Professor, Department of Psychology
Associate Dean, Research & the University Graduate School
Ph.D. Princeton University 1974
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Jeffrey R. Alberts Professor, Department of Psychology Associate Dean, Research & the University Graduate School Ph.D. Princeton University 1974 |
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Dr. Albert's research program is dedicated to describing and elucidating functional and mechanistic aspects of the development of
species-typical behavior in rodents. Currently, he is studying sensory and motor capabilities in fetal rats as a means of understanding
adaptation to prenatal life as well as anticipation of the postnatal environment. Dr. Alberts is analyzing the ultrasonic vocalizations of
infant rodents, not just as a form of acoustic communication with the parent, but also as an aspect of early thermal and oxygen homeostasis.
Both of these lines of research reflect the combined behavioral and physiological approach often used in his laboratory. Studies of weaning
in rodents are another part of the program, for the transition from suckling to independent feeding is a universal developmental process in
mammalian ontogenesis. Because parents are a part of a mammal's typical environment, Dr. Albert's lab also is devoted to novel analyses of
parental behavior, including biparental care, and parent-offspring interactions.
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Jeffrey R. Alberts. 1994. Learning as adaptation of the infant. Acta Paediatricia (Suppl. 39):77-85. (Abstract) Ronca, A.E. & J.R. Alberts. 1995. Maternal contributions to fetal experience and the transition from prental to postnatal life. In J.P. Lecanuet, W.P. Fifer, N.A. Krasnegor, and W.P. Smotherman, (Eds.), Fetal Development: A Psychobiological Perspective. (Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates), 331-351. Alberts, J.R. & A.E. Ronca. 1996. Fetal behavior in developmental psychobiology. Developmental Psychobiology 29(3):185-190. Blumberg, M.S. & J.R. Alberts. 1997. Incidental emissions, fortuitous effects, and the origins of communication. In Perspectives in Ethology (N. Thompson, D. Owings, Eds.), Vol. 12 (New York: Plenum Press), pp. 225-249. Graham S. Flory, Cynthia M. Langley, John F. Pfister, and Jeffrey R. Alberts. 1997. Instrumental learning for a thermal reinforcer in 1-day-old rats. Developmental Psychobiology 30:41-47. (Abstract) Carolyn J. Gerrish and Jeffrey R. Alberts. 1997. Postsuckling behavioral arousal in weanling rats (Rattus norvegicus). Journal of Comparative Psychology 111: 37-49. (Abstract) |
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