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Lipkind, Dina

Lipkind, Dina

Assistant Professor

Biology

Phone: 718-262-2709
Office Location: AC-4E03D
Email: dlipkind@york.cuny.edu

Many of the tasks in our daily lives, from spoken language to using utensils, involve complex behaviors learned during infancy. I am interested in the developmental learning of complex skills in animals and humans. As an animal model system I use the zebra finch, a songbird species capable of vocal imitation. I study how juvenile males learn the courtship song of their father, using experimental and computational approaches to manipulate and analyze the birds’ vocal development. The insights and computational tools obtained from studying songbirds are applied to the analysis of vocal development data of human infants.

Office Hours

DayTime
Monday1:00pm - 2:40pm
Friday3:00pm - 3:50pm

Education

DegreeInstitutionFieldDates
PhD Tel Aviv University Zoology 2007 
MS Tel Aviv University Zoology 2000 
BS Tel Aviv University Life Sciences 1995 

Areas of Expertise

  • Animal behavior, vocal learning, neuroethology

Publications in Field Of Expertise

Articles

Chapters

Reviews

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Other

Presented Papers, Lectures, and Exhibitions and Performances

Grants-In-Aid

  • NIH NINDS, Reinforcement Mechanisms for Learning Vocal Behaviors (Co-Investigator). 2018-2023: $524,720.
  • PSC CUNY, Self evaluation strategies in birdsong learning. 2023-2024: $11981.
  • NSF, CAREER: Self evaluation strategies for birdsong learning. 2024-2028: Pending.

Other Professional Activities and Public Service

  • Guest editor, Sepcial Issue, Frontiers in Psychology: Since March 2023.
  • Ad hoc reviewer, Languages: October 2021.
  • As hoc reviewer, Communications Biology: November 2021.
  • As hoc reviewer, Communications Biology: March 2021.
  • Ad hoc reviewer, Nature Communications: October 2020.
  • Volunteer, VESSC (volunteer emergency student success coaches) York College: April-May 2020.
  • Ad hoc reviewer, Journal of Experimental Psychology: 2020.
  • Ad hoc reviewer, Animal Behaviour: 2020.
  • Ad hoc reviewer, Scientific Reports: 2020.
  • Ad hoc reviewer, Israel Science Foundation: 2020.
  • Doctoral Thesis, co-supervisor, Tomas Tomka, doctoral student, Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, ETH ZUrich: Since January 2020.
  • Mentor, high school student project, Jaewon Lee, Bronx Highschool for the Sciences: Since June 2021.
  • Mentor, high school student project, Claire Jiang, The Bronx High School of Science: Since July 2020.
  • Invited participant, Workshop "Unifying Vocal Learning", Lorentz Center, Leiden University, The Netherlands: September 2019.
  • Mentor, high school student project, Huihui Jiang, Queens High School of the Sciences at York College: since July 2019.
  • Mentor, high school student project, Amareli Reyes, Queens Metropolitan High School: since July 2019.
  • Mentor, high school student project, Julie Lin, The Bronx High School of Science: since July 2019.
  • Judge, Writing Across the Curriculum Science Fair: 4/7/2019.
  • Ad hoc reviewer, Israel Science Foundation: 2019.
  • Ad hoc reviewer, Scientific Reports: 2018.
  • Ad hoc reviewer, Journal of Neuroscience Methods: 2016.
  • Ad hoc reviewer, The Auk: Ornitological Advances: 2015.