ProfessorXimena Nelson
Animal Behaviour
Julius von Haast 336
Phone: +6433695198
Internal Phone: 95198
Qualifications & Memberships
Research Interests
My primary research interests lie in animal behaviour and physiology. I am particularly interested in animal communication and animal cognition, as well as the manner in which animal sensory systems interact with behaviour to form the neuroethology of information processing and decision-making.
For more information, please visit my personal webpage:
http://ximenanelson.weebly.com/index.html
Recent Publications
- Aguilar-Arguello S., Taylor AH. and Nelson XJ. (2022) Jumping spiders do not seem fooled by texture gradient illusions. Behavioural Processes 196 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2022.104603.
- Bastos AP., Nelson XJ. and Taylor AH. (2022) From the lab to the wild: how can captive studies aid the conservation of kea (Nestor notabilis)? Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences 45 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cobeha.2022.101131.
- McLean LRW., Nichols MM., Taylor AH. and Nelson XJ. (2022) Memory retention of conditioned aversion training in New Zealand's alpine parrot, the kea. Journal of Wildlife Management http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jwmg.22221.
- Aguilar-Arguello S. and Nelson XJ. (2021) Jumping spiders: An exceptional group for comparative cognition studies. Learning and Behavior 49(3): 276-291. http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13420-020-00445-2.
- Aguilar-Arguello S., Taylor AH. and Nelson XJ. (2021) Jumping spiders attend to information from multiple modalities when preparing to jump. Animal Behaviour 171: 99-109. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2020.11.013.