Department of Psychology

Martha Escobar received her Ph.D. in Cognitive and Behavioral Sciences from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Binghamton, under the supervision of Dr. Ralph R. Miller. Prior to attending SUNY-Binghamton, she obtained a B.A. from the University of Deusto (Spain), under the supervision of Dr. Helena Matute. She joined Auburn University’s Department of Psychology as an assistant professor in 2002. At Auburn, she is the director of the Animal Learning and the Human Learning and Memory laboratories. Her research primarily investigates basic learning and memory processes in human and nonhuman animals, including comparative research among rodents and humans. Her current research interests include encoding and use of temporal information, stimulus interference, encoding of absent stimuli, extinction and renewal, and assessment of associative theory. Her Human Learning and Memory laboratory is also investigating the processes underlying causality learning, as well as the development and use of video-games in psychological research.

• 2002, PhD (Cognitive and Behavioral Sciences) , State University of New York at Binghamton (Binghamton, NY)
• 2001, MA (Experimental Psychology), State University of New York at Binghamton (Binghamton, NY)
• 1997, BA (Psychology), Universidad de Deusto (Bilbao, Spain)

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• PSYC2010, Introduction to Psychology
• PSYC3520, The Psychology of Learning
• PSYC3970, Special Topics Seminar: Animal Behavior
• PSYC7140, Conditioning and Learning
• PSYC7210, Animal Behavior
• PSYC8970, Special Topics Seminar: Associative Theory