Festschrift in Honor of Bob Rescorla

Conference to Commemorate Bob Rescorla’s
Fifty Years of Research on Animal Learning

August 16, 2011
Solomon Laboratories of Experimental Psychology, Rm B35

8:30: Light breakfast (bagels, coffee, juice, etc.)

9:00: Rob DeRubeis and Vin LoLordo: Welcome, and opening remarks

9:10-9:35: Peter Holland: Oh no. 39 years later I'm still doing the same experiments I did in Bob's lab

9:35-10:00: Paula Durlach: Classical lotioning and its improper patrol procedures

10:00-10.25: Doug Gillan: A personal odyssey with far transfer or... how animal learning prepared me for a checkered career

10:25-10:45: Coffee break

10:45-11:10: Jim Nairne: Adaptive memory: Evolutionary constraints on remembering

11:10-11:35: Jim Grau: Some challenges to our expectations regarding spinal cord function

11:35-12:00: Ruth Colwill: Inside the mind of a zebra fish

12:00-1:30: Break for lunch

1:30-1:55: Terry Davidson: Conditioned modulation as a basis for energy regulation

1:55-2:20: Gretchen Chapman: Harnessing decision psychology to promote healthy behavior

2:20-2:45: Andy Delamater: On the importance of the prediction error concept

2:45-3:10: Susan Coldwell: Computer assisted relaxation learning (CARL): Extinguishing dental injection fear in humans

3:10-3:30: Coffee break

3:30-3:55: Juan Rosas: What do you mean by context? Practical and theoretical issues

3:55-4:20: Sadahiko Nakajima: Activity-based conditioned taste aversion as a preparation for studying associative learning in rats

4:20-4:45: Matt Lattal: The problem of performance in acquisition, retrieval, and academics

4:45-5:10: Dan Gottlieb: An assortment of recent observations that might be conceptually important

Conference organizers:
Rob DeRubeis, University of Pennsylvania
Vin LoLordo, Dalhousie University
Matt Lattal, Oregon Health Sciences University
Terry Davidson, Purdue University

Participants:
Peter Holland, Johns Hopkins University
Paula Durlach, U.S.Army Research Institute
Doug Gillan, North Carolina State University
Jim Nairne, Purdue University
Jim Grau, Texas A & M University
Ruth Colwill, Brown University
Terry Davidson, Purdue University
Gretchen Chapman, Rutgers University
Juan Rosas, Universidad de Jaen
Andy Delamater, Brooklyn College
Susan Coldwell, University of Washington
Sadahiko Nakajima, Kwansei Gakuin University
Matt Lattal, Oregon Health Sciences University
Dan Gottlieb, Sweet Briar College
Steve Robbins, Arcadia University
Dale Swartzentruber, Ohio Wesleyan University
Douglas Frye, University of Pennsylvania