Overview
W.G. (Ted) Hall. 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 Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Comparative Neurobiology
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2005 - Present
Psychology & Neuroscience,
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Professor Emeritus of Psychological and Brain Sciences
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2005 - Present
Psychology & Neuroscience,
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Recent Publications
Appetitive Responses to Dehydration and Food-Deprivation are Learned
Journal Article Psychological Behavior · 2002 CiteExperience with Drinking While Dehydrated is Required for Weanling Rats to Acquire an Appetitive Response to Cellular Dehydration
Journal Article Development Psychobiology · 2001 CiteThirst modulates a perception.
Journal Article Perception · January 2001 Does thirst make you more likely to think you see water? Tales of thirsty desert travelers and oasis mirages are consistent with our intuitions that appetitive state can influence what we see in the world. Yet there has been surprisingly little scrutiny of ... Full text CiteRecent Grants
Acquisition of Appetite
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institute for Child Health & Human Develo · 1998 - 2004Undergraduate Neurosciences Summer Research Program in Mechanisms of Behavior
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 1994 - 1997Developmental Psychobiology of Motivation
FellowshipPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 1987 - 1997View All Grants
Education, Training & Certifications
Johns Hopkins University ·
1975
Ph.D.