Welcome!

We graduate students have been told we need web pages, so here's mine.

I'm a doctoral candidate in the department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior at the University of Minnesota. I'm also a student in the university's Center for Cognitive Sciences.

The primary focus of my research is investigating the role of environmental variability in the evolution and ecological function of cognition (e.g. learning, memory, and decision making). Even more broadly, I'm interested in the interplay between evolution and cognitive mechanisms. I tend to think about these questions in terms of foraging behavior, since animals that can't make a living tend not to survive to reproduce.

contact info:
100 Ecology
1987 Upper Buford Circle
University of Minnesota
St. Paul MN 55108

e-mail: dunl0063@umn.edu