Further Enquiries:

North Terrace Campus
Level 4, Hughes Building
The University of Adelaide
SA 5005
AUSTRALIA
Email

Telephone: +61 8 8303 5693
(Country and interstate callers toll free on 1800 061 459)
Facsimile: +61 8 8303 3770

Luke Schneider

Room 238, Hughes Building

Phone (08) 8303 5258

Fax (08) 8303 3770

luke.schneider@adelaide.edu.au

Area of Research

Learning and behaviour. Lateralisation in canines

Memberships

Australian Society for the Study of Animal Behaviour

Psychology Research Interests

My PhD is focused on functional asymmetries of the canine brain.

Firstly, I am exploring the associations that exist between paw preference and factors such as temperament, age, and breed in the domestic dog. Secondly, I am studying the relationship between greyhounds’ paw preferences and their running style on the race track. Finally, I am looking at sensory lateralization – specifically, at the monocular and binocular influences on jumping kinematics