Stephen Nowicki
Professor of Biology
Education
Ph.D., Cornell University 1984
M.S., Tufts University 1978
B.S., Tufts University 1976
Searcy, W. A., and S. Nowicki. “Signal reliability and intraspecific deception.” In Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior, 589–97, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-809633-8.90731-3. Full Text
Zipple, M. N., S. Peters, W. A. Searcy, and S. Nowicki. “Female swamp sparrows do not show evidence of discriminating between the songs of peak-aged and senescent males.” Ethology 127, no. 1 (January 1, 2021): 91–97. https://doi.org/10.1111/eth.13102. Full Text
Peniston, James H., Patrick A. Green, Matthew N. Zipple, and Stephen Nowicki. “Threshold assessment, categorical perception, and the evolution of reliable signaling.” Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution 74, no. 12 (December 2020): 2591–2604. https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.14122. Full Text
Dinh, J. P., S. Peters, and S. Nowicki. “Song performance improves with continued singing across the morning in a songbird.” Animal Behaviour 167 (September 1, 2020): 127–37. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2020.06.018. Full Text
Green, Patrick A., Nicholas C. Brandley, and Stephen Nowicki. “Categorical perception in animal communication and decision-making.” Behavioral Ecology 31, no. 4 (July 29, 2020): 859–67. https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/araa004. Full Text
Green, Patrick A., Nicholas C. Brandley, and Stephen Nowicki. “The many dimensions of categorical perception: a response to comments on Green et al.” Behavioral Ecology 31, no. 4 (July 29, 2020): 872–872. https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/araa060. Full Text
Caves, E. M., L. E. Schweikert, P. A. Green, M. N. Zipple, C. Taboada, S. Peters, S. Nowicki, and S. Johnsen. “Variation in carotenoid-containing retinal oil droplets correlates with variation in perception of carotenoid coloration.” Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 74, no. 7 (July 1, 2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-020-02874-5. Full Text Open Access Copy
Zipple, Matthew N., Susan Peters, William A. Searcy, and Stephen Nowicki. “Sounds of senescence: male swamp sparrows respond less aggressively to the songs of older individuals.” Behavioral Ecology 31, no. 2 (March 20, 2020): 533–39. https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arz218. Full Text
Caves, E. M., P. A. Green, M. N. Zipple, D. Bharath, S. Peters, S. Johnsen, and S. Nowicki. “Comparison of categorical color perception in two estrildid finches.” American Naturalist, January 1, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1086/712379. Full Text Open Access Copy
Searcy, William A., and Stephen Nowicki. “Animal Behavior: The Raised-by-Wolves Predicament.” Current Biology : Cb 29, no. 23 (December 2019): R1243–44. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2019.09.064. Full Text
Caves, Eleanor M., Stephen Nowicki, and Sönke Johnsen. “Von Uexküll Revisited: Addressing Human Biases in the Study of Animal Perception.” Integrative and Comparative Biology 59, no. 6 (December 2019): 1451–62. https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icz073. Full Text
Pages
Nowicki, S., E. M. Caves, L. E. Schweikert, P. A. Green, C. Taboada, M. N. Zipple, S. Peters, and S. Johnsen. “Carotenoid Concentration in Avian Retinal Oil Droplets Correlates with Color Discrimination Across a Perceptual Category Boundary.” In Integrative and Comparative Biology, 60:E175–E175, 2020.
Caves, E. M., M. N. Zipple, P. A. Green, S. Peters, S. Johnsen, and S. Nowicki. “Categorical Perception of Color Along a Blue-Green Continuum in Female Zebra Finches.” In Integrative and Comparative Biology, 59:E33–E33. OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC, 2019.
Green, P. A., E. M. Caves, M. N. Zipple, S. Peters, S. Johnsen, and S. Nowicki. “Categorical Perception of a Carotenoid-based Assessment Signal.” In Integrative and Comparative Biology, 59:E87–E87. OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC, 2019.
Nowicki, S., A. L. Dubois, S. Peters, K. D. Rivera-Caceres, and W. A. Searcy. “Song is not a reliable signal of general cognitive ability in a songbird.” In Integrative and Comparative Biology, 59:E170–E170. OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC, 2019.
Dinh, J. P., S. Nowicki, and S. Peters. “Intra-diel improvement in song performance: swamp sparrows 'warm up' in the morning.” In Integrative and Comparative Biology, 59:E55–E55. OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC, 2019.
Anderson, R., J. Niederhauser, A. Dubois, S. Nowicki, and W. Searcy. “Are Song Sparrow 'Soft Songs' Adapted for Short-range Communication?” In Integrative and Comparative Biology, 57:E192–E192. OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC, 2017.
Anderson, R. C., K. B. Sewall, S. Peters, J. A. Soha, and S. Nowicki. “Song as a signal of cognitive ability: effects of early developmental stress on problem solving and song learning in the zebra finch.” In Integrative and Comparative Biology, 56:E6–E6. OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC, 2016.
Sewall, K. B., R. C. Anderson, S. Peters, S. Nowicki, and T. Roth. “Social complexity as a driver of communication and cognition.” In Integrative and Comparative Biology, 55:E165–E165. OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC, 2015.
Anderson, R. C., and S. Nowicki. “Cognitive performance predicts strength of sexual preference in a songbird.” In Integrative and Comparative Biology, 54:E6–E6. OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC, 2014.
Sewall, K. B., J. A. Soha, S. Peters, and S. Nowicki. “A possible trade-off between song and a cognitive metric in song sparrows.” In Integrative and Comparative Biology, 54:E190–E190. OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC, 2014.
Pages
Eleanor M., Caves, Green Patrick A., Zipple Matthew N., Peters Susan, Johnsen Sonke, and Nowicki Stephen. “Data and scripts from: Categorical perception of colour signals in a songbird,” 2018. https://doi.org/10.7924/r4rx96r99. Full Text
Selected Grants
Washington Duke Scholars Program awarded by Coca-Cola Foundation, Inc. (Principal Investigator). 2016 to 2021
The COMPASS PROJECT awarded by Howard Hughes Medical Institute (Principal Investigator). 2014 to 2020
Neural Codes for Vocal Sequences awarded by National Science Foundation (Co-Principal Investigator). 2014 to 2020
2017 - 2018 MMUF awarded by Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2017 to 2018
AB Duke Scholars awarded by Angier Biddle Duke Memorial (Principal Investigator). 2017 to 2018
Funding for AB Duke Scholars program awarded by Angier Biddle Duke Memorial (Principal Investigator). 2016 to 2017
Collaborative Research: Cognition and Signaling in Songbirds awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2012 to 2016
DISSERTATION RESEARCH: The Role of Mating System in Sperm Competition and Protein Evolution in /Agelaius/ Blackbirds awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2011 to 2014
Impact of early nutrition on neural mechanisms of signal processing awarded by National Institutes of Health (Principal Investigator). 2010 to 2013
DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Selective pressures shaping aggressive behavoir in females: an experimental approach awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2007 to 2009