Prof. John E. R. Staddon

JOHN E. R. STADDON

James B. Duke Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Professor of Biology and Neurobiology
Center for Behavioral Neuroscience and Genomics
Duke University, North Carolina (USA)

Personal page: http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/pn/faculty/staddon

Publications (pdf)

Education: B.Sc. in Psychology at University College, London (England); PhD in Experimental Psychology at Harvard University.

Research interests: Evolution and mechanisms of animal learning; Feeding regulation; Adaptation to reward schedules; Timing and memory; Temporal dynamics of choice, timing models for choice behavior; Time discrimination, recurrent choice and the effects of sequences of stimuli; Functional and mechanistic models for behavior: analytical and computer-simulation studies, real-time top-down models, diffusion models for spatial orientation, parallel models for the assignment-of-credit (response-selection) problem in operant conditioning, nonlinear dynamics model for operant behavior, models for the dynamics of feeding behavior and a habituation-based model for memory and interval timing.

Present positions: Editor, PsyCrit (on-line journal of commentary on published research articles in psychology and behavioral neuroscience: http://psycrit.com/index.php/Introduction) ● Learning and Adaptive Behavior (LAB) group (http://psychweb.psych.duke.edu/department/jers/labgroup.htm) ● Academic Advisory Committee, John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy (http://www.popecenter.org/about/academic_advisory.html) ● Board of Trustees, Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies.

Awards and acknowledgments: Festschrift in honor of John Staddon, 2003 (http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/2003/05/20030515.html) ● 1999 Brenda J. Milner Award, APA, for the paper the dynamics of operant conditioning ●Fellow, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1981.

Web resources on Professor Staddon: Staddon's page on Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._E._R._Staddon ) ● Staddon on "Taboo" topics in higher education, Duke New Sense 2006 ( http://www.dukenewsense.com/blog/blogarchives/2006_01_01_dukenewsense_archive.html) ● John Staddon, Have race biased admissions improved American higher education? Society for Academic Freedomand Scholarship, Newsletter 2003 (http://www.safs.ca/april2003/highereducation.html) ● Staddon's pieces (http://psychweb.psych.duke.edu/department/jers/BlogTable.htm) ● Staddon, The Harvard Pigeon Lab: Memories of Memorial Hall ( http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/picrender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&blobtype=pdf&artid=1284881 )



SOME PUBLICATIONS AVAILABLE ON WEB

(2003) Staddon, J. E. R., Adaptive behavior and learning, New York: Cambridge University Press. INTERNET EDITION: http://psychweb.psych.duke.edu/department/jers/abl/TableC.htm.

(2005) Ludvig, E.A., & Staddon, J.E.R., The effects of interval duration on temporal tracking and alternation learning, Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, pp. 243-262 ( http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/picrender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&blobtype=pdf&artid=1193757)

(2005) Jozefowiez, J., Cerutti, D.T., & Staddon, J.E.R., Timing in choice experiments, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, vol. 31 no. 2, pp. 213-225 (Preprint: http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/picrender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&blobtype=pdf&artid=1283136)

(2004) Staddon, J.E.R., Scientific imperialism and behaviorist epistemology, Behavior and Philosophy, vol. 32, pp. 231-242 (http://www.behavior.org/journals_BP/2004/19Staddon.pdf)

(2004) Staddon, J.E.R., Editorial: The future, Behavior and Philosophy, 32, 2pp. 43-245 (http://www.behavior.org/journals_BP/2004/07_Staddon.pdf)

(2004) Ludvig, E.A., & Staddon, J.E.R., The conditions for temporal tracking on interval schedules of reinforcement, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, vol. 30 no. 4, pp. 299-316 (Preprint: http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/picrender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&blobtype=pdf&artid=1473024)

(2001) Staddon, J.E.R., Editorial: Science as politics by other means: Fact and analysis in an ethical world, Behavior and Philosophy, vol. 29 (http://www.behavior.org/journals_BP/2001/factval.pdf)

(2000) Cerutti, D.T., Chelaru, I.M, & Staddon, J.E.R, Detecting hidden targets: A procedure for studying performance in a mine-detection-like-task, in Detection and Remediation Technologies for Mines and Minelike Targets, edited by Abinash, C. Dubey, James F. Harvey, J. Thomas Broach, and Regina E. Dugan, pp. 102-109, Washington, D.C.: SPIE (Preprint: http://www.ee.duke.edu/~lcarin/DeminingMURI/MineSim01.pdf)

(1999) Staddon, J.E.R, On responsibility in science and law, in Responsibility, edited by E.F. Paul, F.D. Miller, J. Paul, pp. 146-174, Cambridge University Press (http://psychweb.psych.duke.edu/department/jers/responR.pdf)

(1998) Staddon, J.E.R, Editorial: Instinct and the operant, Behavior and Philosophy, 26, pp. 1-3 (http://www.behavior.org/journals_BP/1998/editorial.pdf)

(1995) Staddon, J.E.R., On responsibility and punishment, The Atlantic Monthly, Feb., pp. 88-94 (http://psychweb.psych.duke.edu/department/jers/RESPUN.pdf)

(1993) Higa, J. J., Thaw, J. M., & Staddon, J. E. R, Pigeons' wait-time responses to transitions in interfood-interval duration: another look at cyclic schedule performance, Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, vol. 59, pp. 529-541 ( http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/picrender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&blobtype=pdf&artid=1322135)

(1975) Kello, J. E., Innis, N. K., & Staddon, J. E. R, Eccentric stimuli on multiple fixed-interval schedules, Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, vol. 23, pp. 233-240 ( http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/picrender.fcgi?artid=1333344&blobtype=pdf)

(1973) Malone, J. C., & Staddon, J. E. R, Contrast effects in maintained generalization gradients, Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, vol. 19, pp. 167-179 (http://psychweb.psych.duke.edu/department/jers/RESPUN.pdf)

Working papers and drafts:

(----) John E.R. Staddon, Fair profiling (http://psychweb.psych.duke.edu/department/jers/Profiling.pdf)

Updated: January 22, 2007

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