Lauren Guillette, PhD - Directory@UAlberta.ca

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Associate Professor, Faculty of Science - Psychology Science

Email: guillett@ualberta.ca

Email: guillett@ualberta.ca
Phone: (780) 492-5302
Address: p445 Bio Science - Psychology Wing
11355 - Saskatchewan Drive

Edmonton AB

T6G 2E9

Overview

Area of Study / Keywords

Animal cognition Learning Aniaml behaviour Nest-building behaviour

Featured Publications

No Sex‐Differences in Learning Trap‐Gap Problems in Zebra Finches

Connor T. Lambert, Benjamin A. Whittaker, Brandon Neil, Cailyn Poole, Andrés Camacho‐Alpízar, Julia L. Self, Sara C. Blunk, Lauren M. Guillette

Ecology and Evolution. 2025 November; 10.1002/ece3.72440

Architectural traditions in the structures built by cooperative weaver birds

Maria C. Tello-Ramos, Lucy Harper, Isabella Tortora-Brayda, Lauren M. Guillette, Pablo Capilla-Lasheras, Xavier A. Harrison, Andrew J. Young, Susan D. Healy

Science. 2024 August; 10.1126/science.adn2573

The roles of social information, asocial information, and initial bias in nest-building decisions.

Benjamin A. Whittaker, Gopika Balasubramanian, Andrés Camacho-Alpízar, Connor T. Lambert, Lauren M. Guillette

Journal of Comparative Psychology. 2024 August; 10.1037/com0000374

Protocol to quantify bird nest morphology via image analyses using linear measurements and geometric landmarks

Benjamin Whittaker, Andrés Camacho-Alpízar, Lauren Guillette

STAR Protocols. 2024 June; 10.1016/j.xpro.2024.103004

Zebra finches have style: Nest morphology is repeatable and associated with experience

Benjamin A. Whittaker, Liam Nolet-Mulholland, Anna Nevoit, Deborah Yun, Connor T. Lambert, Sara C. Blunk, Lauren M. Guillette

iScience. 2023 November; 10.1016/j.isci.2023.108194

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Links

Laboratory webpage

Research Students

Currently accepting undergraduate students for research project supervision.

Please see the opportunities page of my website for information: https://sites.psych.ualberta.ca/animal-cognition-ualberta/