This month’s featured researcher is Luke Remage-Healey, who is a Professor in Psychological and Brain Sciences. His lab studies the behavior and neurophysiology underlying song learning in zebra finches. They recently published two papers. One in the journal Animal Behaviour, showed that viewing unfamiliar individuals of their own species, was a strong motivating stimulus for zebra finches. The other paper, which appeared in the journal eNeuro, showed the effects of intrinsic estrogrens on neurons in the bird’s brain that changed how the song was encoded.
Here’s what else is new for ‘ ”University of Massachusetts” AND Amherst AND neuroscience’ in PubMed. These publications appeared online in March. They are just a fraction of the neuroscience research that occurs on campus. You can click on the PubMed ID to find the publication.
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