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Overview

Michael Colombo is affiliated with the University of Otago in New Zealand. Their research spans major fields of Psychology and Neuroscience, with notable emphasis on subfields including Social Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Developmental Biology.

The topics central to their work cover a range of subjects such as Primate Behavior and Ecology, Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research, Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior, Neural dynamics and brain function, Visual perception and processing mechanisms, and Memory and Neural Mechanisms.

Michael Colombo has contributed to various academic journals, frequently publishing in:

  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Scientific Reports
  • Animal Sentience
  • Learning and Motivation
  • Progress in Neurobiology

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Michael Colombo include:

  • "The functional architecture, receptive field characteristics, and representation of objects in the visual network of the pigeon brain" (2020) published in Progress in Neurobiology
  • "Extending the null hypothesis to invertebrate pain sentience" (2022) published in Animal Sentience
  • "Mirror mirror on the wall, it's not the mark I care about at all" (2022) published in Learning and Motivation
  • "Pigeon nidopallium caudolaterale, entopallium, and mesopallium ventrolaterale neural responses during categorisation of Monet and Picasso paintings" (2020) published in Scientific Reports
  • "Are There Differences in 'Intelligence' Between Nonhuman Species? The Role of Contextual Variables" (2020) published in Frontiers in Psychology

They have collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Damian Scarf
  • Eva Kakrada
  • Catrona Anderson
  • Blake Porter
  • William Clark

Best Publications

  • Is the avian hippocampus a functional homologue of the mammalian hippocampus

    M Colombo;N Broadbent

  • The Development of Implicit and Explicit Memory

    Carolyn K. Rovee-Collier;Harlene Hayne;Michael Colombo

  • Representation of serial order in monkeys (Cebus apella).

    M. R. D'Amato;Michael Colombo

  • Extent and limits of the matching concept in monkeys (Cebus apella).

    M. R. D'Amato;David P. Salmon;Michael Colombo

  • Neural ensemble coding in inferior temporal cortex

    P. M. Gochin;M. Colombo;G. A. Dorfman;G. L. Gerstein

  • Pigeons on Par with Primates in Numerical Competence

    Damian Scarf;Harlene Hayne;Michael Colombo

  • Functional Differentiation Along the Anterior-Posterior Axis of the Hippocampus in Monkeys

    Michael Colombo;Tom Fernandez;Katsuki Nakamura;Charles G. Gross

  • Social evaluation or simple association? Simple associations may explain moral reasoning in infants.

    Damian Scarf;Kana Imuta;Michael Colombo;Harlene Hayne

  • To have and to hold: episodic memory in 3- and 4-year-old children.

    Damian Scarf;Julien Gross;Michael Colombo;Harlene Hayne

  • Auditory association cortex lesions impair auditory short-term memory in monkeys

    Michael Colombo;Michael R. D'Amato;Hillary R. Rodman;Charles G. Gross

  • Single Units in the Pigeon Brain Integrate Reward Amount and Time-to-Reward in an Impulsive Choice Task

    Tobias Kalenscher;Sabine Windmann;Bettina Diekamp;Jonas Rose

  • Neural Correlates of Executive Control in the Avian Brain

    Jonas Rose;Michael Colombo

  • Responses of inferior temporal cortex and hippocampal neurons during delayed matching to sample in monkeys (Macaca fascicularis).

    Michael Colombo;Charles G. Gross

  • Auditory matching-to-sample in monkeys (Cebus apella)

    M. R. D’Amato;Michael Colombo

  • The symbolic distance effect in monkeys (Cebus apella)

    M. R. D’Amato;M. Colombo

  • Serial learning with wild card items by monkeys (Cebus apella): implications for knowledge of ordinal position.

    M. R. D'Amato;Michael Colombo

  • The effects of hippocampal and area parahippocampalis lesions in pigeons: II. Concurrent discrimination and spatial memory.

    Michael Colombo;Samantha Cawley;Nicola Broadbent

  • A comparison of visual and auditory short-term memory in monkeys (Cebus apella).

    Michael Colombo;M. R. D'Amato

  • Interpreting visual preferences in the visual paired-comparison task.

    Jenny Richmond;Michael Colombo;Harlene Hayne

  • The Effects of Superior Temporal Cortex Lesions on the Processing and Retention of Auditory Information in Monkeys (Cebus apella)

    Michael Colombo;Hillary R. Rodman;Charles G. Gross

Frequent Co-Authors

Harlene Hayne
Harlene Hayne Curtin University
Carolyn Rovee-Collier
Carolyn Rovee-Collier Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Charles G. Gross
Charles G. Gross Princeton University
Onur Güntürkün
Onur Güntürkün Ruhr University Bochum
Herbert S. Terrace
Herbert S. Terrace Columbia University
Michael C. Corballis
Michael C. Corballis University of Auckland
Thomas R. Zentall
Thomas R. Zentall University of Kentucky
J. Bruce Overmier
J. Bruce Overmier University of Minnesota
James S. Magnuson
James S. Magnuson University of Connecticut
Elaine Reese
Elaine Reese University of Otago

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