Nicola Clayton is Reader in Comparative Cognition in the Department of Experimental Psychology and a fellow of Clare College at the University of Cambridge. She received her undergraduate degree in zoology at the University of Oxford and her doctorate in animal behaviour at St. Andrews University. Her research focuses on the neural and psychological mechanisms of learning and memory in birds and, recently, in rats. The questions are informed by an ethological perspective as well as an understanding of psychology and neuroscience. She is serving as an editor for Animal Behaviour, as well as being an associate editor for Ibis, Learning and Motivation and the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.
Timothy Bussey is a lecturer in the Department of Experimental Psychology and a fellow of Pembroke College at the University of Cambridge. He received his undergraduate degrees in chemistry and psychology at the University of Victoria and University of British Columbia, Canada, and his doctorate in experimental psychology at the University of Cambridge. His research is concerned with the neural basis of learning, memory and perception.
Anthony Dickinson is the Professor of Comparative Psychology at the University of Cambridge. He received his undergraduate degree in psychology at the University of Manchester and his doctorate in experimental psychology at the University of Sussex. As well as general interest in comparative cognition, he has also conducted research into human associative learning, and the cognitive and motivational processes that mediate goal-directed instrumental action. He is a consulting editor for the Journal of Experimental Psychology and Animal Learning and Behavior.
