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Songbird Neuroethology Laboratory Department of Psychology, BioCognition Unit, Centre for Neuroscience, University of Alberta
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2012 9 May 2012 Congratulations to Marisa Hoeschele who has been granted an Honorary Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Scholarship, which goes to outstanding doctoral students and excellent scholars with major external scholarships.
10 April 2012 Congratulations to Darren Proppe and the rest of the SNL and collaborators on a new publication! Proppe, D.S., Avey, M.T., Hoeschele, M., Moscicki, M.K., Farrell, T., St. Clair, C.C., & Sturdy, C.B. (In press). Black-capped chickadees sing at higher pitches with elevated anthropogenic noise, but not with decreasing canopy cover. To appear in Journal of Avian Biology. doi 10.1111/j.1600-048X.2012.05640.x 4 April 2012 Congratulations to Marisa Hoeschele who has been awarded The University of Alberta's Andrew Stewart Memorial Prize for recognition of excellence in research at the doctoral level!
2 April 2012 Congratulations to Marisa Hoeschele for a new, first-authored publication to appear in Animal Cognition (with Lauren Guillette and Chris Sturdy)! Hoeschele, M., Guillette, L.M., Sturdy, C.B. (In press). Biological relevance of acoustic signal affects discrimination performance in a songbird. To appear in Animal Cognition.
19 March 2012 Congratulations to Lauren Guillette who won a Faculty of Science Graduate Student Teaching Award! Congratulations, Lauren!
13 March 2012 Congratulations to Lauren Guillette who won a City Lumber 75th Anniversary International Graduate Student Award! Congratulations, Lauren!
20 February 2012 Congratulations to members of the SNL and collaborators on a new "In Press" article! Weisman, R.G., Balkwill, L.-L., Hoeschele, M., Moscicki, M.K., & Sturdy, C.B. (In press). Identifying absolute pitch possessors without using a note naming task. To appear in Psychomusicology: Music, Mind, and Brain.
29 January 2012 Chris Sturdy in the Edmonton Journal!
2011 27 September 2011 New lab group photo posted here!
19 September 2011 Congratulations to members of the SNL and Ed Mercado's group at SUNY Buffalo on a new collaborative publication! Wisniewski, M.G., Guillette, L.M., Radell, M., Sturdy, C.B. & Mercado, E. (In press 19 September 2011). Predicting shifts in generalization gradients with perceptrons. To appear in Learning & Behavior.
13 September 2011 Congratulations to Marc Avey on a new first-authored publication! Avey, M.T., Rodriguez, A., & Sturdy C.B. (In press 13 September 2011). Seasonal variation of vocal behaviour in a temperate songbird: Assessing the effects of laboratory housing on wild-caught, seasonally-breeding birds. To appear in Behavioural Processes.
3 September 2011 Congratulations to Lauren Guillette on a new first-authored publication! Guillette, L.M. & Sturdy, C.B. (In press 3 September 2011). Individual differences and repeatability in vocal production: Stress-induced calling exposes a songbird’s personality. To appear in Naturwissenschaften.
2 September 2011 Congratulations to Darren Proppe who has a new, first-authored publication (along with Colleen Cassiday St. Clair and Chris Sturdy)! Proppe, D.S., Sturdy, C.B., & St. Clair, C.C. (In press 2 September 2011). Flexibility in animal signals facilitates adaptation to rapidly changing environments. To appear in PLoS ONE.
16 August 2011 Congratulations to Marc Avey on defending his Ph.D.!
3 August 2011 Congratulations to Lauren Guillette and the rest of the SNL and collaborators on a new publication! Guillette, L.M. Bloomfield, L.L., Batty, E.R., Dawson, M.R.W., & Sturdy, C.B. (In press, 3 August 2011). Development of a contact call in black-capped chickadees (Poecile atricapillus) hand-reared in different acoustic environments. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.
28 July 2011 Congratulations to Marc Avey (and the rest of the lab members, past and present) on a great new publication! 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. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0023844.
26 July 2011 Congratulations to Marc Avey on his new Fellowship with the CCAC!
17 June 2011 Chris Sturdy was awarded an NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement! Full listing of awards here. News release here. 6 June 2011 Chris Sturdy was awarded an NSERC Discovery Grant! News release here.
11 April 2011 Congratulations to Marisa Hoeschele who has a new, first-authored publication (along with Bob Cook, Lauren Guillette, Dan Brooks and Chris Sturdy)! Hoeschele, M., Cook, R.G., Guillette, L.M., Brooks, D.I., & Sturdy, C.B. (In press 11 April 2011). Black-capped chickadee and human chord discrimination. To appear in Journal of Comparative Psychology.
1 April 2011 New publication from the SNL and collaborators Ed Mercado and his students from SUNY Buffalo!! Wisniewski, M.G., Guillette, L.M., Radell, M.L., Sturdy, C.B., & Mercado, E., III (In press 1 April 2011). Simulating the temporal dynamics of learning-related shifts in generalization gradients with connectionist models. In L. Carlson, C. Hölscher, & T. Shipley (Eds.), Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
10 February 2011 Congratulations to Michele Moscicki who has a new, first-authored publication (along with Marisa Hoeschele, Laurie Bloomfield, Maria Modanu, Isabelle Charrier and Chris Sturdy)! Moscicki, M.K., Hoeschele, M., Bloomfield, L.L., Modanu, M., Charrier, I., & Sturdy, C.B. (In Press 10 February 2011). Note types and coding in Parid vocalizations: the chick-a-dee call of the boreal chickadee (Poecile hudsonicus). To appear in Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.
2010 1 December 2010 Congratulations to Lauren Guillette who has a new, first-authored publication (along with Tara Farrell, Marisa Hoeschele and Chris Sturdy)! Guillette, L.M., Farrell, T.M., Hoeschele, M., & Sturdy, C.B. (in press). Acoustic mechanisms of a species-based discrimination of the chick-a-dee call in sympatric black-capped (Poecile atricapillus) and mountain chickadees (P. gambeli). To appear in Frontiers in Comparative Psychology.
30 November 2010 Congratulations to Michele Moscicki who has a new, first-authored publication (along with Marisa Hoeschele and Chris Sturdy)! Moscicki, M.K., Hoeschele, M., & Sturdy, C.B. (in press). Note types and coding in Parid vocalizations: the chick-a-dee call of the Mexican chickadee (Poecile sclateri). Acta Ornithologica.
28 September 2010 Recent media coverage of SNL research HERE and HERE! AND HERE (just discovered this one today!)!
17 September 2010 Congratulations to Darren Proppe who successfully defended his PhD! Darren is Assistant Professor of Biology at Montreat College!
9 August 2010 Congratulations to Lauren Guillette who has a new, first-authored publication (along with Adam Reddon, Marisa Hoeschele and Chris Sturdy)! Guillette, L.M., Reddon, A.R., Hoeschele, M., & Sturdy, C.B. (In press, 9 August 2010). Sometimes slower is better: Slow-exploring birds are more sensitive to changes in a vocal discrimination task. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.
11 June 2010 Congratulations to Darren Proppe who has a new, first-authored publication (along with Laurie Bloomfield and Chris Sturdy)! Proppe, D.S., Bloomfield, L.L., & Sturdy, C.B. (In press, 11 June 12 2010). Acoustic transmission of the chick-a-dee call of the black capped chickadee (Poecile atricapillus): forest structure and note function. Canadian Journal of Zoology.
1 June 2010 Three new publications from the SNL and collaborators at Queen's University! Weisman, R.G., Balkwill, L.-L., Hoeschele, M., Moscicki, M.K., Bloomfield, L.L., & Sturdy, C.B. (2010). Frequency-range discriminations in boreal chickadees and humans: Exceptions that test a phylogenetic rule. Learning & Motivation (Special issue to honor Stewart H. Hulse). Weisman, R.G., Hoeschele, M., Bloomfield, L.L., Mewhort, D.J.K., Sturdy, C.B. (2010). Using network models of absolute pitch to compare frequency-range discriminations across avian species. Behavioural Processes, 84(1), 421-427. Weisman, R.G., Mewhort, D.J.K., Hoeschele, M., & Sturdy, C.B. (in press 1 June 2010). New perspectives on absolute pitch in birds and mammals. In E.A. Wasserman & T.R. Zentall (Eds), Handbook of Comparative Cognition. Oxford University Press, XXX-XXX.
10 May 2010 Congratulations to Darren Proppe who has accepted a faculty position in Biology / Environmental Science at Montreat College!
06 May 2010 Congratulations to Lauren Guillette for winning a Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Scholarship!
29 April 2010 Congratulations to Lauren Guillette for winning a Andrew Stewart Memorial Graduate Prize!
29 March 2010 Congratulations to Lauren Guillette who has a new first authored publication! Guillette, L.M., Bailey, A.A., Reddon, A.R., Hurd, P.L., & Sturdy, C.B. (In press, 29 March 2010). Capture order is repeatable in chickadees. To appear in International Journal of Comparative Psychology.
17 January 2010 New publication for the SNL! Weisman, R.G., Hoeschele, M., Bloomfield, L.L., Mewhort, D.J.K., Sturdy, C.B. (In press, 17 January). Using network models of absolute pitch to compare frequency-range discriminations across avian species. To appear in Behavioural Processes.
2009 4 December 2009 Congratulations to Lauren Guillette who has a new first authored publication! Guillette, L.M., Bloomfield, L.L., Batty, E.R., Dawson, M.R.W., & Sturdy, C.B. (In press, 4 December 2009). Black-capped (Poecile atricapillus) and mountain chickadee (Poecile gambeli) contact call contains species, sex, and individual identity features. To appear in Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.
30 November 2009 Congratulations to Marisa Hoeschele who has a new first authored publication! Hoeschele, M., Moscicki, M.K., Otter, K.A., van Oort, H., Fort, K., Farrell, T.M., Lee, H., Robson, S.W.J., & Sturdy, C.B. (In press, 30 November 2009). Dominance Signaled in an Acoustic Ornament. To appear in Animal Behaviour.
1 September 2009 Congratulations to Lauren Guillette who has a new first authored publication! Guillette, L.M., Farrell, T.M., Hoeschele, M., Nickerson, C.M., Dawson, M.R.W., & Sturdy, C.B. (In press, 1 September 2009). Mechanisms of call note type perception: Peak Shift in a note type continuum. To appear in Journal of Comparative Psychology.
15 July 2009 Congratulations to Marisa Hoeschele who has a new first authored publication! Hoeschele, M., Gammon, D.E., Moscicki, M.K., & Sturdy, C.B. (In press, 15 July 2009). Note types and coding in Parid vocalizations: the chick-a-dee call of the chestnut-backed chickadee (Poecile rufuscens). To appear in Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.
20 July 2009 Congratulations to Lauren Guillette who has a new first authored publication! Guillette, L.M., Reddon, A.R., s, & Sturdy, C.B. (In press, 20 July 2009). Exploration of a novel space is associated with individual differences in learning speed in black-capped chickadees, Poecile atricapillus. Behavioural Processes.
25 June 2009 Congratulations to Darren Proppe who has a new first authored publication! Proppe, D.S., & Sturdy, C.B. (In press, 25 June 2009). The effect of schedules of reinforcement on the composition of spontaneous and evoked black-capped chickadee calls. To appear in Journal of Experimental Biology.
May 2009 Congratulations to Darren Proppe and Marc Avey for being awarded C/BAR and NTSP seed funding!!
2 April 2009 Congratulations to Michele Moscicki for winning and NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship!
1 April 2009 Congratulations to Marisa Hoeschele who has a new paper accepted (pending suitable revision) in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America! Congratulations to Marisa Hoeschele for winning and Alberta Ingenuity Fund Graduate Student Scholarship!
30 March 2009 Congratulations to Emily Batty who has a new paper (with Laurie Bloomfield, Marcia Spetch and Chris Sturdy) in press at Animal Cognition! Batty, E.R., Bloomfield, L.L., Spetch, M.L., & Sturdy, C.B. (2009). Black-capped (Poecile atricapillus) and mountain chickadees' (Poecile gambeli) use of geometric and featural information in a spatial orientation task. Animal Cognition, 12, 633-641.
3 March 2009 Congratulations to Jessica Vlasveld, former Psychology independent study student, who has been accepted into Law School
25 February 2009 Congratulations to Lauren Guillette on a new first authored publication from her M.A. research Mount Holyoke College with Karen Hollis that is published today! Check it out! Guillette, L.M., Hollis, K.L., Markarian, A. (2009). Learning in a sedentary insect predator: Antlions (Neuroptera: Myrmeleontidae) anticipate a long wait. Behavioural Processes, 80, 224–232.
23 February 2009 Congratulations to Darren Proppe who successfully completed his candidacy exam!
2008 25 November 2008 Marisa Hoeschele successfully defended her M.Sc. thesis - congratulations, Marisa!
June 2008 Welcome to Craig Anderson, our new Psychology Intern!
May 2008 (It was another good month!) Congratulations to Dawson Clary, Homan Lee and Scott Robson who were all awarded NSERC URSAs for summer research!
March 2008 (It was a good month!) Congratulations to Marc Avey for winning and Alberta Ingenuity Studentship! Congratulations to Marisa Hoeschele for winning an NSERC PGS-D scholarship! Congratulations to Tara Farrell for winning an NSERC CGS-M scholarship! Congratulations also to Marc Avey, Marisa Hoeschele and Darren Proppe for winning C/BAR and NSTP seed funding!
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