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| Boyer D WintersSummaryAffiliation: University of Guelph Country: Canada Publications
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Object recognition memory: neurobiological mechanisms of encoding, consolidation and retrievalBoyer D Winters
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EB, UK
Neurosci Biobehav Rev 32:1055-70. 2008..Recent studies in rodents have begun to indicate the remarkable complexity of the neural substrates underlying this seemingly simple aspect of declarative memory...- On the dynamic nature of the engram: evidence for circuit-level reorganization of object memory traces following reactivationBoyer D Winters
Department of Psychology and Collaborative Neuroscience Program, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1, Canada
J Neurosci 31:17719-28. 2011.... - A distributed cortical representation underlies crossmodal object recognition in ratsBoyer D Winters
Department of Psychology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1, Canada
J Neurosci 30:6253-61. 2010..The novel paradigm introduced here should be a valuable tool for further study of the neurobiological bases of crossmodal cognition and object feature binding... - Implications of animal object memory research for human amnesiaBoyer D Winters
Department of Psychology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Neuropsychologia 48:2251-61. 2010.... - Muscimol, AP5, or scopolamine infused into perirhinal cortex impairs two-choice visual discrimination learning in ratsBoyer D Winters
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, Downing St, Cambridge CB2 3EB, UK
Neurobiol Learn Mem 93:221-8. 2010..The involvement of PRh in both types of tasks may be related to its role in complex visual stimulus representation... - Older and stronger object memories are selectively destabilized by reactivation in the presence of new informationBoyer D Winters
Department of Psychology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada
Learn Mem 16:545-53. 2009..The essential involvement of novel encoding in destabilizing certain memories supports the idea that the reconsolidation process enables modification of existing memories... - Heightened susceptibility to interference in an animal model of amnesia: impairment in encoding, storage, retrieval--or all three?Susan J Bartko
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EB, UK
Neuropsychologia 48:2987-97. 2010.... - Paradoxical false memory for objects after brain damageStephanie M McTighe
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EB, UK
Science 330:1408-10. 2010..This impairment could be rescued with the use of a visual-restriction procedure that reduces interference. Such a pattern of data can be explained in terms of a recent representational-hierarchical view of cognition... 
Perirhinal cortex resolves feature ambiguity in configural object recognition and perceptual oddity tasksSusan J Bartko
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EB, United Kingdom
Learn Mem 14:821-32. 2007..These findings support the idea that PRh contains conjunctive representations for the resolution of feature ambiguity and that these representations underlie a dual role for PRh in memory and perception...- Scopolamine infused into perirhinal cortex improves object recognition memory by blocking the acquisition of interfering object informationBoyer D Winters
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Learn Mem 14:590-6. 2007..This finding provides further, strong evidence that acetylcholine is important for the acquisition of object information in PRh... 
Paradoxical facilitation of object recognition memory after infusion of scopolamine into perirhinal cortex: implications for cholinergic system functionBoyer D Winters
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EB, United Kingdom
J Neurosci 26:9520-9. 2006..Rather, the cholinergic input to the perirhinal cortex may facilitate acquisition by enhancing the cortical processing of incoming stimulus information...- Removal of cholinergic input to perirhinal cortex disrupts object recognition but not spatial working memory in the ratBoyer D Winters
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, Downing St, Cambridge CB2 3EB, UK
Eur J Neurosci 21:2263-70. 2005.... - Perceptual functions of perirhinal cortex in rats: zero-delay object recognition and simultaneous oddity discriminationsSusan J Bartko
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EB, United Kingdom
J Neurosci 27:2548-59. 2007..These findings provide support for the idea that PRh in the rat is important for the perceptual processing of complex objects, in addition to its well established role in memory... - Double dissociation between the effects of peri-postrhinal cortex and hippocampal lesions on tests of object recognition and spatial memory: heterogeneity of function within the temporal lobeBoyer D Winters
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EB, United Kingdom
J Neurosci 24:5901-8. 2004..These results provide strong evidence in favor of heterogeneity and independence of function within the temporal lobe... - The touchscreen cognitive testing method for rodents: how to get the best out of your ratTimothy J Bussey
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EB, United Kingdom
Learn Mem 15:516-23. 2008..Taken together, these experiments served to optimize the touchscreen method and have demonstrated its usefulness as a high-throughput method for the cognitive testing of rodents... - Transient inactivation of perirhinal cortex disrupts encoding, retrieval, and consolidation of object recognition memoryBoyer D Winters
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EB, United Kingdom
J Neurosci 25:52-61. 2005.... - Glutamate receptors in perirhinal cortex mediate encoding, retrieval, and consolidation of object recognition memoryBoyer D Winters
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EB, United Kingdom
J Neurosci 25:4243-51. 2005.... - Nicotinic receptor activation in perirhinal cortex and hippocampus enhances object memory in ratsAshley M Melichercik
Department of Psychology and Collaborative Neuroscience Program, University of Guelph, 50 Stone Road, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, Canada
Neuropharmacology 62:2096-105. 2012..These findings further support the supposed interactive relationship between the HPC and PRh in object information processing and highlight the potential therapeutic value of nicotinic receptor activation in amnesic disorders... - Severe cross-modal object recognition deficits in rats treated sub-chronically with NMDA receptor antagonists are reversed by systemic nicotine: implications for abnormal multisensory integration in schizophreniaDerek L Jacklin
Department of Psychology and Collaborative Neuroscience Program, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada
Neuropsychopharmacology 37:2322-31. 2012.... - Crossmodal object recognition in rats with and without multimodal object pre-exposure: no effect of hippocampal lesionsJames M Reid
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience Program, University of Guelph, ON, Canada
Neurobiol Learn Mem 98:311-9. 2012..These results strongly suggest that the HPC, despite its polymodal anatomical connections, is not critically involved in tactile-to-visual crossmodal object recognition memory... - Selective lesioning of the cholinergic septo-hippocampal pathway does not disrupt spatial short-term memory: a comparison with the effects of fimbria-fornix lesionsBoyer D Winters
Medical Research Council Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair, and Departmernt of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EB, United Kingdom
Behav Neurosci 118:546-62. 2004.... - Ondansetron interferes with unconditioned lying-on belly and acquisition of conditioned gaping induced by LiCl as models of nausea-induced behaviors in ratsKatharine J Tuerke
Department of Psychology and Collaborative Neuroscience Program, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Physiol Behav 105:856-60. 2012..The frequency of gaping and duration of LOB were highly correlated. These results provide additional support for the validity of the conditioned gaping model as a rodent model of nausea-induced behavior... - Selective cholinergic denervation of the cingulate cortex impairs the acquisition and performance of a conditional visual discrimination in ratsBoyer D Winters
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EB, UK
Eur J Neurosci 19:490-6. 2004....