Frank W. Grasso
Associate Professor
Psychology
Frank Grasso did postdoctoral work at Boston University BioMedical Engineering, BUMP, Woods Hole, Mass. He has served as research assistant professor, BUMP, Marine Biological Laboratory Woods Hole, Mass. He was substitute assistant professor at Brooklyn College before becoming associate professor.
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Education:
Ph.D., University of Massachusetts - Amherst - 1994 (Neurosciences)
B.Sc., Worcester Polytechnic Institute - 1984 (Biology and BioTechnology)
Areas of Expertise:
The BioMimetic & Cognitive Robotics Lab is dedicated to discovering mechanisms that control and coordinate behavior. It uses biomimetic robots and computer simulations in parallel with animal behavior studies to validate theories of behavior. Neural, evolutionary and ecological constraints on behavior are central to its work, which holds that a complete understanding of a behavior must include these constraints. The lab takes the computational perspective that models must be simple and powerful.
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