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Professor 3754 Wood Hall (269) 387-4484 Personal Web site |
Dr. Lisa Baker is a professor of psychology, a member of the Behavior Analysis Graduate Program Committee, and the director of the Behavioral Neuroscience Laboratory. Dr. Baker received her B.A. in 1984 from the State University of New York Oswego and her Ph.D. in 1989 from Vanderbilt University. She was a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of South Carolina for two years prior to joining the WMU faculty in 1991. Dr. Baker teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Physiological Psychology, Behavioral Pharmacology, and History of Psychology. Her primary research activities involve drug discrimination procedures and in vivo microdialysis techniques in rodents to investigate the neuropharmacological actions of psychoactive drugs. She is a member of several professional societies, including the Society for Neuroscience, the American Psychological Association, the Behavioral Pharmacological Society, the Society for Stimulus Properties of Drugs, and the Association for Behavior Analysis.