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Dissociation of Pavlovian and instrumental incentive learning under dopamine antagonistsA Dickinson
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Behav Neurosci 114:468-83. 2000..These results suggest that Pavlovian and instrumental incentive learning are not mediated by a common process...- The interaction between discriminative stimuli and outcomes during instrumental learningAnthony Dickinson
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Q J Exp Psychol B 56:127-39. 2003..These results are discussed in relation to the associative structures mediating the discriminative control of instrumental performance... - Involvement of the central nucleus of the amygdala and nucleus accumbens core in mediating Pavlovian influences on instrumental behaviourJ Hall
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EB. UK
Eur J Neurosci 13:1984-92. 2001..We suggest that this effect may depend upon the regulation of the dopaminergic innervation of the NAcc core by projections from the CeN to the ventral tegmental area... - Cocaine-seeking by rats: regulation, reinforcement and activationM C Olmstead
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, UK
Psychopharmacology (Berl) 152:123-31. 2000..In animal models of drug self-administration, response rates often decrease with dose suggesting that a regulative process may mask the reinforcing effects of the drug... - The role of withdrawal in heroin addiction: enhances reward or promotes avoidance?D M Hutcheson
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB23EB, UK
Nat Neurosci 4:943-7. 2001..In support of this hypothesis, we show here that previous experience with heroin in withdrawal is necessary for subsequent heroin-seeking behavior to be enhanced when dependent rats once again experience withdrawal... - The 28th Bartlett Memorial Lecture. Causal learning: an associative analysisA Dickinson
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EB, U K
Q J Exp Psychol B 54:3-25. 2001..However, this modified theory only applies when the within-compound association represents a contiguous rather than a causal cue relationship... - Stimulus-outcome interactions during instrumental discrimination learning by rats and humansS de Wit
Department of Experimental PsychologyUniversity of Cambridge, Cambridge, England
J Exp Psychol Anim Behav Process 33:1-11. 2007..Moreover, responding was resistant to outcome devaluation following incongruent, but not congruent, training, suggesting that both humans and rats adopted a stimulus-response strategy to resolve the incongruent discrimination... - Plasma fibrinogen level and the risk of major cardiovascular diseases and nonvascular mortality: an individual participant meta-analysisJohn Danesh
Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England
JAMA 294:1799-809. 2005..Plasma fibrinogen levels may be associated with the risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) and stroke... - Scrub jays (Aphelocoma coerulescens) form integrated memories of the multiple features of caching episodesN S Clayton
Section of Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior, University of California, Davis, USA
J Exp Psychol Anim Behav Process 27:17-29. 2001..The authors argue that the jays formed an integrated memory for the location and time of caching of particular foods... - The neuropsychological basis of addictive behaviourB J Everitt
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, CB2 3EB, Cambridge, UK
Brain Res Brain Res Rev 36:129-38. 2001.... - Effects of cytotoxic nucleus accumbens lesions on instrumental conditioning in ratsR de Borchgrave
Department of Experimental Psychology, Oxford University, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3UD, UK
Exp Brain Res 144:50-68. 2002.... 
Elements of episodic-like memory in animalsN S Clayton
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EB, UK
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 356:1483-91. 2001..This memory capability fulfils Tulving's behavioural criteria for episodic memory and is thus termed 'episodic-like'. We suggest that several features of episodic memory may not be unique to humans...- Super-learning of causal judgementsM R Aitken
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, U K
Q J Exp Psychol B 53:59-81. 2000..These results are problematic for contingency-based accounts of causal induction but accord with modified and extended associative theories... - Planning for the future by western scrub-jaysC R Raby
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EB, UK
Nature 445:919-21. 2007..The results described here suggest that the jays can spontaneously plan for tomorrow without reference to their current motivational state, thereby challenging the idea that this is a uniquely human ability... - Disrupted prediction-error signal in psychosis: evidence for an associative account of delusionsP R Corlett
Brain Mapping Unit, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, School of Clinical Medicine, Addenbrooke s Hospital, Cambridge CB2 2QQ, UK
Brain 130:2387-400. 2007..Our results support a neurobiological theory of delusion formation that implicates aberrant prediction-error signalling, disrupted attentional allocation and associative learning in the formation of delusional beliefs... - Mediated generalization in discrimination learning by Rhesus monkeysD Gaffan
Department of Experimental Psychology, Oxford University, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3UD, UK
Q J Exp Psychol (Hove) 61:558-68. 2008..These results are discussed in terms of the representation of stimulus compounds, the role of within-compound associations, and the similarities between serial and simultaneous visual compounds as processed by monkeys... - Contingency knowledge is necessary for learned motivated behaviour in humans: relevance for addictive behaviourLee Hogarth
Laboratory of Experimental Psychology, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
Addiction 101:1153-66. 2006.... - Compulsive drug seeking by rats under punishment: effects of drug taking historyYann Pelloux
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EB, UK
Psychopharmacology (Berl) 194:127-37. 2007..Abstinence from drug occurs in human addicts for several reasons, including the avoidance of adverse consequences... - Episodic memoryNicola S Clayton
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Curr Biol 17:R189-91. 2007 - The control of food-caching behavior by Western scrub-jays (Aphelocoma californica)Selvino R de Kort
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, England
J Exp Psychol Anim Behav Process 33:361-70. 2007..The jays avoided the pilfered location but cached equally in the rewarded and nonrewarded locations... - The role of drug expectancy in the control of human drug seekingLee Hogarth
Laboratory of Experimental Psychology, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, England
J Exp Psychol Anim Behav Process 33:484-96. 2007..This outcome-specific transfer effect indicates that drug-paired stimuli controlled human drug seeking via a representation or expectation of the drug rather than through a direct stimulus-response association... - Dorsomedial prefrontal cortex resolves response conflict in ratsSanne de Wit
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EB, United Kingdom
J Neurosci 26:5224-9. 2006..Whereas rats with a functional dmPFC are able to resolve this conflict, inactivation of dmPFC using an infusion of muscimol produced a deficit by selectively interfering with their ability to inhibit the incorrect, competing response... - Drug expectancy is necessary for stimulus control of human attention, instrumental drug-seeking behaviour and subjective pleasureLee Hogarth
Laboratory of Experimental Psychology, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, BN1 9QG, UK
Psychopharmacology (Berl) 185:495-504. 2006..CONCLUSIONS: Drug-paired stimuli control selective attention, instrumental drug-seeking behaviour and positive emotional state by eliciting an explicit expectation of drug availability... - Determining the neural substrates of goal-directed learning in the human brainVivian V Valentin
Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
J Neurosci 27:4019-26. 2007..These results suggest an important contribution of orbitofrontal cortex in guiding goal-directed instrumental choices in humans... - Explicit knowledge of stimulus-outcome contingencies and stimulus control of selective attention and instrumental action in human smoking behaviourLee Hogarth
Laboratory of Experimental Psychology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, BN1 9QG, UK
Psychopharmacology (Berl) 177:428-37. 2005..CONCLUSIONS: The results suggest that attention for drug paired S+ is associated with the process of learning about the relationship between those cues and the drug... - Oral cocaine seeking by rats: action or habit?Felicity J Miles
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EB, England, UK
Behav Neurosci 117:927-38. 2003..By contrast, performance of the cocaine-sucrose response was unaffected by whether the cocaine-sucrose or the lemon-sucrose solution had been devalued... - 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... - Conditioned activity and instrumental reinforcement following long-term oral consumption of cocaine by ratsFelicity J Miles
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Behav Neurosci 118:1331-9. 2004..By contrast, chronic cocaine preexposure enhanced instrumental responding for both cocaine-sucrose and pure sucrose solutions. These results support the idea that long-term cocaine exposure enhances subsequent reinforcement... - Discriminative stimuli that control instrumental tobacco-seeking by human smokers also command selective attentionLee Hogarth
Laboratory of Experimental Psychology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, Sussex BN1 9QG, UK
Psychopharmacology (Berl) 168:435-45. 2003..CONCLUSIONS: These data demonstrate that discriminative stimuli that signal that tobacco-smoke reinforcement is available acquire the capacity to command selective attentional and elicit instrumental tobacco-seeking behaviour... - Conditioned suppression and freezing as measures of aversive Pavlovian conditioning: effects of discrete amygdala lesions and overtrainingJonathan L C Lee
Department of Experimental Psychology, MRC Centre for Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EB, UK
Behav Brain Res 159:221-33. 2005.... - Interacting Cache memories: evidence for flexible memory use by Western Scrub-Jays (Aphelocoma californica)Nicola S Clayton
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EB, United Kingdom
J Exp Psychol Anim Behav Process 29:14-22. 2003..The authors interpret this reversal as evidence that the birds can integrate information about the caching episode with new information presented during the RI... - The effect of lesions of the basolateral amygdala on instrumental conditioningBernard W Balleine
Department of Psychology and the Brain Research Institute, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095 1563, USA
J Neurosci 23:666-75. 2003..Together these results suggest that in instrumental conditioning, the BLA mediates outcome encoding, specifically relating the sensory features of nutritive commodities to the emotional consequences induced by their consumption... - Alcohol seeking by rats: action or habit?Anthony Dickinson
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EB, UK
Q J Exp Psychol B 55:331-48. 2002.... - Food caching by western scrub-jays (Aphelocoma californica) is sensitive to the conditions at recoveryNicola S Clayton
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EB, England
J Exp Psychol Anim Behav Process 31:115-24. 2005..The findings are discussed in terms of the role of retrospective and prospective processes in the control of caching... - Coding of predicted reward omission by dopamine neurons in a conditioned inhibition paradigmPhilippe N Tobler
Department of Anatomy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3DY, United Kingdom
J Neurosci 23:10402-10. 2003..The neuronal responses appear to reflect reward prediction errors, thus suggesting an extension of the correspondence between learning theory and activity of single dopamine neurons to the prediction of nonreward... - Concurrent disjoint and reciprocal classification by Cebus apella in seriation tasks: evidence for hierarchical organizationBrendan McGonigle
Laboratory for Cognitive Neuroscience, Centre for Neuroscience, University of Edinburgh, Appleton Tower, George Square, Edinburgh EH 8 9QJ, UK
Anim Cogn 6:185-97. 2003.... - Simulations of a modified SOP model applied to retrospective revaluation of human causal learningMichael R F Aitken
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EB, England
Learn Behav 33:147-59. 2005..These predictions are evaluated against the relevant empirical evidence and contrasted with the predictions of other associative theories that have been applied to retrospective revaluation of human causal and predictive learning... - Prediction error during retrospective revaluation of causal associations in humans: fMRI evidence in favor of an associative model of learningPhilip R Corlett
Brain Mapping Unit, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, School of Clinical Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge CB2 2QQ, United Kingdom
Neuron 44:877-88. 2004..Our results support a modified associative account of retrospective revaluation and demonstrate the potential of functional neuroimaging as a tool for evaluating competing learning models... - Frontal responses during learning predict vulnerability to the psychotogenic effects of ketamine: linking cognition, brain activity, and psychosisPhilip R Corlett
Brain Mapping Unit, Department of Psychiatry, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England
Arch Gen Psychiatry 63:611-21. 2006..They are consistent with a model of delusion formation positing disruptions in error-dependent learning... - Rational ratsNicola Clayton
Nat Neurosci 9:472-4. 2006 - Motivational control of heroin seeking by conditioned stimuli associated with withdrawal and heroin taking by ratsKim G C Hellemans
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Behav Neurosci 120:103-14. 2006..The authors conclude that the conditioned motivation of drug seeking in withdrawal depends on previous association of the CS with drug taking... - Motivational control of blockingBernard W Balleine
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1563, USA
J Exp Psychol Anim Behav Process 32:33-43. 2006.... - The interaction between response effects during the acquisition of response primingRüdiger Flach
Department of Psychology, University College London, Gower Street, London SE14 6NW, UK
Acta Psychol (Amst) 122:11-26. 2006..By contrast, priming by the visual effect stimulus was potentiated when the auditory effect had been pre-trained. We interpret these interactions in terms of contemporary associative learning theory derived from studies of conditioning... - Western scrub-jays anticipate future needs independently of their current motivational stateSérgio P C Correia
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EB, United Kingdom
Curr Biol 17:856-61. 2007..The fact that the birds act in favor of a future need as opposed to the current one challenges the hypothesis that this ability is unique to humans...