birth_place ethnicity name field work_institutions birth_date residence article_title citizenship alma_mater
new bedford , massachusetts , u.s. bi-racial cape verdean laurie r. santos psychology yale university 1975 new haven , connecticut laurie r. santos
 u.s. harvard university
laurie r. santos

laurie santos -lrb- born 1975 -rrb- is a professor of psychology and cognitive science at yale university .
her research explores the evolutionary origins of the human mind by comparing the cognitive abilities of humans and non-human animals , including primates and canines .
she is the director of the canine cognition lab at yale .
she has been a featured ted speaker , and has been listed in popular science magazine as one of their `` brilliant 10 '' young minds in 2007 , and in `` time '' magazine as a `` leading campus celebrity '' in 2013 .
