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List of works by Stephen Nowicki

Are the early childhood antecedents of men’s external locus of control similar to those of their female partners?

scientific article published on 15 March 2018

Birdsong learning, avian cognition and the evolution of language

scientific article

Call Learning in Black-capped Chickadees (Parus atricapillus): The Role of Experience in the Development of ‘Chick-A-Dee’ Calls

Categorical colour perception occurs in both signalling and non-signalling colour ranges in a songbird

scientific article published on 29 May 2019

Categorical perception of colour signals in a songbird

scientific article published in Nature

Context-dependent categorical perception in a songbird

scientific article

Cultural conformity generates extremely stable traditions in bird song.

scientific article published on 20 June 2018

Data relating to change in locus of control orientation of parents overtime (from pre-birth to 20 years later), participating in the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC)

Developmental stress, song-learning, and cognition

scientific article published on 23 April 2014

Early life conditions that impact song learning in male zebra finches also impact neural and behavioral responses to song in females

scientific article

Events associated with stability and change in adult locus of control orientation over a six-year period.

scientific article published in May 2018

Female swamp sparrows do not show evidence of discriminating between the songs of peak‐aged and senescent males

scientific article published in 2020

Flight Songs of Swamp Sparrows: Alternative Phonology of an Alternative Song Category

article by Stephen Nowicki et al published February 1991 in The Condor

Geographic Song Discrimination in Relation to Dispersal Distances in Song Sparrows

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Geographic song discrimination in relation to dispersal distances in song sparrows

scientific article published in March 2002

Individual Variation in the Strength of Territory Defense in Male Song Sparrows: Correlates of Age, Territory Tenure, and Neighbor Aggressiveness

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Individual variation in response to simulated territorial challenge among territory-holding song sparrows

article by Stephen Nowicki et al published September 2002 in Journal of Avian Biology

Long-distance dependencies in birdsong syntax

scientific article published in 2022

Neural correlates of categorical perception in learned vocal communication

scientific article

Parental External Locus of Control in Pregnancy Is Associated with Subsequent Teacher Ratings of Negative Behavior in Primary School: Findings from a British Birth Cohort

scientific article published on 9 February 2018

Persistent representation of juvenile experience in the adult songbird brain

scientific article

Potential trade-off between vocal ornamentation and spatial ability in a songbird.

scientific article

Prenatal Internal Locus of Control Is Positively Associated with Offspring IQ, Mediated through Parenting Behavior, Prenatal Lifestyle and Social Circumstances

scientific article published on 22 August 2017

Quality of song learning affects female response to male bird song

scientific article (publication date: 22 September 2002)

Song function and the evolution of female preferences: why birds sing, why brains matter

scientific article published in June 2004

Song learning and cognitive ability are not consistently related in a songbird.

scientific article

Song repertoire size in male song sparrows correlates with detour reaching, but not with other cognitive measures

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Song type sharing and territory tenure in eastern song sparrows: implications for the evolution of song repertoires

article by Melissa Hughes et al published April 2007 in Animal Behaviour

Song-type sharing in a population of Song Sparrows in the eastern United States

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Song-type sharing in song sparrows: implications for repertoire function and song learning

article by Melissa Hughes et al published 16 June 1998 in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Songbirds learn songs least degraded by environmental transmission

scientific article

Sounds of senescence: male swamp sparrows respond less aggressively to the songs of older individuals

scientific article published in 2020

Swamp sparrows modulate vocal performance in an aggressive context

scientific article

The Impact of Prenatal Parental Locus of Control on Children's Psychological Outcomes in Infancy and Early Childhood: A Prospective 5 Year Study

scientific article

The Organization of Song Repertoires in Song Sparrows: Themes and Variations

article by Jeffrey Podos et al published 26 April 2010 in Ethology

The Response of Male and Female Song Sparrows to Geographic Variation in Song

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The Territory Defense Function of Song in Song Sparrows: A Test with the Speaker Occupation Design

article by William A Searcy et al published 1998 in Behaviour

The antecedents of women's external locus of control: Associations with characteristics of their parents and their early childhood

scientific article published on 30 January 2017

The evolution of bird song: male and female response to song innovation in swamp sparrows

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The evolution of vocal learning

scientific article published on 15 July 2014

The mid-childhood and adolescent antecedents of women's external locus of control orientation

scientific article published on 21 July 2017

The receiver-dependent cost of soft song: a signal of aggressive intent in songbirds

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The relationship between parental locus of control and adolescent obesity: a longitudinal pre-birth cohort

Threshold assessment, categorical perception, and the evolution of reliable signaling

scientific article published on 09 November 2020

Von Uexküll Revisited: Addressing Human Biases in the Study of Animal Perception

scientific article published on 01 December 2019