Frightening, Disgusting or Nothing: Did Primates Evolve Cognitive and Physiological Responses to Major Natural Reservoirs of Infectious Disease?

Since March 1 2023 and for the next 6 months, I will be a Canon Foundation in Europe Research Fellow at Nagoya University with Prof. Nobuyuki Kawai. The project aims to explore whether bats and rats - as natural disease reservoirs - act as cognitive distractors (matching with disgust elicitors), enhancers (matching with fear elicitors) or none in chimpanzees and humans. More soon... 

Credit: Jianmei Lu

The Canon Foundation in Europe then invited selected fellows to gather in Vienna in December 2023. Thanks Suzy Cohen and the team for organizing!