Email: snowdon@wisc.edu

Our laboratory studies primate behavior: olfactory, auditory and acoustic communication and its development; social learning and cognition; the hormonal basis of pair-bonding, bi-parental care and reproductive inhibition; parental care and the effects of multiple caretakers on infant development. We collaborate on studies using fMRI of awake monkeys to understand brain mechanisms of behavior and communication. We maintain a captive colony of the cooperatively breeding cotton-top tamarin, and several recent students have done field work in Ecuador, Brazil, Argentina and Kenya.

Snowdon, C. T. & Ziegler, T. E. (2000). Reproductive hormones pp. 368-396, in Handbook of Psychophysiology, 2nd Edition (Ed. by J. Cacioppo, L. Tassinary & G. Berntson), New York: Cambridge University Press.

Snowdon, C.T. (1999). An empiricist's view of language origins. pp. 79-114. In: The Origins of Language: What nonhuman primates can tell us. (Ed. By B. J. King) Santa Fe: SAR Press.