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Graduate Students |
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Adrienne Cole
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Jeff DaMert
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Alison Dickerhoof
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Ben Faulhaber
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Laura Frear
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Barbara Irons
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Tara Marthe
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Carissa Martin
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Nicole Ostovich
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Rebecca Ryan
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Ashley Smith
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Alyssa Taylor
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Sydney Traylor
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Maggie Young
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Former
RAs in the Fountain Lab
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Graduate Students
Who Completed Theses or Dissertations with Dr. Fountain |

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Yen-Ling Teresa Ting, Ph.D. 1989
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| Universita Calabria, ITALY,
golemme@ccuscl.unical.it
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Dissertation:
Triethyltin Neuotoxicity: Effects on CNS Synaptic
Transmission |
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| James D. Rowan III,
M.A. 1990,
Ph.D. 1993 |
| Professor & Chair, Dept. of Psychology, Wesleyan College, Macon, GA,
jrowan@WesleyanCollege.edu |
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Master's Thesis: Carbon Monoxide Decreases the
Rewarding Quality of Brain Stimulation Reward in Rats |
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Dissertation:
The Effects of MK-801, an NMDA Antagonist, on
Serial-Pattern Learning and Retention in the Rat |
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| Michael O. Wollan, Ph.D. 1995
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| Asst. Professor of Psychology, Chowan College, Murfreesboro, NC,
wollam@chowan.edu |
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Dissertation:
Atropine Effects on Rats' Retention of Phrased and
Unphrased Serial Patterns |
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| Nannette K. Stempowski, M.A. 1997
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Master's Thesis:
Temporal Phrasing and Rat Serial-Pattern Learning |
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| Heidi M. Carman, Ph.D. 1997
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Dissertation:
Pattern Induction in Rats: Violations of Formal
Structure in Serial-Pattern Learning |
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| Scott M.
Krauchunas, M.A. 1994, Ph.D. 1998,
O.D. |
| InFocus EyeCare, Belmont, NH
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Master's Thesis: Extracellular Ca2+ Modulation of
Triethyllead and Triethyltin Neurotoxicity |
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in Area CA1 of the Rat Hippocampal Slice |
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Dissertation:
Differential Effects of MK-801 and Atropine on
Serial-Pattern Tracking in the CF1 Mouse |
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| Don M. Benson, Jr.,
M.A. 1994, Ph.D. 1999, M.D.
1999 |
| James Cancer Center, Ohio State University,
DonMBenson@aol.com |
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Master's Thesis: Characteristics of Chunking
Nonadjacent Items in Rat Serial-Pattern Learning |
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Dissertation:
Determining the Cognitive Mechanisms Involved in Rat
Interleaved Serial Pattern Learning |
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| Douglas G. Wallace, M.A. 1997,
Ph.D.
2000 |
| Assoc. Professor of Psychology, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL |
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http://www.niu.edu/user/tj0dgw1/,
dwallace@niu.edu |
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Master's Thesis: Do Rats Learn Rules? A Computational
Model of Food Quantity Pattern Learning
APA Award Winner |
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Dissertation:
Stimulus Control of Serial Behavior in Three-Level
Hierarchical Sequences |
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| Clifford F. Lewis, Ph.D. 2003 |
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Dissertation:
A Neural Network Model of Virtual Pitch |
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| Denise P. A. Smith, M.A. 2004 |
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Master's Thesis:
The Effects of MK-801 and Hippocampal
Lesions on Serial Pattern Learning |
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| Melissa D. Muller, M.A. 2000,
Ph.D. 2006 |
| Asst. Professor of Psychology, University of Mount Union, Alliance, OH,
mullermd@muc.edu
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Master's Thesis: Stimulus Control of Responding to
Within Chunk, Chunk Boundary, and Violation Elements |
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in a Rat Serial Learning Task |
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Dissertation:
Serial Pattern Learning in Rats: Identifying the
Processes Underlying Three Patterns |
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| Shannon M. A. Kundey, Ph.D. 2008 |
| Asst. Professor of Psychology, Hood College, Frederick, MD,
kundey@hood.edu
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Dissertation:
Irrelevant Relations in Rat Serial Pattern Learning |
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| Amber M. Chenoweth, M.A. 2007,
Ph.D. 2010 |
| Asst.
Professor of Psychology, Hiram College, Hiram, OH,
chenowetham@hiram.edu |
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Master's Thesis: The Effects of Muscarinic Cholinergic
Blockade on Rat Serial Pattern Learning and Retention |
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Dissertation:
The Effects of
Scopolamine on Rat Serial Pattern Learning and Reversal Learning |
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Honors
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| Aimée M. Benson, Honors Thesis, 1996,
Rel ati veT imi ng: The Effect of Temporal Structure on
Serial Pattern Learning |
| Jennifer Knick, Honors Thesis, 2001,
The Use of Counting and Timing in Serial Pattern Learning in
Rats |
| Colleen Trhlik, Honors Thesis, 2010, Rat Serial Pattern
Learning: Interleaved Pattern Transfer |
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| Westheimer's Discovery |
- A couple of months in the laboratory can save a couple of hours in
the library. -Frank H. Westheimer, chemist
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