• Professor of Psychological Sciences, Behavioral Neuroscience Program
• Ph.D. 1981, Johns Hopkins University

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• Master's Thesis:  The Effects of MK-801 and Hippocampal Lesions on Serial Pattern Learning
• Dissertation:  The Basal Ganglia and Sequential Learning

• Asst. Professor and Department Chair of Psychology, Thiel College, Greenville, PA, lpickens@thiel.edu
  • Master's Thesis:  The Effects of Adolescent Nicotine Exposure on Adult Rat Serial Pattern Learning
  • Dissertation:  The Effects of Chronic Adolescent Nicotine Exposure on Adult Cognition in the Male and Female Rat

• Assoc. Professor and Department Chair of Psychology, Hiram College, Hiram, OH, chenowetham@hiram.edu
  • Master's Thesis:  The Effects of Muscarinic Cholinergic Blockade on Rat Serial Pattern Learning and Retention
  • Dissertation:  The Effects of Scopolamine on Rat Serial Pattern Learning and Reversal Learning

• Assoc. Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Mount Union, Alliance, OH, mullermd@muc.edu
  • Master's Thesis:  Stimulus Control of Responding to Within Chunk, Chunk Boundary, and Violation Elements in a Rat Serial Learning Task
  • Dissertation:  Serial Pattern Learning in Rats: Identifying the Processes Underlying Three Patterns

• Assoc. Professor of Psychology, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, Wallace Lab, dwallace@niu.edu
  • Master's Thesis:  Do Rats Learn Rules? A Computational Model of Food Quantity Pattern Learning 
    • APA Award Winner
  • Dissertation:  Stimulus Control of Serial Behavior in Three-Level Hierarchical Sequences

• James Cancer Center, Ohio State University, DonMBenson@aol.com
  • Master's Thesis:  Characteristics of Chunking Nonadjacent Items in Rat Serial-Pattern Learning
  • Dissertation:  Determining the Cognitive Mechanisms Involved in Rat Interleaved Serial Pattern Learning

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  • Master's Thesis:  Extracellular Ca2+ Modulation of Triethyllead and Triethyltin Neurotoxicity in Area CA1 of the Rat Hippocampal Slice
  • Dissertation:  Differential Effects of MK-801 and Atropine on Serial-Pattern Tracking in the CF1 Mouse

• Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Wesleyan College, Macon, GA, jrowan@WesleyanCollege.edu 
  • Master's Thesis:  Carbon Monoxide Decreases the Rewarding Quality of Brain Stimulation Reward in Rats
  • Dissertation:  The Effects of MK-801, an NMDA Antagonist, on Serial-Pattern Learning and Retention in the Rat

• Honors Thesis title: Assessment of Cognitive Deficits and Sex Differences in Adult Rats after Adolescent Methylphenidate Exposure

• Honors Thesis title: Associative Learning versus Rule-Learning: A Computer Model of Pattern Phrasing Effects

• Honors Thesis title: Rat Serial Pattern Learning: Interleaved Pattern Transfer

• Honors Thesis title: The Use of Counting and Timing in Serial Pattern Learning in Rats

• Honors Thesis title:  Rel ati veT imi ng:  The Effect of Temporal Structure on Serial Pattern Learning