Dr. Timberlake studies learning and behavior within a general framework of behavior systems that calls attention to overall functional organization and evolutionary history as well as local mechanisms of processing and regulation. Dr. Timberlake's long-term goal is an approach sufficiently general to apply across species and sufficiently specific to make contact with the evolution and genetic makeup of particular species and individuals. For reasons of history and convenience, most current work involves rats and pigeons. N.C. Pecoraro, G.V. Rebec, and W. Timberlake.
Circadian activity precedes daily methamphetamine injections in the rat.
Neuroscience Letters 250, 99-102. A behavior systems view of responding during an interfood clock. Animal Learning and Behavior 26, 313-325. Academic Press, pp. White, W. and W. Timberlake.