People in the lab

Graduate students

Shahaf Edut
(Since Oct. 1999)
Predatory behavior in barn owls (Tyto alba) and the corresponding defensive behavior in voles (Microtus socialis) and common spiny mice (Acomys cahirinus)

Sharom Ronen
(Since Oct. 2001)
The role of landmarks in normal and stereotyped locomotion

Assaf Erez
(Since Oct. 2002)
Navigation and exploration in the mole rat (Spalax ehrenbergi)

Past students

Anat Ben-Pazi
(Graduated: may 2000; in collaboration with Professor H. Szechtman, Dept. Behav. Neurosci., McMaster Univ.)
The morphogenesis of motor rituals in rats treated chronically with the dopamine agonist quinpirole

Gabi Shefer
(graduated: December 1994; in collaboration with Professor D.M. Michaelson, Dept. of Neurobiochemistry)
Cholinergic and Dopaminergic Mechanisms and the Spatial
Organization of Behavior in the Rat.

Daniel Serruya
(graduated: May 1994)
Motor Routines in the Behaviour of the Rock Hyrax (Procavia capensis)

Hagit Blumberg-Feldman
(graduated: October 1993)
Postnatal Development of Locomotion in Wagner's Gerbil (Gerbillus dasyurus).

Udergraduates (co-authors)

Michal Adijes
Uphill Locomotion in the Mole Rats (Spalax eherenbergi).

Ifat Schulman
Behavioral and hormonal response of voles and spiny mice to owl calls

Maya Dank
Activity and the temporal structure of exploration in the vole are independent of arena size

Noa Pinter
Aggressive interactions between competing spiny mouse species

Eran Shifferman
Barn owl attack: the movement and moving direction of a simulated prey affect the rate of success