Leslie Phillmore
Professor
Email: Leslie.Phillmore@dal.ca
Phone: (902) 494-2794
Fax: (902) 494-6585
Mailing Address:
- Learning
- Memory
- Songbirds
- Perception
- Neurogenesis
- Neuroplasticity
- Seasonality
Education
PDF (University of Western Ontario)
MA/PhD (Queens University)
BA (Huron College, University of Western Ontario)
Research Interests
Songbirds have considerable 鈥渘eural real estate鈥� dedicated to the complex behaviours of song learning, perception, and production. We study perception and immediate-early gene response in perceptual regions, environmental factors that affect neurogenesis, and how stress affects song learning and brain development in male and female zebra finches.
Selected Publications
鈥� Phillmore LS, Klein RM. (2019). The聽puzzle of spontaneous alternation and inhibition of return: How they might fit聽together. Hippocampus, 29, 762-770.
鈥� Roach SP, Mennill DJ, Phillmore LS.聽(2017). Operant discrimination of relative frequency ratios in black-capped chickadee聽song. Animal Cognition. 20(5): 961-973.
鈥hillmore聽LS,聽Fisk J, Falk S, Tsang CD. (2017).聽Songbirds as objective listeners: Zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata) can discriminate infant-directed song and聽speech in two languages.聽International Journal of Comparative Psychology聽Special Issue. 30
鈥� Phillmore LS,聽MacGillivray聽HL, Wilson KR, Martin, S.聽(2015). Effects of sex and seasonality on the聽song control system and FoxP2 protein expression in black-capped chickadees (Poecile聽atricapillus).聽Dev Neurobiol,聽75, 203-216.
鈥hillmore LS, Veysey AS, Roach SP. (2011). Zenk expression in auditory region changes with breeding condition in male Black-capped chickadees (Poecile atricapillus). Behav Brain Res, 225, 464-472. [0]
鈥hillmore LS. (2008). Discrimination: from behaviour to brain. Behav Process, 77, 285-297. [3]
Awards and Honours
Professor of the Year in Neuroscience (awarded by the Undergraduate Neuroscience Society)