...An individual’s social world emerges from, and persists within, their sensory experiences.

2025
MR Kim, CM Haakenson, JA Brown, GF Ball, & NH Prior.
A social conditioned place preference test and pair maintenance in the monogamous zebra finch.
Physiology & Behavior 297, 114925
NH Prior, AR Fishbein, EM Garcia, S Clough, MR Elson, GF Ball, & RJ Dooling.
Assessing female call responses to syllable level details in song.
Frontiers in Psychology 16, 1523105
2024
MR Elson, NH Prior, & AG Ophir
Neuroendocrine mechanisms underlying reproductive decision making across taxa.
In Neuroendocrinology of Behavior and Emotions: Environmental and Social Factors Affecting Behavior (pp. 157-191)
2023
NH Prior, CM Haakenson, S Clough, GF Ball, BA Sandkam
Varied impacts of social relationships on neuroendocrine state.
Hormones and Behavior 155, 105403
2022
NH Prior, EJ Bentz, AG Ophir
Reciprocal processes of sensory perception and social bonding: an integrated social‐sensory framework of social behavior
Genes, Brain and Behavior 21 (3), e12781
2021
AR Fishbein*, NH Prior*, JA Brown, GF Ball, RJ Dooling (* co-first)
Discrimination of natural acoustic variation in vocal signals.
Scientific Reports 11 (1), 916
2020
NH Prior
Frontiers in Psychology 11, 1370
2018
NH Prior, E Smith, S Lawson, GF Ball, RJ Dooling
Acoustic fine structure may encode biologically relevant information for zebra finches
Scientific reports 8 (1), 6212