Carolina Montenegro, University of Alberta

Research

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Latest papers

Individual vocal identity may be obscured following colony assembly in captive black-capped chickadees
Behavioural Processes · 2025
Black-capped chickadees (Poecile atricapillus) discriminate between naturally-ordered and scramble-ordered chick-a-dee calls and individual preference is related to rate of learning
Behavioural Processes · 2023
Effect of feed-time duration on discrimination of vocalizations in a go/no-go operant paradigm
Behavioural Processes · 2022

5 publications.

01

Individual vocal identity may be obscured following colony assembly in captive black-capped chickadees

Sarah M L Smeltz, Moriah J Deimeke, Prateek K. Sahu, Carolina Montenegro, Katharine H. Stenstrom, Ilex Starenchak, Victoria C. F. Rennie, Inaara M Ebrahim, John Anthony Jones, Christopher B. Sturdy

Behavioural Processes2025Open Access

DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2025.105151 PMID: 39880221

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Black-capped chickadees (Poecile atricapillus) discriminate between naturally-ordered and scramble-ordered chick-a-dee calls and individual preference is related to rate of learning

Kimberley A. Campbell, Marisa Hoeschele, Dan C. Mann, Jenna V. Congdon, Erin N. Scully, Shannon K. Mischler, Carolina Montenegro, William D. Service, Christopher B. Sturdy

Behavioural Processes20234 citations

DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2023.104842 PMID: 36758732

03

Effect of feed-time duration on discrimination of vocalizations in a go/no-go operant paradigm

Prateek K. Sahu, Carolina Montenegro, Connor T. Lambert, Alexandra Oprea, Moriah J Deimeke, Victoria C. F. Rennie, Sarah M L Smeltz, Thomas J. Benowicz, Divya Patel, Leslie S. Phillmore, Christopher B. Sturdy

Behavioural Processes20222 citations

DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2022.104777 PMID: 36375711

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The impact of anthropogenic noise on individual identification via female song in Black-capped chickadees (Poecile atricapillus)

Carolina Montenegro, William D. Service, Erin N. Scully, Shannon K. Mischler, Prateek K. Sahu, Thomas J. Benowicz, Katelyn V. R. Fox, Christopher B. Sturdy

Scientific Reports20219 citationsFirst authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-96504-3 PMID: 34475418

05

Individual acoustic differences in female black-capped chickadee (Poecile atricapillus) fee-bee songs

Carolina Montenegro, Prateek K. Sahu, Christopher B. Sturdy

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America20212 citationsFirst author

DOI: 10.1121/10.0006532 PMID: 34717515

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Department of Psychology
Psychology Science
Department of Psychology & Neuroscience

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Christopher Sturdy

Psychology Science

5 shared papers, latest 2025

Leslie Phillmore

Department of Psychology & Neuroscience

1 shared papers, latest 2022

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