Joshua Seabaugh

Josh is a PhD student in the Cognitive Science program at UCSD with Dr. Federico Rossano. He studies social cognition and behavior in nonhuman animals, primarily focusing on wild primates. He is currently working on projects related to collective movement, decision-making, and social networks in primates in order to understand the evolution of group coordination and social cognition in humans. He is also broadly interested in animal communication, theory of mind, and sleep behavior in social animals.

Josh studied Physics at Vanderbilt University and earned a Master’s degree in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Colorado Boulder, where he studied the socioecology and foraging behavior of baboons and mangabeys. He previously worked as a lab manager for the Duke Canine Cognition Lab and conducted comparative cognition research with lemurs at the Duke Lemur Center.