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2023

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117
Citations
49345
World Ranking
421
National Ranking
15

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Neuroscience in Canada Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Neuroscience in Canada Leader Award
  • 1998 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science

Overview

Ian Q. Whishaw is affiliated with the University of Lethbridge in Canada and conducts research primarily in the field of Psychology with a focus on Social Psychology. Their work covers topics related to Primate Behavior and Ecology.

Whishaw's recent academic contributions include a publication titled Specialized for the reach: Fruit picking and positional behavior favor a reach over a grasp phenotype for Geoffroy's spider monkey (Ateles geoffroyi), published in 2025 in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).

The scientist's body of research has been disseminated through publication venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Key subjects explored in their research include:

  • Primate Behavior and Ecology

Their subfield specialization includes Social Psychology.

Whishaw has been recognized by the scientific community as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada since 1998, affiliated with the Academy of Science.

Best Publications

  • Fundamentals of Human Neuropsychology

    Bryan Kolb;Ian Q. Whishaw

  • Brain plasticity and behavior.

    Bryan Kolb;Ian Q. Whishaw

  • Cortical and subcortical lesions impair skilled walking in the ladder rung walking test: a new task to evaluate fore- and hindlimb stepping, placing, and co-ordination.

    Gerlinde A Metz;Ian Q Whishaw

  • A behavioural analysis of spatial localization following electrolytic, kainate- or colchicine-induced damage to the hippocampal formation in the rat ☆

    Robert J. Sutherland;Ian Q. Whishaw;Bryan Kolb

  • Spatial mapping: definitive disruption by hippocampal or medial frontal cortical damage in the rat

    Robert J. Sutherland;Bryan Kolb;Ian Q. Whishaw

  • Performance of schizophrenic patients on tests sensitive to left or right frontal, temporal, or parietal function in neurological patients.

    Bryan Kolb;Ian Q. Whishaw

  • An Introduction to Brain and Behavior

    Bryan Kolb;Ian Q. Whishaw

  • Hippocampal EEG and behavior: Change in amplitude and frequency of RSA (Theta rhythm) associated with spontaneous and learned movement patterns in rats and cats

    I.Q. Whishaw;C.H. Vanderwolf

  • Normalization of extracellular dopamine in striatum following recovery from a partial unilateral 6-OHDA lesion of the substantia nigra: a microdialysis study in freely moving rats.

    Terry E. Robinson;Ian Q. Whishaw

  • Animal models of neurological deficits: how relevant is the rat?

    M Angela Cenci;Ian Q Whishaw;Timothy Schallert;Timothy Schallert

  • A comparison of the contributions of the frontal and parietal association cortex to spatial localization in rats

    Bryan Kolb;Robert J. Sutherland;Ian Q. Whishaw

  • The contributions of motor cortex, nigrostriatal dopamine and caudate-putamen to skilled forelimb use in the rat.

    Ian Q. Whishaw;William T. O'connor;Stephen B. Dunnett

  • The structure of skilled forelimb reaching in the rat: a proximally driven movement with a single distal rotatory component.

    Ian Q. Whishaw;Sergio M. Pellis

  • Contributions of cingulate cortex to two forms of spatial learning and memory

    RJ Sutherland;IQ Whishaw;B Kolb

  • RATS WITH FIMBRIA-FORNIX LESIONS DISPLAY A PLACE RESPONSE IN A SWIMMING POOL : A DISSOCIATION BETWEEN GETTING THERE AND KNOWING WHERE

    IQ Whishaw;JC Cassel;LE Jarrad

  • Variation in visual acuity within pigmented, and between pigmented and albino rat strains

    Glen T Prusky;K.Troy Harker;Robert M Douglas;Ian Q Whishaw

  • Loss of the innate cortical engram for action patterns used in skilled reaching and the development of behavioral compensation following motor cortex lesions in the rat.

    Ian Q Whishaw

  • Behavioural, biochemical and histochemical effects of different neurotoxic amino acids injected into nucleus basalis magnocellularis of rats

    S B Dunnett;I Q Whishaw;G H Jones;S T Bunch

  • The impairments in reaching and the movements of compensation in rats with motor cortex lesions: an endpoint, videorecording, and movement notation analysis.

    Ian Q. Whishaw;Sergio M. Pellis;Boguslaw P. Gorny;Vivien C. Pellis

  • Cholinergic receptor blockade impairs spatial localization by use of distal cues in the rat.

    Robert J. Sutherland;Ian Q. Whishaw;Jack C. Regehr

Frequent Co-Authors

Bryan Kolb
Bryan Kolb University of Lethbridge
Sergio M. Pellis
Sergio M. Pellis University of Lethbridge
Gerlinde A. S. Metz
Gerlinde A. S. Metz University of Lethbridge
Timothy J Schallert
Timothy J Schallert The University of Texas at Austin
Robert J. Sutherland
Robert J. Sutherland University of Lethbridge
Terry E. Robinson
Terry E. Robinson University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Andrew N. Iwaniuk
Andrew N. Iwaniuk University of Lethbridge
Stephen B. Dunnett
Stephen B. Dunnett Cardiff University
Brian H. Bland
Brian H. Bland University of Calgary
Jeffrey A. Kleim
Jeffrey A. Kleim Arizona State University

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