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Ron Weisman
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Professor Emeritus
B.A., Michigan State University, 1960
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E: ronald.weisman(a)queensu.ca
406 Craine
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Research Interests
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| Birdsong is one of just six instances (experiments by evolution) in learned vocalization (human speech is another of this tiny list of natural experiments). I am an emeritus professor and no longer maintain an independent laboratory. However, I continue to collaborate with colleagues at Queen's and elsewhere in all manner of research about the evolution of auditory perception and its neural substrate. Three persistent themes in my work are the evolution of absolute pitch, relative pitch, and categorization of conspecifics communication. |
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Publications
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| All Time Favourite: Weisman, R.G. (2008. Advice to young behavioral and cognitive scientists. Behavioural Processes, 77, 142-148 Recent Publications: Weisman, R. G., Hoeschele, M., Mewhort, D., & Sturdy, C. B. (in press). New Perpectives on Absolute Pitch in Birds and Mammals. In T. Zentall & E. Wasserman (Eds.), Handbook of Comparative Cognition. Oxford University Press, to be published in 2010. Spetch, M.L. & Weisman, R.G. (in press). Birds' Perception of Depth and Objects in Pictures. In O. Lazareva, T. Shimizu, & E. Wasserman (Eds). How Animals See the World: Behavior, Biology, and Evolution of Vision, Oxford University Press, to be published in 2010. Weisman, R. G. (2010). The Commentaries: Some are Visual Illusions. Comparative Cognition & Behavior Reviews, 5, 155-162. Retrieved from http://psyc.queensu.ca/ccbr/index.html. doi:10.3819/ccbr.2010.50012 Weisman, R. G., Spetch, M. L. (2010). Determining When Birds Perceive Correspondence Between Pictures and Objects: A Critique. Comparative Cognition & Behavior Reviews, 5, 117-131. Retrieved from http://psyc.queensu.ca/ccbr/index.html doi:10.3819/ccbr.2010.50006 Weisman, R. G., Balkwill, L. L., Hoeschele, M., Moscicki, M. K., Bloomfield, L. L., & Sturdy, C. B. (2010). Absolute pitch in boreal chickadees and humans: exceptions that test a phylogenetic rule. Learning and Motivation, doi:10.1016/j.lmot.2010.04.002 Weisman, R. G., Hoeschele, M. Bloomfield, L. L., Mewhort, D., Sturdy, C. B. (2010). Using network models of absolute pitch to compare frequency-range discriminations across avian species. Behavioural Processes, 84, 421-327 |