Faculty Directory: Behavior & Evolutionary Neuroscience
Interests:- Active sensation and the construction of sensory representations
- Olfactory processing, generalization and perception, learning and memory
Interests:- Neural basis of female bird song discrimination
- Interplay between the hippocampus and other brain areas in spatial memory
- Behavior and brain evolution
Interests:- Theories and models of sensory coding and visual processing
- Visual perception
- Relations between the structure of the natural environment andthe representation of that environment by sensory systems
Interests:- Structure and function of the vertebrate nervous system, particularly the visual system and the cerebral cortex
Interests:- Social learning, with a focus on the development of speech and language
- Prelinguistic vocal development
- Early word learning
- Psychobiology of parental behavior
- Comparative approaches to the development and evolution of communication
Interests:- Human olfaction
- Human retronasal olfaction
Interests:- Photorefractive methods of determining focusing ability of infants and young children
- High-order aberrations of the eye
- Physiological optics in various species
Interests:- Animal behavior and mechanisms of social behavior
- Olfactory communication, especially in mammals
- Social recognition and memory
- Sense of smell and the neural and hormonal mechanisms of behavior
Interests:- Improvements in sensory test methods applied to food analysis
- Effects of stimulus context on psychophysical judgments
- Studies of taste, smell and oral tactile perception
Interests:- Effects of nutrition on behavior
- Control of food intake and body weight
- Obesity
- Nutrition and health
Interests:- Neural basis of sensory information processing
Interests:- Sexual differentiation of behavior
- Mate choice and social relationships in pair-bonding birds
Interests:- Risk and rationality
- False memory
Interests:- Neural mediation of learning and memory
- Spatial navigation
- Instrumental learning
- Attention
Interests:- Determining the nature and underlying neural basis of developmental cognitive disorders
- Prenatal cocaine exposure
- Early lead exposure
- Transgenic models of developmental disorders
