PUBLICATIONS


Skinner M, Kumpan T, Miller N (in press). Intense sociability in a “non-social” snake (Python regius). Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology.
  doi: 10.1007/s00265-024-03535-7.
  SharedIt (read the paper online): https://rdcu.be/dZlDj.
  Covered by the New York Times, and the CBC. Hear Morgan interviewed about the study on CBC Radio's As It Happens.

Miller N (in press). Why we should study animal consciousness [Outlook paper]. Learning & Behavior.
  doi: 10.3758/s13420-024-00639-y.

Shoot TT, Long TAF, Miller N (2024). Debugging collective digging in Drosophila melanogaster using an agent-based model. Ecological Modelling, 494:110781.
  doi: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2024.110781.

Freiburger T, Miller N, Skinner M (2024). Olfactory self recognition in two species of snake. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 291:20240125.
  doi: 10.1098/rspb.2024.0125.
  Covered by the New York Times, New Scientist, Smithsonian Magazine, Psychology Today, and National Geographic Spain.

Skinner M, Daanish D, Damphousse C, Krohmer RW, Mallet P, McKay B, Miller N (2024). Socially-mediated activation in the snake social-decision-making network. Behavioral Brain Research, 465:114965.
  doi: 10.1016/j.bbr.2024.114965

Skinner M, Nagabaskaran G, Gantert T, Miller N (2024). Bolder together: Conformity drives behavioral plasticity in Eastern Gartersnakes. Animal Cognition, 27:2.
  doi: 10.1007/s10071-024-01859-5
  SharedIt (read the paper online): https://rdcu.be/dzsyg.

Shoot TT, Miller NY, Long TAF (2024). Plasticity in expression of fruit fly larval feeding clusters in response to changes in food quality and distribution. Insectes Sociaux, 71:5-15.
  doi: 10.1007/s00040-024-00947-6.
  SharedIt (read the paper online): https://rdcu.be/dyXu5.

Nagabaskaran G, Skinner M, Miller N (2022). Western hognose snakes (Heterodon nasicus) prefer environmental enrichment. Animals, 12:3347.
  doi: 10.3390/ani12233347.

Damphousse CC, Miller N, Marrone DF (2022). Functional dissociation along the rostrocaudal axis of Japanese quail hippocampus. PLoS One, 17:e0277414.
  doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0277414.

Skinner M, Brown S, Kumpan T, Miller N (2022). Snake personality: differential effects of development and social experience. Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology, 76:135.
  doi: 10.1007/s00265-022-03227-0.
  SharedIt (read the paper online): https://rdcu.be/cV4fL.

Miller N, Ayoub R, Sentinathan G, Mallet P (2022). Behavioral evidence for two distinct memory systems in rats. Animal Cognition, 25:1599-1608.
  doi: 10.1007/s10071-022-01645-1.
  SharedIt (read the paper online): https://rdcu.be/cQdbH.

Damphousse CC, Miller N, Marrone DF (2022). Protocol for inducing hippocampal formation lesions and associated behavioral testing in Japanese quail. STAR Protocols, 3:101553.
  doi: 10.1016/j.xpro.2022.10155.

Damphousse CC, Miller N, Marrone DF (2022). Experience-dependent Egr1 expression in the hippocampus of Japanese Quail. Frontiers in Psychology: Comparative Psychology, 13:887790.
  doi: 0.3389/fpsyg.2022.887790.

Damphousse CC, Miller N, Marrone DF (2022). Dissociation of spatial and object memory in the hippocampal formation of Japanese quail. iScience, 25:103805.
  doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2022.103805.

Skinner M, Miller N (2022). Stability and change in gartersnake social networks across ontogeny. Ethology, 128:257-267.
  doi: 10.1111/eth.13262.

Damphousse CC, Miller N, Marrone DF (2021). Reaction to novelty as a behavioral assay of recognition memory in homing pigeons and Japanese quail. Learning & Behavior, 50:167-177.
  doi: 10.3758/s13420-021-00499-w.

Miller N (2021). Taking shortcuts in the study of animal navigation [Outlook paper]. Learning & Behavior, 49:261-262.
  doi: 10.3758/s13420-020-00461-2.

Kadak K, Miller N (2020). Follow the straggler: zebrafish use a simple heuristic for collective decision-making. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 287:20202690.
  doi: 10.1098/rspb.2020.2690.

Skinner M, Miller N (2020). Aggregation and social interaction in garter snakes (Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis). Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology, 74:51.
  doi: 0.1007/s00265-020-2827-0.
  Covered by Science, National Geographic, Ha'aretz (in Hebrew), La Republica (in Italian), Vice, Treehugger, and others.

Miller N (2020). Social behavior and psychopharmacological and genetic analysis in zebrafish. In R Gerlai (Ed), Behavioral and Neural Genetics of Zebrafish (Academic Press).
  ISBN: 9780128175293.

Damphousse C, Marrone D, Miller N (2019). Pair foraging degrades socially transmitted food preferences in rats. Animal Cognition, 22:1027-1037.
  doi: 10.1007/s10071-019-01294-x.
  SharedIt (read the paper online): https://rdcu.be/cMd88.

Ayoub R, Armstrong E, Miller N (2019). Out of sight, out of mind: mechanisms of social choice in fish. Animal Behavior, 155:163-169.
  doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2019.05.025.

Delcourt J, Miller NY, Couzin ID, Garnier S (2018). Methods for the effective study of collective behavior in a radial arm maze. Behavior Research Methods, 50:1673-1685.
  doi: 10.3758/s13428-018-1024-9.

Miller N (2018). Social learning and associative processes: a synthesis. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, 44:105-113.
  doi: 10.1037/xan0000167.

Miller N (2018). Raising the bar on studying cultural evolution. [Outlook paper]. Learning & Behavior, 46:5-6.
  doi: 10.3758/s13420-017-0300-3.

Miller N (2017). Cognition in fishes. [Introduction to special issue]. Behavioral Processes, 141:137-140.
  doi: 10.1016/j.beproc.2017.03.013.

White DJ, Watts E, Pitchforth K, Agyapong S, Miller N (2017). 'Sociability' affects the intensity of mate-choice copying in female guppies, Poecilia reticulata. Behavioural Processes, 141:251-257.
  doi: 10.1016/j.beproc.2-17.02.017.

Guayasamin OL, Couzin ID, Miller N (2017). Behavioural plasticity across social contexts is regulated by the directionality of inter-individual differences. Behavioral Processes, 141:196-204.
  doi: 10.1016/j.beproc.2016.10.004.

Kao A, Miller N, Torney C, Hartnett A, Couzin ID (2014). Collective learning and optimal consensus decisions in social animal groups. PLoS Computational Biology, 10(8):e1003762
  doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003762.

Miller N, Shettleworth SJ (2013). An associative model of instrumental choice: a response to Dupuis and Dawson. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 39287-293.
  doi: 10.1037/a0033348.

Pérez-Escudero A, Miller N, Hartnett AT, Garnier S, Couzin ID, de Polavieja GG (2013). Estimation models describe well collective decisions among three options. PNAS, 110:E3466-3467.
  doi: 10.1073/pnas.1309867110.

Miller N, Garnier S, Hartnett A, Couzin ID (2013). Both information and social cohesion determine collective decisions in animal groups. PNAS, 110:5263-5268.
  doi: 10.1073/pnas.1217513110.

Miller N, Greene K, Dydinski A, Gerlai R (2013). Effects of nicotine and alcohol on zebrafish (Danio rerio) schooling. Behavioural Brain Research, 240:192-196.
  doi: 10.1016/j.bbr.2012.11.033.

Kalueff AV, et al. (2013). Towards a comprehensive catalog of zebrafish behavior 1.0, and beyond. Zebrafish, 10:70-86.
  doi: 10.1089/zeb.2012.0861.

Miller N, Gerlai R (2012). Automated tracking of zebrafish shoals and the analysis of shoaling behavior. In AV Kalueff & AM Stewart (Eds.), Zebrafish Protocols for Neurobehavioral Research. New York: Humana Press [book chapter].
  doi: 10.1007/978-1-61779-597-8_16.

Miller N, Gerlai R (2012). From schooling to shoaling: patterns of collective motion in zebrafish (Danio rerio). PLoS ONE, 7(11):e48865.
  doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0048865.

Miller N, Gerlai R (2011). Redefining membership in animal groups. Behavior Research Methods, 43:964-970.
  doi: 10.3758/s13428-011-0090-z.

Miller N, Gerlai R (2011). Shoaling in zebrafish: what we don't know. Reviews in the Neurosciences, 22:17-25.
  doi: 10.1515/rns.2011.004.

Miller NY (2009). Modeling the effects of enclosure size on geometry learning. Behavioral Processes, 80:306-313.
  doi: 10.1016/j.beproc.2008.12.011.

Miller NY, Gerlai R (2008). Oscillations in shoal cohesion in zebrafish (Danio rerio). Behavioural Brain Research, 193:148-151.
  doi: 10.1016/j.bbr.2008.05.004.

Miller NY, Shettleworth SJ (2008). An associative model of geometry learning: a modified choice rule. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 34:419-422.
  doi: 10.1037/0097-7403.34.3.419.

Miller NY, Gerlai R (2007). Quantification of shoaling behavior in zebrafish (Danio rerio). Behavioural Brain Research, 184:157-166.
  doi: 10.1016/j.bbr.2007.07.007.

Miller NY, Shettleworth SJ (2007). Learning about Environmental Geometry: An Associative Model. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 33:191-212.
  doi: 10.1037/0097-7403.33.3.191.

Skov-Rackette SI, Miller NY, Shettleworth SJ (2006). What-where-when memory in pigeons. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 32:345-358.
  doi: 10.1037/0097-7403.32.4.345.