NICOLE KIME


Office: Sonderegger 319
Office Phone: (608) 663-3446
E-mail: nkime@edgewood.edu

Curriculum Vitae (download pdf)

Research Interests: Animal communication and mating behavior (frogs, birds, and lizards), neuroethology, evolutionary biology.

Publications (links to pdf files are highlighted):

• Kime, N.M, T.K. Whitney, E.S. Davis, and C.A. Marler (2007) Arginine vasotocin promotes calling behavior and call changes in male túngara frogs. Brain, Behavior, and Evolution 69:254-265.

• Kime, N.M., S. Burmeister and M.J. Ryan (2004) Female mating preferences for socially variable call characters in the cricket frog (Acris crepitans). Animal Behaviour 68:1391-1399.

• Ryan, M.J. and N.M. Kime (2003) Selection on long distance acoustic signals. In: Acoustic Communication. Springer Handbook of Auditory Research (edited by A. Simmons, R.R. Fay and A.N. Popper), Springer, New York, pp. 225-274.

• Kime, N.M., M.J. Ryan and W. Turner (2000) The transmission of advertisement calls in Central American frogs. Behavioral Ecology 11:71-83.

• Ryan, M.J., N.M. Kime and G.G. Rosenthal (1998) Patterns of evolution in human speech processing and animal communication. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 21:282-283.

• Kime, N.M., A.S. Rand, M. Kapfer and M.J. Ryan (1998) Consistency of female choice in the túngara frog: a permissive preference for complex characters. Animal Behaviour 55:641-649.

• Behan, M. and N.M. Kime (1996) Intrinsic circuitry in deep layers of the cat superior colliculus. Visual Neuroscience 13:1031-1042.

• Behan, M. and N.M. Kime (1996) Spatial distribution of tectotectal connections in the cat. In: Progress in Brain Research (edited by M. Norita, T. Bando and B.E. Stein), Elsevier, New York 112:131-142.

• Behan, M., P.P. Appell and N. Kime (1993) Postnatal development of substance-P immunoreactivity in the rat superior colliculus. Visual Neuroscience 10:1121-1127.