Dr. Heidi Harley

Founder & Chief Research Officer, Marine Mammal Science / Peg Scripps Buzzelli Endowed Chair

Education

M.A., Ph.D. Psychology, University of Hawaii at Manoa
B.A. Philosophy, University of Colorado at Boulder

Professor Harley teaches courses in cognitive psychology and comparative cognition. Her research focuses on cognitive processes in dolphins.

Recent Courses

Cognitive Psychology
Introduction to Comparative Cognitive Laboratory
Methods and Representations in Environmental Studies
Laboratory in Comparative Cognition
Origins of Human Cognition
Introduction to Psychology: Animal Thinking (a first-year seminar)

Current Grant Funding

Selected Awards and Exhibitions

Faculty Commencement Address (2024), New College of Florida

Excellence in Science Communication Award for poster (2009), Echoic Shape Discrimination by Dolphins?, at the 18^th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals

Selected Publications

Bauer, G.B., Cook, P.F., Harley, H.E., Bruck, J., Consentino, M., Deutsch, C.J., Erdsack, N., Fellner, W., Gunnars, T., Manitzas Hill, H., Kumar, S.V., Lilley, M.K., McHugh, K.A., Moore, J., Moron, J., Ravignani, A., Reep, R.L., Rycyk, A.M., Sayigh, L.S., Szededi, A., Toms, C., & Wells, R.S. (Accepted with revisions). Exploring Marine Mammal Cognition as a Conservation Tool. Marine Mammal Science.

Bauer, G., Cook, P.F., Harley, H. et al. (2024). Exploring Marine Mammal Cognition as a Conservation Tool. In review at Marine Mammal Science.

Bauer, G., Cook, P.F., Harley, H. (2024). The future of comparative cognition? Conservation! Comparative Cognition and Behavior Reviews (in Press).

Fellner, W., Harley, H.E., & Losch, B.A. (2022). Observing the nature of relationships in male bottlenose dolphins.  Animal Cognition. 

Harley, H.E., Fellner, W., Frances, C., Thomas, A., Losch, B., Newton, K., & Feuerbach, D. (2022). Information-seeking across auditory scenes by an echolocating dolphin.  Animal Cognition. 

Delon, N., Cook, P.F., Bauer, G.B., & Harley, H.E. (2020). Consider the agent in the bug: Commentary on Mikhalevich & Powell on  Invertebrate Minds.  Animal  Sentience.

Bauer, G.B., Harley, H.E., & Cook, P.F. (2020). The relevance of ecological transitions to intelligence in marine mammals.  Frontiers in Psychology. 

DeLong, C.M., Fellner, W., Wilcox, K.T., Odell, K., & Harley, H.E. (2019). Visual perception in a bottlenose dolphin (  Tursiops truncatus  ): Successful recognition  of 2D objects rotated in the picture and depth planes.  Journal of Comparative Psychology, 134  (2),  180–196.  https://doi.org/10.1037/com0000207 

Harley, H.E. (2017). Cognition. In J. Mann (Ed.),  Deep Thinkers. Brighton, UK: Ivy Press. 

Harley, H.E., & Bauer, G.B. (2017). Cetacean cognition. In J. Vonk & T.K. Schackelford (Eds.),  Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior. New York: Springer. 

Kershenbaum, A., Blumstein, D., Roch, M., Akcay, C., Backus, G., Bee, M., Bohn, K., Cao, Y., Carter, G., Cäsar, C., Coen, M., DeRuiter, S., Doyle, L., Edelman, S., Ferrer -i-Cancho, R., Freeberg, T., Garland, E., Gustison, M., Harley, H., Huetz, C., Hughes, M., Hyland Bruno, J., Ilany, A., Jin, D., Johnson, M., Ju, C., Karnowski, J., Lohr, B., Manser, M., McCowan, B., Mercado, E., Narins, P., Piel, A., Rice, M., Salmi, R., Sasahara, K., Sayigh, L., Shiu, Y., Taylor, C., Vallejo, E., Waller, S., Zamora-Gutierrez, V. (2014). Acoustic sequences in non-human animals: A tutorial review and prospectus. Biological Reviews. Doi: 10.1111/brv.12160 

King, S.L., Harley, H.E., & Janik, V.M. (2014). The role of signature whistle matching in bottlenose dolphins ( Tursiops truncatus).  Animal Behaviour 96,  79-86. 

Harley, H.E. (2013). Consciousness in dolphins? A review of recent evidence. Journal of Comparative Physiology. DOI:  10.1007/s00359-013-0816-8.  

Harley, H.E., Fellner, W., & Losch, B. (2013). Dolphin echolocation is not seeing with sound. POMA, 19, DOI: 10.1121/1.4800973.