Peter L. Hurd

Bartlett NT, Morin JR, Hurd PL. in press. Does the fraternal birth order effect influence handedness? to appear in Archives of Sexual Behavior (doi:10.1007/s10508-023-02649-9).
Chaput S-L, Burggren WW, Hurd PL, Hamilton. 2023. Zebrafish (Danio rerio) shoaling in light and dark conditions involves a complex interplay between vision and lateral line. Behavioural Brain Research 439:114228. (doi:10.1016/j.bbr.2022.114228).
Yang N, Hurd PL, Read S, Crespi BJ. 2022. Why iPlay: The relationships of autistic and schizotypal traits with patterns of video game use. Frontiers in Psychology 13:767446. (doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2022.767446).
Renn SCP, Hurd PL. 2021. Epigenetic regulation and environmental sex determination in cichlid fishes. Sexual Development 15:93-107. (doi.org/10.1159/000517197).
Manning C, Hurd PL, Read S, Crespi BJ. 2021. SHANK3 genotype mediates speech and language phenotypes in a non-clinical population. Autism Research and Treatment 2021:6634584. (doi:10.1155/2021/6634584).
Nahal P, Hurd PL, Read S, Crespi BJ. 2021. Cognitive empathy as imagination: evidence from Reading the Mind in the Eyes in autism and schizotypy. Frontiers in Psychiatry 12:665721. (doi:10.3389/fpsyt.2021.665721).
Robles D, Kuziek JWP, Wlasitz NA, Bartlett NT, Hurd PL, Mathewson KE. 2021. EEG in motion: Using an oddball task to explore motor interference in active skateboarding. European Journal of Neuroscience. (doi:10.1111/ejn.15163).
Driscoll RMH, Faber-Hammond JJ, O’Rourke CF, Hurd PL, Renn SCP. 2020. Epigenetic regulation of gonadal and brain aromatase expression in a cichlid fish with environmental sex determination. General and Comparative Endocrinology 296:113538. (doi.org/10.1016/j.ygcen.2020.113538).
Salminen I, Read S, Hurd PL, Crespi BJ. 2020. Does SNORD116 mediate aspects of psychosis in Prader-Willi syndrome? Evidence from a non-clinical population. Psychiatry Research. 286:112858. (doi:10.1016/j.psychres.2020.112858).
Hope BV, Fjellner KL, Renn SCP, Hurd PL. 2020. Juvenile stress disrupts the development of an exploration-boldness behavioural syndrome in convict cichlid fish. Animal Behaviour. 161:95-102. (doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2020.01.004).
Crespi BJ, Read S, Ly A, Hurd PL. 2019. AMBRA1, autophagy, and the extreme male brain theory of autism. Autism Research and Treatment 2019:1968580 (doi:10.1155/2019/1968580).
Hope BVH, Hamilton TJ, Hurd PL. 2019. The submerged plus maze as an assay for studying anxiety-like behaviour in fish. MethodsX (doi:10.1016/j.mex.2019.07.002).
Salminen I, Read S, Hurd PL, Crespi, BJ. 2019. Genetic variation of UBE3A is associated with schizotypy in a population of typical individuals. Psychiatry Research 275:94-99. (doi:10.1016/j.psychres.2019.03.019).
Crespi BJ, Dinsdale NL, Read S, Hurd PL. 2019. Spirituality, dimensional autism, and schizotypal traits: The search for meaning. PLoS ONE 14(3): e0213456. (doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0213456).
Hope BVH, Hamilton TJ, Hurd PL. 2019. Submerged plus maze: A novel test for studying anxiety-like behaviour in fish. Behavioural Brain Research 362:332--337. (10.1016/j.bbr.2018.12.012).
Long RM, Pakan JMP, Graham DJ, Hurd PL, Gutiérrez-Ibáñez C, Wylie DR. 2018. Modulation of complex spike activity differs between zebrin positive and negative Purkinje cells in the pigeon cerebellum. to appear in Journal of Neurophysiology 120:250–262. (doi:10.1152/jn.00797.2017).
Jha A, Read S, Hurd PL, Crespi BJ. 2018. ⁠Segregating polymorphism in the NMDA receptor gene GRIN2A, schizotypy, and mental rotation among healthy individuals. Neuropsychologia 117:347–351.(doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2018.06.021).
Craciun I, Gutiérrez-Ibáñez C, Corfield JR, Hurd PL, Wylie DR. 2018. Topographic organization of inferior olive projections to the zebrin II stripes in the pigeon cerebellar uvula. Frontiers in Neuroscience 12:18 (doi:10.3389/fnana.2018.00018).
Crespi BJ, Read S, Salminen I, Hurd PL. 2018. A genetic locus for paranoia. Biology Letters 14:20170694 (doi:10.1098/rsbl.2017.0694).
Bartlett NT, Hurd PL. 2018. Fraternal birth order effects on personality: Will reasonable claims require extraordinary evidence? Archives of Sexual Behavior 47: 21-25. (doi:10.1007/s10508-017-1109-z).
Crespi BJ, Read S, Hurd PL. 2017. The SETDB2 locus: evidence for a genetic link between handedness and atopic disease. Heredity 120:77–82. (doi:10.1038/s41437-017-0004-7).
Wylie DR, Graham DJ, Corfield JR, Craciun I, Hurd PL. 2017. Inferior olivary projection to the zebrin II stripes in lobule IXcd of the pigeon flocculus: A retrograde tracing study. Journal of Comparative Neurology 525:3158-3173. (doi:10.1002/cne.24270).
Crespi BJ, Read S, Hurd PL. 2017. Segregating polymorphisms of FOXP2 are associated with measures of inner speech, speech fluency and strength of handedness in a healthy population. Brain and Language 173:33-40. (doi:10.1016/j.bandl.2017.06.002).
Seaver CMS, Hurd PL. 2017. Are there consistent behavioural differences between sexes and male colour morphs in Pelvicachromis pulcher? Zoology 122:115–125. (doi:10.1016/j.zool.2017.05.002).
Procyshyn TL, Hurd PL, Crespi BJ. 2017. Association testing of vasopressin receptor 1A microsatellite polymorphisms in non-clinical autism spectrum phenotype. Autism Research 10:750-756. (doi:10.1002/aur.1716).
Reddon AR, O’Connor CM, Nesjan E, Cameron J, Hellmann JK, Ligocki IY, Marsh-Rollo SE, Hamilton IM, Wylie DR, Hurd PL, Balshine S. 2017. Isotocin neuronal phenotypes differ among social systems in cichlid fishes. to appear in Royal Society Open Science. 4:170350. (doi:10.1098/rsos.170350).
Moscicki MK, Hurd PL. 2017. Damage-induced alarm cues influence lateralized behaviour but not the relationship between behavioural and habenular asymmetry in convict cichlids (Amatitlania nigrofasciata). Animal Cognition 20:537–551. (doi:10.1007/s10071-017-1081-y).
Ingraham E, Anderson ND, Hurd PL, Hamilton TJ. 2016. Twelve-day reinforcement-based memory retention in African cichlids (Labidochromis caeruleus). Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience. (doi:10.3389/fnbeh.2016.00157).
Robinson KJ, Hurd PL, Read S, Crespi BJ. 2016. The PCSK6 gene is associated with handedness, the autism spectrum, and magical ideation in a non-clinical population. Neuropsychologica 84:205-212. (doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2016.02.020).
Crespi BJ, Leach E, Dinsdale NR, Mokkonen M, Hurd PL. 2016. Imagination in human social cognition, autism, and psychotic-affective conditions. Cognition 150:181-199. (doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2016.02.001).
Moscicki MK, Hurd PL. 2015. Sex, boldness, and stress experience affect Convict Cichlid (Amatitlania nigrofasciata) open field behaviour. Animal Behaviour 107:105-114. (doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2015.05.027)
Crespi BJ, Hurd PL. 2015. Genetically based correlates of serum oxytocin and testosterone in autism and schizotypy. Personality and Individual Differences 79:39-43. (doi:10.1016/j.paid.2015.01.052)
Baron DM, Ramirez AJ, Bulitko V, Madan CR, Greiner A, Hurd PL, Spetch ML. 2015. Practice makes proficient: Pigeons (Columba livia) learn efficient routes on full-circuit navigational traveling salesperson problems. Animal Cognition 18:53-64. (doi:10.1007/s10071-014-0776-6)
Crespi BJ, Hurd PL. 2014. Cognitive-behavioral phenotypes of Williams syndrome are associated with genetic variation in the GTF2I gene, in a healthy population. BMC Neuroscience 15:127. (doi:10.1186/s12868-014-0127-1)
Hofmann HA, Beery AK, Blumstein DT, Couzin ID, Earley RL, Hayes LD, Hurd PL, Lacey EA, Phelps SM, Solomon NG, Taborsky M, Young LJ, Rubenstein DR. 2014. An evolutionary framework for studying mechanisms of social behavior. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 29:581–589. (doi:10.1016/j.tree.2014.07.008)
Nesjan E, Gutiérrez-Ibáñez C, Cameron JR, Merrigan S, Wylie DR, Hurd PL. 2014. Social status and GnRH soma size in female convict cichlids (Amatitlania nigrofasciatus). Behavioural Brain Research 272:205-208. (doi:10.1016/j.bbr.2014.06.028)
Leach EL, Prefontaine G, Hurd PL, Crespi BJ. 2014. The imprinted gene LRRTM1 mediates schizotypy and handedness in a nonclinical population. Journal of Human Genetics 59: 332-336. (doi:10.1038/jhg.2014.30)
Özener B, Hurd PL, Duyar İ. 2014. Inbreeding is associated with lower 2D:4D digit ratio. American Journal of Human Biology 26:183-188. (doi:10.1002/ajhb.22491)
Helgesen IM, Hamblin S, Hurd PL, 2013. Does cheating pay? Reexamining the evolution of deception in a conventional signaling game. Animal Behaviour 86: 1215-1224. (doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2013.09.023)
Thompson GJ, Hurd PL, Crespi BJ. 2013. Genes underlying altruism. Biology Letters 9: 20130395. (doi:10.1098/rsbl.2013.0395)
Leach EL, Hurd PL, Crespi BJ. 2013. Schizotypy, cognitive performance, and genetic risk for schizophrenia in a non-clinical population. Personality and Individual Differences 55: 334-338. (doi:10.1016/j.paid.2013.03.010).
Reddon AR & Hurd PL. 2013. Water pH during early development influences sex ratio and male morph in a West African cichlid fish, Pelvicachromis pulcher. Zoology 116: 139-143. (doi:10.1016/j.zool.2012.11.001) (Issue Cover).(doi:10.1016/j.paid.2013.03.010.
Dinsdale NL, Hurd PL, Wakabayashi A, Elliot MG, Crespi BJ. 2013. How are autism and schizotypy related? Evidence from a non-clinical population. PLoS One 8(5): e6331. (doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0063316)
Chee SA, Espinoza WAS, Iwaniuk AN, Pakan JM, Gutiérrez-Ibáñez C, Wylie DR, Hurd PL 2013). Social status, breeding state, and GnRH soma size in convict cichlids (Cryptoheros nigrofasciatus). Behavioural Brain Research 237: 318–324. (doi:10.1016/j.bbr.2012.09.023)
Vaillancourt KL, Dinsdale NL, Hurd PL 2012). Estrogen Receptor 1 promoter polymorphism and digit ratio in men. The American Journal of Human Biology 24: 682–689. (doi:10.1002/ajhb.22297)
Moscicki MK, Reddon AR, Hurd PL 2011). Lateralized behaviour of a non-social cichlid fish (Amatitlania nigrofasciata) in a social and a non-social environment. Behavioral Processes 88: 27–32. (doi:10.1016/j.beproc.2011.07.004).
Dinsdale NL, Reddon AR, Hurd PL 2011). Sex differences in the relationship between aggressiveness and the strength of handedness in Humans. Laterality. 16: 385-400. (doi:10.1080/13576501003683087)
Hurd PL, Vaillancourt K, Dinsdale NL 2011). Aggression, digit ratio and variation in Androgen Receptor and Monoamine Oxidase A genes in men. Behavior Genetics 41: 543-556. (doi:10.1007/s10519-010-9404-7)
Gutiérrez-Ibáñez C, Reddon AR, Kreuzer MB, Wylie DR, Hurd PL. 2011). Variation in asymmetry of the habenular nucleus correlates with behavioural asymmetry in a cichlid fish. Behavioural Brain Research. 221: 189-196. (doi:10.1016/j.bbr.2011.03.001)
Guillette LM, Bailey AA, Reddon AR, Hurd PL, Sturdy CB, 2010. Capture order is repeatable in chickadees. International Journal of Comparative Psychology 23: 216-224. (pdf)
Enquist M, Hurd PL & Ghirlanda S. 2010. Signalling, Chapter 16. In Westneat DF & Fox CW (eds) Evolutionary Behavioral Ecology, Oxford University Press. pp 266-284.
Hurd PL. 2010. Honest Signaling. In Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior. Breed MD & Moore J (eds.). pp 84-88. Academic Press: Oxford.
Garamszegi LZ, Calhim S, Dochtermann N, Hegyi G, Hurd PL, Jørgensen C, Kutsukake N, Lajeunesse MJ, Pollard KA, Schielzeth H, Symonds MRE, Nakagawa S, 2009. Changing philosophies and tools for statistical inferences in behavioral ecology. Behavioural Ecology 20: 1363-1375. (doi:10.1093/beheco/arp137, affiliated BeStat website)
Hurd PL, 2009. Pitting the boys against the girls (Book review: Roughgarden J, The Genial Gene: Deconstructing Darwinian Fitness), Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 24: 646-647. (doi:10.1016/j.tree.2009.08.010, supplemental notes).
Guillette LM, Reddon AR, Hurd PL, Sturdy CB. 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:10.1016/j.beproc.2009.07.005 )
Reddon AR & Hurd PL. 2009. Acting unilaterally: Why do animals with strongly lateralized brains behave differently than those with weakly lateralized brains? Bioscience Hypotheses 2: 383-387. (doi:10.1016/j.bihy.2009.06.007)
Reddon AR & Hurd PL. 2009. Sex differences in the cerebral lateralization of a cichlid fish when detouring to view emotionally conditioned stimuli. Behavioural Processes 82: 25-29. (doi:10.1016/j.beproc.2009.03.005)
Yan RH, Brunning M, Wahlsten D & Hurd PL. 2009. Digit ratio (2D:4D) differences between 20 strains of inbred mice. PLoS ONE. 4: e5801. (doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0005801
Reddon AR, Gutiérrez-Ibáñez C, Wylie DR & Hurd PL. 2009. The relationship between growth, brain asymmetry and behavioural lateralization in a cichlid fish. Behavioural Brain Research 201: 223-228. (doi:10.1016/j.bbr.2009.02.015)
Hamblin S & Hurd PL. 2009. When will evolution lead to deceptive signalling in the Sir Philip Sidney game? Theoretical Population Biology 75: 176-182. (doi:10.1016/j.tpb.2009.02.002)
Reddon AR & Hurd PL. 2009. Differences in aggressive behavior between convict cichlid color morphs: amelanistic convicts lose even with a size advantage. Acta Ethologica 12 49-53. (doi:10.1007/s10211-009-0054-9)
Moroschan G, Hurd PL, Nicoladis E, 2009. Sex differences in the use of indirect aggression in adult Canadians. Evolutionary Psychology. 7: 146-159. (PDF)
Reddon AR & Hurd PL. 2009. Individual differences in cerebral lateralization are associated with shy-bold variation in the convict cichlid. Animal Behaviour 77: 189-193. (doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2008.09.026)
Yan RHY, Malisch JL, Hannon RM, Hurd PL & Garland T Jr. 2008. Selective breeding for a behavioral trait changes digit ratio. PLoS ONE 3: e2316 (doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0003216)
Reddon AR & Hurd PL. 2008. Aggression, sex and individual differences in cerebral lateralization in a cichlid fish. Biology Letters 4: 338-340. (doi:10.1098/rsbl.2008.0206)
Hurd PL, Bailey AA, Gongal PA, Yan RH, Greer JJ & Pagliardini S. 2008. Intrauterine position effects on anogenital distance and digit ratio in male and female mice. Archives of Sexual Behavior 37: 9-18. (doi:10.1007/s10508-007-9259-z)
Hamblin S & Hurd PL. 2007. Genetic algorithms and non-ESS solutions to game theory models. Animal Behaviour 74: 1005-1018. (doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2007.01.013)
Brown AA, Spetch ML, & Hurd PL. 2007. Growing in circles:Rearing environment mediates spatial navigation in fish. Psychological Science 18: 569-573. (doi:10.1111/j.1467-9280.2007.01941.x)
Hurd PL & van Anders SM. 2007. Latitude, digit ratios, and Allen's and Bergmann's rules: A comment on Loehlin, McFadden, Medland, and Martin (2006). Archives of Sexual Behavior 36: 139-141. (doi:10.1007/s10508-006-9149-9)
Iwaniuk AN, Hurd PL & Wylie DRW. 2007. Comparative morphology of the avian cerebellum: II. Relative size of folia. Brain Behavior & Evolution 69: 196-219. (doi:10.1159/000096987)
Hurd PL. 2006. Resource holding potential, subjective resource value, and game theoretical models of aggressiveness signalling. Journal of Theoretical Biology 241: 639-648. (doi:10.1016/j.jtbi.2006.01.001)
Iwaniuk AN, Hurd PL & Wylie DRW. 2006. Comparative morphology of the avian cerebellum: I. Degree of foliation. Brain Behavior & Evolution 68: 45-62. (doi:10.1159/000093530)
Hurd PL. 2006. Debating sexual selection and mating strategies (letter) Science 312: 692-693.
Hurd PL, & Wahlsten D. 2006. No sex difference in mouse digit ratio: reply to Voracek (letter) Genes Brain and Behavior 5: 300--302.
Iwaniuk AN, Hurd PL & Wylie DRW. 2006. The comparative morphology of the cerebellum in caprimulgiform birds: evolutionary and functional implications. Brain Behavior & Evolution 67: 53-68. (doi:10.1159/000089120)
Hurd PL & Enquist M. 2005. A strategic taxonomy of biological communication. Animal Behaviour 70: 1155-1170 (doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2005.02.014)
Bailey AA & Hurd PL, 2005. Depression in men is associated with more feminine finger length ratios. Personality and Individual Differences 39: 829-836. (doi:10.1016/j.paid.2004.12.017)
Bailey AA, Wahlsten D & Hurd PL, 2005. Digit ratio (2D:4D) and behavioral differences between inbred mouse strains. Genes, Brain & Behavior 4: 318-323. (doi:10.1111/j.1601-183X.2004.00110.x)
Pakan JMP, Todd KG, Nguyen AP, Winship IR, Hurd PL, Jantzie L & Wylie DRW, 2005. Inferior olivary neurons innervate multiple zones of the flocculus in pigeons (Columba livia). Journal of Comparative Neurology 486: 159-168. (doi:10.1002/cne.20523)
Iwaniuk AN & Hurd PL, 2005. The evolution of cerebrotypes in birds. Brain Behavior & Evolution 65: 215-230. (doi:10.1159/000084313)
Winship IR, Hurd PL, & Wylie DRW, 2005. Spatiotemporal tuning of optic flow inputs to the vestibulocerebellum in pigeons: Differences between mossy and climbing fiber pathways. Journal of Neurophysiology 93: 1266-1277. (doi:10.1152/jn.00815.2004)
Bailey AA & Hurd PL, 2005. Finger length ratio predicts physical aggression in men but not women. Biological Psychology 68: 215-222. (doi:10.1016/j.biopsycho.2004.05.001)
Hurd PL, 2004. Conventional displays: evidence for socially mediated costs of threat displays in a lizard. Aggressive Behavior 30: 326-341. (doi:10.1002/ab.20020)
Nguyen AP, Spetch ML, Crowder NA, Winship IR, Hurd PL & Wylie DRW. 2004. A dissociation of motion and spatial-pattern vision in the avian telencephalon: implications for the evolution of "visual streams". Journal of Neuroscience 24: 4962-4970. (doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0146-04.2004)
Ryan MR, Rand W, Hurd PL, Phelps SM & Rand AS, 2003. Generalization in response to allopatric mate recognition signals.American Naturalist 161: 380-394. (doi:10.1086/367588)
Hurd PL & Enquist M, 2001. Threat display in birds. Canadian Journal of Zoology 79: 931-942. (doi:10.1139/cjz-79-6-931)
Enquist M, Ghirlanda S, and Hurd, PL. 1998. Discrete conventional signalling of continuously varying resource value. Animal Behaviour 56: 749--753. (doi:10.1006/anbe.1998.0820)
Hurd PL & Enquist M. 1998. Conventional signalling in aggressive interactions: the importance of temporal structure. Journal of Theoretical Biology 192: 197-211. (doi:10.1006/jtbi.1997.0611)
Ydenberg RC & Hurd P. 1998. Simple models of feeding with time and energy constraints. Behavioral Ecology 9: 49-53. (doi:10.1093/beheco/9.1.49)
Hurd PL, 1997. Game theoretical perspectives on conflict and biological communication. Ph.D. dissertation, Stockholm University. ISBN 91-87272-54-7.
Hurd PL, 1997. Cooperative signalling between opponents in fish fights. Animal Behaviour 54: 1309-1315. (PDF)
Hurd PL, 1997. Is signalling of fighting ability costlier for weaker individuals? Journal of Theoretical Biology 184: 83-88. (PDF)
Hurd PL & Ydenberg RC, 1996. Calculating the ESS level of information transfer in aggressive communication. Evolutionary Ecology 10: 221-232. (PDF)
Hurd PL, Wachtmeister C-A & Enquist M, 1995. Darwin's principle of antithesis revisited: a role for perceptual biases in the evolution of intraspecific signals. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B259: 201-205. (PDF)
Hurd PL, 1995. Communication in discrete action-response games. Journal of Theoretical Biology 174: 217-222. (PDF)
Hurd PL, 1994. Night use by ducklings of active American Coot, Fulica americana, nests. Canadian Field Naturalist 107: 364. (PDF)
Hurd PL, 1993. Evolutionary analysis of fighting in the American Coot (Fulica americana). M.Sc. thesis, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby.
Hurd PL, 1992. American Coot kills Yellow-headed Blackbird nestlings. Wilson Bulletin104: 552--553. (PDF)
Hurd PL, Weatherhead PJ & McRae SB, 1991. Parental consumption of nestling feces: good food or sound economics? Behavioral Ecology 2: 69-76. (PDF)
Hurd PL, 1990. Why parent birds ingest nestling feces: some possible non-dietary causes. B.Sc. thesis, Carleton University, Ottawa.

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