Symposium & Workshop: Thinking about change: an integrative approach for examining cognition in a changing world, SICB Annual Meeting, West Palm Beach, Florida, January 3-7, 20

该项目将在1月3日至7日于佛罗里达州西棕榈滩举行的综合与比较生物学学会2015年年会上召集一批不同的科学家参加研讨会。研讨会的目的是了解全球气候变化对动物认知的影响。了解动物如何应对气候变化的传统方法通常侧重于生理学；然而，该领域最近的进展表明，行为可以对这种变化作出迅速而有效的反应。因此，研讨会的参与者将整合生理学，行为学，生态学，进化和心理学来理解动物用来应对变化的策略。通过采用一种综合的认知方法，研究人员将讨论如何更好地预测气候变化对更广泛物种的影响，从而增加资源管理者和决策者在气候变化背景下做出决策时可以利用的科学知识库。此外，本次研讨会将为学生和早期职业教师提供与来自不同领域和职业水平的科学家接触的机会。生活在极端环境中的动物有一系列生理适应来应对环境条件（例如，热状态）。然而，许多生理属性需要进化时间来表达，因此，许多研究都集中在具有（或不具有）这些生理适应对物种在特定地点生存的影响上。本次研讨会的研究目标是讨论和更好地理解1)动物如何利用认知来应对快速的环境变化，2)这些机制如何“放大”以影响生态/进化模式，3)我们如何确定环境的哪些特征对认知进化最重要，以及4)这些特征中哪些特征可能对未来的研究至关重要。

This project will bring together a diverse group of scientists for a symposium at the 2015 annual meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology in West Palm Beach, FL, January 3-7. The goal of the symposium is to understand the effects of global climate change on animal cognition. Traditional approaches for understanding how animals respond to climate change often focus on physiology; however, recent progress in the field demonstrates that behavior can provide a rapid and efficient response to such change. Thus, the participants of the symposium will integrate physiology, behavior, ecology, evolution, and psychology to understand the strategies that animals use to cope with change. By taking an integrative approach to cognition, the researchers will discuss methods to better predict the effect of climate change on a wider variety of species, thereby augmenting the scientific knowledgebase that resource managers and policy makers can utilize when making decisions in the context of climate change. In addition, this symposium will provide students and early-career faculty the opportunity to engage with scientists from a variety of different fields and career levels. Animals living in extreme environments have a suite of physiological adaptations to cope with their environmental conditions (e.g., thermal regime). However, many physiological attributes require evolutionary time to become expressed and, as a result, many studies focus on the consequences of possessing (or not) these physiological adaptations for the survival of a species in a given location. The research objectives of this symposium are to discuss and better understand 1) how animals use cognition to cope with rapid environmental change, 2) how these mechanisms "scale up" to affect ecological/evolutionary patterns, 3) how we might determine which features of the environment are most important for the evolution of cognition, and 4) which of these features may be critical for future investigations.