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Marcia Spetch, PhD

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Contact

Faculty of Science - Psychology Science
Email
mspetch@ualberta.ca
Phone
(780) 492-7139
Address
P-438 Bio Science - Psychology Wing
11355 - Saskatchewan Drive
Edmonton AB
T6G 2E9

Overview

Research

Comparative studies of learning, memory and cognition, including spatial memory and navigation, avian visual cognition, and object recognition. Memory biases and gambling.

Featured Publications

Perception of complex motion in humans and pigeons (Columba livia).

Nankoo, J.-F., Madan, C. R., Spetch, M. L., & Wylie, D. R.

Experimental Brain Research. 2014 January;

Remembering the best and worst of times: Memories for extreme outcomes bias risky decisions.

Madan, C.R., Ludvig, E.A. & Spetch, M.L.

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 2014 January;

Reward context determines risky choice in pigeons and humans.

Ludvig, E. A., Madan, C. R., Pisklak, J. M., & Spetch, M. L.

Biology letters. 2014 January;

Reorientation in diamond-shaped environments: Encoding of features and angles in enclosures versus arrays by adult humans and pigeons (Columba livia).

Lubyk, D.M., Spetch, M.L., Zhou, R., Pisklak J. & Mou, W.

Animal Cognition. 2013 January;