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Robert Lansing                Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychology, University of Arizona
                                        Motor Control Training Faculty, University of Arizona
                                        Visiting Scientist, Physiology Program, Harvard School of Public Health

Academic backgound:
M.A.  PhD,  UCLA Department of Psychology,
   Major- Experimental Psychology, Minor: Neurophysiology
USPH Postdoctoral Fellow: UCLA Department of Psychology and Brain Research Institute

Appointments:
 Research Psychologist, Department of Internal Medicine,
         Univ. of Texas , M.D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute
Research Scientist, Univ, of Texas Radiobiological Laboratory
Visiting Assistant Professor, Univ. of Texas Department of Psychology
Assistant to Full Professor, Univ. of Arizona Dept of Psychology
Special Research Fellow, NIMH, Communications Biology Laboratory MIT, Dept of Neurology, MGH
Visiting Professor of Physiology, Harvard School of Public Health (sabbatical)
Visiting Professor of Physiology, Department of Medicine, Charing Cross and
 Westminster Medical School, London (sabbatical )

Research interests:
My published research has been with humans (both normal and patient subjects) and has included  electroencephalographic  studies of visual and motor performance, electromyographic and behavioral studies of respiratory muscle control, and psychophysical studies of respiratory sensation.

My current  interests :
The use of psychophysical and behavioral methods to study the neural basis for respiratory sensations, particularly those of effort and air hunger. The adaptation of protocols and procedures traditionally used to study biological and aversive drive states (hunger, thirst, pain etc.) to the study of the respiratory drive to breathe (air hunger sensation).