimberly L. Mukobi

  • OVERCOMING RESPONSE BIAS USING SYMBOLIC REPRESENTATIONS OF NUMBER BY CHIMPANZEES (PAN TROGLODYTES) .........

    Sarah T. Boysen;Kimberly L. Mukobi;Gary G. Berntson

  • Raking it in: the impact of enculturation on chimpanzee tool use.

    E. E. Furlong;K. J. Boose;S. T. Boysen

  • Scale-model comprehension by chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes).

    Valerie A. Kuhlmeier;Sarah T. Boysen;Kimberly L. Mukobi

  • Neurobehavioral organization and the cardinal principle of evaluative bivalence

    Gary G. Berntson;Sarah T. Boysen;John T. Cacioppo

  • Simian scribbles: a reappraisal of drawing in the chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes).

    Sarah T. Boysen;Gary G. Berntson;James Prentice

  • Chimpanzees (Pan Troglodytes) Recognize Spatial and Object Correspondences Between a Scale Model and Its Referent

    Valerie A. Kuhlmeier;Sarah T. Boysen;Sarah T. Boysen

  • Counting in Chimpanzees: Nonhuman Principles and Emergent Properties of Number

    Sarah Till Boysen

  • Cardiac correlates of individual recognition in the chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes).

    Sarah T. Boysen;Gary G. Berntson

  • Conspecific recognition in the chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes): cardiac responses to significant others.

    Sarah T. Boysen;Gary G. Berntson

Frequent Co-Authors

Gary G. Berntson
Gary G. Berntson The Ohio State University
Kim A. Bard
Kim A. Bard University of Portsmouth
Daniel J. Povinelli
Daniel J. Povinelli University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Karen S. Quigley
Karen S. Quigley Northeastern University
William D. Hopkins
William D. Hopkins University of Wisconsin–Madison
David A. Leavens
David A. Leavens University of Sussex
Vladimir M. Sloutsky
Vladimir M. Sloutsky The Ohio State University
Tetsuro Matsuzawa
Tetsuro Matsuzawa California Institute of Technology
Heidi Keller
Heidi Keller Osnabrück University
Elisabetta Visalberghi
Elisabetta Visalberghi National Research Council (CNR)

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