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Madeline Meade

Cognitive Science

Madeline Meade
Madeline is a first year PhD student within the Cognitive Science department. As a member of the Comparative Cognition Lab, she plans to study the evolutionary origins of human cognitive abilities through research with nonhuman primates and pet dogs. Prior to UC San Diego, Madeline graduated cum laude from Yale with a B.S. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. She was a member of Yale's Comparative Cognition Lab, where she completed a thesis on confidence in free ranging rhesus macaques. Returning to Yale as a lab manager, she explored the logical abilities of macaques and how pet dogs make social evaluations. She is passionate about field research and conservation, and has conducted cognitive, ecological, and genetic research on animals in Puerto Rico, Peru, Hawai'i, and the Blue Ridge Mountains. Outside of the lab, Madeline enjoys hiking and camping, and has volunteered with conservation corps in Idaho and California.