Dr. Eduardo Mercado III
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Hawaii
Office: 350 Park Hall
Phone: (716) 645-0231
E-mail: emiii@buffalo.edu
Url: Personally maintained website
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:
- Church, B.A., Krauss, M. S., Lopata, C., Toomey, J. A., Thomeer, M. L., Coutinho, M. V., Volker, M. A., Mercado, E., III (in press). Atypical categorization in children with high functioning autism spectrum disorder. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.
- Wisniewski, M. G., Church, B.A., Mercado, E., III (in press). Temporal dynamics of generalization and representational distortion. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.
- Mercado, E., III, DeLong, C. M. (2010). Dolphin cognition: Representations and processes in memory and perception. International Journal of Comparative Psychology, 23, 344-378.
- Mercado, E., III, Schneider, J.N., Pack, A.A., Herman, L.M. (2010). Sound production by singing humpback whales. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 127, 2678-2691.
- Mercado, E., III (2009). Cognitive plasticity and cortical modules. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 18, 153-158.
- Liu, E., H.-M., Mercado, E., III., Church, B.A., & Orduña, I. (2008). The easy-to-hard effect in human (Homo sapiens) and rat (Rattus norvegicus) auditory identification. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 122, 132-145.