Paula Millin has been a member of the Psychology department since the fall of 2003. Her areas of specialization include the biopsychology of learning and memory (generally), and psychopharmacology/ behavioral pharmacology (specifically). Her research, which utilizes animal models, focuses on the contribution of conditioning to the development and expression of narcotic tolerance, as well as the effects of various drugs on memory retrieval. She is a member of the Neuroscience faculty and serves as the director of the Honors program in Psychology. She teaches the Basic Processes portion of introductory Psychology, Learning Motivation (and the corresponding Research Methods course), Statistics, and an advanced Seminar in Memory with a strong biopsychological orientation. Professor Millin lives in Wooster with her husband, who is a 6th grade math teacher and middle school football coach.

Areas of Expertise

Learning and motivation, memory phenomena, drugs and conditioning

Education

Ph.D. Kent State University
M.A. Kent State University
B.A. Kent State University

Selected Publications

Riccio, D. C., Millin, P. M., and Bogart, A. R. (2006). Reconsolidation: A brief history, a retrieval view, and some recent issues. Learning Memory, 13(5), 536-544.

Millin, P. M., Riccio, D. C. (2004). Is the context shift effect a case of retrieval failure? The effects of retrieval enhancing treatments on forgetting under altered stimulus conditions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavioral Processes, 30(4), 325-334.

Millin, P. M., Moody, E. W., Riccio, D. C. (2001). Interpretations of retrograde amnesia: old problems redux. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2(1): 68-70.

Courses Taught

PSYC 101 Introductory Psychology: Basic Processes
PSYC 200 Psychology Statistics
PSYC 303 Learning Motivation
PSYC 403 Research Methods in Learning Motivation
PSYC 444 Seminar in Memory