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Research At UNF

   Animal Learning Laboratory
            Topic: Acquisition of Novel Behavior in Rats, Operant Conditioning

             Projects:
                Behavior chains
                Wheel running as reinforcement
                Response Topography, in images
                Operant Behavior in General

   Human Learning Laboratory
            Topic: Complex Motor performance (under development)
 

Research outside UNF

       Collaboration with Professor Matsuzawa
            at  Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University, Inuyama, Japan
                (Details about the famous Chimpanzee Ai and her infant can be found at the bottom of that site)
            Click here to see images from the Institute
           Click here to connect to Conventions on Comparative Psychology and Primate Conservation (SAGA)
                  sponsored by the Primate Research Institute.

            Topic: Acquisition of complex, human-like behavior in chimpanzees

            Projects:
                  Drawing
                 Sorting
                 Fingermaze
                 Symbolic Hunting (Interception tasks)
 

       Collaboration with Professor Birbaumer
            at  Institute for Medical Psychology, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany

            Topic: Teaching completely paralyzed patients to use a computer for communication

             Projects:
                 Spelling
                 Cognitive Assessment using a matching to sample technique
 
 

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