Brenton G. Cooper, Ph.D.
brenton.cooper@tcu.edu817-257-6462SWR 321
Program Affiliations
Education
Ph.D., Psychology University of Utah, 2003
Areas of Focus
Our laboratory is an integrative physiology laboratory studying vocal and social communication. Our goal is to further our understanding of proximate and ultimate mechanisms underlying vocal and social communication. We study vocal learning and production in birds, rats and, in the future, humans.
Méndez, J. M., Cooper, B. G., Goller, F. (2024). Note similarities affect syntactic stability in Isolation-reared zebra finches. Journal of Comparative Physiology A, .
Méndez, J. M., Dukes, J. & Cooper, B. G. (2022). Preparing to sing: Respiratory patterns underlying motor readiness for song. Journal of Neurophysiology, 128(6), 1646-1662.
White, J. D., Urbano, C. M., Taylor, J. O., Peterman, J. L., Cooksey, M., Eimerbrink, M., Eriksson, M. D., Cooper, B. G., Chumley, M. J., Boehm, G. W. (2020). Intraventricular murine Aβ infusion elicits hippocampal inflammation and disrupts the consolidation, but not retrieval, of conditioned fear in C57BL6/J mice. Behavioural Brain Research, 378, 112303.
Daliparthi, V.K., Tachibana, R.O., Cooper, B.G., Hahnloser, R.H.R., Kojima, S., Sober, S.J., & Roberts, T.F. (2019). Transitioning between preparatory and precisely sequenced neuronal activity in production of a skilled behavior. eLife 2019;8:e43732. DOI: https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.43732.001
Taylor, J.O., Urbano, C.M., & Cooper, B.G. (2017). Differential patterns of constant frequency 50 and 22 kHz USV production are related to intensity of negative affective state. Behavioral Neuroscience, 131(1), 115-126.
Urbano, C.M., Aston, A.E., & Cooper, B.G. (2016). HVC contributes toward contact call responding in male Bengalese finches. Neuroreport, 27(7), 481-486.
Last Updated: November 19, 2024