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Graduate Profiles

Marisa Hoeschele
Teaching
  • Psyco 281 - Principles of Behavior
Teaching Assistantships
  • Psyco 281 - Principles of Behavior
  • Psyco 372 - Behavior in Relation to Genetics
  • Psyco 381 - Principles of Learning
  • Psyco 485 - Theory in Learning and Comparative Cognition
Research Interests
  • Comparative Auditory Perception: My main focus is on the differences, and the factors contributing to, pitch perception in songbirds and humans.
Awards

  • Masters Thesis Certificate of Academic Excellence 2009 from the Canadian Psychological Association
  • Alberta Ingenuity Fund Graduate Scholarship (2009-2013)
  • NSERC Post Graduate Scholarship - Doctoral (2009-2011)
  • Northern Scientific Training Program Grant (2008-2009)
  • Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship - Masters (2007-2008)
Selected Publications
  • Hoeschele, M., Guillette, L.M., & Sturdy, C.B. (accepted April 2, 2012). Biological relevance of acoustic signal affects discrimination performance in a songbird. Animal Cognition, MS# AC-11-0145.
  • Hoeschele, M., Cook, R.G., Guillette, L.M., Brooks, D.I. & Sturdy, C.B. (2012). Black-capped chickadee (Poecile atricapillus) and human (Homo sapiens) chord discrimination. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 126(1),57-67.
  • Avey, M.T., Hoeschele, M., Moscicki, M.K., Bloomfield, L.L., & Sturdy, C.B. (2011). Neural correlates of threat perception: Neural equivalence of conspecific and heterospecific mobbing calls is learned. PLoS ONE 6(8), e23844.
  • Hoeschele, M., Moscicki, M.K., Otter, K.A., van Oort, H., Fort, K.T., Farrell, T.M., Lee, H., Robson, S.W.J., & Sturdy, C.B. (2010). Dominance Signalled in an Acoustic Ornament. Animal Behaviour, 79, 657-664.
  • Hoeschele, M., Gammon, D., Moscicki, M.K., & Sturdy, C.B. (2009). Note types and coding in Parid vocalizations. The Chick-a-dee call of the Chestnut-backed chickadee (Poecile rufuscens). Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 126(4), 2088-2099.