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James Bruce Overmier

Professor of Psychology
N258 Elliott, 625-1835
psyjbo@umn.edu

University of Minnesota
Minneapolis , MN, USA 55455
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Funded Research & Training Activities of J. Bruce Overmier:

The influences of Pavlovian conditioned emotional responses upon instrumental behavior. Graduate School Research Council, University of Minnesota Grant: 1965-68; Principal Investigator.

Conditioning of emotionally based responses in fish. NIMH Grant: 1966-68; Principal Investigator.

Pavlovian conditioning and avoidance behavior. NIMH Grant: 1967-78; Principal Investigator.

Center for Research in Human Learning ( University of Minnesota ). NICHD and NSF Grants: 1974-79, Co-principal Investigator; 1978-81, NSF, and 1978-83, NICHD, Co-principal Investigator; 1983-88, NICHD, Principal Investigator.

Conditioning and the mediation of avoidance behavior. NSF Grant: 1978-81, Principal Investigator.

Expectations of things not to come. Graduate School Research Council, University of Minnesota Grant: 1982-83; Graduate School Research Council, University of Minnesota, Principal Investigator.

Shock induced gastric ulceration. NIH Fogarty Center Grant: 1984;. Principal Investigator.

Neurobiological aspects of learning and behavior (Neural Correlates of behavior). NIH Fogarty Grant: 1985-87, US-Yugoslav Joint Board on Science for research at International Laboratory of Brain Research, Kotor, Yugoslavia. Cognizant US scientist.

Psychobiology of stress. Norwegian Marshall Fund/Norway-America Association Grant: 1987. Research Investigator.

Influences of reinforcer specificity upon children's learning and memory. U of MN Grant-in-Aide Grant: 1981-82, 1987-88, Principal Investigator.

Development of a new method for teaching symbol guided skills to the mentally retarded. Institute for Disabilities Studies Grant 1989-90; Principle Investigator.

Generalized learned irrelevance in appetitive contexts.

Grant: NSF 1989-90; Principal Investigator.

Psychobiology of stress induced gastric erosions in rats. NSF Grant: NSF US-Norway Cooperative Research; 1991-92; Principle Investigator.

Center for Research inMarch 6, 2006 1993-98; Principal Investigator. (Resigned as PI in 6/1994)

Research Experiences for Undergraduates Site in the Behavioral Sciences. NSF. Grant: 1990-93; Principal Investigator. Grant: 1993-1996; Co-Principal Investigator (with Broen).Grant: 1996-1999; Principle Investigator. Grant: 1999-2002; Co-Principle Investigator (with Pick).

Short-term Minority Undergraduate ADAMHA Areas Research. NIMH Grant: 1993-98, Principal Investigator. NIMH Grant: 1998-2003, Co-Principle Investigator (with Gershenson).

Application of a novel teaching technique to persons with Korsakoff's syndrome. U of MN Grant-in-Aid: 1998-99. Principle Investigator.

Motivational control of alcohol seeking behavior. NIAAA/NRSA grant. 2000-2003; Principle Investigator. (for S. Glasner )

Evololutionary genetics of avian choice behavior. NSF-SGER, $35,000, 2002-2004; Co-investigator.

NIDA institutional NRSA Neurobehavioral/Neuroimmune Addiction Research Training grant. 2002-2007; Named preceptor.

Interdisciplinary Training Program in Cognitive Science. NICHHD. Center for Cognitive Sciences: Named preceptor and played a lead role in preparation of the affective-neuroscience module. $486,000, 2004-2009.