Songbird Neuroethology Laboratory

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Refereed Publications (Please e-mail me if you would like a reprint.)

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. Mercado III, E. and Sturdy, C.B. (In press). Classifying animal sounds with neural networks. In Owren, M.J. and Brown, C.H. Eds), Research Methods in Comparative Bioacoustics. Bentham eBooks. (59 manuscript pages).

  4. Proppe, D.S., McMillan, N., Congdon, J.V., & Sturdy, C.B. (2016). Mitigating road impacts on animals through learning principles. Animal Cognition. DOI: 10.1007/s10071-016-0989-y

  5. 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.

  6. McMillan, N., Sturdy, C. B., Pisklak, J. M., & Spetch, M. L. (2016). Pigeons perform poorly on midsession reversal tasks without rigid temporal regularity. Animal Cognition. DOI: 10.1007/s10071-016-0962-9

  7. Hahn, A.H., Hoeschele, M., Guillette, L.M., Hoang, J., McMillan, N., Congdon, J.V., Campbell, K., Mennill, D.J., Otter, K.A., Grava, T., Ratcliffe, L.M., & Sturdy, C.B. (2016). Black-capped chickadees categorize songs based on features that vary geographically. Animal Behaviour, 112, 94-104. DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2015.11.017

  8. 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

  9. Hahn, A.H., Guillette, L.M., Lee, D., McMillan, N., Hoang, J., & Sturdy, C.B. (2015). Experience affects immediate early gene expression in response to conspecific call notes in black-capped chickadees (Poecile atricapillus). Behavioural Brain Research. DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2015.03.021

  10. Hahn, A.H., Hoang, J., McMillan, N., Campbell, K., Congdon, J., & Sturdy, C.B. (2015). Biological salience influences performance and acoustic mechanisms for the discrimination of male and female songs. Animal Behaviour. DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2015.03.023

  11. McMillan, N.., Hahn, A.H., Spetch M.L., & Sturdy, C.B. Avian cognition. (2015). Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, 6(3), 285–297. DOI: 10.1002/wcs.1346

  12. McMillan, N., Spetch M.L., & Sturdy, C.B. (2015). When is a choice not a choice? Pigeons fail to inhibit incorrect responses on a go/no-go midsession reversal task. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition. DOI:  http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xan0000058

  13. Zhai, Y., Dasog, M., Snitynsky, R.B., Purkait, T.K., Hahn, A.H., Sturdy, C.B., Lowary, T.L., & Veinot, J.G.C. (2014). Water-soluble photoluminescent D-mannose and L-alanine functionalized silicon nanocrystals and their application to cancer cell imaging. Journal of Materials Chemistry B. DOI: 10.1039/C4TB01161A

  14. Guillette, L.M., Hahn, A.H., Hoeschele, M., Przyslupski, A.-M., & Sturdy, C.B. (2014). Evidence for speed-accuracy trade-offs in cognition and personality in black-capped chickadees. Animal Cognition. DOI: 10.1007/s10071-014-0787-3

  15. 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. (2014). Conspecific or Heterospecific? ZENK Activation in the nidopallium of black-capped chickadees. PLoS ONE. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0100927

  16. Hoeschele, M., Cook, R.G., Guillette, L.M., Hahn, A.H., & Sturdy, C.B. (2014). Timbre influences chord discrimination in black-capped chickadees but not humans. Journal of Comparative Psychology. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0037159

  17. Weisman, R.G., Hoeschele, M., & Sturdy, C.B. (2014). A comparative analysis of auditory perception in humans and songbirds: a modular approach. Behavioural Processes. DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2014.02.006

  18. Hahn, A.H., Guillette, L.M., Hoeschele, M., Mennill, D.J., Otter, K.A., Grava, T., Ratcliffe, L.M., & Sturdy, C.B. (2013). Dominance and geographic information contained within black-capped chickadee (Poecile atricapillus) song. Behaviour, 150, 1601-1622. DOI: 10.1163/1568539X-00003111 (cover photo).

  19. Proppe, D.S., Byers, K.A., Sturdy, C.B., St. Clair, C.C. (2013). Physical condition of black-capped chickadees (Poecile atricapillus) in relation to road disturbance. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 91(11), 842-845, DOI: 10.1139/cjz-2013-0081

  20. Grava, T., Fairhurst, G.D., Avey, M.T., Grava, A., Bradley, J., Avis, J.L., Bortolotti, G.R., Sturdy, C.B., & Otter, K.A. (2013). Habitat quality affects early physiology and subsequent neuromotor development of juvenile black-capped chickadees. PLoS ONE. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0071852

  21. Hahn, A.H., Krysler, A., & Sturdy, C.B. (2013). Female song in black-capped chickadees (Poecile atricapillus): Acoustic song features that contain individual identity information and sex differences. Behavioural Processes, 98, 98-105. DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2013.05.006

  22. Hoeschele, M., Weisman, R.G., Guillette, L.M., Hahn, A.H., & Sturdy, C.B. (2013). Chickadees fail standardized operant tests for octave equivalence. Animal Cognition, DOI: 10.1007/s10071-013-0597-z

  23. Proppe, D.S., Sturdy, C.B., & St. Clair, C.C. (2013). Anthropogenic noise contributes to urban homogenization. Global Change Biology, 19(4), 1075–1084. DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12098

  24. Guillette, L.M., Hoeschele, M., Hahn, A.H., & Sturdy, C.B. (2012). Heterospecific discrimination of Poecile vocalizations by zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata). Journal of Comparative Psychology. DOI: 10.1037/a0029992

  25. Hoeschele, M., Cook, R.G., Guillette, L.M., Hahn, A.H., & Sturdy, C.B. (2012). Auditory same/different concept learning and generalization in black-capped chickadees (Poecile atricapillus). PLoS ONE. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0047691

  26. Hoeschele, M., Guillette, L.M., Sturdy, C.B. (2012). Biological relevance of acoustic signal affects discrimination performance in a songbird. Animal Cognition. DOI: 10.1007/s10071-012-0496-8

  27. Hoeschele, M., Weisman, R.G., & Sturdy, C.B. (2012). Pitch chroma discrimination, generalization, and transfer tests of octave equivalence in humans. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics.

  28. Proppe, D.S., Avey, M.T., Hoeschele, M., Moscicki, M.K., Farrell, T., St. Clair, C.C., & Sturdy, C.B. (2012). Black-capped chickadees sing at higher pitches with elevated anthropogenic noise, but not with decreasing canopy cover. Journal of Avian Biology. doi 10.1111/j.1600-048X.2012.05640.x

  29. Weisman, R.G., Balkwill, L.-L., Hoeschele, M., Moscicki, M.K., & Sturdy, C.B. (2012). Identifying absolute pitch possessors without using a note naming task. Psychomusicology: Music, Mind, and Brain.

  30. Weisman, R.G., Mewhort, D.J.K., Hoeschele, M., & Sturdy, C.B. (2012). New perspectives on absolute pitch in birds and mammals. In E.A. Wasserman & T.R. Zentall (Eds), Handbook of Comparative Cognition. Oxford University Press, 67-79.

  31. 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

  32. Avey, M.T., Rodriguez, A., & Sturdy C.B. (2011). Seasonal variation of vocal behaviour in a temperate songbird: Assessing the effects of laboratory housing on wild-caught, seasonally-breeding birds. Behavioural Processes, 88, 177-183. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2011.09.005

  33. Guillette, L.M., Bloomfield, L.L., Batty, E.R., Dawson, M.R.W., & Sturdy, C.B. (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, 130 (4), 2249-2256. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.3628343

  34. Guillette, L.M., Reddon, A.R., Hoeschele, M., & Sturdy, C.B. (2011). 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, 278, 767-773. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.1669

  35. Guillette, L.M. & Sturdy, C.B. (2011). Individual differences and repeatability in vocal production: Stress-induced calling exposes a songbird’s personality. Naturwissenschaften, 98,977–981. DOI: 10.1007/s00114-011-0842-8

  36. Hoeschele, M., Cook, R.G., Guillette, L.M., Brooks, D.I., & Sturdy, C.B. (2011). Black-capped chickadee and human chord discrimination. To appear in Journal of Comparative Psychology. Advance online publication. DOI: 10.1037/a0024627

  37. Moscicki, M.K., Hoeschele, M., Bloomfield, L.L., Modanu, M., Charrier, I., & Sturdy, C.B. (2011). Note types and coding in Parid vocalizations: the chick-a-dee call of the boreal chickadee (Poecile hudsonicus). Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 129(5), 3327-3340. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.3560925

  38. Proppe, D.S., Sturdy, C.B., & St. Clair, C.C. (2011). Flexibility in animal signals facilitates adaptation to rapidly changing environments. To appear in PLoS ONE, 6(9): e25413. DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0025413

  39. Wisniewski, M.G., Guillette, L.M., Radell, M., Sturdy, C.B. & Mercado, E. III (2011). Predicting shifts in generalization gradients with perceptrons. Learning & Behavior, 40, 128–144. DOI: 10.3758/s13420-011-0050-6

  40. Wisniewski, M.G., Guillette, L.M., Radell, M.L., Sturdy, C.B., & Mercado, E., III (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.

  41. Guillette, L.M., Bailey, A.A., Reddon, A.R., Hurd, P.L., & Sturdy, C.B. (2010). Capture order is repeatable in chickadees. International Journal of Comparative Psychology, 23, 216-224.  

  42. Guillette, L.M., Bloomfield, L.L., Batty, E.R., Dawson, M.R.W., & Sturdy, C.B. (2010). Black-capped (Poecile atricapillus) and mountain chickadee (Poecile gambeli) contact call contains species, sex, and individual identity features. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America,127(2), 1116-1123. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.3277247

  43. Guillette, L.M., Farrell, T.M., Hoeschele, M., Nickerson, C.M., Dawson, M.R.W., & Sturdy, C.B. (2010). Mechanisms of call note type perception: Peak Shift in a note type continuum. Journal of Comparative Psychology,124(1), 109-115. DOI: 10.1037/a0017741

  44. Guillette, L.M., Farrell, T.M., Hoeschele, M., & Sturdy, C.B. (2010). Acoustic mechanisms of a species-based discrimination of the chick-a-dee call in sympatric black-capped (Poecile atricapillus) and mountain chickadees (P. gambeli). Frontiers in Comparative Psychology,1:229. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2010.00229

  45. 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. (2010). Dominance Signaled in an Acoustic Ornament. Animal Behaviour, 79, 657–664. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.12.015

  46. Moscicki, M.K., Hoeschele, M., & Sturdy, C.B. (2010). Note types and coding in Parid vocalizations: the chick-a-dee call of the Mexican chickadee (Poecile sclateri). Acta Ornithologica. DOI: 10.3161/000164510X551282

  47. Proppe, D.S., Bloomfield, L.L., & Sturdy, C.B. (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, 88, 788-794. DOI: 10.1139/Z10-047

  48. 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, 41, 156-173 (Special issue to honor Stewart H. Hulse). DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lmot.2010.04.002

  49. 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. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2010.01.010

  50. 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.

  51. Guillette, L.M., Reddon, A.R., Hurd, P.L., & Sturdy, C.B. (2009). Exploration of a novel space is associated with individual differences in learning speed in black-capped chickadees, Poecile atricapillus. Behavioural Processes, 82, 265–270. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2009.07.005

  52. Hoeschele, M., Gammon, D.E., 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. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.3203736

  53. Proppe, D.S., & Sturdy, C.B. (2009). The effect of schedules of reinforcement on the composition of spontaneous and evoked black-capped chickadee calls. Journal of Experimental Biology, 212, 3016-3025. DOI: 10.1242/​jeb.031724

  54. Avey, M.T., Quince, A.F., & Sturdy, C.B. (2008). Seasonal and diurnal patterns of black-capped chickadee (Poecile atricapillus) vocal production. Behavioural Processes , 77(2), 149-155. (doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2007.12.004)  Included in Special Issue in honour of the contributions of Ronald G. Weisman, Edited by C.B. Sturdy - this paper edited by Dr. J. Crystal. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2007.12.004

  55. Avey, M.T., Kanyo, R.A., Irwin, E.R., & Sturdy, C.B. (2008). Differential effects of vocalization type, singer and listener on Zenk immediate early gene response in black-capped chickadees (Poecile atricapillus). Behavioural Brain Research, 188(1), 201-208. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2007.10.034

  56. Bloomfield, L.L., Farrell, T.M. & Sturdy, C.B. (2008). Categorization and discrimination of “chick-a-dee” calls by wild-caught and hand-reared chickadees. Behavioural Processes, 77(2), 166-176. (doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2007.08.003) Included in Special Issue in honour of the contributions of Ronald G. Weisman, Edited by C.B. Sturdy - this paper edited by Dr. J. Crystal. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2007.08.003

  57. Bloomfield, L.L., & Sturdy, C.B. (2008). All "chick-a-dee" calls are not created equally. Part I: Open-ended categorization of chick-a-dee calls by sympatric and allopatric chickadees.  Behavioural Processes, 77(1), 73-86. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2007.06.011

  58. Bloomfield, L.L., Farrell, T.M., & Sturdy, C.B. (2008). All "chick-a-dee" calls are not created equally. Part II: Mechanisms for discriminations by sympatric and allopatric chickadees. Behavioural Processes, 77(1), 87-99. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2007.06.008

  59. Freeberg, T.M., Baker, M.C., Bloomfield, L.L., Charrier, I., Gammon, D.E., Hailman, J.P., Lee, T.T-Y, Lucas, J.R., Mennill, D.J. & Sturdy, C.B. (2007). Synopsis: Complexities in Vocal Communication. Ecology and Behaviour of Chickadees and Titmice: An integrated approach, Otter, K.A. (ed). Oxford University Press.

  60. Nickerson, C.M., Bloomfield, L.L., Dawson, M.R.W., Charrier, I., & Sturdy, C.B. (2007). Feature weighting in chick-a-dee call notes of Poecile atricapillus. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 122(4), 2451-2458. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.2770540 Reprinted in the Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research under "Information transfer in biological systems"

  61. Sturdy, C.B., Bloomfield, L.L., Farrell, T.M., Avey, M.T., & Weisman, R.G. (2007). Category perceptionEcology and Behaviour of Chickadees and Titmice: An integrated approach - Ken A. Otter, Ed. as a natural cognitive activity in songbirds. Comparative Cognition & Behavior Reviews, 2, 93-110. Retrieved from http://psyc.queensu.ca/ccbr/index.html DOI:10.3819/ccbr.2008.20006

  62. Sturdy, C.B., Bloomfield, L.L., Charrier, I., & Lee, T.T.-Y. (2007). Chickadee vocal production and perception: An integrative approach to understanding acoustic communication. Ecology and Behaviour of Chickadees and Titmice: An integrated approach, Otter, K.A. (ed). Oxford University Press.

  63. Dawson, M.R.W., Bloomfield, L.L., Charrier, I., & Sturdy, C.B. (2006). Statistical classification of black-capped (Poecile atricapillus) and mountain chickadee (P. gambeli) call notes. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 120(2), 147-153. DOI: 10.1037/0735-7036.120.2.147

  64. Dawson, M.R.W., Charrier, I., & Sturdy, C.B. (2006). Using an artificial neural network to classify the call notes of the black-capped chickadee call (Poecile atricapillus). Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 119(5), 3161-3172. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.2189028 Reprinted in the Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research under "Biological Networks"

  65. Lee, T.T.-Y., Charrier, I., Bloomfield, L.L., Weisman, R.G., & Sturdy, C.B. (2006). Frequency-range discriminations and absolute pitch in black-capped chickadees  (Poecile atricapillus), mountain chickadees (P. gambeli) and zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata). Journal of Comparative Psychology, 120, 217-228. DOI: 10.1037/0735-7036.120.3.217

  66. Nickerson, C.M., Bloomfield, L.L., Dawson, M.R.W., & Sturdy, C.B. (2006). Artificial neural network discrimination of black-capped chickadee (Poecile atricapillus) call notes . Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 120(2), 1111-1117. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.2211509 Reprinted in the Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research under "Biological Networks"Comparative Cognition: Eperimental Explorations of Animal Intelligence - Wasserman, E.A., & Zentall, T. Eds.

  67. Sturdy, C.B. & Weisman, R.G. (2006). Rationale and methodology for testing auditory cognition in songbirds. Behavioural Processes. 72, 265-272. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2006.03.007

  68. Weisman, R.G., Njegovan, M.G., Williams, M., Cohen, J., & Sturdy, C.B. (2006). The comparative psychology of absolute pitch. Comparative Cognition: Experimental Explorations of Animal Intelligence, Wasserman, E.A, and Zentall, T., Eds. Oxford University Press.

  69. Bloomfield, L.L., Phillmore, L.S., Weisman, R.G., & Sturdy, C.B. (2005). Note types and coding in Parid vocalizations III: The chick-a-dee call of the Carolina chickadee (Poecile carolinensis). Canadian Journal of Zoology, 83, 820-833. DOI: 10.1139/z05-067

  70. Charrier, I., Lee, T.T.-Y., Bloomfield, L.L., & Sturdy, C.B. (2005). Acoustic mechanisms of note-type perception in black-capped chickadee calls. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 119 (4), 371-380. DOI: 10.1037/0735-7036.119.4.371

  71. Charrier, I. & Sturdy, C.B. (2005). Call-based species recognition in black-capped chickadees. Behavioural Processes, 70, 271-281. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2005.07.007

  72. Gray, E.R., Bloomfield, L.L., Ferrey, A.,  Spetch, M.L., & Sturdy, C.B. (2005). Spatial encoding in mountain chickadees: Features overshadow geometry. Biology Letters, 1, 314-317. DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2005.0347

  73. Bloomfield, L.L., Charrier, I., & Sturdy, C.B. (2004). Note types and coding in Parid vocalizations II: The chick-a-dee call of the mountain chickadee (Poecile gambeli). Canadian Journal of Zoology, 82, 780-793. DOI: 10.1139/z04-046

  74. Charrier, I., Bloomfield, L.L., & Sturdy, C.B. (2004). Note types and coding in Parid vocalizations I: The chick-a-dee call of the black-capped chickadee (Poecile atricapillus). Canadian Journal of Zoology, 82, 769-779. DOI: 10.1139/z04-045

  75. Weisman, R.G., Njegovan, M.G., Williams, M.T., Cohen, J.S., & Sturdy, C.B. (2004) A behavior analysis of absolute pitch: Sex, experience, and species. Behavioral Processes, 66, 289-307. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2004.03.010

  76. Bloomfield, L.L., Sturdy, C.B., Phillmore, L.S., & Weisman, R.G. (2003). Open-ended categorization of chick-a-dee calls by black-capped chickadees (Poecile atricapilla). Journal of Comparative Psychology, 117 (3), 290-301. DOI: 10.1037/0735-7036.117.3.290

  77. Phillmore, L.S., Sturdy, C.B., & Weisman, R.G. (2003). Does reduced social contact affect discrimination of distance cues and individual vocalizations? Animal Behaviour, 65, 911-922. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/anbe.2003.2153

  78. Sturdy, C.B., Wild, J.M., & Mooney, R. (2003) Respiratory and telencephalic modulation of vocal motor neurons in the zebra finch. Journal of Neuroscience, 23 (3), 1072-1086.

  79. Mooney, R., Rosen, M.J., & Sturdy, C.B. (2002). A bird’s eye view: top down intracellular analyses of auditory selectivity for learned vocalizations. Journal of Comparative Physiology A, 188, 879-895. DOI: 10.1007/s00359-002-0353-3

  80. Phillmore, L.S., Sturdy, C.B., Turyk, M. & Weisman, R.G. (2002). Discrimination of Individual Vocalizations by Black-Capped Chickadees (Poecile atricapilla). Animal Learning & Behavior, 30 (1), 43-52. DOI: 10.3758/BF03192908

  81. Sturdy, C.B., Phillmore, L.S., Sartor, J.J., & Weisman, R.G. (2001). Reduced Social Contact Causes Auditory Perceptual Deficits in Zebra Finches, Taeniopygia guttata. Animal Behaviour, 62, 1207-1218. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/anbe.2001.1864

  82. Sturdy, C.B., Phillmore, L.S., & Weisman, R.G. (2000). Call-note discriminations in black-capped chickadees (Poecile atricapillus). Journal of Comparative Psychology, 114 (4), 357-364. DOI: 10.1037/0735-7036.114.4.357

  83. Sturdy, C.B., Phillmore, L.S., & Weisman, R.G. (1999). Note types, harmonic suppression, and note order in the songs of zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata). Journal of Comparative Psychology, 113 (2), 194-203. DOI: 10.1037/0735-7036.113.2.194

  84. Sturdy, C.B, Phillmore, L.S., Price, J.L., & Weisman, R.G. (1999). Song-note discriminations in zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata): Categories and pseudocategories. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 113 (2), 204-212. DOI: 10.1037/0735-7036.113.2.204

  85. Weisman, R., Brownlie, L., Olthof, A., Sturdy, C., Njegovan, M., & Mewhort, D. (1999). Timing and classifying brief acoustic stimuli by songbirds and humans. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 25 (2), 139-152. DOI: 10.1037/0097-7403.25.2.139

  86. Phillmore, L.S., Sturdy, C.B., Ramsay, S.M., & Weisman, R.G. (1998). Discrimination of auditory distance cues in black-capped chickadees (Poecile atricapillus) and zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata). Journal of Comparative Psychology, 112 (3), 282-291. DOI: 10.1037/0735-7036.112.3.282

  87. Weisman, R., Njegovan, M., Sturdy, C., Phillmore, L., Coyle, J., & Mewhort, D. (1998). Frequency range discriminations: special and general abilities in zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata) and humans (Homo sapiens). Journal of Comparative Psychology, 112 (3), 244 - 258. DOI: 10.1037/0735-7036.112.3.244

  88. Cohen, J.S., Sturdy, C., & Hicks, M. (1996). Intratrial proactive interference in rats' serial alternation performance in the radial maze. Animal Learning and Behavior, 24 (3), 300-309. DOI: 10.3758/BF03198978

Non-refereed Publications

  1. Sturdy, C.B. & Proppe, D.S. (2015). Hearing is believing: Birds learn fear. To appear in Learning & Behavior. DOI: 10.3758/s13420-015-0207-9

  2. 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.

  3. Sturdy, C.B., & Spetch, M.L. (2015, March 24). LIVES LIVED: Intellectually challenging and a force of nature. Queen’s Gazette. Retrieved from http://www.queensu.ca/gazette/

  4. Sturdy, C.B., & Spetch, M.L. (2015). In Memory of Ronald G. Weisman (September 14 1937-January 27 2015). To appear in Comparative Cognition & Behavior Reviews.

  5. Hahn, A.H., Guillette, L.M., Hoeschele, M., Cook, R.G., & Sturdy, C.B. (2013). Categories, concepts, and calls: Auditory perceptual mechanisms and cognitive abilities across different types of birds. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, 19. DOI: 10.1121/1.4799329

  6. Mercado, E., III, Wisniewski, M.G., McIntosh, B., Guillette, L.M., & Sturdy, C.B. (2013). Reverberlocation in chickadees? Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, 19. DOI: 10.1121/1.4799208

  7. Sturdy, C.B., & Zentall, T.R. (2011). Welcome Editorial. Comparative Cognition & Behavior Reviews, 6, 4. Retrieved from http://psyc.queensu.ca/ccbr/index.html

  8. Sturdy, C.B. (2008). Thinking outside the box: A tribute to the contributions of Ronald G. Weisman. Behavioural Processes, 77(2), 139-141.Editorial for Special Issue in honour of the contributions of Ronald G. Weisman. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2007.11.010

  9. Sturdy, C.B. (2004). A social call. Nature, 430, 414. DOI: 10.1038/430414a

  10. Sturdy, C.B. & Mooney, R. (2000). Bird Communication: Two voices are better than one. Current Biology, 10 (17), R634-R636. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0960-9822(00)00661-8
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