The Williams lab integrates comparative and experimental studies to understand factors driving the evolution of mammalian masticatory form.
The goal of this research is to determine how oral sensory information and morphology interact to influence the complex jaw and tongue movements that occur during mastication.
The objective of this project is to understand how trauma to the lingual nerve impacts feeding behavior and the neural control and coordination of the tongue and jaw during feeding.
In ongoing research across a variety of species, we are investigating the coordination and evolution of feeding motor patterns in mammals.
The goal of this research is to integrate multiple lab and field methods into a study of foraging in free-ranging mantled howling monkeys at Hacienda La Pacifica, Costa Rica.
The Feeding Experiments End-user Database (FEED) is a publicly-available multi-species collection of physiologic data and associated metadata from mammalian feeding experiments.
