Dr. Gerald Hough
I received my PhD from The Ohio State University in
2000, where I was working with Dr. Douglas Nelson and
Dr. Susan Volman. There, I was studying the retention
of song in the adult songbird: learning, forgetting,
and remembering. In that lab I was studying two main
species of songbird- the white-crowned sparrow (Zonotrichia
leucophrys) and the zebra finch (Taeniopygia
guttata). In these labs, I performed behavioral
studies on song learning, production, and retention;
neural recording from single cells in nucleus HVC, and
performed histological examinations of brain tissue.
In 2000, I began a post-doctoral fellowship with Dr.
Verner Bingman at Bowling Green State University (OH),
where I investigated the neural representation of
environmental space in the hippocampus of awake,
behaving homing pigeons. In addition, I performed
several tract tracing and connectivity studies on the
internal connectivity of the hippocampal formation in
pigeons. Both of these studies are continued in
ongoing projects at Rowan University.
I have taught numerous courses in the Departments of Biological Sciences and Psychology. In Biology, these include Animal Behavior, Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy, Biology 1: Evolution and Ecology, and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. In Psychology, I have taught Psychology of Scientific Thinking, Cognitive Neuroscience, Physiological Psychology, and Psychopharmacology and the Biological Bases of Behavior.
Undergraduate Research
Students:
Richard Verticelli, Camille Elliott, Victoria Livesey, Joshua
Freund
Please
contact Dr. Hough, explaining your backgrounder
and interests. He will be happy to explain
current research and possibilities in the lab.
Gerald
Hough, PhD
Dept of Biological Science, CSM
Rowan University
Science Hall, 201K
201 Mullica Hill Rd
Glassboro NJ, 08028
Tel. (856) 256 4500, ext 2529
Email: hough@rowan.edu