Joseph Bartram
Research Interests
Our lab employs operant conditioning as a central paradigm, using systems of positive and negative reinforcement to condition animals to complete simple behavioural tasks, and using this as a method to access their cognitive and perceptual processes. My DPhil examines how how animals make decisions when confronted with multiple, potentially conflicting sources of information; using several different fish species as models. My two main projects are with picasso triggerfish (Rhinecanthus aculeatus); examining their ability to recall and incorporate prior information during visual discrimination tasks, and with elephantnose fish (Gnathonemus petersii); examining multisensory integration and perceptual weighting between their visual and electrosensory systems.
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