Shannon M.A. Kundey

Education

• Ph.D., Kent State University
• M.Phil., Yale University
• M.S., Yale University
• B.A., Wesleyan College

Courses Taught

• PSY 101 Introduction to Psychology
• PSY 409 and 509 Psychology of Learning, Memory, and Cognition
• PSY 418 and 518 Physiological Psychology
• PSY 419 and 519 Physiological Psychology
• PSY 456 and 556 Behavior Modification

Biography

Shannon Kundey, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychology, teaches courses in biological psychology, learning, and psychopharmacology. Her research explores the behavioral processes that give animals (including humans) the ability to organize complex behavior. Her work has been published in a variety of journals including Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, Learning and Motivation, and Animal Cognition. Professor Kundey earned her doctoral degree from Kent State University. "Research in my laboratory can be broadly described as 'comparative cognition'. Our current work explores domestic dogs' knowledge about the world, as well as connections between self-reported attention difficulties and pattern learning in humans. Hood students are very heavily involved in all of our work in the laboratory from study planning to presentation." Current information on her research, including participation information for both canine and human participants, can be found on the laboratory website: http://sites.google.com/site/hooddogstudy

Publications

• Kundey, S.M.A., De Los Reyes, A., Taglang, C., Baruch, A., German, R. (In press). Domesticated Dogs.
• Kundey, S. M. A. Fountain, S. B. (In press). Blocking in rat serial pattern learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes.
• Kundey, S. M. A., Strandell, B., Mathis, H. Rowan, J.D. (In press). Learning of Monotonic and Nonmonotonic Sequences in Domesticated Horses (Equus callabus) and Chickens (Gallus domesticus). Learning Motivation.
• Kundey, S. M. A. Rowan, J. D. (2009). Factors affecting alternation learning in rats: Chunk length, intertrial interval duration, correction, and set size. Learning Motivation, 40, 1-14.