Kristy Biolsi's guest appearances

Kristy Biolsi

Spit and Twitches: The Animal Cognition Podcast

Wild Connection: The Podcast

Lori Gruen

Matthew Murphy

Lee McIntyre

Jeff Martin

Chris Sturdy

John de Graaf

Nathaniel Popkin

Craig Bruce

Colin Jerolmack

Aaron Blaisdell

Jeffrey Lockwood

Brett Gibson

Brooke Williams

Suzanne MacDonald

Fiona Cross

OwlTail

Today's episode tackles a BIG question: What is cognition and consciousness and do other species have it?  That's not all though, my guest Dr. Kristy Biolsi, Associate Professor of Psychology at St. Francis College (@SFCNY) in Brooklyn Heights NY and co-founder and Director of the Center for the Study of Pinniped Ecology and Cognition (C-SPEC) talks to us about what she's discovering about the cognitive abilities of seals as well as why seals are back in New York City waterways.  During this podcast we also chat about safe ways to enjoy seals and what you can do to help.  You can find out more information about the Riverhead Foundation here: https://www.longislandaquarium.com/riverhead-foundation-rescue-center/ and go on a seal walk if you are in the NY area with CRESLI. Check their website https://www.cresli.org/seals/  for details.  If you're enjoying the show subscribe and share it so others can enjoy it too. You can follow the show on Itunes, Google Play, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Also follow the show on Twitter: @WildConnectPod You can also follow me on  Twitter: @realdrjen Instagram: @readrjen Facebook https://www.facebook.com/RealDrJen   There is also a YouTube Channel where you can find a range of videos, some of them tied to podcast episodes. More are on the way so subscribe to Wild Connection TV

Today's episode tackles a BIG question: What is cognition and consciousness and do other species have it? That's not all though, my guest Dr. Kristy Biolsi, Associate Professor of Psychology at St. Francis College (@SFCNY) in Brooklyn Heights NY and co-founder and Director of the Center for the Study of Pinniped Ecology and Cognition (<a href="https://www.sfc.edu/academics/institutescenters/pinniped" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">C-SPEC</a>) talks to us about what she's discovering about the cognitive abilities of seals as well as why seals are back in New York City waterways.  During this podcast we also chat about safe ways to enjoy seals and what you can do to help.  You can find out more information about the Riverhead Foundation here: <a href="https://www.longislandaquarium.com/riverhead-foundation-rescue-center/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.longislandaquarium.com/riverhead-foundation-rescue-center/</a> and go on a seal walk if you are in the NY area with CRESLI. Check their website <a href="https://www.cresli.org/seals/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.cresli.org/seals/</a>  for details.  If you're enjoying the show subscribe and share it so others can enjoy it too. You can follow the show on Itunes, Google Play, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Also follow the show on Twitter: @WildConnectPod You can also follow me on  Twitter: @realdrjen Instagram: @readrjen Facebook <a href="https://www.facebook.com/RealDrJen" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/RealDrJen</a> There is also a YouTube Channel where you can find a range of videos, some of them tied to podcast episodes. More are on the way so subscribe to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDDtTQYzVGGYXm6iDmg4FTQ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Wild Connection TV</a>

What's On Your Mind? Exploring cognition and consciousness in other animals with Dr. Kristy Biolsi

 Kristy's subjects seem to like her a lot   Kristy Biolsi is an Associate Professor of Psychology at St. Francis College in Brooklyn NY, where she also serves as the Director of the BA/MA Program in Applied Psychology.  She is a co-editor for the journal Aquatic Mammals, serves on the editorial board for the Journal of the Association for the Study of Ethical Behavior and Evolutionary Biology in Literature (ASEBL), is a co-founder of the Evolutionary Studies Collaborative, and is the co-founder and Director of the Center for the Study of Pinniped Ecology and Cognition (C-SPEC) housed at SFC.      She received her B.S. in Psychobiology from Long Island University, Southampton College in 2001 and in 2007 she received her Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC).    Her research focus was on marine mammal cognition and while at Long Marine Lab, UCSC, she worked specifically with the Pinniped Cognition and Sensory Systems Lab.  Her current research interests are in comparative cognition, focusing on marine mammals, and she has two main lines of scientific inquiry; laboratory work that is conducted at the Long Island Aquarium and Exhibition Center in Riverhead NY investigating discrimination learning and categorization with two captive, trained, California sea lions and field work which consists of data collection from surveys and naturalisticobservations of the local wild harbor seal population.  We even touched on some theoretical stuff about animal morality.    Thanks again to Red Arms for letting me mash up their music with the ending theme, buy their music now.mp3 download

<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CLmlfDaDN78/V3Fk3a30vWI/AAAAAAAAB_s/EzkmaayU_Ps2eko9iR23WyCYhZO1MBFJwCLcB/s1600/Biosi%2BBio_pic.jpg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a> Kristy's subjects seem to like her a lot <a href="http://www.sfc.edu/mobile.cfm?p=347&amp;viewProfileID=IyJKQyoK" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kristy Biolsi</a> is an Associate Professor of Psychology at St. Francis College in Brooklyn NY, where she also serves as the Director of the BA/MA Program in Applied Psychology.  She is a co-editor for the journal Aquatic Mammals, serves on the editorial board for the Journal of the Association for the Study of Ethical Behavior and Evolutionary Biology in Literature (ASEBL), is a co-founder of the Evolutionary Studies Collaborative, and is the co-founder and Director of the Center for the Study of Pinniped Ecology and Cognition (<a href="http://www.sfc.edu/page.cfm?siteChoice=0&amp;id=4491" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">C-SPEC</a>) housed at SFC.   She received her B.S. in Psychobiology from Long Island University, Southampton College in 2001 and in 2007 she received her Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC). Her research focus was on marine mammal cognition and while at Long Marine Lab, UCSC, she worked specifically with the Pinniped Cognition and Sensory Systems Lab.  Her current research interests are in comparative cognition, focusing on marine mammals, and she has two main lines of scientific inquiry; laboratory work that is conducted at the Long Island Aquarium and Exhibition Center in Riverhead NY investigating <a href="http://davebrodbeck.com/storage/spit/Lindemann-Biolsi%20K.L.%20%20%20Paparo%20C.H.%20Can%20You%20Recognize%20This%20-Transfer%20from%20Objects%20to%20Pictures%20Using%20a%20Simple%20Discrimination%20Task%20with%20California%2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">discrimination learning</a> and <a href="http://davebrodbeck.com/storage/spit/Lindemann-Biolsi%20K.L.%20%20Reichmuth%20C.%202014%20Cross-modal%20Transitivity.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">categorization</a> with two captive, trained, California sea lions and field work which consists of data collection from <a href="http://davebrodbeck.com/storage/spit/NYC%20Audubon_January_2014.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">surveys and naturalisticobservations</a> of the local wild harbor seal population.  We even touched on some theoretical stuff about <a href="http://davebrodbeck.com/storage/spit/Biolsi%20K.L.%20What%20Does%20it%20Mean%20to%20be%20a%20Moral%20Animal_ASEBL_2013.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">animal morality</a>. Thanks again to Red Arms for letting me mash up their music with the ending theme, buy their music <a href="http://redarms.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">now</a>. <a href="http://archive.org/download/Spit19/Spit19.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">mp3 download</a>

Episode 19 - Kristy Biolsi