Developmental Psychobiology Back to Faculty, Students and Staff
Dr. Jeffrey R. Alberts
Lab Director
Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Ph.D., Neural Science & Behavior, Princeton University
MA, Physiological Psychology, Princeton University
MA, Comparative Psychology, McMaster University
BA, Psychology, McMaster University
Research Areas:
- Developmental psychobiology
- Neuroscience, animal behavior
- Ontogeny of species-typical behavior
- Maturation of sensory and physiological processes
- Development of learning and memory
Appointments:
- Assistant Professor, Indiana University, 1974
- Associate Professor, Indiana University, 1977
- Full Professor, Indiana University, 1981 – present
- President, Star Enterprises, Inc. 1983 - present
- Assoc. Dean for Research, Research and the University School (RUGS) 1990-01
- Associate Vice President for Research, 2001-2005
Other Professional Positions and Roles (Selected):
- Associate and Consulting Editorships, Developmental Psychobiology, Journal of Comparative Psychology, Behavioral Neuroscience, Int. J.of Gravitational Physiology, 1976-present
- Editor, Developmental Psychobiology, 1986-1991
- Member of federal grant review committees: NIMH, NICHD, NSF
- Comm. on Animal Research and Ethics, Amer. Psychological Assoc., 2000-02
- Board of Trustees, Scientists Center for Animal Welfare (SCAW), 2003-2009
Selected PublicationsAbel, R. A., Ronca, A. E., & Alberts, J. R. (1998). Perinatal stimulation facilitates suckling onset in newborn rats. Developmental Psychobiology, 32(2), 91-99. PDF Alberts, J. R. (1974). Producing and interpreting experimental olfactory deficits. Physiology & Behavior, 12(4), 657-670. PDF Campbell, B. A., & Alberts, J. R. (1979). Ontogeny of long-term memory for learned taste aversions. Behavioral and neural biology, 25(2), 139-156. PDF Cramer, C. P., Thiels, E., & Alberts, J. R. (1990). Weaning in rats: I. Maternal behavior. Developmental Psychobiology, 23(6), 479-493. PDF Farrell, W. J., & Alberts, J. R. (1997). Development of maternal responsiveness to rat pup ultrasonic vocalizations. Abstract: Developmental Psychobiology. Farrell, W. J., & Alberts, J. R. (2000). Ultrasonic vocalizations by rat pups after adrenergic manipulations of brown fat metabolism. Behavioral neuroscience, 114(4), 805-813. PDF Farrell, W. J., & Alberts, J. R. (2007). Rat behavioral thermoregulation integrates with nonshivering thermogenesis during postnatal development. Behavioral neuroscience, 121(6), 1333-1341. PDF Gubernick, D. J., & Alberts, J. R. (1989). Postpartum maintenance of paternal behaviour in the biparental California mouse, Peromyscus californicus. Animal Behaviour, 37(Part 4), 656-664. PDF Hoffman, C. M., Flory, G. S., & Alberts, J. R. (1999). Neonatal thermotaxis improves reversal of a thermally reinforced operant response. Developmental Psychobiology, 34(2), 87-99. PDF Hoffman, C. M., Flory, G. S., & Alberts, J. R. (1999). Ontogenetic adaptation and learning: a developmental constraint in learning for a thermal reinforcer. Developmental Psychobiology, 34(2), 73-86. PDF |
Honeycutt, H., & Alberts, J. R. (2005). Housing pregnant mice (Mus musculus) in small groups facilitates the development of odor-based homing in offspring. Journal of comparative psychology (Washington, D C : 1983), 119(4), 418-429. PDF Melcer, T., & Alberts, J. R. (1989). Recognition of food by individual, food-naive, weaning rats (Rattus norvegicus). Journal of comparative psychology (Washington, D C : 1983), 103(3), 243-251. PDF Motz, B. A., & Alberts, J. R. (2005a). The validity and utility of geotaxis in young rodents. Neurotoxicology and teratology, 27(4), 529-533. PDF Motz, B. A., & Alberts, J. R. (2005b). What's a word worth? Neurotoxicology and teratology, 27(4), 543-544. PDF Nelson, E. E., Alberts, Jeffrey R. (1998). Oxytocin is elevated in plasma of 10-day-old rats following gastric distention. Developmental Brain Research, 111(2), 301-303. PDF Plaut, K., Maple, R., Vyas, C., Munaim, S., Darling, A., Casey, T., et al. (1999). The effects of spaceflight on mammary metabolism in pregnant rats. Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine (New York, N Y ), 222(1), 85-89. PDF Ronca, A. E., Abel, R. A., & Alberts, J. R. (2007). Maternal anesthesia via isoflurane or ether differentially affects pre-and postnatal behavior in rat offspring. Developmental Psychobiology, 49(7), 675-684. PDF Ronca, A. E., Abel, R. A., Ronan, P. J., Renner, K. J., & Alberts, J. R. (2006). Effects of labor contractions on catecholamine release and breathing frequency in newborn rats. Behavioral neuroscience, 120(6), 1308-1314. PDF Ronca, A. E., & Alberts, J. (1995). Cutaneous induction of breathing in perinatal rats. Psychobiology, 23(4), 261-269. PDF Thiels, E., Alberts, J. R., & Cramer, C. P. (1990). Weaning in rats: II. Pup behavior patterns. Developmental Psychobiology, 23(6), 495-510. PDF |