List of works - Susan D. Healy

A critique of comparative studies of brain size

scientific article

A non‐destructive approach to collect nest material data using photographs

scientific article

A range of areas in animal cognition. Susan Healy

scientific article published in November 2011

A role for nonapeptides and dopamine in nest-building behaviour.

scientific article

Adjusting foraging strategies: a comparison of rural and urban common mynas (Acridotheres tristis).

scientific article

Animal Cognition: The Trade-off to Being Smart ⬇️

scientific article published on October 9, 2012

Animal cognition

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

Animal cognition in the wild

scientific article published on 01 November 2014

Animal learning and memory: an integration of cognition and ecology.

scientific article

Assessment of health in human faces is context-dependent

scientific article published on 08 February 2016

Both the past and the present affect risk-sensitive decisions of foraging rufous hummingbirds

scientific article published in 2010

Cognition and personality: an analysis of an emerging field.

scientific article

Cognitive Ecology: Foraging in Hummingbirds as a Model System

Cognitive ecology: a field of substance?

scientific article published in January 2000

Colour cues facilitate learning flower refill schedules in wild hummingbirds

scientific article published on 16 September 2014

Colour preferences in nest-building zebra finches

scientific article published on 13 July 2013

Comparative evaluation and its implications for mate choice

scientific article published on 08 September 2005

Context-dependent decisions among options varying in a single dimension

scientific article published on 22 September 2011

Context-dependent foraging decisions in rufous hummingbirds.

scientific article published in June 2003

Cue learning by rufous hummingbirds (Selasphorus rufus).

scientific article published in April 2002

Dairy cow feeding space requirements assessed in a Y-maze choice test.

scientific article published in July 2012

Development of hippocampal specialisation in a food-storing bird

scientific article published in February 1993

Development of hippocampal specialisation in two species of tit (Parus spp.).

scientific article

Differences in cue use and spatial memory in men and women

scientific article published in September 2006

Do rufous hummingbirds (Selasphorus rufus) use visual beacons?

scientific article

Early-life adversity programs long-term cytokine and microglia expression within the HPA axis in female Japanese quail

scientific article published on 21 March 2019

Ecology and allometry predict the evolution of avian developmental durations

scientific article published on 14 May 2020

Effects of landmark distance and stability on accuracy of reward relocation.

scientific article

Emotionality in growing pigs: is the open field a valid test?

scientific article published on 2 June 2011

Food preference and copying behaviour in zebra finches, Taeniopygia guttata

scientific article published on 2 May 2014

From a sequential pattern, temporal adjustments emerge in hummingbird traplining

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

From neurons to nests: nest-building behaviour as a model in behavioural and comparative neuroscience

scientific article

Hummingbirds

scientific article

Image analysis of weaverbird nests reveals signature weave textures

scientific article

Imprinting: seeing food and eating it.

scientific article published in July 2006

Individual differences in decision making by foraging hummingbirds

scientific article published on 30 August 2014

Individuality in nest building: do southern masked weaver (Ploceus velatus) males vary in their nest-building behaviour?

scientific article

Influence of sex steroid hormones on spatial memory in a songbird

scientific article

Is Bigger Always Better?

scientific article published in Science

It’s not all about temperature: breeding success also affects nest design

scientific article

Juvenile socio-ecological environment shapes material technology in nest-building birds

scientific article

Mechanisms of copying behaviour in zebra finches

scientific article

Nest building by birds

scientific article published in April 2008

Nest building, the forgotten behaviour

scientific article

Neural circuits underlying nest building in male zebra finches

scientific article published on 18 July 2020

Neural correlates of nesting behavior in zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata)

scientific article (publication date: May 2014)

Not by transmission alone: the role of invention in cultural evolution

scientific article

Numerical ordinality in a wild nectarivore

scientific article published on 08 July 2020

Object manipulation without hands

scientific article

One-trial spatial learning: wild hummingbirds relocate a reward after a single visit

scientific article published on 21 April 2012

Physical cognition: birds learn the structural efficacy of nest material.

scientific article published on 16 April 2014

Preference for spatial cues in a non-storing songbird species

scientific article published on 21 December 2004

Relations between song repertoire size and the volume of brain nuclei related to song: comparative evolutionary analyses amongst oscine birds

scientific article published in November 1993

Repeatability of nest morphology in African weaver birds

scientific article

Restoring depleted coral-reef fish populations through recruitment enhancement: a proof of concept

scientific article published on 01 November 2009

Sex differences in performance on a cognitive bias task in Norway rats.

scientific article published on 8 November 2016

Sex differences in spatial cognition are not caused by isolation housing

Social learning about construction behaviour via an artefact

scientific article published on 14 February 2019

Social learning in nest-building birds watching live-streaming video demonstrators

scientific article published on 13 February 2018

Social learning in nest-building birds: a role for familiarity

scientific article

Spatial ability is impaired and hippocampal mineralocorticoid receptor mRNA expression reduced in zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata) selected for acute high corticosterone response to stress

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Spatial accuracy in food-storing and nonstoring birds

scientific article published in October 1999

Spatial learning and memory in birds.

scientific article published on January 2004

Spatial relational learning in rufous hummingbirds (Selasphorus rufus)

scientific article published on 26 April 2006

The evolution of cerebellum structure correlates with nest complexity

scientific article published on 4 December 2013

The evolution of sex differences in spatial ability.

scientific article

The hippocampus, spatial memory and food hoarding: a puzzle revisited

scientific article

The mimetic repertoire of the spotted bowerbird Ptilonorhynchus maculatus ⬇️

scientific article published on April 15, 2011

The rationality of decisions depends on behavioural context

scientific article published on 05 December 2020

The roles of vocal and visual interactions in social learning zebra finches: A video playback experiment

scientific article

Three-dimensional space: locomotory style explains memory differences in rats and hummingbirds.

scientific article published on 16 April 2014

Timing in free-living rufous hummingbirds, Selasphorus rufus.

scientific article

Vocal mimicry

scientific article published in January 2011

Vocal mimicry in male bowerbirds: who learns from whom?

scientific article

What, where and when: deconstructing memory

scientific article published on 09 October 2013

Why study cognition in the wild (and how to test it)?

scientific article

Wild hummingbirds can use the geometry of a flower array

scientific article

Wild hummingbirds rely on landmarks not geometry when learning an array of flowers

scientific article

Wild rufous hummingbirds use local landmarks to return to rewarded locations.

scientific article published on 6 November 2015

Wild, free-living rufous hummingbirds do not use geometric cues in a spatial task.

scientific article

List of works by Susan D. Healy

A critique of comparative studies of brain size

A non‐destructive approach to collect nest material data using photographs

A range of areas in animal cognition. Susan Healy

A role for nonapeptides and dopamine in nest-building behaviour.

Adjusting foraging strategies: a comparison of rural and urban common mynas (Acridotheres tristis).

Animal Cognition: The Trade-off to Being Smart ⬇️

Animal cognition

Animal cognition in the wild

Animal learning and memory: an integration of cognition and ecology.

Assessment of health in human faces is context-dependent

Both the past and the present affect risk-sensitive decisions of foraging rufous hummingbirds

Cognition and personality: an analysis of an emerging field.

Cognitive Ecology: Foraging in Hummingbirds as a Model System

Cognitive ecology: a field of substance?

Colour cues facilitate learning flower refill schedules in wild hummingbirds

Colour preferences in nest-building zebra finches

Comparative evaluation and its implications for mate choice

Context-dependent decisions among options varying in a single dimension

Context-dependent foraging decisions in rufous hummingbirds.

Cue learning by rufous hummingbirds (Selasphorus rufus).

Dairy cow feeding space requirements assessed in a Y-maze choice test.

Development of hippocampal specialisation in a food-storing bird

Development of hippocampal specialisation in two species of tit (Parus spp.).

Differences in cue use and spatial memory in men and women

Do rufous hummingbirds (Selasphorus rufus) use visual beacons?

Early-life adversity programs long-term cytokine and microglia expression within the HPA axis in female Japanese quail

Ecology and allometry predict the evolution of avian developmental durations

Effects of landmark distance and stability on accuracy of reward relocation.

Emotionality in growing pigs: is the open field a valid test?

Food preference and copying behaviour in zebra finches, Taeniopygia guttata

From a sequential pattern, temporal adjustments emerge in hummingbird traplining

From neurons to nests: nest-building behaviour as a model in behavioural and comparative neuroscience

Hummingbirds

Image analysis of weaverbird nests reveals signature weave textures

Imprinting: seeing food and eating it.

Individual differences in decision making by foraging hummingbirds

Individuality in nest building: do southern masked weaver (Ploceus velatus) males vary in their nest-building behaviour?

Influence of sex steroid hormones on spatial memory in a songbird

Is Bigger Always Better?

It’s not all about temperature: breeding success also affects nest design

Juvenile socio-ecological environment shapes material technology in nest-building birds

Mechanisms of copying behaviour in zebra finches

Nest building by birds

Nest building, the forgotten behaviour

Neural circuits underlying nest building in male zebra finches

Neural correlates of nesting behavior in zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata)

Not by transmission alone: the role of invention in cultural evolution

Numerical ordinality in a wild nectarivore

Object manipulation without hands

One-trial spatial learning: wild hummingbirds relocate a reward after a single visit

Physical cognition: birds learn the structural efficacy of nest material.

Preference for spatial cues in a non-storing songbird species

Relations between song repertoire size and the volume of brain nuclei related to song: comparative evolutionary analyses amongst oscine birds

Repeatability of nest morphology in African weaver birds

Restoring depleted coral-reef fish populations through recruitment enhancement: a proof of concept

Sex differences in performance on a cognitive bias task in Norway rats.

Sex differences in spatial cognition are not caused by isolation housing

Social learning about construction behaviour via an artefact

Social learning in nest-building birds watching live-streaming video demonstrators

Social learning in nest-building birds: a role for familiarity

Spatial ability is impaired and hippocampal mineralocorticoid receptor mRNA expression reduced in zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata) selected for acute high corticosterone response to stress

Spatial accuracy in food-storing and nonstoring birds

Spatial learning and memory in birds.

Spatial relational learning in rufous hummingbirds (Selasphorus rufus)

The evolution of cerebellum structure correlates with nest complexity

The evolution of sex differences in spatial ability.

The hippocampus, spatial memory and food hoarding: a puzzle revisited

The mimetic repertoire of the spotted bowerbird Ptilonorhynchus maculatus ⬇️

The rationality of decisions depends on behavioural context

The roles of vocal and visual interactions in social learning zebra finches: A video playback experiment

Three-dimensional space: locomotory style explains memory differences in rats and hummingbirds.

Timing in free-living rufous hummingbirds, Selasphorus rufus.

Vocal mimicry

Vocal mimicry in male bowerbirds: who learns from whom?

What, where and when: deconstructing memory

Why study cognition in the wild (and how to test it)?

Wild hummingbirds can use the geometry of a flower array

Wild hummingbirds rely on landmarks not geometry when learning an array of flowers

Wild rufous hummingbirds use local landmarks to return to rewarded locations.