Overview

The research program of the Milton and Ethel Harris Research Initiative benefits from the advice of 10 world-renowned scientists who work in such areas as autism, cognition and emotion, developmental disorders, language learning, medicine, neurology, neuropsychology, perception, primatology and psychophysics.

Jane Goodall: Chair
Specialization: Primatology, ethnology
Accolades: Medal of Tanzania, the National Geographic Society's Hubbard Medal, the Kyoto Prize, the Prince of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research 2003, the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Life Science, and the Gandhi/King Award for Nonviolence.

Stanley Coren (University of British Columbia, Human Neuropsychology and Perception Laboratory)
Specialization: Perception, neuropsychology, cognitive processing
Accolades: Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society, the Canadian Psychological Association, and the American Association of Applied and Preventative Psychology.

Richard Davidson (University of Wisconsin, Waisman Center)
Specialization: Affective neuroscience, autism
Accolades: Vilas Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health Research Scientist Award, NIMH MERIT award, National Alliance for Research in Schizophrenia and Affective Disorders (NARSAD) Established Investigator Award, NARSAD Distinguished Investigator Award, American Psychological Society William James Fellow Award, Hilldale Award from the University of Wisconsin-Madison

Frans deWaal (Emory University, Yerkes Primate Research Center)
Specialization: Primatology, ethnology
Accolades: C. H. Candler Professor of Primate Behavior, National Academy of Sciences

Peter Mundy (University of Miami, Center for Autism and Related Disabilities)
Specilization: Early social development, autism
Accolades: Member of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Advisory Committees to both the Collaborative Programs of Excellence in Autism (CPEA) and to the Studies to Advance Autism Research and Treatment (STAART)

Anne Pusey (Executive Director of Primate Research, Jane Goodall Institute, Center for Primate Studies, University of Minnesota)
Specialization:Primatology
Accolades:Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Science,

Michael Tomasello (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology)
Specialization: Social cognitive, learning and development, primatology, language learning
Accolades: Honorary Professor of Psychology, University of Leipzig, Honorary Professor of Psychology, Manchester University, Co-Director,Wolfgang Köhler Primate Research Center

John Tsotsos (York University, Toronto)
Specialization: Computer science, computational perception, psychophysics
Accolades: Tier I NSERC Canada Research Chair in Computational Vision, CITO Innovation Award for Leardership in Product Development, CP-UNITEL Fellow, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research

Colwyn Trevarthen (University of Edinburgh)
Specialization: Communication in infants and toddlers, autism, psychobiology

Don M. Tucker (University of Oregon)
Specialization: Cognition and emotion