Brenton G. Cooper, Ph.D.
brenton.cooper@tcu.edu817-257-6462SWR 321
Program Affiliations
Education
Ph.D., Psychology, University of Utah, 2003
B.S., Summa Cum Laude, University of New Mexico, 1993
Areas of Focus
Our laboratory is an integrative physiology laboratory studying vocal and social communication. Our goal is to further our understanding of proximate and ultimate mechanisms underlying vocal and social communication. We study vocal learning and production in birds, rats and, in the future, humans. For a complete list of my research publications, please visit my Google Scholar page.
Goller, F., Cooper, B. G., Mindlin, G. B. (2025). Current Biology , https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2025.10.045
Méndez, J. M., Cooper, B. G., Goller, F. (2024). Note similarities affect syntactic stability in zebra finches. Journal of Comparative Physiology A, 211(1):35-52.
Méndez, J. M., Dukes, J. & Cooper, B. G. (2022). Preparing to sing: Respiratory patterns underlying motor readiness for song. Journal of Neurophysiology, 128(6), 1646-1662.
White, J. D., Urbano, C. M., Taylor, J. O., Peterman, J. L., Cooksey, M., Eimerbrink, M., Eriksson, M. D., Cooper, B. G., Chumley, M. J., Boehm, G. W. (2020). Intraventricular murine Aβ infusion elicits hippocampal inflammation and disrupts the consolidation, but not retrieval, of conditioned fear in C57BL6/J mice. Behavioural Brain Research, 378, 112303.
Daliparthi, V.K., Tachibana, R.O., Cooper, B.G., Hahnloser, R.H.R., Kojima, S., Sober, S.J., & Roberts, T.F. (2019). Transitioning between preparatory and precisely sequenced neuronal activity in production of a skilled behavior. eLife 2019;8:e43732. DOI: https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.43732.00
Last Updated: November 16, 2025