David Sherry
David Sherry received his PhD from the University of Toronto, Canada, in 1978. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Edward Grey Institute of Field Ornithology, Oxford 1978-1980, and University Research Fellow and Associate Professor at the University of Toronto 1980-1990. Since 1990 he has been a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Western Ontario, London, Canada. He has served as Director of the Program in Neuroscience at Western, holds a cross-appointment in the Department of Biology, and is principal investigator at the Advanced Facility for Avian Research. He has been an editor of Animal Learning & Behaviour, Behaviour, and Animal Behaviour and is currently a member of the Editorial Board of Biology Letters. David Sherry’s research examines the adaptive specialization of cognition and the brain, focussing specifically on memory and the hippocampus of food-storing birds and brood parasites. |
Event: Brain, Cognition, Behavior, Evolution: Polyglot to Monoglot?