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2022 & In Press
  • Bedoya, C. L., Nelson, X. J., Brockerhoff, E. G., Pawson, S., Hayes, M. 2022. Experimental characterization and automatic identification of stridulatory sounds inside wood. Royal Society Open Science 9, 220217. doi:10.1098/rsos.220217
  • Aguilar-Argüello, S., Taylor, A. H., Nelson, X. J.  2022. Jumping spiders do not seem fooled by texture gradient illusions. Behavioural Processes 196, 104603. doi:10.1016/j.beproc.2022.104603
  • Bastos, A. P. M., Nelson, X. J. Taylor, A. H. 2022. From the lab to the wild: How can captive studies aid the conservation of kea (Nestor notabilis)? Current Opinion in Behavioural Science 45, 101131. doi:10.1016/j.cobeha.2022.101131
  • McLean, L. R. W., Nichols, M., Taylor, A. H., Nelson, X. J. 2022. Memory retention of a conditioned aversion in New Zealand’s alpine parrot, the kea (Nestor notabilis). Journal of Wildlife Management 86, 22221. doi:10.1002/jwmg.22221.

2021
  • Cerveira, A. M., Nelson, X. J., Jackson, R. R. 2021. Spatial acuity-sensitivity trade-off in the principal eyes of a jumping spider - possible adaptations to a ‘blended’ lifestyle. Journal of Comparative Physiology A 207, 437-448. doi:10.1007/s00359-021-01486-2
  • Nelson, X. J., Pratt, A. J., Alouch, S. A., Jackson, R. R. 2021. Effects of phytochemicals on predatory decision-making in a spider. Animal Behaviour 177, 69-80. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2021.04.022
  • Aguilar-Argüello, S., Nelson, X. J. 2021. Jumping spiders: An exceptional group for comparative cognition studies. Learning & Behavior 49, 276-291. doi:10.3758/s13420-020-00445-2
  • Bedoya, C. L., Hofstetter, R. W., Nelson, X. J., Hayes, M., Miller, D. R., Brockerhoff, E. G. 2021. Sound production in bark and ambrosia beetles. Bioacoustics 30, 58-73. doi:10.1080/09524622.2019.1686424
  • Aguilar-Argüello, S., Taylor, A. H., Nelson, X. J. 2021. Jumping spiders attend to information from multiple modalities when preparing to jump. Animal Behaviour 171, 99-109.  doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2020.11.013

2020
2019
  • Humphrey, B., Helton, W. S., Nelson, X. J. 2019. Caffeine affects the vigilance decrement of Trite planiceps jumping spiders (Salticidae). Journal of Comparative Psychology 133, 551-557. doi:10.1037/com0000203​
  • Bedoya. C. L., Brockerhoff, E. G., Hayes, M., Pawson, S. M., Najar-Rodriguez, A., Nelson, X. J. 2019. Acoustic communication of the red-haired bark beetle (Hylurgus ligniperda). Physiological Entomology 44, 252-265. doi:10.1111/phen.12301
  • Aguilar-Argüello, S., Gerhard, D., Nelson, X.J. 2019. Risk assessment and the use of novel shortcuts in spatial detouring tasks in jumping spiders. Behavioral Ecology 30, 1488-1498. doi:10.1093/beheco/arz105
  • Cerveira, A. M., Jackson, R. R., Nelson, X. J. 2019. Dim-light vision in jumping spiders (Araneae, Salticidae): identification of prey and rivals. Journal of Experimental Biology 222, jeb198069. doi:10.1242/jeb.198069
  • Bedoya, C. L., Nelson, X. J., Hayes, M., Hofstetter, R., Atkinson, T., Brockerhoff, E. G. 2019. First report of luminous stimuli eliciting sound production in weevils. ​The Science ​of Nature 106, 17.  doi:10.1007/s00114-019-1619-8
  • Melrose, A., Nelson, X. J., Dolev, Y., Helton, W. S. 2019. Vigilance all the way down: Vigilance decrement in jumping spiders resembles that of humans. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 72, 1530-1538.  doi:10.1177/1747021818798743. 
  • Nelson, X. J., Helton, W. S.,  Melrose, A. 2019. The effect of stimulus encounter rate on response decrement in jumping spiders. Behavioural Processes 159, 57-59. doi:10.1016/j.beproc.2018.12.020

​2018
  • Humphrey, B., Helton, W. S., Bedoya, C., Dolev, Y., Nelson, X. J. 2018. Psychophysical investigation of vigilance decrement in jumping spiders: Overstimulation or understimulation? Animal Cognition 21, 787-794. doi:org/10.1007/s10071-018-1210-2
  • Kross, S. M., Tait, A., Raubenheimer, D., Nelson, X. J. 2018. New Zealand falcon prey selection may not be driven by preference based on prey nutritional content. New Zealand Journal of Ecology 42: 58-64. doi:10.20417/nzjecol.42.10
2017 2016
  • Nelson, X. J., Card, A. 2016. Locomotory mimicry in ant-like spiders. Behavioral Ecology 27: 700-707.  doi:10.1093/beheco/arv218. Featured in the Journal of Experimental Biology (Outside JEB).
  • Schwing, R., Nelson, X. J., Parsons, S. 2016. Audiogram of the kea parrot, Nestor notabilis. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 140: 3739–3744. doi:org/10.1121/1.4967757.
  • Dolev, Y., Nelson, X. J. 2016. Biological relevance affects object recognition in jumping spiders. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 43: 42-53.  doi:10.1080/03014223.2015.1070183
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