Avian Cognition and Communication Lab

Gerald Hough, Ph.D., Associate Professor

My areas of interest center around how birds (and by extension, people) learn navigational maps in their world, and how these maps change across the lifespan. These research projects include investigating the neurobiology of bird behavior, with a specific focus on the navigational abilities of homing pigeons and language evolution in Hawaiian honeycreepers. I perform both behavioral and physiological investigations of these phenomena using behavioral, bioacoustic, and tracking experiments. Ongling projects include the effects of rotating landmarks on the food searching behavior of homing pigeons, the effects of landscape differences on the homing abilities in homing pigeons, and the differences in 'Amakihi' songs across several islands in Hawaii. My office is located in Robinson Hall 116E. If you wish to talk more to me about these lines of research, please contact me via email (hough@rowan.edu).