Dr. Laurie Santos

Laurie Renee Santos is an American cognitive scientist and professor of psychology at Yale University. She is the director of Yale's Comparative Cognition Laboratory, Director of Yale's Canine Cognition Lab, and former Head of Yale's Silliman College. She has been a featured TED speaker. In 2007, Popular Science included her in its "Brilliant Ten" list of young scientists, and in 2013 Time magazine listed her as a "Leading Campus Celebrity".