Allison Jane Doupe (1954 – 24 October 2014) 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.

[1] 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.

"Interruption of a basal ganglia–forebrain circuit prevents plasticity of learned vocalizations".

Kojima, Satoshi; Kao, Mimi H.; Doupe, Allison J.

"Task-related "cortical" bursting depends critically on basal ganglia input and is linked to vocal plasticity".