Both Bella and Caleb have received an OUR Independent Creative Research by Undergraduates (ICRU) Fellowship for Summer 2026. Bella will be working in the project "Facilitation and interference in pigeons’ learning of sequential tasks" and Caleb will be working in the project "The influence of time between action and outcome in pigeons' sense of agency."

Ed, in collaboration with Onur Güntürkün and Brandon Turner, has published a Neuroscience Insights article where they show that recent behavioral, computational, and neuroscientific investigations reveal compelling reasons for a pigeon model to gain prominence in contemporary neuroscientific research.

Ed and Leyre participated in the Brains, Birds, Ideas workshop at the Ruhr University Bochum, in Germany

Wasserman, E. A., Kain, A. G., & O’Donoghue, E. M. (2023, March issue). Resolving the associative learning paradox by category learning in pigeons. Current Biology. Learn more about it in our special section (see right). Do not miss the video!

She is now the most recent PhD from our lab.

Elizabeth Brannon, from the University of Pennsylvania, visited us on December 2nd and gave a colloquium titled Recent Investigations Characterizing the Development and Evolution of the Approximate Number System.

Ed Yong's new book, An Immense World, encourages readers to break outside their “sensory bubble” to consider the unique ways that dogs, dolphins, mice and other animals experience their surroundings.