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PrintRobert J. Dooling
Biology
Affiliate Professor (Department of Psychology, UMCP)
Graduate Program Affiliations
- BISI - Behavior, Ecology, Evolution, & Systematics (BEES)
- BISI - Physiological Systems (PSYS)
Research Interests
My research interests include the comparative and evolutionary biology of hearing and auditory perception; the learning, production, and perception of bird vocalizations; the return of hearing following hair cell regeneration, and the effects of noise on hearing.
Recent Publications
- Adler, H.J., Sanovich, E., Brittan-Powell, E.F. Dooling, R.J. (2007) WDR1 localization to hair cells in the avian inner ear. Abstracts of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, Denver, Colorado, 30:30.
- Dooling R.J. (2007). Detection and discrimination and detection of complex sounds by birds in quiet and noise. Fourth International Conference on Bio-Acoustics. Holywell Park, UK.
- Dooling, R.J. (2007). International Conference on the Effects of Noise on Aquatic Life. Nyborg, Denmark.
- Dooling, R.J. (2007). The International Ethological Conference. Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
- Dooling, R.J., Gleich, O., and Manley, G.A. (2007). Acoustical Society of America, 153nd annual meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah.
- Lauer, A. M., Dooling, R. J., and Eisenberg, M. (2007). Discrimination of natural and acoustically altered song syllables of normal-hearing and hearing-impaired canaries. Association for Research in Otolaryngology, Denver, CO.
Education
Ph.D., St. Louis University, 1975. Comparative psychoacoustics, hearing, vocal communication, and vocal learning in animals; hair cell regeneration and recovery of auditory function.
