NA Profiles
Danielle Lubyk
- Area: Comparative Cognition and Behaviour
- Office: BS-P539
- Phone: 780-492-7862
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- Weblinks: Labpage
Teaching Assistantships
- Psyco 258 - Cognitive Psychology
- Psyco 267 - Perception
- Psyco 281 - Principles of Behavior
- Psyco 485 - Theory in Learning and Comparative Cognition
- Psyco 496 - Individual Research
- My research interests include how humans and birds understand and represent the geometry of their environments through the encoding of various properties such as angles, configural geometry, and landmarks. I am also interested in the various strategies that birds' employ for establishing efficient route-finding in the wild (e.g., between multiple food sources). My overall research goal for my Master's thesis is to compare spatial orientation and navigation strategies with respect to environmental geometry in humans and various avian species and to investigate the root evolutionary causes of any similarities or differences.
- Queen Elizabeth II Masters Scholarship. Received: Sept 2010
- Tolman Undergraduate Teaching Award. Received May 2011
- Queen Elizabeth II Masters Scholarship. Received: Sept 2011
- Alberta Advanced Education Graduate Student Scholarship. Received: Jan 2012
- FGSR Profiling Alberta's Graduate Students Travel Award. Received: Feb 2012
- Lubyk, D.M. & Spetch, M.L. (2012). Finding the best angle: pigeons (Columba livia) weight angular information more heavily than relative wall length in an open-field geometry task. Animal Cognition 15, 305-312. doi:10.1007/s10071-011-0454-x
- Lubyk, D.M., Dupuis, B., Gutiérrez, L., & Spetch, M.L. (2012). Geometric orientation by humans: angles weigh in. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 19, 436-442. doi:10.3758/s13423-012-0232-z