Our research seeks to understand how social processes influence communication. We test the roles of social groups on vocal signaling in chickadees and titmice (Paridae), taking developmental, functional, and evolutionary perspectives.

[Left = Chiricahua Mountains, AZ (bridled titmouse site); Middle = with Mina at House Mountain State Natural Area, TN; Right = Sagehen Reserve, CA (mountain chickadee site)]

Ongoing projects in the lab include:

• the roles of group size and complexity of social interactions on vocal signaling
• the influences of social groups on vocal development
• the functions of variation in the 'chick-a-dee' call of chickadees and titmice
• the relationships among social context, 'personality', and communication in chickadees
• vocal signaling and signal variation in red-legged seriema (at the Knoxville Zoo)

Todd M. Freeberg - - - Email = tfreeber@utk.edu - - - Phone = 865-974-3975

Department of Psychology, Austin Peay Building 301B, University of Tennessee, Knoxville TN 37996 U.S.A.