The Society for Behavioral Neuroscience and Comparative Psychology (APA Division 6) seeks to recognize individuals whose scholarship and service have made meaningful contributions to advance our field.

All nominations are due by Mon., December 8!

apadivisions.org/division-6/awards

Gasalla et al. manipulated the dipper mechanism & found behavior that was aligned more with these associative accounts. The importance of the sucrose dipper in these kinds of studies suggests that the reward delivery mechanism should be included in a causal model. doi.org/10.1037/com0...

MEMBER HIGHLIGHT: Justin Yates, Professor and Chair, Department of Psychological Science, Northern Kentucky University. Justin is interested in elucidating the neurobehavioral mechanisms that control risky choice and substance use disorders.

MEMBER HIGHLIGHT: Ellen Furlong, Associate Professor of Psychology & Neuroscience, Transylvania University. Ellen studies dog cognition and behavior.
Check out her lab website: transy.edu/dog-lab/

The origins of human musicality remain poorly understood. Cook tested four pigeons in three experiments for their capacity to discriminate the intervals of the chromatic scale. doi.org/10.1037/com0...

MEMBER HIGHLIGHT: Michael Beran, Professor of Psychology, Georgia State University. Michael studies comparative cognition with an emphasis on metacognition, self-control, prospective cognition, numerical cognition, perception, and decision making.
Check out his lab website: sites.gsu.edu/comic-lab/

Colbert-White et al. assessed the influence of a high, rising, positive “Oooh!” sound on dogs’ choice of differing quantities of food. The idea behind this experiment is that dogs may use human-delivered cues to aid them in making choices. doi.org/10.1037/com0...

MEMBER HIGHLIGHT: Philip Jean-Richard-dit-Bressel, PhD, UNSW Sydney School of Psychology. Philip is interested in the psychological and neurobiological mechanisms of motivated learning and decision-making.
Learn more: unsw.edu.au/staff/philip-jean-richard-dit-bressel

MEMBER HIGHLIGHT: Chris Krupenye, Assistant Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Johns Hopkins University. Chris studies how humans and other animals think and navigate their social worlds. Check out his lab website: www.social-cognitive-origins.com

The August issue’s featured article, Caldicott et al. assessed the best way to train dogs to detect scents and then generalize that training effectively to other scents. doi.org/10.1037/com0...

The editor’s feature essay about this paper can be found here: doi.org/10.1037/com0...