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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.