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Dr. Jenna V. Congdon was born in Sault Ste. Marie, ON. She obtained her BSc (hons., cum laude) at Algoma University where she was supervised by Dr. David R. Brodbeck (honours project) and Dr. Laurie L. Bloomfield (NSERC USRA). She then went on to earn her MSc at the University of Alberta under the supervision of Dr. Christopher B. Sturdy (NSERC CGS-M) in the Songbird Neuroethology Laboratory. Jenna recently successfully defended her dissertation obtaining a PhD (NSERC CGS-D). Jenna will be teaching several classes at the University of Alberta in Fall 2019 and Winter 2020, and is applying for funding for post-doctoral research opportunities to start in Spring 2020.
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Current Position
- Sessional Instructor, University of Alberta, Faculty of Science, Department of Psychology, September 2019-Present.
- Member, Comparative Cognition Society (CCS), December 2014-Present.
- Member, International Association of Language and Social Psychology (IALSP), March 2018-2020.
Research Interests:
Animal cognition. Predator-prey relationships. Perception, learning, language, and memory mechanisms and processes. Spatial processing in humans and non-humans. The decision-making process and immediate mechanisms. Behavioural neuroscience. Evolutionary psychology.
