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Faculty associated with: Sunayana Banerjee Keywords: Bird Song (2), Development (21), Finch (4), Immediate early genes (5), Neuroendocrinology (7), Neuroethology (24), Social behavior (12), Stress (8) I am interested in neuroendocrine mechanisms of social behavior and social relationships in birds. The research seeks to answer questions such as, how are sex differences in brain and behavior produced in development? What are the mechanisms responsible for mate choice? For the formation and maintenance of long-term pair relationships in socially monogamous birds? |
Faculty Keywords: Cognitive Neuroscience (17), Development (21), Neuroethology (24), Neurogenesis (7), Systems Neuroscience (25), Vision (11) The relationship of development and evolution in understanding brain structure. |
Faculty associated with: Christiane Linster, Ann Marie McNamara Keywords: Behavioral genetics (7), Behavioral Neuroscience (9), Cognitive Neuroscience (17), Computational Neuroscience (13), Learning and Memory (13), Mathematical Modeling (14), Mouse (11), Neuromodulation (12), Neurophysiology (5), Olfaction (11), Systems Neuroscience (25) My research concerns how complex cognitive and perceptual phenomena can arise from, and be regulated by, cellular and neural circuit properties. Primarily using the sense of smell (olfaction), my students, colleagues, and I ask how learning, memory, expectation, and like processes shape the transformations performed on sensory inputs by relatively peripheral (i.e., experimentally accessible) cortical circuitry, and how these different transformations in turn influence behavior and subsequent learning. We triangulate on these questions using a range of techniques including electrophysiology, pharmacology, behavior and behavior genetics, and biophysically constrained computational modeling. |
Graduate Student associated with: Elise Temple Keywords: Cognitive Neuroscience (17), Development (21), Imaging (8), Social behavior (12), Systems Neuroscience (25) I am currently investigating the neurological correlates of different attention networks and how those relate to the cognitive, behavioral and social deficits persistent in Autistic Spectrum Disorders. I am interested in both structure and pathway differences between autistic and non-clinical individuals as well as typical and pathological neural development. |
Faculty Keywords: Artificial Intelligence (3), Computational Neuroscience (13), Language (5), Mathematical Modeling (14), Systems Neuroscience (25), Vision (11) See my home page. |
Faculty associated with: Bernard A Tarr Keywords: Bird Song (2), Cognitive Neuroscience (17), Development (21), Finch (4), Hippocampus (11), Immediate early genes (5), Learning and Memory (13), Neuroethology (24), Vocal Motor Systems (3) I'm interested in neurobiology of learning and memory. My lab studies this using song learning in songbirds, and spatial learning in food-caching birds. Recent findings include the following: 1) Female zebra finches require experience with song during development in order to select normal over poor (isolate) conspecific song. Such birds also have fewer synapses in a an auditory perceptual brain area (Lauay et al., 2004,2005) 2) Species with elaborate song repertoires have larger song production brain areas than those with smaller repertoires (Moore et al., in prep.) 3)Chickadees injected in the hippocampus with an NMDA blocker do not form a long term memory of a food site. A CB-1 blocker causes improved memory for one site--but with reduced ability to modify the memory (Shiflett et al., 2003,2004) 4) Simply housing a chickadee in the lab results in hippocampal shrinkage and reduced survival of new neurons over birds in the wild (Tarr et al., in prep). Also visit my 7 Research/Photo Gallery entries |
Faculty Keywords: Birds (4), Development (21), Fish (12), Imaging (8), Mathematical Modeling (14), Sensorimotor Systems (11), Systems Neuroscience (25), Vision (11) I conduct research into the physiological optics of human and animal eyes. Past projects have concerned a longitudinal study of anisometropia and anisometropic amblyopia in humans, emmetropization of the chick eye to spectacles, the chick eye's response to light regimes, and aberrations of human eyes. Earlier I worked on the role of the otolithic organs and semicircular canals in the orientation of fish. I have also conducted on the allometry (scaling with body size) of eyes and inner ears. |
Faculty associated with: Thomas A. Cleland, Ann Marie McNamara Keywords: Computational Neuroscience (13), Learning and Memory (13), Neuromodulation (12), Olfaction (11), Systems Neuroscience (25) I am interested the neurobiology of learning and memory and I use the sense of smell in rats, mice and honeybees as a model system. My lab uses computational, electrophysiological, pharmacological and behavioral tools to ask questions about odor processing, plasticity, neuromodulation and learning and memory. |
Faculty associated with: Bruce P. Halpern Keywords: Aging (6), Olfaction (11) My research is primarily in sensory systems, studying chemosensory functions and behaviors. MY LABORATORY'S FOCUS IS SMELL IN HUMANS. This research is designed to increase knowledge and understanding of retronasal smelling (smelling odorants that are located in the oral cavity) in relation to orthonasal smelling (smelling odorants that are located near the anterior nares [nostrils], typically outside the organism). The term "smelling" is used rather than "olfaction" because odorants can potentially access both the trigeminally-innervated nasal and oral mucosa and the olfactory mucosa of the nasal cavity during normal retronasal or orthonasal presentation of odorants. Subjects are asked to describe the odorants, match them for intensity, indicate their intensity, or distinguish between odorants and their solvents. These descriptions, intensity reports and discriminations are made either once for each odorant presentation or repeatedly during and after an odorant presentation (time-intensity or time-quality measures). Digital computers are used to provide instructions and acquire responses. I'm also interested in AGING AND CHEMOSENSORY PERCEPTION. Human ability to detect or identify odorants often declines with age, but the rate of decline differs between odorants. These differential declines, coupled with lesser changes in tasting ability, can have profound effects on appreciation of flavor, enjoyment of food, quality of life, and, for odorants per se, responses to warning odorants. |
Graduate Student associated with: Elizabeth Adkins-Regan Keywords: Birds (4), Cell and Molecular Neuroscience (23), Finch (4), Immediate early genes (5), Neuroendocrinology (7), Neuroethology (24), Neurogenesis (7), Social behavior (12), Steroid hormones (2), Stress (8) My interests lie in understanding the neurobiology of affiliative behaviors such as pair bonding and parental care using the socially monogamous and biparental zebra finch as a model system. |
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