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The Murphy Laboratory conducts research in three related areas: a) basic behavioral processes, including classical and operant conditioning, b) the behavioral pharmacology of drug abuse, and c) the physiological psychology of animal learning and behavior. Most recently, Dr. Murphy and his students have been investiging the variables that regulate alcohol consumption in a selectively-bred strain of alcohol-preferring rats.

If you are a student interested in gaining important research experience in the area of animal learning and behavior, please contact Dr. Eric Murphy at 786-1626 (office telephone) or afesm@uaa.alaska.edu (email).

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