Anna Sofia Hege is a Research Coordinator at the Language Research Center. She graduated from the University at Buffalo with her Bachelor’s in Neuroscience before attending the Rochester Institute of Technology and graduating with an Experimental Psychology M.S. degree. At RIT, she worked under Dr. Caroline DeLong in the comparative cognition lab. Her thesis focused on zoo visitors and their knowledge, attitudes, and conversations when they visited baboons at the zoo while they participated in live cognitive research versus carrying out their natural behaviors. She has also assisted in several cognitive studies with baboons, otters, dogs, and goldfish. Her current research interests include decision-making and long term memory in nonhuman primates and dogs, and anthropocentric versus egocentric perspectives in humans.