Warren Grimes Hall | Scholars@Duke

Warren Grimes Hall
Anne W. Deane Professor Emeritus of Comparative Neurobiology

Study of the ontogeny of motivation and learning; their neural basis and behavioral organization, using ingestive behavior and appetitive learning as prototypic systems. Animal and human studies including recent work utilizing functional MRI.

Current Appointments & Affiliations

Anne W. Deane Professor Emeritus of Comparative Neurobiology, Psychology and Neuroscience, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2005
Professor Emeritus of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Psychology and Neuroscience, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2005

Contact Information

229 Soc-Psych, Durham, NC 27708
Box 90086, Durham, NC 27708-0086
wghall@psych.duke.edu (919) 660-5713

Background
Education, Training, & Certifications
- Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University 1975
Duke Appointment History
- Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Psychology and Neuroscience, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1985 - 2005
- Professor of Neurobiology, Neurobiology, Basic Science Departments 2000 - 2005
- Professor in Neurobiology, Neurobiology, Basic Science Departments 1989 - 1999
- Associate Professor, Psychology and Neuroscience, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1982 - 1985
Research
Selected Grants
- Acquisition of Appetite awarded by National Institute for Child Health & Human Develo 1998 - 2004
- (96-0804) Undergraduate Neurosciences Summer Research Program in Mechanisms of Behavior awarded by National Science Foundation 1994 - 1997
- (92-0268) Developmental Psychobiology of Motivation awarded by National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) 1987 - 1997
- (93-0836) Developmental Psychobiology of Motivation awarded by National Institutes of Health 1987 - 1997
- (94-0881) Developmental Psychobiology of Motivation awarded by National Institutes of Health 1987 - 1997
- (95-0874) Developmental Psychobiology of Motivation awarded by National Institutes of Health 1987 - 1997
- (96-0867) Developmental Psychobiology of Motivation awarded by National Institutes of Health 1987 - 1997
- (94-0325) Origins and Development of Ingestive Behavior awarded by National Institute for Child Health & Human Develo 1992 - 1997
- (91-0523) Origins and Development of Ingestive Behavior awarded by National Institutes of Health 1982 - 1997
- (93-0340) Origins and Development of Ingestive Behavior awarded by National Institute for Child Health & Human Develo 1982 - 1997
- (95-0330) Origins and Development of Ingestive Behavior awarded by National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) 1982 - 1997
- (96-0311) Origins and Development of Ingestive Behavior awarded by National Institutes of Health 1982 - 1997
- (95-0828) Undergraduate Neurosciences Summer Research Program in Mechanisms of Behavior awarded by National Science Foundation 1994 - 1996
- (93-0208) Undergraduate Neurosciences Summer Research Program in Mechanisms of Behavior awarded by National Science Foundation 1993 - 1996
- (94-0160) Undergraduate Neurosciences Summer Research Program in Mechanisms of Behavior awarded by National Science Foundation 1994 - 1995
- (90-0681) Developmental Psychology of Motivation awarded by National Institutes of Health 1990 - 1992
- (89-0652) Developmental Psychobiology of Motivation awarded by National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) 1989 - 1992
- (86-0007) Developmental Psychobiology of Motivation awarded by National Institutes of Health 1987 - 1992
- (88-0595) Development Psychobiology of Motivation awarded by National Institutes of Health 1987 - 1992
- (91-0706) Developmental Psychology of Motivation awarded by National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) 1987 - 1992
- (89-0656) Neural Substrates of Early Unilateral Olfactory Learning awarded by National Institutes of Health 1990 - 1991
- (90-0443) Reward and Learning Mechanisms in Infancy awarded by National Institutes of Health 1982 - 1991
- (87-0405) Reward and Learning Mechanisms in Infancy awarded by National Institutes of Health 1982 - 1991
- (89-0446) Reward and Learning Mechanisms in Infancy awarded by National Institutes of Health 1982 - 1991
- (87-0484) Origins and Development of Ingestive Behavior awarded by National Institutes of Health 1982 - 1990
- (88-0158) Origins and Development of Ingestive Behavior awarded by National Institutes of Health 1982 - 1990
- (89-0174) Origins of Ingestive Behavior awarded by National Institute for Child Health & Human Develo 1982 - 1990
- (90-0038) Origins and Development of Ingestive Behavior awarded by National Institutes of Health 1982 - 1990
- (87-0483) Reward and Learning Mechanisms in Infancy awarded by National Institutes of Health 1982 - 1987
Publications & Artistic Works
Selected Publications
- Academic Articles
  - Changizi, MA, McGeHee, R, and Hall, WG. "Appetitive Responses to Dehydration and Food-Deprivation are Learned." Psychological Behavior 75 (2002): 295-304. (Academic Article)
  - Changizi, MA, and Hall, WG. "Thirst modulates a perception." Perception 30, no. 12 (2001): 1489-1497. Full Text Link to Item
  - Myers, KP, and Hal, WG. "Experience with Drinking While Dehydrated is Required for Weanling Rats to Acquire an Appetitive Response to Cellular Dehydration." Development Psychobiology 38 (2001): 145-153. (Academic Article)
  - Coyle, S, Arnold, HM, Goldberg-Arnold, JS, Rubin, DC, and Hall, WG. "Olfactory conditioning facilitates diet transition in human infants." Dev Psychobiol 37, no. 3 (November 2000): 144-152. Open Access Copy Link to Item
  - Hall, WG, Arnold, HM, and Myers, KP. "The acquisition of an appetite." Psychological Science 11, no. 2 (March 2000): 101-105. Full Text
  - Myers, KP, and Hall, WG. "Conditioned changes in appetitive and consummatory responses to flavors paired with oral or nutrient reinforcement among adult rats." Physiol Behav 68, no. 5 (March 2000): 603-610. Link to Item
  - Myers, KP, and Hall, WG. "Evidence that oral and nutrient reinforcers differentially condition appetitive and consummatory responses to flavors." Physiol Behav 64, no. 4 (June 15, 1998): 493-500. Link to Item
  - Swithers, SE, Westneat, MW, and Hall, WG. "Electromyographic analysis of oral habituation in rat pups." PHYSIOLOGY & BEHAVIOR 63, no. 2 (January 1998): 197-203. Full Text Link to Item
  - Myers, K, and Hall, WG. "Sensitization of ingestive responding and activity in developing rats." Behav. Neurosci. 111 (1997): 413-423. (Academic Article)
  - Kucharski, D, Arnold, HM, and Hall, WG. "Unilateral conditioning of an odor aversion in 6-day-old rat pups." Behavioral Neuroscience 109, no. 3 (June 1995): 563-566. Full Text
  - Swithers, SE, and Hall, WG. "Does oral experience terminate ingestion?." Appetite 23, no. 2 (October 1994): 113-138. Full Text Link to Item
  - Swithers-Mulvey, SE, and Hall, WG. "Integration of oral habituation and gastric signals in decerebrate rat pups." The American Journal of Physiology 265, no. 1 Pt 2 (July 1993): R216-R219. Full Text
  - Warwick, ZS, Hall, WG, Pappas, TN, and Schiffman, SS. "Taste and smell sensations enhance the satiating effect of both a high-carbohydrate and a high-fat meal in humans." Physiology & Behavior 53, no. 3 (March 1993): 553-563. Full Text
  - Swithers-Mulvey, SE, and Hall, WG. "Control of ingestion by oral habituation in rat pups." Behavioral Neuroscience 106, no. 4 (August 1992): 710-717. Full Text
  - Westneat, MW, and Hall, WG. "Ontogeny of feeding motor patterns in infant rats: an electromyographic analysis of suckling and chewing." Behavioral Neuroscience 106, no. 3 (June 1992): 539-554. Full Text
  - Swithers-Mulvey, SE, Mishu, KR, and Hall, WG. "Oral habituation in rat pups is in the brainstem." Physiol Behav 51, no. 3 (March 1992): 639-642. Link to Item
  - Hall, WG, and Swithers-Mulvey, SE. "Developmental strategies in the analysis of ingestive behavior." Ann N Y Acad Sci 662 (1992): 1-15. (Review) Link to Item
  - Phifer, CB, Denzinger, A, and Hall, WG. "The early presence of food-oriented appetitive behavior in developing rats." Dev Psychobiol 24, no. 7 (November 1991): 453-461. Full Text Link to Item
  - Swithers-Mulvey, SE, Miller, GL, and Hall, WG. "Habituation of oromotor responding to oral infusions in rat pups." Appetite 17, no. 1 (August 1991): 55-67. Full Text
  - Hall, WG, Swithers-Mulvey, SE, Agrawal, CM, Burka, NR, Horner, J, and Menacherry, S. "Analysis of 2-DG autoradiograms using image-averaging and image-differencing procedures for systems-level description of neurobehavioral function." Physiol Behav 50, no. 1 (July 1991): 109-119. Link to Item
  - Phifer, CB, Ladd, MD, and Hall, WG. "Effects of hydrational state on ingestion in infant rats: is dehydration the only ingestive stimulus?." Physiology & Behavior 49, no. 4 (April 1991): 695-699. Full Text
  - Hall, WG, and Swithers Mulvey, SE. "On Rowland's "When is a (sham) drink a (sham) feed?" and Midkiff's response." SSIBlings 4 (1991): 6-. (Academic Article)
  - King, C, and Hall, WG. "Developmental change in unilateral olfactory habituation is mediated by anterior commissure maturation." Behavioral Neuroscience 104, no. 5 (October 1990): 796-807. Full Text
  - Kucharski, D, Burka, N, and Hall, WG. "The anterior limb of the anterior commissure is an access route to contralateral stored olfactory preference memories." Psychobiology 18, no. 2 (January 1, 1990): 195-204. Full Text
  - Swithers, SE, and Hall, WG. "A nutritive control of independent ingestion in rat pups emerges by nine days of age." Physiology & Behavior 46, no. 5 (November 1989): 873-879. Full Text
  - Hall, WG. "Neural systems for early independent ingestion: regional metabolic changes during ingestive responding and dehydration." Behavioral Neuroscience 103, no. 2 (April 1989): 386-411. Full Text
  - Saperstein, LA, Kucharski, D, Stanton, ME, and Hall, WG. "Developmental change in reversal learning of an olfactory discrimination." Psychobiology 17, no. 3 (January 1, 1989): 293-299. Full Text
  - Phifer, CB, and Hall, WG. "Ingestive behavior in preweanling rats: emergence of postgastric controls." The American Journal of Physiology 255, no. 2 Pt 2 (August 1988): R191-R199. Full Text
  - Kucharski, D, and Hall, WG. "Developmental change in the access to olfactory memories." Behavioral Neuroscience 102, no. 3 (June 1988): 340-348. Full Text
  - Sullivan, RM, and Hall, WG. "Reinforcers in infancy: classical conditioning using stroking or intra-oral infusions of milk as UCS." Developmental Psychobiology 21, no. 3 (April 1988): 215-223. Full Text
  - Hall, WG, Hudson, R, and Brake, SC. "Terminology for use in investigations of nursing and suckling." Dev Psychobiol 21, no. 1 (January 1988): 89-91. Full Text Link to Item
  - Kucharski, D, and Hall, WG. "New routes to early memories." Science (New York, N.Y.) 238, no. 4828 (November 1987): 786-788. Full Text
  - Bornstein, , H, B, Terry, , M, L, Browde, , A, J, Jr, , Assimon, , A, S, Hall, , and G, W. "Sensory and nutritional contributions to rat pup's early activational responses to ingestion." Dev. Psychobiol. 20 (1987): 147-163. (Academic Article)
  - HALL, WG, and OPPENHEIM, RW. "DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOBIOLOGY - PRENATAL, PERINATAL, AND EARLY POSTNATAL ASPECTS OF BEHAVIORAL-DEVELOPMENT." ANNUAL REVIEW OF PSYCHOLOGY 38 (1987): 91-128. Full Text Link to Item
  - KUCHARSKI, D, JOHANSON, IB, and HALL, WG. "UNILATERAL OLFACTORY CONDITIONING IN 6-DAY-OLD RAT PUPS." BEHAVIORAL AND NEURAL BIOLOGY 46, no. 3 (November 1986): 472-490. Full Text Link to Item
  - PHIFER, CB, BROWDE, JA, and HALL, WG. "ONTOGENY OF GLUCOSE INHIBITION OF INDEPENDENT INGESTION IN PREWEANLING RATS." BRAIN RESEARCH BULLETIN 17, no. 5 (November 1986): 673-679. Full Text Link to Item
  - HALL, WG, and BROWDE, JA. "THE ONTOGENY OF INDEPENDENT INGESTION IN MICE - OR, WHY WONT INFANT MICE FEED." DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOBIOLOGY 19, no. 3 (May 1986): 211-222. Full Text Link to Item
  - Phifer, CB, Sikes, CR, and Hall, WG. "Control of ingestion in 6-day-old rat pups: termination of intake by gastric fill alone?." The American Journal of Physiology 250, no. 5 Pt 2 (May 1986): R807-R814. Full Text
  - Hall, WG. "What we know and don't know about the development of independent ingestion in rats." Appetite 6 (1985): 323-356. (Academic Article)
  - Johanson, IB, Hall, WG, and Polefrone, JM. "Appetitive conditioning in neonatal rats: conditioned ingestive responding to stimuli paired with oral infusions of milk." Developmental Psychobiology 17, no. 4 (July 1984): 357-381. Full Text
  - HALL, WG, and BRUNO, JP. "INHIBITORY CONTROLS OF INGESTION IN 6-DAY-OLD RAT PUPS." PHYSIOLOGY & BEHAVIOR 32, no. 5 (1984): 831-841. Full Text Link to Item
  - Bruno, JP, and Hall, WG. "Olfactory contributions to dehydration-induced anorexia in weanling rats." Dev. Psychobiol. 15 (1982): 493-505. (Academic Article)
  - Johanson, IB, and Hall, WG. "Appetitive conditioning in neonatal rats: Conditioned orientation to a novel odor." Dev. Psychobiol. 15 (1982): 379-397. (Academic Article)
  - DiRocco, RJ, and Hall, WG. "Metabolic neural mapping in neonatal rats." N. Neurosci. Res. 6 (1981): 13-19. (Academic Article)
  - Hall, WG, and Bryan, TE. "The ontogeny of feeding in rats: IV. Taste development as measured by intake and behavioral responses to oral infusions of sucrose and quinine." J. Comp. Physiol. Psychol. 95 (1981): 240-251. (Academic Article)
  - Johanson, IB, and Hall, WG. "The ontogeny of feeding in rats: V. Influence of texture, home odor, and sibling presense on ingestive behavior." J. Comp. Physiol. Psychol. 95 (1981): 837-847. (Academic Article)
  - Williams, CL, Hall, WG, and Rosenblatt, JS. "Changing oral cues in suckling of weaning-age rats: Possible contributions to weaning." Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology 94, no. 3 (June 1, 1980): 472-483. Full Text
  - Cramer, CP, Blass, EM, and Hall, WG. "The ontogeny of nipple-shifting behavior in albino rats: Mechanisms of control and possible significance." Dev. Psychobiol. 13 (1980): 165-180. (Academic Article)
  - Hall, WG, and Bryan, TE. "The ontogeny of feeding in rats: II. Independent ingestive behavior." J. Comp. Physiol. Psychol. 94 (1980): 746-756. (Academic Article)
  - Johanson, IB, and Hall, WG. "The ontogeny of feeding in rats: III. Thermal determinants of early ingestive responding." J. Comp. Physiol. Psychol. 94 (1980): 977-992. (Academic Article)
  - Stoloff, ML, Kenny, JT, Blass, EM, and Hall, WG. "The role of experience in suckling maintenance in albino rats." J. Comp. Physiol. Psychol. 94 (1980): 847-856. (Academic Article)
  - Szechtman, H, and Hall, WG. "Otongeny of oral behavior induced by tail pinch and electrical stimulation of the tail in rats." J. Comp. Physiol. Psychol. 94 (1980): 436-445. (Academic Article)
  - Balss, EM, Beardsley, W, and Hall, WG. "Age-dependent inhibition of suckling by cholecystokinin." Am. J. Physiol. 236 (1979): E567-E570. (Academic Article)
  - Hall, WG, and Rosenblatt, JS. "Developmental changes in the suckling behavior of hamster pups: A comparison with rat pups." Dev. Psychobiol. 12 (1979): 553-560. (Academic Article)
  - Hall, WG. "Feeding and behavioral activation in infant rats." Science 205 (1979): 206-209. (Academic Article)
  - Hall, WG. "The otongeny of feeding in rats: I. Ingestive and behavioral responses to oral infusions." J. Comp. Physiol. Psychol. 93 (1979): 977-1000. (Academic Article)
  - Johanson, IB, and Hall, WG. "Appetitive learning in 1-day-old rat pups." Science 205 (1979): 419-421. (Academic Article)
  - Kornblith, C, and Hall, WG. "Brain transections selectively alter ingestion and behavioral activation in neonatal rats." J. Comp. Physiol. Psychol. 93 (1979): 1109-1117. (Academic Article)
  - Williams, CL, Rosenblatt, JS, and Hall, WG. "Inhibition of suckling in weaning-age rats: a possible serotonergic mechanism." Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology 93, no. 3 (1979): 414-429.
  - Hall, WG, and Rosenblatt, JS. "Development of nutritional control of food intake in suckling rat pups." Behav. Biol. 24 (1978): 413-427. (Academic Article)
  - Nock, B, Williams, CL, and Hall, WG. "Suckling behavior of the infant rat: Modulaton by a developing neurotransmitter system." Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior 8, no. 3 (1978): 277-280.
  - Blass, EM, Teicher, MH, Cramer, CP, Bruno, JP, and Hall, WG. "Olfactory, thermal, and tactile controls of suckling in preauditory and previsual rats." J. Comp. Physiol. Psychol. 91 (1977): 1248-1260. (Academic Article)
  - Hall, WG, Cramer, CP, and Blass, EM. "Ontogeny of suckling in rats: Transitions toward adult ingestion." J. Comp. Physiol. Psychol. 91 (1977): 1141-1155. (Academic Article)
  - Hall, WG, and Blass, EM. "Orogastric determinants of drinking in rats: Interaction between absorptive and peripheral controls." J. Comp. Physiol. Psychol. 91 (1977): 365-373. (Academic Article)
  - Hall, WG, and Rosenblatt, JS. "Suckling behavior and intake control in the developing rat pup." J. Comp. Physiol. Psychol. 91 (1977): 1232-1247. (Academic Article)
  - Blass, EM, Jobaris, R, and Hall, WG. "Oropharyngeal control of drinking in rats." J. Comp. Physiol. Psychol. 90 (1976): 909-916. (Academic Article)
  - Blass, EM, and Hall, WG. "Drinking termination: Interactions among hydrational, orograstric, and behavioral controls in rats." Psych. Rev. 83 (1976): 356-374. (Academic Article)
  - Hall, WG, Cramer, CP, and Blass, EM. "Developmental changes in suckling of rat pups." Nature 258 (1975): 318-320. (Academic Article)
  - Hall, WG, and Blass, EM. "Orogastric, hydrational, and behavioral controls of drinking following water deprivation in rats." J. Comp. Physiol. Psychol. 89 (1975): 939-954. (Academic Article)
  - Hall, WG. "Weaning and growth of artificially reared rats." Science 190 (1975): 1313-1315. (Academic Article)
  - Blass, EM, and Hall, WG. "Behavioral and physiological bases of drinking inhibition in water deprived rats." Nature 249 (1974): 485-486. (Academic Article)
  - Hall, WG. "A remote stomach clamp to evaluate oral and gastric controls of drinking in the rat." Physiological Behavior 11 (1973): 897-901. (Academic Article)

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