Most of our papers are open-access; please email julia.hylandbruno@njit.edu for any unavailable pdfs.
Hyland Bruno, J., Mercado III, E., Tietjen, N., Levin, I., & Ryan, M. (2026). Vocal interactions between singing humpback whales, Megaptera novaeangliae. Animal Behaviour, 123458. [bioRxiv] [Earth.com] [Phys.org] [Futurity]
Mercado III, E., & Hyland Bruno, J. (2026). Assessing the role of vocal plasticity in sociospatial coordination. Animals, 16, 890.
Mercado III, E., Ryan, M., Ashour, M., Krsmanovic, G., McAllister, S., Perazio, C. E., & Hyland Bruno, J. (2025). Cyclical variations in acoustic features within the song sessions of humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae). Journal of Comparative Psychology, 139, 192-208.
Hyland Bruno, J., Boyd, B., & Rothenberg, D. (2022). Editorial: Songs and signs: Interdisciplinary perspectives on cultural transmission and inheritance in human and nonhuman animals. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 953813.
de Reus, K., Soma, M., Anichini, M., Gamba, M., de Heer Kloots, M., Lense, M., Hyland Bruno, J., Trainor, L., & Ravignani, A. (2021). Rhythm in dyadic interactions. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 376, 20200337.
Gordon, R., Ravignani, A., Hyland Bruno, J., Robinson, C., Scartozzi, A., Embalabala, R., Niarchou, M., 23andMe Research Team, Cox, N.J., & Creanza, N. (2021). Linking the genomic signatures of human beat synchronization and learned song in birds. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 376, 20200329.
Hyland Bruno, J., Jarvis, E.D., Liberman, M., & Tchernichovski, O. (2021). Birdsong learning and culture: Analogies with human spoken language. Annual Review of Linguistics, 7, 449-472.
Enos, J.K., Hyland Bruno, J., & Hauber, M.E. (2020). Aggressive responses of Eastern Phoebes (Sayornis phoebe) and American Robins (Turdus migratorius) toward brood parasites and nest predators: A model presentation experiment. The Wilson Journal of Ornithology, 132, 428-435.
Hyland Bruno, J., & Tchernichovski, O. (2019). Regularities in zebra finch song beyond the repeated motif. Behavioural Processes, 163, 53-59.
Tokarev, K., Hyland Bruno, J., Ljubičić, I., Kothari, P.J., Helekar, S.A., Tchernichovski, O., & Voss, H.U. (2017). Sexual dimorphism in striatal dopaminergic responses promotes monogamy in social songbirds. eLife, 6, e25819.
Ljubičić, I., Hyland Bruno, J., & Tchernichovski, O. (2016). Social influences on song learning. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 7, 101-107.
Kershenbaum, A., Blumstein, D.T., Roch, M.A., [. . .], Hyland Bruno, J., et al. (2016). Acoustic sequences in non-human animals: A tutorial review and prospectus. Biological Reviews, 91, 13-52.