Behavioural Biology Johan J. Bolhuis Professor A link to my inaugural lecture [Oratie PDF] E- mail: j.j.bolhuis@uu.nl De lezing van Johan Bolhuis, 'Het Evangelie van St. Charles', in de Studium Generale serie 'Na Darwin', kunt u nazien als streaming video (met slides) op http://www.sg.uu.nl/prog/2009a/darwin.html De voordracht van Johan Bolhuis t.g.v. de honderdste geboortedag van Niko Tinbergen kunt u nazien als streaming video op: www.100jaarnikotinbergen.nl       Brief biography Johan J. Bolhuis obtained his PhD in Zoology (cum laude) at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands, and was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, UK, and at the Department of Zoology, Sub-Department of Animal Behaviour, University of Cambridge, UK. He was Visiting Professor at the Department of Zoology, University of Salzburg (Austria) and Associate Professor at the Institute of Biology, Leiden University, The Netherlands. He was appointed full professor of behavioural biology at Utrecht University in 2001, the same year that he received the Dutch Zoology Prize. He has served as an Editor of Animal Behaviour and president of the Royal Dutch Zoological Society.   Main Research Interests My main research interests are in the behavioural, neural and cognitive mechanisms of learning, memory and development. In particular, my current research is concerned with the neural mechanisms of birdsong memory. In addition, I have a theoretical interest in the relationship between evolution, cognition, and the brain. For details, see my research pages.		NEW: Johan Bolhuis reviews Frans de Waal's The Age of Empathy in Science Summary Full text NEW: Nature essay on the evolution of cognition by Johan Bolhuis and Clive Wynne: Bolhuis, J.J. & Wynne, C.D.L. (2009) Can evolution explain how minds work? Nature, 458, 832-833. The paper also features in the Nature podcast. Nature has published replies by Shettleworth, Wolpert, De Waal and Marks, and it has opened a Nature Network Opinion Forum Discussion NEW: Tinbergen's Legacy. Function and Mechanism in Behavioral Biology, edited by Johan J. Bolhuis and Simon Verhulst. Cambridge University Press, 2009. NEW: Animal Behaviour, edited by Johan J. Bolhuis and Luc-Alain Giraldeau. Sage Publications, 2010. A 4-volume reader with classic and modern papers in behavioural biology.
Key journal publications (for books, click on covers below) Bolhuis, J.J. & Honey, R.C. (1998) Imprinting, learning, and development: from behaviour to brain and back. Trends Neurosci., 21, 306-311. Bolhuis, J.J., Zijlstra, G.G.O., Den Boer-Visser, A.M. & Van der Zee, E.A. (2000) Localized neuronal activation in the zebra finch brain is related to the strength of song learning. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 97, 2282-2285. [pdf file] Bolhuis, J.J. & Macphail, E.M. (2001) A critique of the neuroecology of learning and memory. Trends Cogn. Sci. 5, 426-433. Bolhuis, J.J. & Gahr, M. (2006) Neural mechanisms of birdsong memory. Nature Rev. Neurosci., 7, 347-357 Gobes, S.H.M. & Bolhuis, J.J. (2007) Birdsong memory: A neural dissociation between song recognition and production. Curr. Biol., 17, 789-793. Bolhuis, J.J. & Wynne, C.D.L. (2009) Can evolution explain how minds work? Nature, 458, 832-833. Complete list of publications - updated 2 May 2009
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