Behavioural Biology Johan J. Bolhuis Professor A link to my inaugural lecture [Oratie PDF] E- mail: j.j.bolhuis@uu.nl Tel. 030-2535404 Johan Bolhuis's lecture 'Evolution, Brain and Behaviour: Pitfalls and Opportunities', at the EMBL/EMBO conference 'The Difference Between the Sexes', Heidelberg, Nov 2010, can be seen as streaming video. The public lectures by Johan Bolhuis and Robert Berwick (MIT) on language evolution can be viewed as streaming video. De lezing van Johan Bolhuis, 'Mensen apen vogels na. Over de evolutie van het denken', voor Studium Generale van de Technische Universiteit Delft, kunt u nazien als streaming video. De lezing van Johan Bolhuis, 'Het Evangelie van St. Charles', in de Studium Generale serie 'Na Darwin', kunt u nazien als streaming video. De voordracht van Johan Bolhuis t.g.v. de honderdste geboortedag van Niko Tinbergen kunt u nazien als streaming video.   Brief biography Johan J. Bolhuis obtained his PhD in Zoology (cum laude) at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands, and was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, UK, and at the Department of Zoology, Sub-Department of Animal Behaviour, University of Cambridge, UK. He was Visiting Professor at the Department of Zoology, University of Salzburg (Austria) and Associate Professor at the Institute of Biology, Leiden University, The Netherlands. He was appointed full professor of behavioural biology at Utrecht University in 2001, the same year that he received the Dutch Zoology Prize. He has served as an Editor of Animal Behaviour and president of the Royal Dutch Zoological Society, is Editor of Behavioural Processes, and a member of the editorial boards of Animal Biology, BioEssays, PLoS One, and Scientific Reports, a new online and open access journal from the Publishers of Nature.   Main Research Interests My main research interests are in the behavioural, neural and cognitive mechanisms of learning, memory and development. In particular, my current research is concerned with the neural mechanisms of birdsong memory. In addition, I have a theoretical interest in the relationship between evolution, cognition, and the brain. For details, see my research pages.		NEW: ‘Birdsong neurolinguistics: songbird context-free grammar claim is premature’, by Beckers, Bolhuis, Okanoya & Berwick in NeuroReport. Johan Bolhuis reviews Robert Trivers' Folly of Fools in Science '‘Darwin in Mind’' cover article in PLoS Biology on a new approach to Evolutionary Psychology by Bolhuis, Brown, Richardson & Laland NEW: 'A minimalist approach to comparative psychology' by Hemelrijk & Bolhuis in Trends Cogn. Sci. 15, 185-186 NEW: 'From songs to synapses: Molecular mechanisms of birdsong memory' by Moorman, Mello and Bolhuis in BioEssays. NEW: Trends Cogn. Sci. paper 'Songs to syntax: The linguistics of birdsong', by Berwick, Okanoya, Beckers & Bolhuis NEW: Twitter Evolution - Cover article in Nature Reviews Neuroscience by Bolhuis, Okanoya and Scharff on the parallels between birdsong and human speech NEW: To sleep, perchance to learn? Article in Proc. Roy. Soc. B by Gobes, Zandbergen & Bolhuis showing song learning-related brain activity during sleep in zebra finches
Key journal publications (for books, click on covers below) Bolhuis, J.J. et al. (2000) Localized neuronal activation in the zebra finch brain is related to the strength of song learning. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 97, 2282-2285. [pdf file] Bolhuis, J.J. & Macphail, E.M. (2001) A critique of the neuroecology of learning and memory. Trends Cogn. Sci. 5, 426-433. Bolhuis, J.J. & Gahr, M. (2006) Neural mechanisms of birdsong memory. Nature Rev. Neurosci., 7, 347-357 Gobes, S.H.M. & Bolhuis, J.J. (2007) Birdsong memory: A neural dissociation between song recognition and production. Curr. Biol., 17, 789-793. Bolhuis, J.J. & Wynne, C.D.L. (2009) Can evolution explain how minds work? Nature, 458, 832-833. Bolhuis, J.J., Okanoya, K. & Scharff, C. (2010) Twitter evolution: Converging mechanisms in birdsong and human speech. Nature Rev. Neurosci., 11, 747-759. Bolhuis, J.J., Brown, G.R., Richardson R.C. & Laland, K.N. (2011) Darwin in mind: new opportunities for evolutionary psychology. PLoS Biol., 9, e1001109. Complete list of publications - updated 16 Nov 2011
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