I have over 13 years of experience in scientific, scholarly, and academic writing. I am an independently motivated, efficiently organized, and detail oriented writer.

I’ve published peer-reviewed manuscripts in leading journals, received research grants from the NIH and NSF, and written lay articles for Scientific American.

My writing skills are rooted in a rare combination of training in scientific research and professional writing.

Popular Science Articles

What Birds Really Listen for in Birdsong (It’s Not What You Think) in Scientific American, May 2022.

Birds Can Tell Us a Lot about Human Language in Scientific American blog, Feb 2018.

How Canaries Listen to Song. Acoustics.org. June 2017.

Scholarly Publications

Fishbein, A. R. Auditory pattern discrimination in budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus). Behavioural Processes. 2022.

Jovanovic, V., Fishbein, A.R., de la Mothe, L., Lee, K-F, Miller, C.T. Behavioral context affects social signal representations within single primate prefrontal cortex neurons. Neuron. 2022.

Fishbein, A. R.*, Prior, N.H.*, Brown, J.B.,  Ball, G. F., Dooling, R. J. Discrimination of natural acoustic variation in vocal signals. Scientific Reports. 2021.

Fishbein, A. R., Idsardi, W. J., Ball, G. F., Dooling, R. J.Sound sequences in birdsong: how much do birds really care? Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. 2020.

Fishbein, A. R., Fritz, J. B., Idsardi, W. J, Wilkinson, G. S.What can animal communication teach us about human language? Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. 2020.

Brown, J. B., Brittan-Powell, E. F., Dooling, R. J., Fishbein, A. R., Ball, G. F., Madison, F. N. Strain differences in hearing in song canaries.  Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 2019.

Fishbein, A. R., Lawson, S. L., Dooling, R.J., Ball, G.F. How Canaries Listen to Their Song: Species-Specific Shape of Auditory Perception. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 2019.

Fishbein, A. R., Löschner, J., Mallon, J. M, Wilkinson, G. S. Dynamic Sex-Specific Responses to Synthetic Songs in a Duetting Suboscine Passerine. PLOS ONE. 2018.

Lawson, S.L., Fishbein, A. R., Prior, N.H., Dooling, R.J., Ball, G.F. Relative Salience of Syllable Structure and Syllable Order in Zebra Finch Song. Animal Cognition. 2018.