Newsletter
Volume 31 | 2008 | Number 1
B. F. Skinner Lecture Series
The B. F. Skinner Lecture Series features distinguished speakers from fields other than behavior analysis. Presenters in this series were selected and invited by Area Coordinators.
Autism
James McPartland
Quantifying the Qualitative: Empirical Measures of Social Information Processing in Autism
Dr. James McPartland (Yale Child Study Center)
Saturday, May 24; 2:00 p.m.
Behavioral Pharmacology
Drake Morgan
Neurobiology of Cocaine Self-Administration: Some Findings in Monkeys and Rats
Dr. Drake Morgan (University of Florida)
Sunday, May 25; 4:30 p.m.
William Woolverton
The Choice to Take a Drug of Abuse: Contributions of Research with Non-Humans
Dr. William Woolverton (University of Mississippi Medical Center)
Monday, May 26; 11:00 a.m.
Clinical; Family; Behavioral Medicine
Elliot Valenstein
Blaming the Brain
Dr. Elliot Valenstein (University of Michigan)
Monday, May 26; 10:00 a.m.
Developmental Disabilities
Tiffany Field
Massage Therapy Research
Dr. Tiffany Field (Touch Research Institute-University of Miami-Medical School)
Sunday, May 25; 1:30 p.m.
Experimental Analysis of Behavior
Walter Mischel
Finding the Consistency of Social Behavior in its Stable Variability
Dr. Walter Mischel (Columbia University)
Sunday, May 25; 1:30 p.m.
Herbert Roitblat
Object Recognition by Dolphins
Dr. Herbert Roitblat (DolphinSearch Inc.)
Monday, May 26; 9:00 a.m.
Other
Peter Richerson
Not by Genes Alone: How Culture Transformed Human Evolution
Dr. Peter J. Richerson (University of California, Davis)
Sunday, May 25; 1:30 p.m.
Verbal Behavior
Frank Johnson
Brain Pathways for Behavioral Variation and Selection in a Vocal-Learning Songbird
Dr. Frank Johnson (Florida State University)
Sunday, May 25; 3:30 p.m.