Santa Clara University

Faculty - Robert Numan

Psychology department

Robert Numan

Robert Numan
Ph.D., Physiological Psychology
University of Tennessee
(1972)

Department: Psychology

Title: Professor


Psychobiology Emphasis

 

Robert Numan

Office Phone:
408-554-4347

Email: rnuman@scu.edu

Mail Address:
Santa Clara University
Department of Psychology
500 El Camino Real
Santa Clara, CA 95053-0333

Bob and Darlin

Robert Numan is a Physiological Psychologist. He received the doctorate from the University of Tennessee in 1972, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology in Massachusetts. He has been at Santa Clara University since 1976, and is currently a professor of psychology. He was Chair of Psychology from 1991-1996.

Classes Taught

  • General Psychology I
  • General Psychology II 
  • Research Metods in Psychology
  • Physiological Psychology (Natural Science W/O Lab Core)
  • Advanced Topics in Neuroscience
  • Foundations of Behavioral Neuroscience and Lab (Natural Science With Lab Core)

Research Interests

  • Role of septohippocampal system in learning
  • Memory processes in rats

Representative Publications

Numan, R., Ouimette, A.S., Holloway, K.A., & Curry, C.E. (2004). Effects of medial septal lesions on action-outcome associations in rats under conditions of delayed reinforcement. Behavioral Neuroscience, 118, 1240-1252.

Numan, R. (2000). In: Numan, R. (ed.), The Behavioral Neuroscience of the SeptalSeptal modulation of the working memory for voluntary behavior Region. Springer-Verlag, New York.

Numan, R. Feloney, M.P., Pham, K.H., & Tieber, L.M. (1995). Effects of medial septal lesions on an operant go/no-go delayed response alternation task in rats. Physiology and Behavior, 58, 1263-1271.

Numan, R., & Klis, D. (1992). Effects of medial septal lesions on an operant delayed go/no-go discrimination in rats. Brain Research Bulletin, 29, 643-650.

Numan, R. (1991). Medial septal lesions impair performance on a preoperatively acquired delayed alternation task. Brain Research Bulletin, 26, 449-453.

Numan, R., & Quaranta, Jr., J.R. (1990). Effects of medial septal lesions on operant delayed alternation in rats. Brain Research, 531, 232-241.