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Name:
 Ian Q. Whishaw
Phone:
 (403) 329-2402
E-mail:
 whishaw@uleth.ca
Office:
 EP 1244
Lab:
 EP1215
Degrees:
 Ph.D. - University of Western Ontario
M.Sc. - University of Calgary
B.A. - University of Calgary
Biography:
 Ian Whishaw received his Ph.D. from the University of Western Ontario in 1971. He moved to the University of Lethbridge in 1970, where he is currently a Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience and holds a Board of Governors Chair in Neuroscience. He has had visiting appointments at the University of Texas, the University of Michigan, Cambridge University, and the University of Strasbourg, France. He is also a Fellow of Clair Hall, Cambridge. His current research examines how the precise details of bodily movements are influenced by injury or disease to the motor systems of rodents and humans. Whishaw is a Fellow of the Canadian Psychological Association, the American Psychological Association, and the Royal Society of Canada. He is a recipient of a bronze medal from the Canadian Humane Society, a recipient of the Ingrid Speaker Medal for research, and president of NeuroInvestigations, Inc.
Recent
Publications:

Whishaw IQ, Metz GA, Kolb B, Pellis SM. Accelerated nervous system development contributes to behavioral efficiency in the laboratory mouse: a behavioral review and theoretical proposal. Dev Psychobiol. 2001 Nov;39(3):151-70. Review. PMID: 11745309 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Whishaw IQ, Hines DJ, Wallace DG. Dead reckoning (path integration) requires the hippocampal formation: evidence from spontaneous exploration and spatial learning tasks in light (allothetic) and dark (idiothetic) tests. Behav Brain Res. 2001 Dec 14;127(1-2):49-69. PMID: 11718884 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Whishaw IQ, Maaswinkel H, Gonzalez CL, Kolb B. Deficits in allothetic and idiothetic spatial behavior in rats with posterior cingulate cortex lesions. Behav Brain Res. 2001 Jan 8;118(1):67-76. PMID: 11163635 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Whishaw IQ, Pasztor TJ. Rats alternate on a dry-land but not swimming-pool (Morris task) place task: implications for spatial processing. Behav Neurosci. 2000 Apr;114(2):442-6. PMID: 10832805 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]