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The Neural Encoding of Heterospecific Vocalizations in the Avian Pallium: An Ethological Approach
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Songbirds (order Passeriformes, suborder Oscines) have captured the attention of scientists and non-scientists alike with their vocal signals. The black-capped chickadee (genus Poecile) uses its namesake call, chick-a-dee, to convey a variety of information. In Chapter 2 and 3, I examine the...
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The Role of Attention and Perception in the Control of Visually Guided and Memory-Guided Actions
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I investigated the attentional and perceptional mechanisms involved in the control of visually guided and memory-guided actions in two experiments using event-related potentials (ERPS). In the first dual task experiment, participants performed reciprocal aiming in visually guided and...
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Fall 2018
Surprisingly, pigeons have been shown to sacrifice food rewards to get information about the upcoming outcome when making choices in a delay decision task. For instance, when choosing between an option which offers a reward 100% of the time after a delay (e.g. 10 s), versus an option that gives...
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Fall 2011
Unlike secondary world fantasy, such as that of J.R.R. Tolkien, what I call syncretic fantasy is typically set in a world that overlaps significantly with the contemporary "real" or cognitive majoritarian world in which we (i.e. most North Americans) profess to live our lives. In terms of popular...
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2019-09-25
Gregory P. Thomas, Debbie Feisst, Virginia Pow
This is a PDF of a Student Reflection Guide that accompanies the podcasts "Developing Graduate Students’ Metacognition Regarding the Use of Citations: Scholarly Podcast" found at https://era-av.library.ualberta.ca/media_objects/4x51hj87d Teachers and students might find it useful as a tool for...