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FountainLab Meetings for Summer 2013  Calendar
  • Journal Club (lab meeting): Fridays at noon, 304 KTH, starting May 24, 2013. 
  • PI+Grads meetings: After Journal Club.

Upcoming Scientific Conferences and Deadlines

  • 2013, September: Pavlovian Society, Austin, TX.

  • 2014, March: Comparative Cognition Conference, Melbourne, FL.

  • 2014, Spring: Tri-State+ Conference on Animal Learning & Behavior, location to be announced.

  • 2014, May: Midwestern Psychological Association annual meeting, Chicago, IL.

  • 2014, June/July: Neurobehavioral Teratology Society, location to be announced.

Most Recent Publication
  • Pickens, L. R. G., Rowan, J. D., Bevins, R. A., & Fountain, S. B. (in press). Sex differences in adult cognitive deficits after adolescent nicotine exposure in rats. Neurotoxicology and Teratology. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ntt.2013.05.001
Presentations at Recent Scientific Meetings
Congratulations!
  • Laura R.G. Pickens (Ph.D., 2012, with Dr. Fountain) is now Assistant Professor at Thiel College.
  • Melissa Muller (Ph.D., 2006, with Dr. Fountain) has been promoted to Associate Professor of Psychology at Mount Union College (Ohio).
FountainLab Software Versions
  • SPL_GAP 2012-03-05:  This version can batch run up to 36 successive analyses of up to 70 consecutive days, up to 50 patterns per day, for patterns up to 60 elements long.
  • SCCAM 2012 904241254
 

In development: Touchscreen tasks for rats.

 
 

 

  Stephen B. Fountain
  Professor of Psychology
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Research Interests
Undergraduate Research Assistants 2012-2013

2012 Fall:  Erin Carlson, Jeffrey DaMert, Laura Frear, Eran Karanouh-Schuler, Tara Marthe, Carissa Martin, Lauren McClintock, David McClearnon, Megan Miller, Mavuso Mzozoyana, Alyssa Pisanelli, Ashley Richey, Audrianna Rosa, Ali Taylor, Sydney Traylor, Alyssa Williams

2013 Spring:  Erin Carlson, Eran Karanouh-Schuler, Tara Marthe, Lauren McClintock, David McClearnon, Megan Miller, Nicole Orenstein, Audrianna Rosa, Ali Taylor, Aaron Valentine, Alyssa Williams

 

Undergraduate Research Opportunities

This semester we will be conducting research on (a) animal cognition and intelligence and (b) a rat model of the negative impact of adolescent nicotine exposure on cognitive abilities in adulthood.  If you are interested in working in the Fountain lab as an undergraduate research assistant, you should:

If opportunities are still available and you qualify, you will be interviewed by both graduate students and Dr. Fountain.  It is possible to earn college credit for research activities through the course, PSYC 31498 Undergraduate Research.

 

An octagonal chamber developed by FountainLab to study complex cognitive learning in rats.  See our research for more information.

 

Department of Psychology, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242-0001 U.S.A.

To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a lingering appreciation the comparatively few books that have been written by [those] who lived, thought, and felt with style.  -Aldous Huxley I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.  -Isaac Newton
Truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.  -Flannery O'Connor It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.  -Thomas Paine

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This page was last updated on 2013-05-18.

 

FountainLab: Animal Cognition & Neuroscience

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