{"id":308,"date":"2014-11-25T22:12:41","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T22:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jason-long.ca\/?page_id=308"},"modified":"2015-08-26T10:12:33","modified_gmt":"2015-08-26T16:12:33","slug":"lab-director","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.psych.ualberta.ca\/comparativelab\/lab-personnel\/lab-director\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Spetch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.psych.ualberta.ca\/comparativelab\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Marcia2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-92\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.psych.ualberta.ca\/comparativelab\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Marcia2.jpg\" alt=\"Marcia\" width=\"170\" height=\"192\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I obtained my Ph.D. in Biopsychology from the University of British Columbia in 1982, under the supervision of Dr. Don Wilkie. I then spent two years at UCSD on an NSERC postdoctoral fellowship, followed by four years as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Dalhousie University. I joined the Department of Psychology at the University of Alberta in 1987.<\/p>\n<p>I am a member of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.psych.ualberta.ca\/research\/ccb.php\">Comparative Cognition and Behaviour<\/a> research group and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.psych.ualberta.ca\/~csturdy\/Biocognition_Home.htm\">Biocognition Unit<\/a>. My research investigates basic cognitive processes that are important for adaptive functioning in humans and other animals, such as navigation, decision-making, and object recognition. Much\u00a0of my research is with pigeons, but I also investigates cognitive processes in organisms ranging from ants to humans.<\/p>\n<p>I was previously\u00a0president of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comparativecognition.org\/\">Comparative Cognition Society<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Lab Personnel\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.psych.ualberta.ca\/comparativelab\/lab-personnel\/\">&lt;- Back<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I obtained my Ph.D. in Biopsychology from the University of British Columbia in 1982, under the supervision of Dr. Don Wilkie. I then spent two years at UCSD on an NSERC postdoctoral fellowship, followed by four years as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Dalhousie University. I joined the Department of Psychology &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.psych.ualberta.ca\/comparativelab\/lab-personnel\/lab-director\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dr. Spetch<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":20,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-308","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.psych.ualberta.ca\/comparativelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.psych.ualberta.ca\/comparativelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.psych.ualberta.ca\/comparativelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.psych.ualberta.ca\/comparativelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.psych.ualberta.ca\/comparativelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.psych.ualberta.ca\/comparativelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":537,"href":"https:\/\/sites.psych.ualberta.ca\/comparativelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/308\/revisions\/537"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.psych.ualberta.ca\/comparativelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.psych.ualberta.ca\/comparativelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}