prospective students.
There are opportunities in the lab for undergraduates conducting a research thesis or as research assistants. We have zebrafish in the lab at the moment but studying other species of (small) freshwater fish is possible. We also have quail, garter snakes, and pythons. I am particularly interested in collective behavior but would be willing to supervise any reasonable project on animal cognition. Projects studying how social learning operates using fish or birds are also interesting to me. I am also happy to supervise theoretical (simulation) projects on various aspects of collective behavior (foraging, learning, evolution of group behavior). Please contact me to discuss if you are interested in joining the lab.
I am not currently accepting any new graduate students.
I am not currently accepting any new graduate students.
Teaching.
This year (2019/20) I am teaching "Biopsychology" (PS263) and "Introduction to Learning" (PS261) in both the Fall and Winter terms.
links.
Wilfrid Laurier University home page
WLU Psychology home page
The Comparative Cognition Society
>3s. (Noam's blog about fish cognition)
WLU Psychology home page
The Comparative Cognition Society
>3s. (Noam's blog about fish cognition)
Media.
July 2015. Noam dicusses the lab's research on Dave Brodbeck's "Spit and Twitches: The Animal Cognition Podcast". Here (Episode 4).
November 2015. An article in ALN (now called Laboratory Equipment) about zebrafish welfare with a (short) contribution by Noam [here] and a mini-profile [here].
July 2016. Our Banting Research Foundation Discovery Award is explained here.
August 2016. An article on the Laurier website highlighting our research [here].
February 2017. Video of a public lecture featuring recent Banting Discovery Award winners, including Noam, is here (Noam's talk starts at 41:47).
March 2019. Noam was part of a panel on TVO's "The Agenda", in an episode on "What animals think and feel". Watch it here.
October 2019. Noam's upcoming public lecture in Waterloo, as part of the RCIScience series, is advertised here.
November 2015. An article in ALN (now called Laboratory Equipment) about zebrafish welfare with a (short) contribution by Noam [here] and a mini-profile [here].
July 2016. Our Banting Research Foundation Discovery Award is explained here.
August 2016. An article on the Laurier website highlighting our research [here].
February 2017. Video of a public lecture featuring recent Banting Discovery Award winners, including Noam, is here (Noam's talk starts at 41:47).
March 2019. Noam was part of a panel on TVO's "The Agenda", in an episode on "What animals think and feel". Watch it here.
October 2019. Noam's upcoming public lecture in Waterloo, as part of the RCIScience series, is advertised here.
CODE.
A lot of our research involves the automated measurement of animal behavior. The more automated the better. To do this, we use a variety of programs that track animals in videos, control operant boxes and tanks, or clean up and analyze data. Some of the programs we use are available online. Many of them are written in-house and, since they might be useful to other people, we've collected them here for download, with brief explanations.
Download page.
Download page.