Justin Sayde graduated summa cum laude from Lafayette College in 2009 with Honors in Psychology. During his undergraduate years, he conducted basic behavioral research with pigeons in an animal learning lab. He is currently pursuing an M.S. in Experimental Psychology, where he serves as Graduate Assistant to Dr. Michael Brown and works in the Comparative Cognition Lab. He has examined social spatial working memory in rats and is presently investigating same/different concept learning in bumblebees. After graduating from Villanova in May of this year, Justin will attend the Ph.D. program at Tufts University to study animal cognition.