
Stephanie A. White, Ph.D.
Titles
Professor, Integrative Biology and Physiology
Tennenbaum Center for the Biology of Creativity
Member, Brain Research Institute
Molecular, Cellular & Integrative Physiology GPB Home Area
Neuroscience GPB Home Area
Contact Information
Office Phone Number: (310) 794-1888
Work Address:
Laboratory610 Charles Young Drive, East
Los Angeles, CA 90095
UNITED STATES Office
610 Charles Young Drive, East
Los Angeles, CA 90095
UNITED STATES
Biography
Social influences on learning and memory How do social interactions influence the brain? Our laboratory is interested in how social behaviors affect neuronal plasticity at sites responsible for learning in an Australian songbird, the zebra finch. We study song learning behavior that is essential for reproductive opportunity and is mediated by known neural circuitry. In zebra finches, both the learned behavior and its underlying neural structures are sexually dimorphic, and plasticity is greatest during critical developmental phases. Within a comparative framework, we use behavioral, electrophysiological, and molecular techniques to investigate how social interactions shape gene expression patterns, how these changes modulate neural circuit properties and ultimately, how this constellation of changes sculpts behavior.
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