John Staddon, James B Duke Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences and Professor of Biology and Neurobiology

John Staddon

James B Duke Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences and Professor of Biology and Neurobiology
PhD, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 1964
mailing address: Academic Council 304 W. Union Building, BOX 90928 Duke University Durham, NC 27708
office: 304 W. Union Building
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phone: 919-684-6447

research interests | publications

Research Summary:
 John Staddon works on evolution and mechanisms of learning. Current topics are timing and memory, feeding regulation, and the ways in which animals and people adapt to reward schedules in the lab and in life. Theoretical work involves both analytical and computer-simulation studies of functional and mechanistic models for behavior.

Representative Publications:   (More Publications)

  1. Staddon, J.E.R. (2001). Adaptive Dynamics: The Theoretical Analysis of Behavior.. Cambridge, MA: MIT/Bradford.
  2. Staddon, J.E.R. (2001). The New Behaviorism: Mind, Mechanism and Society.. Philadelphia, PA: Psychology Press.
  3. Staddon, J. E. R. & Cerutti, D. T. (2003). Operant behavior.. Annual Review of Psychology, 54, 115-144.  [abs]
  4. Staddon, J.E.R. (2004). Scientific imperialism and behaviorist epistemology.. Philosophy & Behavior, 32, 231-242.  [abs]
  5. Staddon, J.E.R. & Higa, J.J. (1999). Time and memory: Towards a pacemaker-free theory of interval timing. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 71, 215-251.  [abs] [author's comments]
  6. Staddon, J.E.R., Chelaru, I.M., & Higa, J.J. (2002). Habituation, Memory and the Brain: The Dynamics of Interval Timing. Behavioural Processes, 57, 71-88.  [abs]