Randy Gallistel is Professor of Psychology and Co-Director of the Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science at Rutgers , the State University of New Jersey. He received his Ph.D. in Psychology from Yale University in 1966. His research currently focuses on the development of quantitative, highly automated behavioral tests for memory malfunction in genetically manipulated mice. Other research interests are (or have been) spatio-temporal learning in the mouse, the theory of Pavlovian and operant conditioning, the theory of action, non-verbal arithmetic in humans and non-human animals, spatial representation in navigation, matching behavior, and electrical self-stimulation of the brain in the rat. Some publications include The Organization of Learning (MIT Press); (with R. Gelman) “Non-Verbal Numerical Cognition: From the Reals to Integers,” in Trends in the Cognitive Sciences; (with J. Gibbon) The Symbolic Foundations of Conditioned Behavior (Lawrence Erlbaum).

Randy Gallistel is a Forum Lecturer at the 2005 LSA Institute.