research overview Dr. Bekoff's current research focuses on factors influencing usage of emergency department services by patients with a primary care provider.
selected publications chapter Behavior of Embryos 2004 Development of Motor Behaviour in Chick Embryos. 429-446. 2001 Sensory-motor experience during the development of motility in chick embryos. 171-191. 2001 Development of motor patterns in avian embryos: Control of hatching behaviour 2000 Embryo research. 152-153. 1998 Development of motor behavior in chick embryos. 191-204. 1995 Neuroembryology of motor behavior in birds. 125-134. 1994 Development of location: patterns and trends. 325-329. 1992 Continuity of pattern generating mechanisms in embryonic and posthatching chicks. 79-86. 1989 Development of Locomotion: Animal Models. 48-73. 1989 Enzyme activities in muscles of seasonally acclimatized house finches 1989 Embryonic motor output and movement patterns: Relationship to postnatal behavior. 191-206. 1988 Ontogeny of chicken motor behaviors: Evidence for multi-use pattern generating circuitry. 433-453. 1986 Development of locomotion in vertebrates: A comparative perspective. 57-94. 1985 Behavioral embryology in birds and mammals: Neuroembryological studies of the development of motor behavior. 152-163. 1981 Embryonic development of the neural circuitry underlying motor coordination. 134-170. 1981 A neuroethological approach to the study of the ontogeny of coordinated behavior. 19-41. 1978 ... more journal article Pyridoxine treatment alters embryonic motility in chicks: Implications for the role of proprioception. Developmental Psychobiology. 271-277. 2015 Spontaneous embryonic motility: an enduring legacy. International Journal of Developmental Neuroscience. 155-160. 2001 Modulation of the walking motor pattern in chicks due to asymmetric loading of the flexor muscles.. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 1070-1070. 2000 Developmental changes in leg coordination of the chick at embryonic days 9, 11 and 13: uncoupling of ankle movements. Journal of Neurophysiology. 2406-2414. 1999 Patterns of muscle activity during different behaviors in chicks: implications for neural control. Journal of Comparative Physiology A: sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology. 1996 Neuroethological approaches to the study of motor development in chicks: Achievements and challenges. Developmental Neurobiology. 1486-1505. 1992 DEVELOPMENT OF COORDINATED MOVEMENT IN CHICKS .2. TEMPORAL ANALYSIS OF HINDLIMB MUSCLE SYNERGIES AT EMBRYONIC DAY 10 IN EMBRYOS WITH SPINAL GAP TRANSECTIONS. Developmental Neurobiology. 420-432. 1992 Constrained and flexible features of rythmical hindlimb movements in chicks: Kinematic profiles of walking, swimming and airstepping. The Journal of Experimental Biology. 43-66. 1992 DEVELOPMENT OF COORDINATED MOVEMENT IN CHICKS .1. TEMPORAL ANALYSIS OF HINDLIMB MUSCLE SYNERGIES AT EMBRYONIC DAYS 9 AND 10. Developmental Psychobiology. 763-782. 1990 A kinematic analysis of hindlimb motility in 9‐ and 10‐day‐old chick embryos. Developmental Neurobiology. 651-660. 1990 Neural control of limb coordination. Experimental Brain Research. 1989 Sensory control of the initiation of hatching in chicks: Effects of a local anesthetic injected into the neck. Developmental Psychobiology. 489-495. 1987 Neural control of limb coordination. I. Comparison of hatching and walking motor output patterns in normal and deafferented chicks. The Journal of Neuroscience. 2320-2330. 1987 Neural control of hatching: fate of the pattern generator for the leg movements of hatching in post-hatching chicks. The Journal of Neuroscience. 2659-2666. 1984 Neural control of hatching: Role of neck position in turning on hatching leg movements in post-hatching chicks. Journal of Comparative Physiology A: sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology. 497-504. 1982 Embryonic development of motor behavior in chicks. 181-184. 1981 Interlimb coordination in 20‐day‐old rat fetuses. Journal of Experimental Zoology. 173-175. 1980 Prenatal motility and postnatal play: Functional continuity?. Developmental Psychobiology. 225-228. 1980 The development of interlimb coordinate during swimming in postnatal rats. The Journal of Experimental Biology. 1-11. 1979 The ontogeny and organization of comfort behavior in Adelie penguins. The Wilson Journal of Ornithology. 255-270. 1978 Physiological properties of dissociated muscle fibres obtained from innervated and denervated adult rat muscle.. The Journal of Physiology. 25-40. 1977 Acetylcholine Hot Spots: Development on Myotubes Cultured from Aneural Limb Buds. Science. 915-917. 1976 Ontogeny of leg motor output in the chick embryo: A neural analysis. Brain Research. 271-291. 1976 Coordinated motor output in the hindlimb of the 7-day chick embryo. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA. 1245-1248. 1975 Feeding territories of South Polar skuas at Cape Crozier. 121-122. 1975 ... more
awards and honors BFA Award for Excellence in Teaching and Pedagogy, conferred by Boulder Faculty Assembly, 1988 Fellowship, conferred by John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1983