Dr. Suzanne Gray

About

Dr. Suzanne Gray started at The Alex Foundation and Pepperberg Lab in May 2012. As an undergraduate, Suzanne took Dr. Pepperberg's course Animal Cognition; she subsequently joined the lab as a research assistant and soon after became Dr. Pepperberg's lab manager. Suzanne graduated from Tufts University in 2020 with a PhD in Experimental Psychology specializing in avian cognition. She is now an Assistant Professor at Villanova University.

Education

• Ph.D., Experimental Psychology — Tufts University, 2020
• M.A., Experimental Psychology — Tufts University, 2018
• B.A., Psychology — Harvard University, 2014

Research interests

Suzanne has worked with Griffin and Athena for a decade, examining their attention, reasoning, and communication. She also works with several animals at Zoo New England — a collaboration supporting animal enrichment and public engagement in service of welfare, conservation, and science education.

Selected publications

• Gray, S.L., Qadri, M.A.J., Brooks, D.I., & Cook, R.G. (2022). Use of different attentional strategies by pigeons and humans in multidimensional visual search. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, 48(1), 46–59.
• Gray, S.L., Qadri, M.A.J., & Cook, R.G. (2021). Towards describing scenes by animals: Pigeons' ordinal discrimination of objects varying in depth. Learning & Behavior, 49, 85–98.
• Pepperberg, I.M., Gray, S.L., Mody, S., Cornero, F.M., & Carey, S. (2018). Logical reasoning by a Grey parrot? A case study of the disjunctive syllogism. Behaviour, 1–37.
• Clements, K.A., Gray, S.L., Gross, B., & Pepperberg, I.M. (2018). Initial evidence for probabilistic reasoning in a Grey parrot (Psittacus erithacus). Journal of Comparative Psychology, 132(2), 166–177.
• Pepperberg, I.M., Gray, S.L., Lesser, J.S., & Hartsfield, L.A. (2017). Piagetian liquid conservation in Grey parrots (Psittacus erithacus). Journal of Comparative Psychology, 131(4), 370.
• Koepke, A.E., Gray, S.L., & Pepperberg, I.M. (2015). Delayed gratification: A Grey parrot will wait for a better reward. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 129(4), 339.
• Péron, F., Thornberg, L., Gross, B., Gray, S., & Pepperberg, I.M. (2014). Human–Grey parrot (Psittacus erithacus) reciprocity: A follow-up study. Animal Cognition, 17(4), 937–944.