Journal Articles (Psychology)

2017-07-24

Weimin Mou, Peter Dixon, Lin Wang

Two experiments investigated how people use buildings and street configurations to reorient in large-scale environments. In immersive virtual environments, participants learned objects’ locations in an intersection consisting of four streets. The objects’ locations were specified by two cues: a...

2022-01-01

xuehui lei, weimin mou

2019-03-20

Xuehui Lei, Weimin Mou, Lei Zhang

This study investigated the extent to which people can develop a global representation of local environments through across-boundary navigation. Participants learned objects’ locations in two misaligned rectangular rooms in an immersive virtual environment. After learning, they adopted a local...

2020-01-01

Scully, E.N., Montenegro, C., & Sturdy, C.B.

In both humans and animals, biological differences between males and females has long been a topic of research. In songbirds, sexual dimorphisms can be seen in many species’ plumage and heard in some species’ songs. However, not all songbirds have such overt phenotypic sexual differences, leading...

2024-01-01

Yue Chen, Weimin Mou

Two previous studies indicated that removing expected landmarks disrupts homing, a new phenomenon concerning the interplay between path integration and landmark-based navigation. This study systematically investigated when this disruption occurs, which spatial representations are disrupted, and...

2022-01-01

Prateek K. Sahu, Carolina Montenegro, Connor T. Lambert, Alexandra Oprea, Moriah Deimeke, Victoria Rennie, Sarah Smeltz, Thomas J. Benowicz, Divya Patel, Leslie S. Phillmore, Christopher B. Sturdy

Refining and modifying experimental procedures play a vital role in improving methodology while also reducing animal distress. In this study, we asked if an increase in feed time duration affects discrimination in an operant go/no-go task. Specifically, we used zebra finches’ sexually dimorphic...

2019-01-01

Lin Wang, Weimin Mou

Three experiments investigated how the room size affects preferential use of geometric and non-geometric cues during reorientation inside a room. We hypothesized that room size may affect preferential use of geometric and non-geometric cues by affecting the encoding of the cues (the encoding...

2019-01-01

Campbell, K. A., Thunberg, S., & Sturdy, C. B.

Of the 10 000 or so known avian species, nearly half belong to the clade Passeri[1]. Also called Oscines, or songbirds, birds in this group are unique in that they possess a morphologically complex vocal organ, the syrinx, which facilitates the production of complex and diverse vocalizations,...

2019-05-16

Jenna V. Congdon, Allison H. Hahn, Piera Filippi, Kimberley A. Campbell, John Hoang, Erin N. Scully, Daniel L. Bowling, Stephan A. Reber, Christopher B. Sturdy

Recently, evidence for acoustic universals in vocal communication was found by demonstrating that humans can identify levels of arousal in vocalizations produced by species across three biological classes (Filippi et al., 2017). Here, we extend this work by testing whether two vocal learning...

2021-01-01

Andrés Camacho-Alpízar, Tristan Eckersley, Connor T. Lambert, Gopika B. Balasubramanian, Lauren M. Guillette

Observational studies in the wild suggest that birds select material to build their nests based on functional aspects of material that promote reproductive success. How birds select material for nest building from the variety of materials available in their environment is unclear. In the current...