He serves as a Professor of Psychology in the Tufts School of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Cook has been a member of the Tufts Faculty since 1986. He received his Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley and his B.S. in Psychology from Ohio State University. At Tufts, he teaches courses on Animal Cognition and Experimental Psychology. He was awarded the University’s Leibner Award for Distinguished Teaching and Advising in 1995. His research interests are in the area of Animal Cognition. He is funded by the National Science Foundation for his work on visual perception and discrimination learning with pigeons.