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• Intelligence Of Apes And Other Rational Beings

Dr. Duane Rumbaugh

Scientist Emeritus

Dr. Rumbaugh is interested in how haptic (e.g., touch) cues and experiences in just touching three-dimensional word-lexigrams might facilitate word learning. He is also interested in how stimulus salience (e.g., their natural and acquired characteristics that direct attention to them) enters into basic learning properties in the absence of reinforcement.

Biographical Sketch

Dr. Duane Rumbaugh was born in Maynard, Iowa, in 1929, graduated from Ackley High (1946) and from the University of Dubuque (B. A., 1950), from Kent State (M. A., 1951), and from the University of Colorado, Boulder (Ph.D., 1955). He taught at San Diego State College (1954-69), researched at Yerkes of Emory U. (1969-71), and taught/researched at Georgia State University where he co-founded the Language Research Center. Dr. Rumbaugh has written and edited several books and has published over 200 papers, many with colleagues.

Honors

• American Psychological Association
• American Society of Primatologists
• Southern Society of Philosophy and Psychology

Professional Organizations

• Distinguished Member of Psi Chi (National Office); Past President of Div. 6 of the Amer. Psychol. Association

Scientific Articles

• A Salience Theory of Learning and Behavior: With Perspectives on Neurobiology and Cognition (International Journal of Primatology, Vol. 28, No. 5, October 2007; pages 973-996). Rumbaugh, King, Beran, Washburn and Gould.
• Savage-Rumbaugh, S., Rumbaugh, D.M. & W.M. Fields. (2006) “Language as a Window on the Cultural Mind.” In S. Hurley (Ed.) Rational Animals, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Savage-Rumbaugh, S., Fields, W.M.,Segerdahl, P., & D.M. Rumbaugh. (2005) “Culture Prefigures Cognition in Pan/Homo Bonobos.” Theoria 20(3).
• Rumbaugh, D.M., Fields, W.M. (2005) “Great Apes Living in Decatur, Georgia” In J. Caldecott & L. Miles (Eds.) The Atlas of Great Apes and their Conservation.” WNEP-WCMC Press.
• "Language, Comprehension in Ape and Child" (Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development) Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, Jeannine Murphy, Rose A. Sevcik, Karen E. Brakke, Shelly L. Williams and Duane M. Rumbaugh; University Of Chicago Press (July 1993)