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The Gall Lab has just published a paper entitled “Frequency sensitivity in the auditory periphery of male and female black-capped chickadees (Poecile atricapillus)”. The first author is one of the first student members of the Gall Lab, Arick Wong. In … Continue reading
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On May 9th, Dr. Mary Ann Cunningham (from the Earth Science Department) and I headed out to the Vassar Farm and Ecological Preserve to participate in the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Global Big Day (read more about that here). We … Continue reading
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Congratulations to Jacob Damsky for presenting his thesis on the effects of anthropogenic noise on mobbing behavior in the tufted titmouse. Jacob was joined by 19 other Vassar Biology Seniors in presenting a wide array of interesting research! Best of … Continue reading
The Gall Lab, in collaboration with Walt Wilczynski at Georgia State University has just published a paper entitled “Hearing conspecific vocal signals alters peripheral auditory sensitivity”. But, what does that mean? Well, many animals (including humans) are exposed to the … Continue reading
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The Gall Lab, in association with Dr. Alejandro Velez (currently at Washington University) and Dr. Jeffrey Lucas (Purdue University), has published a new article in the journal Animal Behaviour. In the article we investigate how the ability to process frequency … Continue reading
Our new paper on the on how song frequency, song structure and habitat affect auditory frequency sensitivity in nine species of new world sparrows is out in Functional Ecology. We had predicted that song frequency and habitat would be the … Continue reading
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The school year is approaching and I’m back at Vassar (my office will be temporarily moved for the fall 2014 semester, so you can find me in Blodgett 234). This summer I was down in Atlanta, working out of my … Continue reading
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The Gall lab headed to the 2014 Animal Behavior Society Conference at Princeton University this past week. It was a great chance to talk about science, connect with old friends, and learn about where the field is going! At the conference … Continue reading
Our new paper on the influence of social experience on auditory midbrain responses to conspecific calls is out in the Journal of Experimental Biology. Our paper was selected as a feature article (and was the subject of a cool cartoon). … Continue reading
Our research on songbird audition and bioacoustics was featured in the Vassar Miscellany News. Check it out! http://miscellanynews.org/2014/04/16/features/bio-prof-has-birds-eye-view/
