DOS April Meeting: “How Birding Changes the Brain” by Erik Wing.

Erik Wing is a research associate at York University in Toronto, where he studies how prior knowledge and expertise influence human perception and cognition. Erik completed his doctoral work at Duke University, focusing on brain representations during visual experience and later memory retrieval. In his current work, he is particularly interested in how information is learned and organized within natural domains of knowledge. Working with birders across North America and beyond, he has explored how learning bird identification shapes attention, memory and new learning using a variety of behavioral and brain imaging measures. In his free time, he spends as much time as possible walking in the woods, ostensibly for research purposes. 

This event will be held on line via Zoom. A zoom link will be sent to all DOS members via email. If you are not a member, you can request a zoom link by clicking the button below.

For DOS members only, there will be a link to a recording of the talk after the meeting. If you are not a member and want to attend virtually, please consider joining.