# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/allison-jane-doupe
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:58:12.688Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/allison-jane-doupe"
name: "Allison Jane Doupe"
slug: "allison-jane-doupe"
description: "Allison Jane Doupe was a Canadian psychiatrist, biologist, and neuroscientist. She is best known for her pioneering work in avian neurobiology that linked birdsong to human language, showing that birds and humans learn to communicate in similar ways. In 2014, Doupe was awarded the Pradel Research Award by the National Academy of Sciences for her work on neural circuits and information processing in songbirds, which she pioneered as a model species for studying learning and memory."
tagline: "Canadian psychiatrist, biologist, and neuroscientist"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/ca/Allison_J._Doupe.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1954"
deathDate: "2014-10-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.5633802816901409
  historical:           5.469366666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "اليسون ج دوب"
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    title: "Allison J. Doupe"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allison_J._Doupe"
    title: "Allison J. Doupe"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump