Mr. McKeon is a fourth-year graduate student in the Cognitive Sciences program at Georgia State working in the COMIC lab. He graduated from Agnes Scott College with his B.A. in Psychology and a Biology minor. During his time as an undergraduate he participated in research in the fields of animal cognition, behavioral neuroscience, animal welfare, and ecology. His current research interests include comparative self-directed learning, metacognitive knowledge, resilience-boosting behavior, and social learning/memory in humans and nonhuman primates. His completed Masters thesis focused on self-directed learning by nonhuman primates.