Dr. Kelly Jaakkola has an impressive academic and research background. She earned her MA in Developmental Psychology from Emory University, where she studied imitation and communication in both chimpanzees and children, and went on to earn her Ph.D. in Cognitive Science from MIT. After completing her doctorate, she returned to her longstanding interest in dolphins through a postdoctoral position with renowned marine mammal researcher Dr. Peter Tyack at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. She has taught at MIT, Brandeis University, and Boston College and has published dozens of peer-reviewed scientific studies that have been cited more than 3,000 times by other researchers.

What do we actually know about dolphin cognition, and how do we know it? Kelly explores questions such as whether dolphins have names, how they mentally keep track of objects, how they coordinate cooperation, and what we can really learn about the mind of an animal so different from our own.

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