Stuart R. Ellins Ph.D. is a retired University Professor and Psychology Department Chair. His teaching and research in comparative psychobiology brought him in contact with John Garcia who is a pioneer in the field and is the founder of research in taste aversion conditioning. Stuart Ellins' primary research and writing has been in the application of taste aversion conditioning to the management of coyotes and other wildllife.
John Garcia
Life of a Neuroethologist and History of Conditioned Taste Aversion
by Stuart R. Ellins Ph.D. (Editor)
John Garcia
Life of a Neuroethologist and History of Conditioned Taste Aversion
by Stuart R. Ellins Ph.D. (Editor)
Published Jan 10, 2007
256 Pages
Genre: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology
Book Excerpt
As a “neuroethologist,” John Garcia evaluates the behavior of animals, including humans, as diverse organisms that perceive, think, and cope with the demands of their natural habitats. His research attempts to understand the relationships between learning, environment and neuroscience, as opposed to traditional laboratory learning psychologists who reduce the behaviors of all species to generalized Pavlovian symbols as URs and CRs to USs and CSs.