Wyttenbach, Robert
Senior Research Associate
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.
research
research and scholarship focus
My research interests are in hearing in crickets and cockroaches, with an emphasis on applying paradigms from human psychophysics.
primary investigator of
- TEACHING MATHEMATICAL MODELING IN THE BEHAVORIAL SCIENCES | Research Grant
research areas
- bioacoustics | collaborative research area (CALS)
- entomology | collaborative research area (CALS)
- insects | collaborative research area (CALS)
- neuroscience | collaborative research area (CALS)
- science education | collaborative research area (CALS)
submitted impact statement
- Developing educational software and support for teaching neurobiology, behavior, acoustics, and genetics. | 2007 Impact statement
- Developing educational software and support for teaching neurobiology, behavior, acoustics, and genetics | 2006 Impact statement
- Developing educational software and support for teaching neurobiology, behavior, acoustics, and genetics | 2005 Impact statement
affiliations
academic staff in
- Neurobiology and Behavior (BIO NB) | Cornell department
teaching
teaching focus
I teach neuroscience to premedical students at the Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar. |In spring 2007, I taught a new course in "The science of music" to Cornell undergraduates, focusing on the biology and psychology behind our perception and production of music.
Keywords: behavior, neurobiology, neurobiology & behavior, neuroethology, psychophysics