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| NORMAN WEINBERGERSummaryAffiliation: University of California Country: USA Publications
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Specific long-term memory traces in primary auditory cortexNorman M Weinberger
Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory and Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California 92797-3800, USA
Nat Rev Neurosci 5:279-90. 2004
Posttraining handling facilitates memory for auditory-cue fear conditioning in ratsIsabel R Hui
Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697-3800, USA
Neurobiol Learn Mem 86:160-3. 2006..These findings thus indicate that the posttraining injection or handling procedure is sufficiently arousing or stressful to facilitate memory consolidation of auditory-cue classical fear conditioning...- The level of cholinergic nucleus basalis activation controls the specificity of auditory associative memoryNorman M Weinberger
Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697 3800, USA
Neurobiol Learn Mem 86:270-85. 2006..The findings demonstrate that the amount of detail in memory can be directly controlled by neural intervention... - Avoidance learning facilitates temporal processing in the primary auditory cortexMatthew I Leon
Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, 309 Qureshey Research Laboratory, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697 3800, USA
Neurobiol Learn Mem 90:347-57. 2008..The facilitation of temporal processing suggests that avoidance learning may increase synaptic strength either within the auditory cortex, in the subcortical auditory system, or both... - The medial geniculate, not the amygdala, as the root of auditory fear conditioningNorman M Weinberger
309 Qureshey Research Laboratory, Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697 3800, USA
Hear Res 274:61-74. 2011..Synaptic and molecular approaches supporting the AL also implicate the MGm/PIN. As both the AL and its preceding MGm/PIN are critically involved, we propose that the latter be considered the "root" of AFC... - Food for thought: honeybee foraging, memory, and acetylcholineNorman M Weinberger
Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
Sci STKE 2006:pe23. 2006.... - The nucleus basalis and memory codes: auditory cortical plasticity and the induction of specific, associative behavioral memoryNorman M Weinberger
Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA 92797 3800, USA
Neurobiol Learn Mem 80:268-84. 2003.... - Associative representational plasticity in the auditory cortex: a synthesis of two disciplinesNorman M Weinberger
Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, and Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, University of California, Irvine, California 92697 3800, USA
Learn Mem 14:1-16. 2007..The advantages of studying associative representational plasticity are emphasized, as is the need for greater behavioral sophistication... - Auditory associative memory and representational plasticity in the primary auditory cortexNorman M Weinberger
Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, University of California, Irvine, CA 92797 3800, USA
Hear Res 229:54-68. 2007..Future research needs to focus on the factors that determine ARP and their functions in hearing and in auditory memory... - Sensory memory consolidation observed: increased specificity of detail over daysNorman M Weinberger
Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697 3800, USA
Neurobiol Learn Mem 91:273-86. 2009..These findings indicate that the sensory contents of associative memory can be revealed to become more specific, through temporal consolidation in the absence of non-sensory factors such as motivation and emotion... - Specific auditory memory induced by nucleus basalis stimulation depends on intrinsic acetylcholineAlexandre A Miasnikov
Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 309 Qureshey Research Laboratory, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697 3800, USA
Neurobiol Learn Mem 90:443-54. 2008.... - Motivationally neutral stimulation of the nucleus basalis induces specific behavioral memoryAlexandre A Miasnikov
Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697 3800, USA
Neurobiol Learn Mem 90:125-37. 2008..These results are concordant with a memory-promoting role for the nucleus basalis that places it "downstream" of motivational systems, which activate it to initiate the storage of the current state of its cholinergic targets... - Rapid induction of specific associative behavioral memory by stimulation of the nucleus basalis in the ratAlexandre A Miasnikov
Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697-3800, USA
Neurobiol Learn Mem 86:47-65. 2006.... - Behavioral memory induced by stimulation of the nucleus basalis: effects of contingency reversalAlexandre A Miasnikov
Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697 3800, United States
Neurobiol Learn Mem 91:298-309. 2009.... - Learning strategy trumps motivational level in determining learning-induced auditory cortical plasticityKasia M Bieszczad
Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697 3800, United States
Neurobiol Learn Mem 93:229-39. 2010..Thus, type of learning strategy, not level of learning or motivation, is dominant for the formation of cortical plasticity... - Induction of behavioral associative memory by stimulation of the nucleus basalisDewey E McLin
Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697-3800, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 99:4002-7. 2002..The discovery of memory induction by direct activation of the NB supports the NB-memory hypothesis and provides a potentially powerful way to control and investigate neural mechanisms of memory... - Remodeling the cortex in memory: Increased use of a learning strategy increases the representational area of relevant acoustic cuesKasia M Bieszczad
Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, University of California Irvine, CA 92697 3800, United States
Neurobiol Learn Mem 94:127-44. 2010..Together, the findings indicate that the amount of strategy use is a dominant factor for the induction of learning-induced cortical plasticity along a continuum of both form and degree... - Conditioned tone control of brain reward behavior produces highly specific representational gain in the primary auditory cortexGabriel K Hui
Qureshey Research Laboratory, Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697 3800, USA
Neurobiol Learn Mem 92:27-34. 2009.... - CS-specific gamma, theta, and alpha EEG activity detected in stimulus generalization following induction of behavioral memory by stimulation of the nucleus basalisDewey E McLin
Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697-3800, USA
Neurobiol Learn Mem 79:152-76. 2003..Thus, stimulus generalization tests reveal that conditioned EEG activation is not unitary but rather reflects CS-specificity, with band-selective markers for specific, associative neural processes in learning and memory... - Nicotinic modulation of tone-evoked responses in auditory cortex reflects the strength of prior auditory learningKevin Liang
Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, Center for Hearing Research, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
Neurobiol Learn Mem 90:138-46. 2008..Our findings suggest that nicotinic regulation of cortical receptive fields may be a distinguishing feature of the best-performing animals, and may facilitate sensory-related learning by enhancing receptive field selectivity... - Learning strategy determines auditory cortical plasticityKasia M Berlau
Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, University of California, Irvine, CA 92797 3800, USA
Neurobiol Learn Mem 89:153-66. 2008..that the representation of specific acquired information may be selected by neurons according to a match between behaviorally selected stimulus features and circuit/network response properties... - Representational gain in cortical area underlies increase of memory strengthKasia M Bieszczad
Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697 3800, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 107:3793-8. 2010..These findings indicate that specific gain in cortical representational area underlies the strength of the behaviorally-relevant contents of memory. Thus, mnemonic functions of cortical plasticity are determinable... 
The basolateral amygdala modulates specific sensory memory representations in the cerebral cortexCandice M Chavez
Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, University of California Irvine, Qureshey Research Laboratory, Irvine, CA 92697 3800, USA
Neurobiol Learn Mem 91:382-92. 2009..These findings suggest that the ability of the BLA to alter specific cortical representations may underlie, at least in part, the modulatory influence of BLA activity on strengthening long-term memory...- Long-term consolidation and retention of learning-induced tuning plasticity in the auditory cortex of the guinea pigVeronica V Galvan
Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, Irvine, California 92797 3800, USA
Neurobiol Learn Mem 77:78-108. 2002..Potential cellular and subcellular mechanisms of LFP tuning plasticity and long-term consolidation are discussed... - Characterisation of multiple physiological fields within the anatomical core of rat auditory cortexRichard G Rutkowski
Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
Hear Res 181:116-30. 2003..Both A1 and AAF were located within temporal cortex 1 (Te1), with AAF occupying an anteroventral subdivision of Te1, indicating that the two neighbouring, physiologically distinct fields are cytoarchitectonically homogeneous... - Memory enhancement of classical fear conditioning by post-training injections of corticosterone in ratsGabriel K Hui
Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697-3800, USA
Neurobiol Learn Mem 81:67-74. 2004.... - Encoding of learned importance of sound by magnitude of representational area in primary auditory cortexRichard G Rutkowski
Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697-3800, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 102:13664-9. 2005..Overall, the findings support the encoding of acquired stimulus importance based on representational size in AI... - Basolateral amygdala noradrenergic activity mediates corticosterone-induced enhancement of auditory fear conditioningBenno Roozendaal
Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697-3800, USA
Neurobiol Learn Mem 86:249-55. 2006.... - The effects of electrical stimulation of the nucleus basalis on the electroencephalogram, heart rate, and respirationDewey E McLin
Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory and Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, University of California, Irvine 92697-3800, USA
Behav Neurosci 116:795-806. 2002..Neither EEG nor behavioral effects exhibited habituation or facilitation. These results indicate that the NB may serve not only as a cortical, but also as a behavioral, activation system that is normally engaged during learning... - Neonatal nicotine exposure impairs nicotinic enhancement of central auditory processing and auditory learning in adult ratsKevin Liang
Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
Eur J Neurosci 24:857-66. 2006.... - Differential thresholds of local field potentials and unit discharges in rat auditory cortexVeronica V Galvan
Department of Neurobiology and Behavior and 309 Qureshey Research Laboratory, Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, University of California Irvine, 92697 3800, USA
Hear Res 167:57-60. 2002..The findings are consistent with the view that local field potentials in the auditory cortex reflect summed synaptic potentials rather than cellular discharges... - Music and the brainNorman M Weinberger
Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, University of California, Irvine, USA
Sci Am 291:88-95. 2004
Research Grants
- EMOTION AND RETUNING OF AUDITORY CORTEXNORMAN WEINBERGER; Fiscal Year: 2002....
- The amygdala & cortical receptive field plasticityNORMAN WEINBERGER; Fiscal Year: 2006..abstract_text> ..
- DYNAMIC REGULATION OF TUNING IN ADULT AUDITORY CORTEXNORMAN WEINBERGER; Fiscal Year: 2007..abstract_text> ..
- DYNAMIC REGULATION OF TUNING IN ADULT AUDITORY CORTEXNorman M Weinberger; Fiscal Year: 2010....
- LEARNING-INDUCED CORTICAL REPRESENTATIONAL PLASTICITYNORMAN WEINBERGER; Fiscal Year: 2001....
- DYNAMIC REGULATION OF TUNING IN ADULT AUDITORY CORTEXNORMAN WEINBERGER; Fiscal Year: 2001..Additionally, this project will provide a basis for understanding learning to perceive speech following cochlear implants in the deaf and recently identified learning-based remediation of temporal processing deficits in dyslexia. ..
- EMOTION AND RETUNING OF AUDITORY CORTEXNORMAN WEINBERGER; Fiscal Year: 1993..These findings will provide the firs systematic analysis of how information itself which is specific to fear stimuli is processed and stored in the cerebral cortex...
- Functions of Associative Auditory Cortical PlasticityNorman M Weinberger; Fiscal Year: 2010..The findings will be directly relevant to the design and implementation of therapeutic interventions, to enable and improve general auditory and speech comprehension. ..