Ph.D., University of Michigan (1962)

Research Interests: Neural plasticity, perceptual development, cerebellar mechanisms in classical conditioning.

Recent Publications:
Shinkman, P.G. (2001). Electrical stimulation of the brain. In N.J. Smelser & P.B. Baltes (Eds.), International encyclopedia of the social & behavioral sciences. Oxford: Elsevier Science Ltd., in press.

Thompson, R.F., Swain, R.A., Clark, R.E., & Shinkman, P.G. (2000). Intracerebellar conditioning -- Brogden and Gantt revisited. Behavioural Brain Research, 110, 3-11.Swain, R.A., Shinkman, P.G., Thompson, J.K., Grethe, J.S., & Thompson, R.F. (1999). Essential neuronal pathways for reflex and conditioned response initiation in an intracerebellar stimulation paradigm and the impact of unconditioned stimulus preexposure on learning rate.  Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 71, 167-193..

Thompson, R.F., Thompson, J.K., Kim, J.J., Krupa, D.J., & Shinkman, P.G. (1998). The nature of reinforcement in cerebellar learning. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 70, 150-176.

Shinkman, P.G., Swain, R.A., & Thompson, R.F. (1996). Classical conditioning with electrical stimulation of cerebellum as both conditioned and unconditioned stimulus. Behavioral Neuroscience, 110, 914-921.

Casagrande, V.A., & Shinkman, P.G. (Eds.). (1994). Advances in neural and behavioral development: Vol. 4. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing Corp.