For information about joining the Animal Behavior and Psycho-Pharmacology Lab, contact Dr. Mark Galizio or Dr. Kate Bruce.
Brooke April
Brooke graduated from the Psychology Masters program in 2007. Her thesis work focused on olfactory conditional discrimination learning in rats, specifically looking at equivalence relations. She then worked as the laboratory research associate and part-time faculty member for a General Psychology course. In the lab she managed projects, assisted students with lab work, and continued to run both animal behavior and psychopharmacology experiments. Current projects included examining the effects of various psychoactive drugs on olfactory memory span in rats as well as a new animal behavior field study looking at different variables affecting alarm calling in passerine birds. Her interests span from animal behavior and learning to psychopharmacology, behavior analysis, ornithology, and conservation and evolutionary biology. Eventually, Brooke would like to earn her PhD and work in a research setting in either animal behavior or psychopharmacology, but can't seem to choose between the two at the moment.
"Evaluating equivalence relations in rats using an olfactory matching-to-sample procedure"