I am a graduate student working on auditory perception of songbirds

with Dr. Christopher Sturdy at Songbird Neuroethology Lab.


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Publications

9. Sahu, P.K., Garcia, A.D., Stenstrom, K.H., Deimeke, M.J., Smeltz, S.M.L., Lank, I.J.,& Sturdy, C.B. (2025) A cost-effective Raspberry pi-based operant playback setup to evaluate auditory preferences in songbirds. Behavioural Processes, 232, 105276, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2025.105276

8. Smeltz, S.M.L., Deimeke, M.J., Montenegro, C., Sahu, P.K., Stenstrom, K.H., Camacho-Alpizar, A., & Sturdy, C.B. (2025) Individual discrimination within, but not between, two vocalization types of the black-capped chickadee. Ethology, e13572, https://doi.org/10.1111/eth.13572

7. Smeltz, S.M.L., Deimeke, M.J., Sahu, P.K., Montenegro, C., Stenstrom, K.H., Starenchak, I., Rennie, V., Ebrahim, I.M., Jones, J.A., & Sturdy, C.B. (2025) Individual vocal identity may be obscured following colony assembly in captive black-capped chickadees. Behavioural Processes, 225,105151, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2025.105151

6. Sahu, P.K., Montenegro, C., Lambert, C.T., Oprea, A., Deimeke, M.J., Rennie, V., Smeltz, S.M.L, Benowicz, T.J., Patel, D., Phillmore, L.S., & Sturdy, C.B. (2022) Effect of feed-time duration on discrimination of vocalizations in a go/no-go operant paradigm, Behavioural Processes, 203, 104777, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2022.104777

5. Sahu, P.K., Campbell, K.A., Oprea, A., Phillmore, L.S., & Sturdy, C.B. (2022) Comparing methodologies for classification of zebra finch distance calls, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 151, 3305, https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0011401

4. Lambert, C., Sahu, P.K. , Sturdy, C.B., & Guillette, L.M. (2022) Among-individual differences in auditory and physical cognitive abilities in zebra finches, Learning & Behaviour, 50(3), 389-404, https://doi.org/10.3758/s13420-022-00520-w

3. Montenegro, C., Sahu, P.K., & Sturdy, C.B.(2021). Individual differences in female black-capped chickadee (Poecile atricapillus) fee-bee songs,The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 150(4), 3038-3046, https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0006532

2. Montenegro, C., Service, W.D., Scully, E.N., Mischler, S.K., Sahu, P.K., Benowicz, T.J., Fox, K.V. R.,& Sturdy, C.B.(2021). The impact of anthropogenic noise on individual identification via female song in Black-capped chickadees (Poecile atricapillus), Scientific Reports, 11(1), https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-96504-3

1.Sahu, P.K., Kolay, S. & Annagiri, S.(2019) To reunite or not: A study of artificially fragmented Diacamma indicum ant colonies, Behavioural Processes 158, 4-10, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2018.10.017


Current Projects

Auditory cognition

Focusing on different correlates of auditory cognition.