Tiago Monteiro

Tiago Monteiro is interested in studying how different animals acquire, remember and use information from their environment. As a behavioural scientist he tries to elaborate quantitative descriptions of well-defined behavioural data, link these to underlying neurobiology and to cognitive models that can be experimentally falsified. His goal is to search for common mechanisms that support vastly different behaviours across species, including humans, using an integrative and comparative approach to behaviour and cognition.
Currently, Tiago is exploring pet dogs’ elementary learning and memory abilities, assuming these are the building blocks underlying more complex feats, while developing new open-source systems for behavioural and cognitive testing of different animal species.