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Journal Articles (Psychology)
Items in this Collection
- 4Scully, Erin N.
- 3Campbell, Kimberley A.
- 3Hahn, Allison H.
- 3Sturdy, Christopher B.
- 2Congdon, Jenna V.
- 2McMillan, Neil
- 2operant conditioning
- 1Anticipation
- 1Behavioral flexibility
- 1Chickadees
- 1Interval timing
- 1Reversal learning
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2020-02-27
Congdon, Jenna V., Hahn, Allison H., Campbell, Kimberley A., Scully, Erin N., Yip, Daniel A., Bayne, Erin M., Sturdy, Christopher B.
Smaller owls and hawks are high-threat predators to small songbirds, like chickadees, in comparison to larger avian predators due to smaller raptors’ agility (Templeton et al. in Proc Natl Acad Sci 104:5479–5482, 2005). The current literature focuses only on high- and low-threat predators. We...
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Black-capped Chickadees (Poecile atricapillus) can identify individual females by their fee-bee songs
Download2020-07-01
Montenegro, Carolina, Service, William D., Scully, Erin N., Campbell, Kimberley A., Sturdy, Christopher B
Individual recognition is a social behavior that occurs in many bird species. A bird’s ability to discriminate among familiar and unfamiliar conspecifics is critical to avoid wasting resources such as time and energy during social interactions. Black-capped Chickadees (Poecile atricapillus) are...
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2017-04-05
McMillan, Neil, Hahn, Allison H., Congdon, Jenna V., Campbell, Kimberley A., Hoang, J., Scully, Erin N., Spetch, Marcia L., Sturdy, Christopher B.
Chickadees are high-metabolism, non-migratory birds, and thus an especially interesting model for studying how animals follow patterns of food availability over time. Here, we studied whether black-capped chickadees (Poecile atricapillus) could learn to reverse their behavior and/or to anticipate...
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ZENK expression following conspecific and heterospecific playback in the zebra finch auditory forebrain
Download2017-01-01
Scully, Erin N., Campbell, Kimberly A., Congdon, Jenna V, Sturdy, Christopher B., Hahn, Allison H., McMillan, Neil
Zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata) are sexually dimorphic songbirds, not only in appearance but also in vocal production: while males produce both calls and songs, females only produce calls. This dimorphism provides a means to contrast the auditory perception of vocalizations produced by...