Juliane Gaviraghi MussoiUniversity of Auckland · School of Biological Sciences
Juliane Gaviraghi Mussoi
PhD candidate in Biology
I am investigating the effects of sleep disturbances in avian vocal performance.
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Introduction
I am currently investigating the effects of sleep disturbances in avian vocal performance.
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Additional affiliations
May 2018 - August 2018
Position
- Research Assistant
Description
- Project: Detection of moving dots in budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus)
August 2017 - June 2018
Position
- Master's Student
Description
- Master Thesis: Mirror-mediated spatial location in great tits (Parus major); Extra Project: Self-control with experienced great tits (Parus major).
November 2016 - July 2017
Position
- Researcher
Description
- Project: Problem solving in urban and rural great tits (Parus major).
Education
March 2019 - September 2022
August 2016 - August 2018
September 2012 - September 2013
Publications
Publications (2)
Sleep maintains optimal brain functioning to facilitate behavioural flexibility while awake. Owing to a historical bias towards research on mammals, we know comparatively little about the role of sleep in facilitating the cognitive abilities of birds. We investigated how sleep deprivation over the full-night (12 h) or half-night (6 h) affects cogni...
For a bird, it is often vital to visually detect food items, predators, or individuals from the same flock, i.e. moving stimuli of various shapes. Yet, behavioural tests of visual spatial acuity traditionally use stationary gratings as stimuli. We have behaviourally tested the ability of budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus) to detect a black circu...
