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Wyttenbach, Robert

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I am a senior research associate in the lab of Prof. Ronald Hoy. My primary responsibility is creation of new educational materials and media in behavioral science and neurobiology. A major past project was publication in 1999 of a neurophysiology laboratory manual on CD-ROM, with all projects based on inexpensive invertebrate preparations. The CD included videos of all procedures. I provide ongoing support for users of the material through a web site (crawdad.cornell.edu). I recently finished a CD-ROM of laboratory exercises in sensory and cognitive psychology, experiments that students can do on themselves at a computer. With an NSF proof-of-concept award, I developed software to teach game theory in animal behavior. After a successful test of that material, I have now received a full-development grant. All of these projects have been supported by the NSF (division of undergraduate education). I have also participated in two projects supported by a grant from the HHMI to Prof. Hoy. One of these uses software to teach about sound, hearing, and acoustics. The other is a set of laboratory exercises and teaching aids to teach neurogenetics using fruitfly models of human disease. My research interests are in hearing in crickets and cockroaches, with an emphasis on applying paradigms from human psychophysics.

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  • My research interest is insect hearing, primarily applying psychophysical methods. The main focus of my current activity is in developing teaching materials. I also contribute to research in the lab of Ron Hoy on hearing in mosquitoes and midges.

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  • hearing
  • insect
  • neurobiology