Members of the Hobson Lab are biologists who specialize in animal behavior, behavioral ecology, cognitive ecology, social cognition, social network analysis, and computational biology.
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Research in the Hobson Lab focuses on social information: What do animals know about their social worlds, how do they come to know it, and what do they do with that information? |
To address these questions, we integrate aspects of ecology and evolution to determine how the combination of sociality and cognition affect the emergence of group social structures from a combination of individual-level social actions, cognitive abilities, and decisions about future interactions. Detecting the use of social information provides new insight into the connections between social decisions and cognitive processing, how they can be affected by ecological dynamics, and how they can lead to the evolution of complex sociality.
The Hobson Lab is led by Dr. Elizabeth Hobson and was started at the University of Cincinnati in August 2019. For information about joining the Hobson Lab, please visit “Join the Lab!”
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