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Charlie
Shimp, Ph.D. |
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Professor
Department of Psychology
University of Utah |
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Contact Information |
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Charlie
Shimp, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology
University of Utah
380 South 1530 East, Room 502
Salt Lake City, Utah 84112 -0251
Office: 1031 Social And Behavioral Science Building
Office Phone: (801) 581-8483
E-mail: charlie.shimp@psych.utah.edu
Fax: (801) 581-5841 |
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Education |
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| Ph.D. |
Brown
University (Psychology, 1965) |
| B.S. |
Ohio
State Univerisy (Psychology, 1961) |
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Reseach Interests |
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Partisanship and competitiveness versus mutual respect and understanding
in peer review, science, and society. 2. Human values in the scientific
method. 3. Real-time computational behavior, including scientific
decision making. 4. Development and evaluation of new empirical and
theoretical tools for the study of memory, attention, intuitive inference,
statistical learning, decision making, behavior dynamics, categorization,
the structure and function of behavior, and awareness in non-human
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Home & Cross Area Specializations |
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CNS
Diversity |
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Selected Publications |
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Shimp,
C. P. (1966). Probabilistically reinforced choice behavior
in pigeons. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 9, 443-455.
Shimp, C. P. (1967a). Reinforcement of least-frequent
sequences of choices. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior,
10, 57-65.
Shimp, C. P. (1967b). Reinforcement of short interresponse
times. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 10, 425-434.
Shimp, C. P. (1968). Magnitude and frequency of reinforcement
and frequencies of interresponse times. Journal of the Experimental
Analysis of Behavior, 11, 525-535.
Shimp, C. P. (1969a). Optimal behavior in free-operant
experiments. Psychological Review, 76, 97-112.
Shimp, C. P. (1969b). Concurrent reinforcement of
two interresponse times: The relative frequency of an interresponse
time equals its relative harmonic length. Journal of the Experimental
Analysis of Behavior, 12, 403-411.
Shimp, C. P. (1970a). Concurrent reinforcement of
two interresponse times: Absolute rate of reinforcement. Journal of
the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 13, 1-8.
Shimp, C. P. (1970b). A within-session effect after
prolonged training in probability learning by rats. Psychonomic Science,
18, (3), 152-153.
Shimp, C. P., & Wheatley, K. L. (1971). Matching
to relative reinforcement frequency in multiple schedules with a short
component duration. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior,
15, 205-210.
Shimp, C. P. (1971a). Matching in a concurrent FI
FI. Psychonomic Science, 22, (1), 27-28.
Moffitt, M., & Shimp, C. P. (1971). Two-key concurrent
paced VI paced VI schedules of reinforcement. Journal of the Experimental
Analysis of Behavior, 16, 39-49.
Shimp, C. P. (1971b). The reinforcement of four interresponse
times in a two-alternative situation. Journal of the Experimental
Analysis of Behavior, 16, 385-399.
Shimp, C. P. (1973a). Probabilistic discrimination
learning in the pigeon. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 97, 292-304.
Shimp, C. P. (1973b). Synthetic variable-interval
schedules of reinforcement. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of
Behavior, 19, 311-330.
Menlove, R. L., Moffitt, M., & Shimp, C. P. (1973).
Choice between concurrent schedules. Journal of the Experimental Analysis
of Behavior, 19, 331-344.
Shimp, C. P. (1973c). Sequential dependencies in
free responding. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior,
19, 491-497.
Hawkes, L., & Shimp, C. P. (1974). Choice between
response rates. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior,
21, 109-115.
Shimp, C. P. (1974). Time allocation and response
rate. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 21, 491-499.
Shimp, C. P., & Hawkes, L. (1974). Time-allocation,
matching and contrast. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior,
22, 1-10.
Shimp, C. P., & Menlove, R. L. (1974). Contrast
as a function of component duration. Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society,
4, 193-194.
Shimp, C. P., & Moffitt, M. (1974). Short-term
memory in the pigeon: Stimulus-response associations. Journal of the
Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 22, 507-512.
Hawkes, L., & Shimp, C. P. (1975). Reinforcement
of behavioral patterns: Shaping a scallop. Journal of the Experimental
Analysis of Behavior, 23, 3-16.
Hale, J. M., & Shimp, C. P. (1975). Molecular
contingencies: Reinforcement probability. Journal of the Experimental
Analysis of Behavior, 24, 315-321.
Shimp, C. P. (1975). Perspectives on the behavioral
unit: Choice behavior in animals. In W. K. Estes (Ed.), Handbook of
learning and cognitive processes (Vol. 2, pp. 225-268). Hillsdale,
NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Shimp, C. P. (1976a). Short-term memory in the pigeon:
Relative recency. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior,
25, 55-61.
Shimp, C. P. (1976b). Organization in memory and
behavior. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 26, 113-130.
Shimp, C. P. (1976c). Short-term memory in the pigeon:
The previously reinforced response. Journal of the Experimental Analysis
of Behavior 26, 487-493.
Shimp, C. P., & Moffitt, M. (1977). Short-term
memory in the pigeon: Delayed-pair-comparison procedures and some
results. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 28, 13-25.
Shimp, C. P. (1978). Memory, temporal discrimination,
and learned structure in behavior. In G. H. Bower (Ed.), The psychology
of learning and motivation (Vol. 12, pp. 39-76). New York: Academic
Press.
Shimp, C. P. (1979). The local organization of behavior:
Method and theory. In M. D. Zeiler and P. Harzem (Eds.), Advances
in analysis of behavior, Vol. 1: Reinforcement and the organization
of behavior (pp. 262-298). Chichester, England: Wiley.
Menlove, R. L., & Shimp, C. P. (1980). Transfer
of color matching in pigeons. Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society,
15, (3), 157-159.
Shimp, C. P. (1981a). Local structure of steady-state
operant behavior. In C. M. Bradshaw, E. Szabadi, and C. F. Lowe (Eds.),
Quantification of steady-state operant behavior (pp. 189-203). Amsterdam:
Elsevier/North Holland.
Shimp, C. P. (1981b). The local organization of behavior:
Discrimination of and memory for simple behavioral patterns. Journal
of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 36, 303-315.
Shimp, C. P. (1981c). Memory in one component for
reinforcement in another component of a complex schedule. Bulletin
of the Psychonomic Society, 18, 284-286.
Shimp, C. P. (1982a). Choice and behavioral patterning.
Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 37, 157-169.
Shimp, C. P. (1982b). Metaknowledge in the pigeon:
An organism's knowledge about its own behavior. Animal Learning and
Behavior, 10 (3), 358-364.
Shimp, C. P. (1982c). Reinforcement and the local
organization of behavior. In M. L. Commons, R. J. Herrnstein, and
H. Rachlin (Eds.), Quantitative analyses of behavior, Vol. II: Matching
and maximizing accounts (pp. 111-130). Cambridge, MA: Ballinger.
Shimp, C. P. (1982d). Historicism, behaviorism, and
the conceptual status of memory representations in animals. Commentary
on, "The meaning of representations in animal memory" by
H. L. Roitblat. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 5, 389-390.
Shimp, C. P. (1983a). The local organization of behavior:
Dissociations between a pigeon's behavior and self-reports of that
behavior. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 39, 61-68.
Shimp, C. P. (1983b). Timing in rather slow moving
pottos and other timely issues. Review of M. Richelle and H. Lejeune,
Time in Animal Behavior. Contemporary Psychology, 28, 848-849.
Shimp, C. P. (1984a). Self reports by rats of the
temporal patterning of their behavior: A dissociation between tacit
knowledge and knowledge. In H. L. Roitblat, T. G. Bever, and H. S.
Terrace (Eds.), Animal cognition (pp. 215-229). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence
Erlbaum.
Shimp, C. P. (1984b). Timing, learning and forgetting.
In J. Gibbon and L. Allan (Eds.), Timing and time perception, Vol.
423, (pp. 346-360). New York: New York Academy of Sciences.
Shimp, C. P. (1984c). Relations between memory and
operant behavior, according to an associative learner (AL). (Special
Issue on Animal Memory). Canadian Journal of Psychology, 38, 269-284.
Shimp, C. P. (1984d). Cognition, behavior, and the
experimental analysis of behavior. (Special Issue on Future Directions)
Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 42, 407-420.
Shimp, C. P. (1984e). The question: Not shall it
be, but which shall it be? Commentary on "Are theories of learning
necessary?" by B. F. Skinner. Behavioral and Brain Sciences,
7, 536-537.
Clauson, H. D., Izatt, E. J., & Shimp, C. P.
(1985). An infra-red system for the detection of a pigeon's pecks
at alphanumeric characters on a TV screen: The dependency of letter
detection on the predictability of one letter by another. Journal
of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 43, 257-264.
Shimp, C. P. (1985a). Molar behaviorism, positivism,
and pain. Commentary on, "Pain and behavior" by H. Rachlin.
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 8, 71-72.
Shimp, C. P. (1985b). The development of theory:
Logic of method or underlying processes? Commentary on "Associations
across time: The hippocampus as a temporary memory store" by
J. N. P. Rawlins. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 8, 511-512.
Wearden, J. H., & Shimp, C. P. (1985). Local
temporal patterning of operant behavior of humans. Journal of the
Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 44, 315-324.
Shimp, C. P. (1986a). The theory-laden nature of
concepts: Great, but what is the next step? Commentary on "Transcending
inductive category formation in learning," by R. C. Schank, G.
C. Collins, and L. E. Hunter. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 9, 666-667.
Shimp, C. P. (1986b). "Suspicion", "Fear",
"Contamination", "Great Dangers", and Behavioral
Fictions. Commentary on, "Behaviorism: A conceptual reconstruction"
by G. E. Zuriff. The Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 9, 715-716.
Shimp, C. P. (1988). Review of Introduction to comparative
cognition, by H.L. Roitblat and of Basic processes of learning, cognition,
and motivation, by S. M. Cormier. American Journal of Psychology,
101, 454-460.
Shimp, C. P. (1989). Contemporary behaviorism versus
the old behavioral straw man in Gardner's The mind's new science:
A history of the cognitive revolution. Journal of the Experimental
Analysis of Behavior, 51, 163-171.
Shimp, C. P., Sabulsky, S. L., & Childers, L.
J. (1989). Preference for starting and finishing behavior patterns.
(Special Issue on Cognition) Journal of the Experimental Analysis
of Behavior, 52, 341-352.
Shimp, C. P., Childers, L. J, & Hightower, F.
A. (1990). Local patterns in human operant behavior and a behaving
model to interrelate animal and human performances. Journal of Experimental
Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 16, 200-212.
Shimp, C. P., (1990). Theory evaluation can be unintentional
self portraiture: a reply to Williams. Journal of Experimental Psychology:
Animal Behavior Processes, 16, 217-221.
Shimp, C. P., Sabulsky, S. L., & Childers, L.
J. (1990). Preference as a function of absolute response durations.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 16,
288-297.
Shimp, C. P. and Hightower, F. A. (1990). Intuitive
statistical inference: How pigeons categorize binomial samples. Animal
Learning and Behavior, 18, 401-409.
Shimp, C. P. (1990). Interrelations between human
language and animal cognition. In E. Ribes and P. Harzem (Eds.), Language
and behavior.(pp. 231-265). Mexico City: Trillas. (In Spanish.)
Parker, B. K. and Shimp, C. P. (1991). Intuitive
statistical inference: An "irrational" context effect in
college students' categorizations of binomial samples. Bulletin of
the Psychonomic Society, 29, 411-414.
Shimp, C. P. (1992). Computational behavior dynamics:
An interpretation of Nevin (1969). (Special Issue on Behavior Dynamics)
Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 57, 289-299.
Shimp, C. P. (1992). Animal learning: It's much more
exciting than you think. Review of L. Dachowski and C. F. Flaherty
(Eds.) Current Topics in Animal Learning: Brain, Emotion, and Cognition.
Contemporary Psychology, 37, 1197-1198.
Shimp, C. P. (1993). Observation and theory in behavior
analysis. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 60, 481-484.
Shimp, C. P. & Friedrich, F. J. (1993). Behavioral
and computational models of spatial attention: Journal of Experimental
Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 19, 26-37.
Shimp, C. P. (1994). Awareness and reinforcement:
Commentary on, "Mathematical Principles of Reinforcement"
by P.R. Killeen. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 17, 149-150.
Shimp, C. P., Fremouw, T., Ingebritsen, L. M. and
Long, K. A. (1994). Molar function depends on molecular structure
of behavior. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes,
20, 96-107.
Shimp, C. P. (1994). Computational behavior and behavior
analysis: An interpretation of Catania and Reynolds (1968). In E.
Ribes Inesta (Ed.), B. F. Skinner, In memoriam. Guadualajara, Mexico:
University of Guadalajara Press. (In Spanish.)
Shimp, C. P., Long, K. A., and Fremouw, T. (1996).
Intuitive statistical inference: Categorizations of binomial samples
depends on sampling context. Animal Learning & Behavior, 24, 82-91.
Shimp, C. P., & Herbranson, W. T. (1998). Local
temporal organization of behavior: Historical and conceptual perspectives.
In R. Ardila, W. L. Lopez, A. M. Perez, R. Quinones, and F. Reyes
(Eds.), Handbook of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior. Madrid,
Spain: Editorial Biblioteca Nueva.(In Spanish.) Pp. 89-113. (In Spanish.)
Fremouw, T., Herbranson, W. T., & Shimp, C. P.
(1998). Priming of attention to local or global levels of visual analysis.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 24,
278-290.
Hawkes, L., & Shimp, C. P. (1998). Linear responses.
Behavioural Processes, 44, 19-43.
Shimp, C. P. (1999). Tolerance in a rigorous science.
Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 71, 284-288.
Herbranson, W. T., Fremouw, T., & Shimp, C. P.
(1999). The randomization procedure in the study of categorization
of multi-dimensional stimuli by pigeons. Journal of Experimental Psychology:
Animal Behavior Processes, 25, 113-135.
Shimp, C. P. (2000). Toward a deconstruction of the
metaphor of behavioral momentum. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 23,
111-112
Shimp, C. P., Herbranson, W. T., & Fremouw, T.
(2001). Avian visual attention in science and culture. In R. G. Cook
(Ed.) Avian Visual Cognition, (On-line.). Available: http://www.pigeon.psy.tufts.edu/avc/shimp/
Shimp, C. P. (2001). Behavior as a social construction.
Behavioural Processes. (Special Issue on The Longer View: 20th Century
Quantitative Analyses of Behavior), 54, 11-32.
Malloy, T. E., Jensen, G. C., Song, T., Herbranson, W. T., Fremouw,
T., & Shimp, C. P. (2002). Interactive demonstration
of Avian Categorization. Retrieved June 18, 2002, from
http://www.psych.utah.edu/shimp/Avian_Categorization.htm.
Herbranson, W. T., Fremouw, T., & Shimp, C. P.
(2002). Categorizing a moving target in terms of its speed and direction.
Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, (Special Issue on
Categorization), 78, 249-270.
Fremouw, T., Herbranson, W. T., & Shimp, C. P.
(2002). Dynamic shifts of avian local/global attention. Animal Cognition,
5, 233-243.
Herbranson, W. T., & Shimp, C. P. (2003). “Artificial
grammar learning” in pigeons: A preliminary analysis. Learning
& Behavior, 31, 98-106.
Shimp, C. P. (2003). Metaknowledge may or may not
facilitate knowledge and performance. Behavioral and Brain Sciences,
26, 354-355.
Froehlich, A. L., Herbranson, W. T., Loper, J., Wood, D., & Shimp,
C. P. (2004). "Anticipating" by pigeons depends
on local statistical information in a serial response time task. Journal
of Experimental Psychology: General, 133, 31-45.
Shimp, C. P. (2004). Scientific peer review: A case
study from local and global analyses. Journal of the Experimental
Analysis of Behavior, 82, 103-116.
Shimp, C. P. (2004). Ambiguity, logic, simplicity,
and dynamics: Wittgensteinian evaluative criteria in peer review of
quantitative research on categorization. Behavioural Processes, 66,
333-348.
Benham, B. & Shimp, C. P. (2004). Falsification
in social science method and theory. In K. Kempf-Leonard (Ed.), Encyclopedia
of Social Measurement, Vol 2. San Diego, CA: Academic Press. Pp. 9-14.
Shimp, C. P., Herbranson, W. T., Fremouw, T., &
Froehlich, A. L. (2006). Rule-learning, memorization strategies, switching
of attention between local and global levels of perceptual analysis,
and optimality in avian visual categorization. In E. A. Wasserman
and T. R Zentall (Eds.), Comparative Cognition: Experimental Explorations
of Animal Intelligence. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.
(pp. 388-404).
Shimp, C. P., Froehlich, A. L., & Herbranson,
W. T. (In press). Information processing in pigeons: Incentive as
information. Journal of Comparative Psychology.
Shimp, C. P. (In press.) Quantitative behavioral
models and human values. Behavioural Processes. |
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Grants |
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| TITLE |
AGENCY |
DIRECT
COSTS |
YEAR |
| Synthetic
VI schedules of reinforcement |
NIMH |
4,200 |
1967 |
| Concurrent
choices and concurrent IRTs |
NIMH |
81,492 |
1969
1972 |
| Exploratory
studies in operant conditioning |
NIMH |
5,000 |
1971 |
| Concurrent
choices and concurrent IRTs |
NIMH
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81,876 |
1972
1975 |
| Short
term memory in the pigeon (co investigator) |
NIMH |
6,000 |
1973 |
| Molecular
analyses of choice behavior |
NIMH |
90,952 |
1975
1978 |
| Molecular
analyses of choice behavior |
NIMH
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95,400 |
1978
1982 |
| New
methods for the study of perceptual organization in animals
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NIMH |
6,000 |
1979 |
| Molecular
analyses of behavior |
NIMH |
191,553 |
1987
1991 |
| Attentional
Shifts in Non-human Animals |
NSF |
80,000 |
1994-1996 |
| Optimal
Decision Rules For Ill-defined Concepts |
NIMH |
233,483 |
1996-1999 |
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Editorial Service |
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Associate
Editor, Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 1976-1979.
Associate Editor, Animal Learning and Behavior, 1980-1984.
Consulting Editor, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior
Processes, 1986-1997.
Consulting Editor, Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior,
1970-1972, 1974-1976, 1986-1989, 1990-1993, 1997-2000.
Consulting Editor, Behavior and Philosophy, 1997-present.
Consulting Editor, American Journal of Psychology, 1978-1988. |
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National Grant Review and Professional Service |
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American
Psychological Association, Division 3 Awards Committee, member 2002,
chair 2003.
Basic BioBehavioral Sciences Research Subcommittee, National Institutes
of Health, (NIH BBBS-1), 1999-resigned 2000.
Basic Behavioral Science Research Subcommittee, National Institute
of Drug Abuse, (NIDA-D), 1997-1999.
Psychobiology Subcommittee of the Advisory Committee for Behavioral
and Neural Sciences, National Science Foundation, (NSF) 1979-1982
National Research Council panel for National Science Foundation post
doctoral fellows in psychology, 1977-1979
Social Sciences panel for National Science Foundation, NATO post doctoral
fellowships, Chairman, 1980.
NICHHD 1985, NIMH 1986, NIDA 1996, and NIH post doctoral fellowship
program in psychology, 1988, ad hoc consultant. |
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