Patrice
Adret
 
   
 

Research (past and *present)

Acknowledgements

Contact
Ph: (773) 702.8090
Fax: (773) 702.0037
padret@uchicago.edu


Education
Professional Experience
  • MUSEUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE (France)
    1982-1984 Action Concertée de Recherche sur les Marais
    de l'Ouest (research contract)
  • UNIVERSITY OF ST-ANDREWS (U.K.)
    1989-1992 Post-doctoral Fellow
    1993-1995 Research Assistant
  • THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO (USA)
    1996-1999 Research Associate
    2000-Present Research Associate (Assistant-Professor)

Research Interests

Developmental processes in brain and behavior with a special emphasis on avian vocalizations. Birdsong learning and memory.

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Selected Publications

Adret P. (in press) The template concept - crafting a song replica from memory. To appear in: The Neuroscience of Birdsong (H.P. Zeigler, P. Marler Eds) Cambridge University Press

Adret P. (2004) In search of the song template. in: Behavioral Neurobiology of Birdsong (H.P. Zeigler, P. Marler Eds) Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1016: 303-324

Adret P., Margoliash D. (2002): Metabolic and neural activity in the song system nucleus robustus archistriatalis: Effect of age and gender. Journal of Comparative Neurology, 454: 409-423

Adret P. (1997) Discrimination of video-images by zebra finches: Direct evidence from song performance. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 111: 115-125

Adret P. (1993) Operant conditioning, song learning and imprinting to taped song in the zebra finch. Animal Behaviour, 45: 149-159

Adret P. & Rogers L.J. (1989) Sex difference in the visual projections of young chicks: a quantitative study of the thalamofugal pathway. Brain Research, 478: 59-73

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