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New translational assays for preclinical modelling of cognition in schizophrenia: the touchscreen testing method for mice and ratsT J Bussey
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EB, UK
Neuropharmacology 62:1191-203. 2012..New tests are being continuously developed, many of which may prove particularly valuable for schizophrenia research...
The role of ventral and orbital prefrontal cortex in conditional visuomotor learning and strategy use in rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta)T J Bussey
National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
Behav Neurosci 115:971-82. 2001....
The organization of visual object representations: a connectionist model of effects of lesions in perirhinal cortexTimothy J Bussey
Section on the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, Laboratory of Neuropsychology, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Eur J Neurosci 15:355-64. 2002....
Perirhinal cortex resolves feature ambiguity in complex visual discriminationsTimothy J Bussey
Section on the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, Laboratory of Neuropsychology, National Institute of Mental Health, Convent Drive, Building 49, Room 1880, MSC4415, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Eur J Neurosci 15:365-74. 2002..These results confirm the predictions of the PMFC model, and force a reconsideration of prevailing views regarding perirhinal cortex function...
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...
Perirhinal cortex and place-object conditional learning in the ratT J Bussey
School of Psychology, Cardiff University, United Kingdom
Behav Neurosci 115:776-85. 2001..The results suggest that, although the perirhinal cortex and hippocampus can be functionally dissociated, their normal mode of operation includes the integration of object and spatial information...
Interaction of ventral and orbital prefrontal cortex with inferotemporal cortex in conditional visuomotor learningTimothy J Bussey
Laboratory of Neuropsychology, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892 4415, USA
Behav Neurosci 116:703-15. 2002..In addition to those associations, which might be considered lower order rules for choosing a response, frontotemporal interaction also appears to be important for higher order rules, such as those involved in the matching task...
Impairments in visual discrimination after perirhinal cortex lesions: testing 'declarative' vs. 'perceptual-mnemonic' views of perirhinal cortex functionTimothy J Bussey
Section on the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, Laboratory of Neuropsychology, National Institute of Mental Health, Convent Drive, Building 49, Room 1880, MSC4415, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Eur J Neurosci 17:649-60. 2003..These and other recent findings suggest the need for a revision of prevailing views regarding the neural organization of perception and memory...
Object memory and perception in the medial temporal lobe: an alternative approachTimothy J Bussey
Dept of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB1 3EB, UK
Curr Opin Neurobiol 15:730-7. 2005..We propose an alternative approach to understanding the functions of these brain regions in terms of what computations they perform, and what representations they contain...
Memory, perception, and the ventral visual-perirhinal-hippocampal stream: thinking outside of the boxesT J Bussey
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Hippocampus 17:898-908. 2007....
Distinct patterns of behavioural impairments resulting from fornix transection or neurotoxic lesions of the perirhinal and postrhinal cortices in the ratT J Bussey
School of Psychology, Cardiff University, CF1O 3YG, Cardiff, UK
Behav Brain Res 111:187-202. 2000..It is suggested that the perirhinal/postrhinal cortex, rather than being specialised for a particular type of associative learning, is important for processing complex visual stimuli...
Intact negative patterning in rats with fornix or combined perirhinal and postrhinal cortex lesionsT J Bussey
Laboratory of Neuropsychology, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Exp Brain Res 134:506-19. 2000....
Hippocampal lesions in rats impair learning and memory for locations on a touch-sensitive computer screen: the "ASAT" taskJ C Talpos
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, UK
Behav Brain Res 192:216-25. 2008..When combined with previously developed non-spatial cognitive tests that can also be run in the touch-screen apparatus, the result is a powerful cognitive test battery for the rodent...
A novel touchscreen-automated paired-associate learning (PAL) task sensitive to pharmacological manipulation of the hippocampus: a translational rodent model of cognitive impairments in neurodegenerative diseaseJ C Talpos
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Psychopharmacology (Berl) 205:157-68. 2009..Schizophrenic patients are also impaired on this same task. An automated rodent model of PAL would be extremely beneficial in further research into Alzheimer's disease and schizophrenia...
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....
Role of the hippocampal system in associative learning beyond the spatial domainP J Brasted
Laboratory of Systems Neuroscience, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD 20892 4401, USA
Brain 126:1202-23. 2003....
Trial-unique, delayed nonmatching-to-location (TUNL): a novel, highly hippocampus-dependent automated touchscreen test of location memory and pattern separationJ C Talpos
Department of Experimental Psychology, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EB, UK
Neurobiol Learn Mem 94:341-52. 2010..Performance-enhancing mediating behaviors during the task were found to be minimal. Thus, the TUNL task has the potential to serve as a powerful tool for the study of the neurobiology of learning and memory...
Hippocampal lesions that abolish spatial maze performance spare object recognition memory at delays of up to 48 hoursS E Forwood
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Hippocampus 15:347-55. 2005..These rats were also tested on a spatial nonmatching-to-place task. Spatial memory performance was abolished following hippocampal lesions, whereas performance on the recognition memory task was intact at all delays tested...
Visual perception and memory: a new view of medial temporal lobe function in primates and rodentsElisabeth A Murray
Section on the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, Laboratory of Neuropsychology, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
Annu Rev Neurosci 30:99-122. 2007..In both primates and rodents, the hippocampus contributes to the memory and perception of places and paths, whereas the perirhinal cortex does so for objects and the contents of scenes...
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...
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...
The parahippocampal region and object identificationE A Murray
Laboratory of Neuropsychology, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
Ann N Y Acad Sci 911:166-74. 2000....
Conditional motor learning in the nonspatial domain: effects of errorless learning and the contribution of the fornix to one-trial learningPeter J Brasted
Laboratory of Systems Neuroscience, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD 20892-4401, USA
Behav Neurosci 119:662-76. 2005..In addition, the authors examined the effect of errorless learning and found, in control monkeys, that errors made prior to the 1st correct response retarded 1-trial learning...
Discrimination of computer-graphic stimuli by mice: a method for the behavioral characterization of transgenic and gene-knockout modelsT J Bussey
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, England
Behav Neurosci 115:957-60. 2001..Furthermore, the method seems particularly well suited to the comprehensive behavioral assessment of transgenic and gene-knockout models...
Role of prefrontal cortex in a network for arbitrary visuomotor mappingE A Murray
Laboratory of Neuropsychology, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Exp Brain Res 133:114-29. 2000..However, in accord with several models, it operates mainly in the intermediate term, pending the consolidation of the relevant information in those neocortical-BG networks...
Effects of selective thalamic and prelimbic cortex lesions on two types of visual discrimination and reversal learningY Chudasama
School of Psychology, Cardiff University, PO Box 901, Cardiff, Wales, CF10 3YG, UK
Eur J Neurosci 14:1009-20. 2001..Furthermore, they show that the functions of this thalamic nucleus can be dissociated from those of the anterior thalamus and the prelimbic cortex...
Spontaneous object recognition and its relevance to schizophrenia: a review of findings from pharmacological, genetic, lesion and developmental rodent modelsL Lyon
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, Downing St, Cambridge, CB2 3EB, UK
Psychopharmacology (Berl) 220:647-72. 2012..The opportunity for rapid data collection has made SOR a popular choice in studies that explore cognitive impairment in rodent models of schizophrenia, and that test the efficacy of drugs intended to reverse these deficits...
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...
Rats spontaneously discriminate purely visual, two-dimensional stimuli in tests of recognition memory and perceptual odditySuzanna E Forwood
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Behav Neurosci 121:1032-42. 2007..These 2 tasks are quick to administer, involve no fearful learning associations, and require a simple apparatus. They may be particularly useful for high-throughput pharmacological or genetic screening using rodent models...
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...
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...
Impaired fear extinction learning and cortico-amygdala circuit abnormalities in a common genetic mouse strainKathryn Hefner
Section on Behavioral Science and Genetics, Laboratory for Integrative Neuroscience, National Institute on Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland 20852, USA
J Neurosci 28:8074-85. 2008..This common inbred strain provides a novel model for studying impaired fear extinction in anxiety disorders...
A new touchscreen test of pattern separation: effect of hippocampal lesionsStephanie M McTighe
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Neuroreport 20:881-5. 2009..This test provides an automated test of pattern separation, which adds to an expanding battery of cognitive tests that can be carried out using the touchscreen testing method...
The representational-hierarchical view of amnesia: translation from animal to humanLisa M Saksida
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Neuropsychologia 48:2370-84. 2010..Finally, we provide evidence from animal and human studies that even the hippocampus-almost universally regarded as a module for memory-may be better understood within the representational-hierarchical paradigm...
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...
Why does brain damage impair memory? A connectionist model of object recognition memory in perirhinal cortexRosemary A Cowell
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3UD, United Kingdom
J Neurosci 26:12186-97. 2006....
Can animals recall the past and plan for the future?Nicola S Clayton
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EB, United Kingdom
Nat Rev Neurosci 4:685-91. 2003..Moreover, these birds can adjust their caching behaviour in anticipation of future needs. We suggest that some animals have elements of both episodic-like memory and future planning...
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...
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....
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....
Specialization in the medial temporal lobe for processing of objects and scenesAndy C H Lee
MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge, UK
Hippocampus 15:782-97. 2005..These observations provide compelling evidence that the human hippocampus and perirhinal cortex are critical to processes beyond long-term declarative memory and may subserve spatial and object perception, respectively...
The perceptual-mnemonic/feature conjunction model of perirhinal cortex functionTimothy J Bussey
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, UK
Q J Exp Psychol B 58:269-82. 2005....
Functional specialization in the human medial temporal lobeMorgan D Barense
Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge CB2 2EF, United Kingdom
J Neurosci 25:10239-46. 2005..These findings resolve contradictions between published studies in humans and animals and introduce a new way of characterizing the impairments that arise after damage to the MTL...
Impairment and facilitation of transverse patterning after lesions of the perirhinal cortex and hippocampus, respectivelyLisa M Saksida
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Cereb Cortex 17:108-15. 2007..These results are, however, compatible with a view that perirhinal cortex, and not the hippocampus, contains complex configural representations of visual stimuli critical to the solution of the transverse-patterning task...
No effect of hippocampal lesions on perirhinal cortex-dependent feature-ambiguous visual discriminationsLisa M Saksida
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Hippocampus 16:421-30. 2006..The findings support the perceptual-mnemonic/feature conjunction model of perirhinal cortex function, and provide further evidence for heterogeneity of function within the putative medial temporal lobe memory system...
Fornix transection impairs conditional visuomotor learning in tasks involving nonspatially differentiated responsesPeter J Brasted
Laboratory of Systems Neuroscience, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
J Neurophysiol 87:631-3. 2002..These findings challenge the view that the hippocampal system participates in associative learning only when spatial information is relevant to either the stimulus or the response...
Abnormal categorization and perceptual learning in patients with hippocampal damageKim S Graham
Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge CB2 2EF, United Kingdom
J Neurosci 26:7547-54. 2006....
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...
Consolidation and the medial temporal lobe revisited: methodological considerationsE A Murray
Laboratory of Neuropsychology, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892 4415, USA
Hippocampus 11:1-7. 2001....
Assessment of glutamate transporter GLAST (EAAT1)-deficient mice for phenotypes relevant to the negative and executive/cognitive symptoms of schizophreniaRose Marie Karlsson
Laboratory of Clinical and Translational Studies, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, NIH, 10 Center Drive, 10 Room 1E 5330, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Neuropsychopharmacology 34:1578-89. 2009..These findings demonstrate that gene deletion of GLAST produces select phenotypic abnormalities related to the negative and cognitive symptoms of schizophrenia...
Role of the anterior cingulate cortex in the control over behavior by Pavlovian conditioned stimuli in ratsRudolf N Cardinal
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EB, United Kingdom
Behav Neurosci 117:566-87. 2003..It is suggested that the ACC is not critical for stimulus-reward learning per se, but is required to discriminate multiple stimuli on the basis of their association with reward...
Impaired discrimination learning in mice lacking the NMDA receptor NR2A subunitJonathan L Brigman
Section on Behavioral Science and Genetics, Laboratory for Integrative Neuroscience, National Institute on Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland 20852, USA
Learn Mem 15:50-4. 2008..The present findings demonstrate a significant and selective deficit in discrimination learning following loss of NR2A...
Discrimination of multidimensional visual stimuli by mice: intra- and extradimensional shiftsJonathan L Brigman
Department of Psychology, George Washington University, Washington, DC 20052, USA
Behav Neurosci 119:839-42. 2005..The fact that mice can be tested with stimuli and task sequences similar to those used with primates suggests that this method can be used to directly compare higher cognitive functions in diverse species...
Perirhinal cortex and feature-ambiguous discriminationsTimothy J Bussey
Learn Mem 13:103-5; author reply 106-7. 2006
Genetic and dopaminergic modulation of reversal learning in a touchscreen-based operant procedure for miceAlicia Izquierdo
Section on Behavioral Science and Genetics, Laboratory for Integrative Neuroscience, National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, NIH, Rockville, USA
Behav Brain Res 171:181-8. 2006..When combined with emerging molecular techniques uniquely suited to this species such as genetic engineering and RNA modification this paradigm could provide a powerful new tool for behavioral neuroscience...
Measuring cognitive deficits in disabled mice using an automated interactive touchscreen systemA Jennifer Morton
Nat Methods 3:767. 2006
