July 1, 2006

Professor Stanton appointed to NIH Peer Review Panel

 

Dr. Mark Stanton, Professor of Psychology in the Behavioral Neuroscience Area, has been appointed as a regular member of the Biobehavioral Regulation, Learning and Ethology [BRLE] Study Section, Center for Scientific Review [CSR], National Institutes of Health, for a three-year term beginning July 1, 2006.  Members are selected on the basis of the quality of their research accomplishments, publications in scientific journals, and other significant scientific activities, achievements, and honors.  Additional selection criteria are mature judgment, objectivity, and the ability to work effectively in a group.  The mission of the BRLE Study Section, to quote the CSR website, is to review “applications investigating basic biobehavioral processes and adaptation across the lifespan [infancy through old age]. The Study Section primarily considers research with non-human animals [vertebrates and invertebrates], but relevant work with humans is also included. Normal and disordered processes are addressed. Although the focus is on behavior, studies may also consider related neural, hormonal, and genetic factors.  Specific areas covered by BRLE include learning, cognition, and behavioral control; classical and operant conditioning; sensitization and habituation; choice; observational and social learning; sensory, perceptual, spatial, motor, and navigational abilities; timing, counting and other quantitative abilities; attention; memory; categorization; problem-solving; and executive function; perceptual, motor, and cognitive development; social and communicative development; sexual and reproductive development; development of behavioral control; prenatal influences; behavioral teratology; and behavior genetics.”