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Welcome to the Neiworth Primate Cognition Lab!

This is our 26th year of working with tamarins at Carleton College and we lost our last elderly monkey (Oriole) on June 23, 2024. Rest in peace, our queen Oriole! We are still compiling data on the tamarins' cognitive and perceptual abilities, and will be posting archival video footage and new publications here, as well as our work to donate important support/supplies to new homes!

We cared for and worked with:

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  • 32 monkeys that have spanned over three generations

  • About 156 undergraduate collaborators to date 

  • Five NIH grants, totaling $1.7 million dollars and

  • More than 2 dozen publications and presentations

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This program is supervised by Julie Neiworth, Laurence McKinley Gould Professor of the Natural Sciences and Psychology.

Email: Julie Neiworth

Haagen Dasz, contemplating her choices. (2019, Chris Leppink-Shands)

Watch the new video "Celebrating 35 years with Julie" in which alumni share how they benefit from their Carleton experiences in Julie's classes and lab!

This research is sponsored in part by grants from the National Institute of Health, by summer research support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, by a Eugster Fellow Award, and by Carleton College.

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Read the LATEST most current work being published from the lab. This just in (Oct 16, 2023), our publication in Nature's Scientific Reports entitled "A recognition test in monkeys to differentiate recollection from familiarity memory." Click the title to link to the article.

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Current grant: NIH AREA grant 2R15AG051940-02 (see NIH RePORTER), Longitudinal Cognitive Behavioral Testing and Immunohistochemical Assessment of Alzheimer’s Disease Markers, Immune Response, Neurogenesis, and Cell Loss in a Natural Aging Primate Model, $438,067, Feb 2021 – Jan 2025.

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