Section: Research

Karen Lionello-DeNolf, Ph.D.

Academic Role: Assistant Professor

Faculty Appointment(s) In:
   Psychiatry
   Shriver Center

General Research Interests:

• Relational learning and categorization in populations without spoken language ability
• Stimulus control variables affecting the formation stimulus equivalence classes
• Issues related to discrimination learning, such as the differential outcomes effect, learning set, and reversal learning
• Variables affecting behavioral persistence as defined by behavioral momentum theory

Ongoing Projects:

Process Analysis in Behavioral Allocation and Persistence in Severe Mental Retardation

Recent Projects:

Developing a Rat Model of Transitive Behavior
Symbolic Processes in Presymbolic Populations

Office: South St.
Phone: 508-856-4259
E-mail: Karen.Lionello-DeNolf@umassmed.edu

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