Iver Hans Iversen Department of Psychology University of North Florida

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1 1 Fall 2004 CURRICULUM VITA Iver Hans Iversen Department of Psychology University of North Florida Education University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Department of Psychology and Institute of Neurophysiology. Degree: "Magister Konferens" (eq. to a Ph.D), Major field: Experimental Psychology (Experimental Analysis of Behavior). Professional Employment 1993-present Professor. Tenured, University of North Florida 1998/99 Visiting Professor. University of Tuebingen, Germany. (one year) Associate Professor. Tenured. University of North Florida Visiting Professor. Kyoto University, Japan. (one year) Assistant Professor. University of North Florida Visiting Assistant Professor. Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA Post-Doctoral Scientist in Behavioral Pharmacology. Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research, San Antonio, Texas. With Dr. I. Geller Research Psychologist in experimental psychology. Fellowship from University of Copenhagen for research at Institute of Neurophysiology, Copenhagen, and at Department of Psychology at Northeastern University, Boston. With Dr. M. Sidman Post-Doctoral Fellow in Behavioral Biology. The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland. With Dr. J. Brady. Competitive Awards From University of North Florida 2003, Spring Summer Teaching Grant 2002, Spring Distinguished Professor-Runner Up Award 2000, Spring Outstanding Faculty Scholarship Award 1997, Spring Distinguished Professor-Runner Up Award 1996, Fall Teaching Incentive Program (TIP) Award

2 2 General Competitive Grants/Fellowships 2002, Summer Stipend from Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany, for 2 months summer research 1998/2000 Grant from National Science Foundation for Instrumentation and Laboratory Improvement at UNF (in collaboration with Dr. Eisler at Psychology, Iversen as principal investigator) 1998 One-year research fellowship from German Research Council for research at the Institute of Medical Psychology, University of Tuebingen, Germany (while on research leave from UNF) Best Paper award from Japanese Psychological Association for a publication in Japanese Psychological Research (in English) 1997, Summer Fellowship from Kyoto University, Japan, for summer research at Primate Research Institute, Kyoto, Japan 1996, Summer Fellowship from Kyoto University, Japan, for summer research at Primate Research Institute, Kyoto, Japan 1994, Summer Fellowship from Kyoto University, Japan, for summer research at Primate Research Institute, Kyoto, Japan 1992/93 Japanese Ministry of Education Fellowship for research at Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University (while on sabbatical leave from UNF, one year) Primary Teaching at UNF I have taught a variety of classes for undergraduate students at UNF: Introduction to Psychology, Research Methods, Learning Theory, Learning Theory for Teachers, Behavior Modification, Experimental analysis of Behavior (with laboratory), Senior Seminars, and special topic Seminars in behavior analysis. In addition to teaching, I have directed numerous students in their Independent Directed Studies. My main teaching emphasis has been on Research Methods, Experimental Analysis of Behavior, and Behavior Modification. Teaching in these classes centers around methods of research, data analysis, and basic principles of learning. In Experimental Analysis of Behavior, students conduct experiments on basic learning principles with live animals (rats). In Behavior Modification, students learn about application of basic learning principles to human therapy and they conduct a study of some aspect of their own behavior. In Research Methods students learn about basic methods of research, data analysis, and writing of research reports. In sum, to emphasize that psychology is a discipline within the general sciences, my classes have a strong emphasis on methods of scientific analysis of behavior. Recently, I have been teaching a seminar for the graduate students in the General Masters program. Primary Current Research Interests At UNF s animal learning laboratory, I use rats to study a) circadian rhythms of learned behavior, b) how chains of behavior are formed and broken down, c) how learned behavior is maintained over long periods of time, and d) how significant environmental events come to

3 3 determine when specific behaviors will occur. The past 7 years a good part of my research has been done during the summers at Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University, Japan, where I have established automated methods to train chimpanzees to perform complex human-like behaviors such as drawing the letters of the alphabet. Last year I started collaborate with researchers at the new Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany, also on the research topic of complex primate behavior. With researchers at University of Tuebingen, Germany, I have participated in the development of an automated communication tool for totally paralyzed human patients that teaches them to use brainwaves to control a cursor on a computer monitor to select letters for communication. In sum, I study basic principles of learning from rats through chimpanzees to the ultimate application of the principles in the human domain to help improve the life conditions of disadvantaged human patients. Professional Service Membership of Editorial Boards: Behavior Analysis Letters ( ); Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior ( ); The Behavior Analyst ( ); Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior ( ); Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis ( ); Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior ( ); Primatologie ( present); European Journal of Behavior Analysis (2000 present); Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior ( ). Guest Reviewer: Pharmacology, Biochemistry, & Behavior; Neurobehavioral Toxicology & Teratology; The Psychological Record; Psychological Bulletin; American Psychologist; Journal of the Acoustical Society of America; Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior; Primates; Brain and Behavior Research; Japanese Psychological Research; Animal Learning and Behavior; Animal Cognition; Behavioural Processes. Book and Grant Reviewer: Books: Arnold Publishing House, Mayfield Publishing Company. Grants: National Science Foundation, National Research Council. Consultation work: Novo Nordisk, Denmark, (a Pharmaceutical company that studies the effects of drugs on learned behavior in rats); Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany, (an institute that conducts a comprehensive study of ape cognition); Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University, Japan (a research institute dedicated to the study of primates including ape cognition); Psychology Department, University of Athens, Georgia (a project aimed at teaching capuchin monkeys to draw on a touchmonitor); Institute of Medical Psychology, University of Tuebingen, Germany, (a research institute dedicated to application of medical and psychological principles to help human patients with paralysis and other neurological impairments); Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville (consultant on research project on animal models of nicotine addiction). Books: Publications Henton, W. W., & Iversen, I. H. (1978). Classical conditioning and operant conditioning: A response pattern analysis. New York: Springer-Verlag. Iversen, I. H., & Lattal, K. A. (Eds.) (1991). Techniques in the behavioral and neural sciences: Experimental analysis of behavior, Part 1. Amsterdam: Elsevier.

4 4 Iversen, I. H., & Lattal, K. A. (Eds.) (1991). Techniques in the behavioral and neural sciences: Experimental analysis of behavior, Part 2. Amsterdam: Elsevier. Research Articles: Henton, W. W., & Iversen, I. H. (1973). An inexpensive feeder for rapid delivery of monkey pellets. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 19, Iversen, I. H. (1975). Concurrent responses during multiple schedules in rats. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 15, Iversen, I. H. (1975). Interactions between lever pressing and collateral drinking during VI with limited hold. The Psychological Record, 25, Iversen, I. H. (1975). Reciprocal response interactions in concurrent variable-interval and discrete-trial fixed-ratio schedules. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 16, Iversen, I. H. (1976). Interactions between reinforced responses and collateral responses. The Psychological Record, 26, Iversen, I. H. (1977). Reinforcement omission and schedule-induced drinking in a response-independent schedule in rats. Physiology and Behavior, 18, Iversen, I. H. (1981). Response interactions with signaled delay of reinforcement. Behavior Analysis Letters, 1, 3-9. Iversen, I. H. (1981). Response interactions with unidirectional changeover delay in concurrent schedules. In C. M. Bradshaw (Ed.), International symposium on recent developments in the quantification of steady-state operant behavior, pp Amsterdam: Elsevier. Iversen, I. H., Ragnarsdottir, G. A., & Randrup, K. I. (1984). Operant conditioning of autogrooming in vervet monkeys (Cercopithecus aethiops). Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 42, Turkkan, J. S., Iversen, I. H., & Harris, A. H. (1984). Discriminative control of hyperdipsic drinking in the baboon. Physiology and Behavior, 33, Iversen, I. H. (1985). Response interactions in multiple schedules: The influence of response displacement. The Psychological Record, 35, Iversen, I. H. (1985). Restricted access to collateral behavior affects operant behavior on variable-interval schedules. The Psychological Record, 35, Iversen, I. H. (1986). Time allocation, sequential, and kinematic analyses of behaviors controlled by an aperiodic reinforcement schedule. The Psychological Record, 36, Iversen, I. H., Sidman, M., & Carrigan, P. (1986). Stimulus definition in conditional discriminations. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 45,

5 5 Mogensen, J., Iversen, I. H., & Divac, I. (1987). Neostriatal lesions impaired rat's delayed alternation in a T-maze but not in a two-key operant chamber. Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis, 47, Iversen, I. H. & Mogensen, J. (1988). A multipurpose vertical holeboard with automated recording of spatial and temporal visit patterns for rodents. Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 25, Iversen, I. H. (1991). Methods of analyzing behavior patterns. In I. H. Iversen and K. A. Lattal (Eds.), Techniques in the Behavioral and Neural Sciences: Experimental Analysis of Behavior, Part 2. Amsterdam: Elsevier. Iversen, I. H. (1992). Skinner's early research: From reflexology to operant conditioning. American Psychologist, 47, Iversen, I. H. (1993). Acquisition of matching-to-sample performance in rats using visual stimuli on nose keys. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 59, Iversen, I. H. (1993). Techniques for establishing schedules with wheel running as reinforcement in rats. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 60, Iversen, I. H. (1994). From biological learning to machine learning. First International Symposium on Integrating Knowledge and Neural Heuristics. IEEE Neural Network Council, pp Iversen, I. H., & Matsuzawa, T. (1996). Visually guided drawing in the chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes). Japanese Psychological Research, 38, Iversen, I. H. (1997). Matching-to-sample performance in rats: A case of mistaken identity. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 60, Iversen, I. H. & Matsuzawa, T. (1997). Model guided line drawing in the chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes). Japanese Psychological Research, 39, (in English). (Received an award from Japanese Psychological Association.) Iversen, I. H. (1998). Simple and conditional visual discrimination with wheel running as reinforcement in rats. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 70, Birbaumer, N., Ghanayim, N., Hinterberger, T., Iversen, I., Kotchoubey, B., Kuebler, A. Perelmouter, J., Taub, E., & Flor, H. (1999). A spelling device for the paralyzed. Nature, 398, Birbaumer, N., Kuebler, A., Ghanayim, N., Hinterberger, T., Perelmouter, J., Kaiser, J., Iversen, I., Kotchoubey, B., Neumann, N., & Flor, H. (2000). The thought-translation device (TTD) for completely paralyzed patients. IEEE Transactions on Rehabilitation and Engineering, 8,

6 6 Iversen, I. H. & Matsuzawa, T. (2001). Establishing line tracing on a touchmonitor as a basic drawing skill in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). In T. Matsuzawa (Ed.), Primate origin of human cognition and behavior. Tokyo: Springer Verlag. (pp ). Kaiser, J., Perelmouter, J., Iversen, I. H., Neumann, N., Ghanayim, N., Hinterberger, T., Kuebler, A., Kotchoubey, B., & Birbaumer, N. (2001). Self-initiation of EEG-based communication in paralyzed patients. Clinical Neurophysiology, 112, Iversen, I. H., & Matsuzawa, T. (2001). Acquisition of navigation in an automated fingermaze task for the chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes). Animal Cognition, 4, Iversen, I. H. (2002). Response-initiated imaging of operant behavior using a digital camera. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 77, Iversen, I. H., & Matsuzawa, T. (2003). Development of interception of moving targets by chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) in an automated task. Animal Cognition, 6, Publications with students at University of North Florida: Rasey, H., & Iversen, I. H. (1993). An experimental acquisition of maladaptive behavior by shaping. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 24, Walker, B. P., & Iversen, I. H. (2003). Conditioning respiration with positive self-reinforcement: Transferring slow, deep diaphragmatic breathing to everyday living. Psi Chi Journal of Undergraduate Research, 8, Reviews and Commentaries: Iversen, I. H. (1988). Tactics of graphic design: A review of Tufte's The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 49, (Book review). Iversen, I. H. (1988). How to change behavior? The Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 11, (Commentary) Iversen, I. H. (1994). Reply to Harrison: The representative method. The Behavior Analyst, 17, (Commentary) Iversen, I. H. (1998), Jennie. Primatologie, 1, (Book review). Conference Presentations (To save space, I list only presentations for the last 15 years) Papers: Moment-to-moment mechanisms in response duration reinforcement. Paper presented at Association for Behavior Analysis International, San Francisco, May, 1996.

7 7 Training chimpanzees to draw on a touchmonitor. Paper presented at Association for Behavior Analysis International, San Francisco, May, Fluency in ape drawing: Teaching methods and implications. Paper presented at Japanese Association for Behavior Analysis, Nagoya, Japan, June, Elements of simple copying behavior in chimpanzees. Paper presented at Japanese Primatology Society, Sapporo, Japan, June, Teaching a chimpanzee to draw a copy of a model. Presentation at Japanese Primatology Society, Hokkaido, Japan. (1997, June) (With Matsuzawa, T). Automated training of line drawing and object movement (in fingermaze and sorting tasks) on a touch-sensitive monitor in captive chimpanzees. Presentation at Measuring Behavior '98, Groningen, The Netherlands. (1998, August). Problems regarding interpretations of data from matching-to-sample tasks. Presentation at Fourth International congress on Behaviorism and the Sciences of Behavior, Seville, Spain. (1998, November). Methods of teaching chimpanzees to draw reliably on a touchmonitor. Presentation at Fourth International congress on Behaviorism and the Sciences of Behavior, Seville, Spain. (1998, November). Development of EEG-driven communication and cognitive assessment tools for ALS patients. Presentation at 9 th International Symposium on ALS/MND, Munich, Germany. (1998, November). Making totally paralyzed patients move by translating their brainwaves into cursor action on a monitor. Presentation at Measuring Behavior 2000, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. (2000, August). Navigation on a touch monitor in fingermazes and interception tasks in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), Presentation at International Primatology Society, Adelaide, Australia (2001, January). Teaching matching to sample to totally paralyzed patients by translating their brainwaves into cursor movement on a monitor. (In collaboration with researchers from University of Tuebingen, Germany). Presentation at International Association for Behavior Analysis, Venice, Italy, November, Dissociating the three-term contingency: The role of the response. Presentation at International Association for Behavior Analysis, Venice, Italy, November, Some causes of pauses in operant behavior. Presentation at International Association for Behavior Analysis, Venice, Italy, November, Drawing on PowerPoint slides on a Tablet PC in the classroom. Presentation at 15 th International Conference on College Teaching and Learning, Jacksonville, Florida, March, 2004 An automated sorting task for chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), Presentation at International Primatology Society, Turin, Italy (2004, July).

8 8 Posters: Teaching chimpanzees to write letters with a finger on a touchmonitor. Poster presented at the 16th Annual convention of the Florida Association for Behavior Analysis, Daytona, September,1996. (Awarded poster presentation) Automated training of structured drawing on a touchmonitor in captive chimpanzees. Poster presented at the European Neuroscience Meeting, Berlin, Germany. (1998, June). On-line analysis of drawing and object movement on a touch-sensitive monitor: Interaction between finger position and object location on the monitor. Poster presented at Measuring Behavior '98, Groningen, The Netherlands. (1998, August). An inexpensive method to automate the recording of direction and speed of individual bouts of wheel running in rats. Poster presented at Measuring Behavior '98, Groningen, The Netherlands. (1998, August). A method to automate the recording of direction and speed of individual bouts of wheel running in rats. Poster presented at South Eastern Association for Behavior Analysis, Columbia, SC. (1999, October). Genesis of learning: The behavioral effects of a single reinforcement. Poster presented at Measuring Behavior 2000, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, (2000, August). Using a Tablet PC in education and research. Poster presented at the California Association for Behavior Analysis, San Francisco, California, February, Demonstration of using a Tablet PC in the classroom. Poster presented at 15 th International Conference on College Teaching and Learning, Jacksonville, Florida, March Symposia: Multiple response analysis of single reinforcement schedules. Symposium presentation at the 15th Annual Convention of the Association for Behavior Analysis, Milwaukee, WI. (1989, May) The role of contiguity in superstitious animal behavior. Symposium presentation at the 16th Annual Convention of the Association for Behavior Analysis, Nashville, TN. (1990, May) Collateral and operant responses: Sequential dependencies in variable-interval schedules (with L. Lamontagne, UNF student). Symposium presentation at the 17th Annual Convention of the Association for Behavior Analysis, Atlanta, GA. (1991, May) Response alternation and reinforcement allocation. Symposium on "Choice" at Association for Behavior Analysis International, San Francisco, May, Invited Addresses at Scientific Conventions: Some methodological problems concerning drawing inferences from experimental work. Invited address at the Behavior Conference at Jacksonville State University, Jacksonville, AL. (1990, March)

9 9 The role of response-reinforcer contiguity in acquisition. Invited presentation at the 6th Annual Southeastern Association for Behavior Analysis, Savannah, GA. (1990, February) The role of reinforcement in adult human perception. Address at the 17th Annual Conference of the Association for Behavior Analysis, Atlanta, GA. (1991, May) From Biological Learning to Machine Learning. Invited presentation at International Symposium on Integrating Knowledge and Neural Heuristics, Pensacola, FL (1994, May). Visually Guided Drawing on a Touch Monitor in Chimpanzees. Invited Address at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, Los Angeles (1994, August). Automated training of drawing, sorting, and object manipulation on a touch monitor in chimpanzees. Invited presentation at South Eastern Association for Behavior Analysis, Columbia, SC. (1999, October). Computerized drawing, sorting, and fingermaze tasks for chimpanzees. Invited presentation at International Symposium on Phylogeny of Cognition and Language. Inuyama, Japan. (2000, March). Control of behavior by remote stimuli. Invited presentation at California Association for Behavior Analysis, San Francisco, California, February, Chair or Discussant: Chair and organizer: Superstitious behavior in humans and non-humans. Symposium held at the 16th Annual Conference of the Association for Behavior Analysis, Nashville, TN. (1990, May). Discussant: Response-event relations across the behavioral spectrum. Symposium held at the 12th Annual Conference of the Association for Behavior Analysis, Milwaukee, WI. (1986, May). Academic Presentations Numerous Presentations at Universities in the United States: For example: Using touchmonitors in research on ape cognition. Invited presentation at Language Research Center, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, (2001, May). Invited Graduate Seminars: Constraints on learning. Invited one-semester graduate seminar at Department of Psychology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. (1990, Spring). The use of operant conditioning in teaching complex skills. Invited one-week seminar for graduate students at Department of Psychology, University of Guadajahara, Mexico. (1998, September).

10 10 International Presentations: Fundamental issues in experimental behavior analysis. Invited presentation at University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland. (1987, June). Moment-to-moment analysis of conditioning. Invited presentation at University of Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf, West Germany. (1987, July). Molecular analysis of reinforcement schedules. Invited presentation at Chiba University, Tokyo, Japan. (1988, June). Dissociation of response and stimulus in the three-term contingency. Presentation at Japanese Society for Behavior Analysis, Tokyo, Japan, (1992, October). Development of drawing and writing behavior in chimpanzees. Invited presentation at Kyoto University, Japan (1993, May) Current issues in animal learning. Invited presentation at Nippon University, Japan (1994, July). Teaching Chimpanzees to make a copy. Invited presentation at Chiba University, Tokyo, Japan, (1996, July). Development of one-stroke drawing, 5-category sorting, and fingermaze skills in chimpanzees. Invited presentation at Kyoto University, Primate Research Institute, Japan. (1997, November). Automated training and assessment of drawing, navigation, and object sorting by chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). Invited presentation at Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany, (2001, August).

Iver Hans Iversen Department of Psychology University of North Florida

1 Spring 2010 CURRICULUM VITA Iver Hans Iversen Department of Psychology University of North Florida Education University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Department of Psychology and Institute of Neurophysiology.