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Adam Miklosi

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Early Life and Educational Background

Dr. Miklósi was born September 25, 1962, in Budapest, Hungary. Adam grew up in Budapest, the capital city of Hungary, and was determined to become a biologist already by the end of the elementary school. He started undergraduate studies in 1981 following 4 years in a secondary school and 1 year spent at the Hungarian Defense Force in obligatory service. He graduated in 1986 from the Eötvös Loránd University as a biologist

Professional Career

Adam Miklósi received a fellowship from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences for 3 years during which he started his research carrier at the Laboratory of Behaviour Genetics at Eötvös Loránd University. Subsequently, he became an associate professor at the newly formed Department of Ethology at the same university. He received his PhD in 1995 for studying the learning mechanisms of predator avoidance in the paradise fish. Starting in 1997, he spent 2.5 years in England at Sussex University supported by a Royal...

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  • Andics, A., Gácsi, M., Faragó, T., Kis, A., & Miklósi, Á. (2014). Voice-sensitive regions in the dog and human brain are revealed by comparative fMRI. Current Biology, 24, 574–578.

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  1. Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary

    Ádám Miklósi

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  1. Oakland University , Rochester, Michigan, USA

    Jennifer Vonk

  2. Department of Psychology, Oakland University Department of Psychology, Rochester, Michigan, USA

    Todd Shackelford

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  1. Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany

    Alexis Garland

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Miklósi, Á. (2018). Adam Miklosi. In: Vonk, J., Shackelford, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47829-6_149-1

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