October 9, 2012: Dolphin Underwater Keyboard Study

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Dr. Diana Reiss, a cognitive psychologist, professor of psychology at Hunter College in New York, and research scientist, joins John Racanelli to discuss her one of her studies on the cognition of Atlantic bottlenose dolphins.   Dr. Reiss took an innovative approach to working with these highly intelligent mammals: she gave the dolphins the ability to choose by teaching them to use an underwater keyboard to ask for things.