Dr. Eduardo Mercado III
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Hawaii
Office: 350 Park Hall
Phone: (716) 645-3650 x. 350
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Summary of Research Interests:

My research focuses on how different brain systems interact to develop representations of experienced events, and how these representations change over time. My approach is integrative and comparative. I am currently using techniques from the fields of experimental psychology, computational neuroscience, electrical engineering, and behavioral neuroscience to answer questions about auditory learning and memory in rodents, cetaceans, and humans.

Representative Publications:

• Branstetter, B. K., & Mercado, E., III (2006). Sound localization by cetaceans. International Journal of Comparative Psychology, 19, 26-61.
• Mercado, E., III, Orduna, I., Nowak, J. N. (2005). Auditory categorization of complex sounds by rats. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 119, 90-98.
• Mercado, E., III, Herman, L.M., & Pack, A.A. (2005). Song copying by humpback whales: Themes and variations. Animal Cognition, 8, 93-102.
• Orduna, I., Mercado, E., III, Gluck, M.A, & Merzenich, M. M. (2005). Cortical responses predict perceptual sensitivities to complex sounds in rats. Behavioral Neuroscience, 119, 256-264.
• Sun, W., Mercado, E., III, Wang, P., Shan, X., Te-Chung, L., Salvi, R. J. (2005) Changes in NMDA receptor expression in auditory cortex after learning. Neuroscience Letters 374, 63-68.