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Songbird Neuroethology Laboratory Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Mental Health Institute, University of Alberta
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SNL News 2016 26 August 2016 Congratulations to Lauren Guillette and our SNL collaborators on a new great publication! Guillette, L.M., Baron, D.M., Sturdy, C.B., & Spetch, M.L. (In press). Individual differences in generalization gradients and exploratory behaviour in pigeons. Manuscript to appear in Behavioural Processes.
12 August 2016 Congratulations to Kim Campbell on her first first-authored publication! Campbell, K.A., Hahn, A.H., Congdon, J.V., & Sturdy, C.B. (In press). Sex differences in black-capped chickadee (Poecile atricapillus) chick-a-dee calls. Manuscript to appear in Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.
1 July 2016 Chris Sturdy begins his term as Chair of the Department of Psychology!
1 June 2016 Congratulations to Jenna Congdon who received the Council of Canadian Departments of Psychology (CCDP) Certificate of Teaching Excellence 2016! Well done !
30 March 2016 Congratulations to the SNL for an excellent review chapter! McMillan, N., Avey, M.T., Bloomfield, L.L., Guillette, L.M., Hahn, A.H., Hoeschele, M., & Sturdy, C.B., (In press 30 March 2016). Avian Vocal Perception: Bioacoustics and Perceptual Mechanisms. In Carel ten Cate and Susan D. Healy (eds). Avian cognition. Cambridge University Press.
23 March 2016 Congratulations to Jenna Congdon who was awarded an Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship from NSERC!
22 March 2016 Congratulations to Alyshia Skurdal who was awarded an Undergraduate Researcher Stipend from the Undergraduate Research Initiative to work in the lab this summer!
14 March 2016 Congratulations to Kim Campbell and Jenna Congdon who received the FGSR 2016 Graduate Student Teaching Award a! Well done and very well deserved!
19 March 2016 Congratulations to Brenna Schuldhaus who was awarded an NSERC USRA to work in the lab this summer!
4 February 2016 Congratulations to Neil McMillan and the rest of the SNL collaborators on a recently-accepted paper! McMillan, N., Sturdy, C. B., Pisklak, J. M., & Spetch, M. L. (in press 4 February 2016). Pigeons perform poorly on midsession reversal tasks without rigid temporal regularity. To appear in Animal Cognition.
6 January 2016 The SNL was in the news in a number of forms:
2015 24 November 2015 Congratulations to Allison Hahn, Darren Proppe, and Chris Sturdy for publishing two new papers, one lay language paper and an invited targeted review! Sturdy, C.B. & Proppe, D.S. (in press). Hearing is believing: Birds learn fear. To appear in Learning & Behavior. Hahn, A.H., & Sturdy, C.B (2015). Seemingly simple songs: Black-capped chickadee song revisited. Lay language paper for the Acoustical Society of America Annual Meeting.
20 November 2015 Graduate Student Opportunities, Songbird Neuroethology Laboratory, University of Alberta I have an opening in my laboratory for two excellent graduate students beginning in September 2016 for students interested in pursuing graduate studies in comparative cognition and behaviour, including the neurobiological and developmental correlates of perception and cognition. The official application deadline is 15 January 2016 to be considered for admission beginning in September 2015, however, applications will be reviewed as soon as they are complete. Please refer to our departmental web pages for information about our graduate program, and to my own web pages for information about current research in my laboratory. I work hard to ensure that my graduate students have all the necessary resources at their disposal to complete their research and enhance their graduate training experience. My laboratory has recently undergone a complete update to my operant conditioning setup, and continues to maintain excellent facilities for investigating all aspects of brain, behaviour, and cognition in songbirds and humans. Moreover, my graduate students routinely attend local, national, and international conferences to disseminate their research findings as well as to network and establish contacts with like-minded scientists from other institutions. Importantly, my students and I publish their research in top journals, with many of my graduate students finishing with several publications from their time in my laboratory and move onto successful careers after finishing their time in my laboratory. See "SNL Alumni" section of "Lab Members Page". 18 November 2015 Congratulations to Kim Campbell, Jenna Congdon, John Hoang, and Allison Hahn who convocated today (MSc, MSc, MSc, PhD)!
5 November 2015 News coverage from Eureka Alert, Phys Org, Science Daily for ASA Fall 2015 talk about chickadee fee-bee song (lay paper here) 22 October 2015 Congratulations to Allison Hahn who along with SNL members and collaborators have a new publication! Hahn, A.H., Hoeschele, M., Guillette, L.M., Hoang, J., McMillan, N., Congdon, J., Campbell, K., Mennill, D.J., Otter, K.A., Grava, T., Ratcliffe, L.M., & Sturdy, C.B. (in press 22 October 2015). Black-capped chickadees categorize songs based on features that vary geographically. To appear in Animal Behaviour.
14 October 2015 Congratulations to Neil McMillan and Chris Sturdy for a new informative and entertaining commentary publication! McMillan, N., & Sturdy, C.B. (2015). Commentary: "A crisis in comparative psychology: Where have all the undergraduates gone?" Frontiers in Psychology. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01589
23 September 2015 Congratulations to Kim Campbell who defended her MSc today in fine form! Well done!
11 September 2015 Congratulations to Allison Hahn who very capably defended her PhD, making it look easy in the process! Well done!
7 September 2015 Graduate Student Opportunities, Songbird Neuroethology Laboratory, University of Alberta I have an opening in my laboratory for two excellent graduate students beginning in September 2016 for students interested in pursuing graduate studies in comparative cognition and behaviour, including the neurobiological and developmental correlates of perception and cognition. The official application deadline is 15 January 2016 to be considered for admission beginning in September 2015, however, applications will be reviewed as soon as they are complete. Please refer to our departmental web pages for information about our graduate program, and to my own web pages for information about current research in my laboratory. I work hard to ensure that my graduate students have all the necessary resources at their disposal to complete their research and enhance their graduate training experience. My laboratory has recently undergone a complete update to my operant conditioning setup, and continues to maintain excellent facilities for investigating all aspects of brain, behaviour, and cognition in songbirds and humans. Moreover, my graduate students routinely attend local, national, and international conferences to disseminate their research findings as well as to network and establish contacts with like-minded scientists from other institutions. Importantly, my students and I publish their research in top journals, with many of my graduate students finishing with several publications from their time in my laboratory and move onto successful careers after finishing their time in my laboratory. See "SNL Alumni" section of "Lab Members Page". 22 September 2015 Congratulations to Kim Campbell and John Hoang who were each awarded an Alberta Innovation and Advanced Education Graduate Scholarship! 1 September 2015 Congratulations to John Hoang who successfully defended his master's thesis!
26 August 2015 Congratulations to Jenna Congdon who successfully defended her master's thesis!
2 July 2015 Chris Sturdy was interviewed by Dave Brodbeck for his new podcast series, Spit and Twitches: The Animal Cognition Podcast.
11 May 2015 John Hoang was awarded a Faculty of Science Graduate Student Teaching Award at a luncheon last Monday ! Good work, John
17 April 2015 Allison Hahn repeated for the Best Student Paper Award (1st place) at 22nd Annual International Conference on Comparative Cognition
9 March 2015 Congratulations to Allison Hahn and the rest of the SNL who have a new publication! Hahn, A.H., Guillette, L.M., Lee, D., McMillan, N.A., Hoang, J., & Sturdy, C.B. (In press 11 March 2015). Experience affects immediate early gene expression in response to conspecific call notes in black-capped chickadees (Poecile atricapillus). To appear in Behavioural Brain Research.
27 February 2015 Congratulations to Allison Hahn and the rest of the SNL who have a new publication! Hahn, A.H., Hoang, J., McMillan, N.A., Campbell, K., Congdon, J., & Sturdy, C.B. (In press 27 February 2015). Biological salience influences performance and acoustic mechanisms for the discrimination of male and female songs. To appear in Animal Behaviour.
8 February 2015 Congratulations to Neil McMillan, Allison Hahn, and Marcia Spetch, who along with Chris Sturdy, have a new publication! McMillan, N.A., Hahn, A.H., Spetch M.L., & Sturdy, C.B. Avian cognition. (In press 8 February 2015). To appear in Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science. 27 January 2015 The SNL welcomes new Master's student, Erin Scully to our lab group. 20 January 2015 Congratulations to Neil McMillan and Marcia Spetch, who along with Chris Sturdy, have a new publication! McMillan, N.A., Spetch M.L., & Sturdy, C.B. (In press 20 January 2015). When is a choice not a choice? Pigeons fail to inhibit incorrect responses on a go/no-go midsession reversal task. To appear in Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition.
2014 3 November 2014 Graduate Student Opportunities, Songbird Neuroethology Laboratory, University of Alberta I will have an opening in my laboratory for one, and possibly two, excellent graduate students beginning in September 2015 for students interested in pursuing graduate studies in comparative cognition and behaviour, including the neurobiological and developmental correlates of perception and cognition. The official application deadline is 15 January 2015 to be considered for admission beginning in September 2015, however, applications will be reviewed as soon as they are complete. Please refer to our departmental web pages for information about our graduate program, and to my own web pages for information about current research in my laboratory. I work hard to ensure that my graduate students have all the necessary resources at their disposal to complete their research and enhance their graduate training experience. My laboratory has recently undergone a complete update to my operant conditioning setup, and continues to maintain excellent facilities for investigating all aspects of brain, behaviour, and cognition in songbirds and humans. Moreover, my graduate students routinely attend local, national, and international conferences to disseminate their research findings as well as to network and establish contacts with like-minded scientists from other institutions. Importantly, my students and I publish their research in top journals, with many of my graduate students finishing with several publications from their time in my laboratory. 15 October 2014 Congratulations to Allison Hahn, Chris Sturdy, and their collaborators in the Veinot Lab (Department of Chemistry) on a new publication! Zhai, Y., Dasog, M., Snitynsky, R.B., Purkait, T.K., Hahn, A.H., Sturdy, C.B., Lowary, T.L., & Veinot, J.G.C. (In press 15 October 2014). Water-soluble photoluminescent D-mannose and L-alanine functionalized silicon nanocrystals and their application to cancer cell imaging. To appear in Journal of Materials Chemistry B. 17 July 2014 Congratulations to Kim Campbell and John Hoang on winning QEII Masters scholarhips! 7 July 2014 Congratulations to Lauren Guillette and the rest of the SNL on a new publication! Guillette, L.M., Hahn, A.H., Hoeschele, M., Przyslupski, A.-M., & Sturdy, C.B. (In press 7 July 2014). Evidence for speed-accuracy trade-offs in cognition and personality in black-capped chickadees. To appear in Animal Cognition.
24 April 2014
Allison Hahn with her Faculty of Science Graduate Student Teaching Award and some random photo-bomber after the luncheon and ceremony.
1 June 2014 Congratulations to Marc Avey and the other members and collaborators of the SNL on a new publication in PLoS ONE! Avey, M.T., Bloomfield, L.L., Elie, J.E., Freeberg, T.M., Guillette, L.M., Hoeschele, M., Lee, H., Moscicki, M.K., Owens, J.L., Sturdy, C.B. (In press 1 June 2014). Conspecific or Heterospecific? ZENK Activation in the nidopallium of black-capped chickadees. To appear in PLoS ONE.
28 April 2014 Congratulations to Marisa Hoeschele and other members and collaborators of the SNL on a new publication in Journal of Comparative Psychology! Hoeschele, M., Cook, R.G., Guillette, L.M., Hahn, A.H., & Sturdy, C.B. (In press 28 April). Timbre influences chord discrimination in black-capped chickadees but not humans. To appear in Journal of Comparative Psychology.
March 2014 March was an epic month for the SNL! It's easier to break down the awesomeness by student (and catch up on some overdue recognition) than to track down the dates for each bit of excellence. Kim Campbell won a QEII Scholarship! Jenna Congdon won an NSERC CGS-M! Allison Hahn was awarded a University of Alberta Graduate Student Association Research Assistant Award, the Faculty of Science Graduate Student Teaching Award (to go with her Teaching Assistantship Award and Certificate of Teaching Excellence from the Council of Canadian Departments of Psychology (CCDP) from last summer), and the Best Student Paper Award (1st place) at 21st Annual International Conference on Comparative Cognition (to go along with the Best Student Paper Award (2nd place) for Animal Bioacoustics at the 21st International Congress on Acoustics conference in Montreal last summer)! Marisa Hoeschele was awarded an NSERC PDF and then a Banting PDF! Chris Sturdy traveled to the University of Nevada, Reno (in addition to traveling to the International Conference on Comparative Cognition with Allison Hahn and Neil McMillan), to give an invited lecture outlining some of the recent research findings from the SNL. While at UNR he was hosted by Vladamir Provodusov, Carrie Branch, and Dovid Kozlovsky and visited with many members of the Department of Biology. What an excellent month for a well-deserving bunch!
12 February 2014 Congratulations to Allison Hahn who was awarded a Graduate Student Research Assistant Award from the Graduate Student Association at the University of Alberta.
4 February 2014 Weisman, R.G., Hoeschele, M., & Sturdy, C.B. (In press 4 February 2014). A comparative analysis of auditory perception in humans and songbirds: a modular approach. To appear in Behavioural Processes.
2013 30 August 2013 Proppe, D.S., Byers, K.A., Sturdy, C.B., St. Clair, C.C. (In press 30 August 2013). Physical condition of black-capped chickadees (Poecile atricapillus) in relation to road disturbance. To appear in Canadian Journal of Zoology. 22 August 2013 Congratulations to Lee Vilinsky for defending his Master's thesis! 15 August 2013 Research Opportunities in the Songbird Neuroethology Laboratory (SNL) The SNL is always seeking highly motivated undergraduate students, graduate students, and post-doctoral fellows who are interested in comparative cognition and behaviour, animal communication, auditory perception, and neuroethology, to conduct research projects (i.e., summer research students, PSYCO 299, PSYCO 496, PSYCO 498, honours, M.Sc. theses, and Ph.D. theses). Graduate students may apply either to the Department of Psychology's graduate program or the Centre for Neuroscience's graduate program. If interested, please contact Chris Sturdy directly via e-mail, phone, or in person. 21 June 2013 Congratulations to Allison Hahn and the rest of the SNL and collaborators on a new publication!
Hahn, A.H., Guillette, L.M., Hoeschele, M., Mennill, D.J., Otter, K.A., Grava, T., Ratcliffe, L.M., & Sturdy, C.B. (In press 21 June 2013). Dominance and geographic information contained within black-capped chickadee (Poecile atricapillus) song. To appear in Behaviour.
11 May 2013 Congratulations to Allison Hahn and the rest of the SNL on a new publication!
Hahn, A.H., Krysler, A., & Sturdy, C.B. (In press 11 May 2013). Female song in black-capped chickadees (Poecile atricapillus): Acoustic song features that contain individual identity information and sex differences. To appear in Behavioural Processes.
31 March 2013 UPDATE! We have ONE MORE new lab member starting this fall! Jenna Congdon from Algoma University has just accepted our offer of admission and will join the lab as a graduate student this September! Welcome one and all new lab members1
17 March 2013 Three new lab members will be joining the lab this fall! Kimberly Campbell (from Dalhousie University) and John Hoang (from the University of Alberta, currently our RA) will be joining the lab as graduate students as will Neil McMillan (from the University of Western Ontario) who will be joining the lab as a postdoctoral fellow (a joint appointment with Marcia Spetch)!
11 March 2013
28 February 2013 Congratulations to Chris Sturdy for winning the 2013 Faculty of Science Graduate Mentoring Award! And many thanks to all those graduate students who completed the nomination package!
26 January 2013 Congratulations to Allison Hahn and the rest of the SNL on two new publications!
Hahn, A.H., Guillette, L.M., Hoeschele, M., Cook, R.G., & Sturdy, C.B. (In press 26 January 2013). Categories, concepts, and calls: Auditory perceptual mechanisms and cognitive abilities across different types of birds. To appear in Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics. Mercado, E., III, Wisniewski, M.G., McIntosh, B., Guillette, L.M., & Sturdy, C.B. (In press). Reverberlocation in chickadees? To appear in Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics. 9 January 2013 New article about black-capped chickadees in the St. Albert Gazette with input from Chris Sturdy and Colleen Cassady St. Clair!
7 January 2013 Congratulations to Marisa Hoeschele and the rest of the SNL on a new publication!
Hoeschele, M., Weisman, R.G., Guillette, L.M., Hahn, A.H., & Sturdy, C.B. (In press 7 January 2013). Chickadees fail standardized operant tests for octave equivalence. To appear in Animal Cognition.
2012
17 December 2012 Chris Sturdy was just promoted to the rank of Professor at the recent Science Faculty Evaluation Committee meetings!
6 December 2012 Congratulations to Lauren Guillette who was awarded a British Academy and Royal Society Newton International Fellowship!
4 December 2012 Congratulations to Lauren Guillette who was awarded a Faculty of Science Dissertation Award!
30 November 2012 Congratulations to Marisa Hoeschele who today successfully defended her Ph.D.!
7 November 2012 Congratulations to Darren Proppe who has a new publication along with Colleen Cassady St. Clair and me!
Proppe, D.S., Sturdy, C.B., & St. Clair, C.C. (In press 7 November 2012). Anthropogenic noise contributes to urban homogenization. To appear in Global Change Biology.
28 August 2012 Congratulations to Lauren Guillette for successfully defending her Ph.D.! Congratulations, Dr. Guillette!!
13 August 2012 Congratulations to Marisa Hoeschele and the rest of the SNL on a new publication!
Hoeschele, M., Weisman, R.G., & Sturdy, C.B. (August 2012). Pitch chroma discrimination, generalization, and transfer tests of octave equivalence in humans. To appear in Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics.
8 August 2012 Congratulations to Lauren Guillette and the rest of the SNL on a new publication!
Guillette, L.M., Hoeschele, M., Hahn, A.H., & Sturdy, C.B. (In press 8 August 2012). Heterospecific discrimination of Poecile vocalizations by zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata). To appear in Journal of Comparative Psychology.
16 May 2012 Story featuring Sturdy in the St. Albert Gazette!
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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