Stephen Nowicki

Professor Emeritus of Biology

Biology

snowicki@duke.edu

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6564-905X

Duke Box 90338, Durham, NC 27708

137 Biological Sciences Building, 130 Science Drive, Durham, NC 27708

More About This Person

At a Glance

Credentials
1. Education

Academic Experience
1. Current Duke Appointments & Affiliations
2. Previous Duke Appointments & Affiliations

Global Scholarship

Keywords

Research
1. Selected Grants
2. External Relationships

Scholarly Works

Teaching & Mentoring
1. Recent Courses

Recognition
1. Academic Honors
2. News Items

Professional Activities

Scholarly Works - Conferences

Ultimate and Proximate Explanations for Differences in Diet Between Sympatric Cheirogaleid Lemurs (Microcebus murinus and Cheriogaleus medius)

Conference AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY · February 2026 Link to item Cite

Differences in categorical color perception between two estrildid finches

Conference INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY · March 2021 Link to item Cite

Carotenoid Concentration in Avian Retinal Oil Droplets Correlates with Color Discrimination Across a Perceptual Category Boundary

Conference INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY · March 2020 Link to item Cite

Categorical Perception of Color Along a Blue-Green Continuum in Female Zebra Finches

Conference INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY · March 1, 2019 Link to item Cite

Categorical Perception of a Carotenoid-based Assessment Signal

Conference INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY · March 1, 2019 Link to item Cite

Song is not a reliable signal of general cognitive ability in a songbird

Conference INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY · March 1, 2019 Link to item Cite

Intra-diel improvement in song performance: swamp sparrows 'warm up' in the morning

Conference INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY · March 1, 2019 Link to item Cite

Are Song Sparrow 'Soft Songs' Adapted for Short-range Communication?

Conference INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY · March 1, 2017 Link to item Cite

Song as a signal of cognitive ability: effects of early developmental stress on problem solving and song learning in the zebra finch

Conference INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY · March 1, 2016 Link to item Cite

Social complexity as a driver of communication and cognition

Conference INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY · April 1, 2015 Link to item Cite

Cognitive performance predicts strength of sexual preference in a songbird

Conference INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY · January 1, 2014 Link to item Cite

A possible trade-off between song and a cognitive metric in song sparrows

Conference INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY · January 1, 2014 Link to item Cite

The relationship between testosterone and aggressive phenotype in male song sparrows (Melospiza melodia)

Conference INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY · April 1, 2012 Link to item Cite

The relationship between behavioral syndromes and behavioral plasticity in male song sparrows

Conference INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY · March 1, 2011 Link to item Cite

Neural encoding of multiple song types in the swamp sparrow HVc.

Conference AMERICAN ZOOLOGIST · December 1, 2000 Link to item Cite

Sexual selection limits evolutionary innovation in birdsong.

Conference AMERICAN ZOOLOGIST · January 1, 1999 Link to item Cite

PITCH PRODUCTION AND PERCEPTION IN CAROLINA CHICKADEE SONGS

Conference AMERICAN ZOOLOGIST · January 1, 1991 Link to item Cite

SONGTYPES IN SONG SPARROWS - APPLICATION OF NUMERICAL TAXONOMY TO THE STUDY OF SONG REPERTOIRE ORGANIZATION

Conference AMERICAN ZOOLOGIST · January 1, 1991 Link to item Cite

BIRDSONG - MULTIPLE MOTOR PATTERNS IN THE PRODUCTION OF STEREOTYPIC BEHAVIORS

Conference AMERICAN ZOOLOGIST · January 1, 1991 Link to item Cite

KINEMATICS OF BIRDSONG IN SPARROWS - FUNCTIONAL CORRELATES OF BEAK AND HEAD MOTION

Conference AMERICAN ZOOLOGIST · January 1, 1991 Link to item Cite

SONG ACQUISITION AND LEARNING FROM PURE TONAL AND HARMONIC MODELS IN A SPARROW

Conference AMERICAN ZOOLOGIST · January 1, 1990 Link to item Cite

REASSESSMENT OF PERIPHERAL AND NEURAL SIMILARITIES AND DISSIMILARITIES IN THE PRODUCTION OF BIRDSONG AND HUMAN SPEECH

Conference AMERICAN ZOOLOGIST · January 1, 1989 Link to item Cite