Eduardo Mercado III
PhD
Research Interests
Neural and cognitive plasticity; computational neuroscience; comparative bioacoustics and cognition; autism spectrum disorder
Education
- PhD, University of Hawaii
Current Research
My research focuses on how different brain systems interact to construct representations of experienced events, and how these representations change over time. My approach is integrative and comparative. I am currently using techniques from the fields of experimental psychology, computational neuroscience, electrical engineering, and behavioral neuroscience to answer questions about auditory learning, memory, and behavior in humans and other animals.
I’m currently supervising graduate students in the Behavioral Neuroscience, and Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior doctoral programs. These students are pursuing research related to dog cognition, autism spectrum disorder, and humpback whale bioacoustics.
Selected Publications
- Mercado, E., III, & Perazio, C. E. (2021). Similarities in composition and transformations of songs by humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) over time and space. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 135, 28-50.
- Mercado, E., III, Chow, K., Church, B. A., & Lopata, C. (2020). Perceptual category learning in autism spectrum disorder: Truth and consequences. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 118, 689-703.
- Gluck, M.A., Mercado, E., & Myers, C.M. (2020). Learning and memory: From brain to behavior, Fourth Edition. New York: Worth Publishers.
- Chow, K., & Mercado, E., III (2020). Performance anxiety and the plasticity of emotional responses. Cognition and Emotion, 34, 1309-1325.
- Wisniewski, M. G., Church, B.A., Mercado, E., III, Radell, M. L., & Zakrzewski, A. C. (2019). Easy-to-hard effects in perceptual learning depend upon the degree to which initial trials are “easy.” Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 26, 1889-1895.
- Ball, N. J., Mercado, E, III, Orduña, I. O. (2019). Enriched environments as a possible treatment for developmental disorders: A critical assessment. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 466.
- Wisniewski, M. G., Radell, M. L., Church, B.A., & Mercado, E., III (2017). Benefits of fading in perceptual learning are driven by more than dimensional attention. PLoS One, 12, e0180959.
- Mercado, E., III, Wisniewski, M. G., McIntosh, B., Guillette, L., Hahn, A. H., Sturdy, C. B. (2017). Chickadee songs provide hidden clues to singers’ locations. Animal Behavior & Cognition, 4, 301-313.
- Orduña, V., & Mercado, E., III (2017). Impulsivity in spontaneously hypertensive rats: Within-subjects comparison of sensitivity to delay and to amount of reinforcement. Behavioural Brain Research, 328, 178-185.
- Mercado, E., III, & Church, B. A. (2016). Simulations suggest heterogeneous category learning and generalization in children with autism is a result of idiosyncratic perceptual transformations. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. 46, 2806-2812.
- Mercado, E, III, & Henderson, C. M. (2012). Neurally inspired models of psychological processes. In R. J. Nelson & S. Mizumori (Eds.) Handbook of psychology: Volume 3 Behavioral neuroscience (pp. 620-642). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.
- Wisniewski, M. G., Mercado, E., III, Gramann, K., & Makeig, S. (2012). Familiarity with speech affects cortical processing of auditory distance cues and increases acuity. PLoS ONE, 7, e41025.