By Professor Simon Killcross

Journal articles

Blair CAJ; Blundell P; Galtress T; Hall G; Killcross AS, 2003, 'Discrimination between outcomes in instrumental learning: Effects of preexposure to the reinforcers', Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section B - Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 56, pp. 253 - 265, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02724990244000241

Zorawski M; Killcross AS, 2003, 'Glucocorticoid receptor agonist enhances Pavlovian appetitive conditioning but disrupts outcome-specific associations', Behavioral Neuroscience, 117, pp. 1453 - 1457, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0735-7044.117.6.1453

Killcross AS; Coutureau E, 2003, 'Inactivation of the infralimbic prefrontal cortex reinstates goal-directed responding in overtrained rats', Behavioural Brain Research, 146, pp. 167 - 174, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2003.09.025

Blundell P; Hall G; Killcross AS, 2003, 'Preserved sensitivity to outcome value after lesions of the basolateral amygdala', Journal of Neuroscience, 23, pp. 7702 - 7709

Hodder KI; George DN; Killcross AS; Honey RC, 2003, 'Representational blending in human conditional learning: Implications for associative theory', Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section B - Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 56, pp. 223 - 238, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02724990244000269

Balleine BW; Killcross AS; Dickinson A, 2003, 'The effect of lesions of the basolateral amygdala on instrumental conditioning', Journal of Neuroscience, 23, pp. 666 - 675

Coutureau E; Killcross AS; Good M; Marshall VJ; Ward-Robinson J; Honey RC, 2002, 'Acquired equivalence and distinctiveness of cues: II. Neural manipulations and their implications', Journal of Experimental Psychology Animal Behavior Processes, 28, pp. 388 - 396, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0097-7403.28.4.388

Zorawski M; Killcross S, 2002, 'Posttraining glucocorticoid receptor agonist enhances memory in appetitive and aversive Pavlovian discrete-cue conditioning paradigms', Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 78, pp. 458 - 464, http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/nlme.2002.4075

Coutureau E; Killcross AS; Good M; Marshall VJ; Ward-Robinson J; Honey RC, 2002, 'Acquired equivalence and distinctiveness of cues: II. Neural manipulations and their implications', JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-ANIMAL BEHAVIOR PROCESSES, 28, pp. 388 - 396, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037//0097-7403.28.4.388

Blundell P; Hall G; Killcross S, 2001, 'Lesions of the basolateral amygdala disrupt selective aspects of reinforcer representation in rats', Journal of Neuroscience, 21, pp. 9018 - 9026, http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/jneurosci.21-22-09018.2001

Coutureau E; Blundell PJ; Killcross S, 2001, 'Basolateral amygdala lesions disrupt latent inhibitionin rats', Brain Research Bulletin, 56, pp. 49 - 53, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0361-9230(01)00592-5

Killcross S, 2001, 'Loss of latent inhibition in conditioned taste aversion following exposure to a novel flavour before test', Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section B Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 54, pp. 271 - 288, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02724990143000063

Ward-Robinson J; Coutureau E; Good M; Honey RC; Killcross AS; Oswald CJP, 2001, 'Excitotoxic lesions of the hippocampus leave sensory preconditioning intact: Implications for models of hippocampal function', Behavioral Neuroscience, 115, pp. 1357 - 1362, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0735-7044.115.6.1357

Ward-Robinson J; Coutureau E; Good M; Honey RC; Killcross AS; Oswald CJP, 2001, 'Excitotoxic lesions of the hippocampus leave sensory preconditioning intact: Implications for models of hippocampal functioning.', Behavioral Neuroscience, 115, pp. 1357 - 1362, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037//0735-7044.115.6.1357

Killcross S, 2000, 'The amygdala, emotion and learning', Psychologist, 13, pp. 502 - 506

Killcross S, 2000, 'Reinforcement and punishment: Dissociable systems for action and emotion?', Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 23, pp. 205, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X00352426

Wilkinson LS; Humby T; Killcross AS; Torres EM; Everitt BJ; Robbins TW, 1998, 'Dissociations in dopamine release in medial prefrontal cortex and ventral striatum during the acquisition and extinction of classical aversive conditioning in the rat', European Journal of Neuroscience, 10, pp. 1019 - 1026, http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1460-9568.1998.00119.x

Killcross AS; Kiernan MJ; Dwyer DE; Westbrook RF, 1998, 'Effects of retention interval on latent inhibition and perceptual learning.', Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section B - Comparative and Physiological Psychology, pp. 59 - 74

Killcross AS; Kiernan MJ; Dwyer DE; Westbrook RF, 1998, 'Loss of latent inhibition of contextual conditioning following non-reinforced context exposure in rats.', Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section B - Comparative and Physiological Psychology, pp. 75 - 90

Killcross S; Robbins TW; Everitt BJ, 1997, 'Response from Killcross, Robbins and Everitt', TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES, 1, pp. 244 - 246, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1364-6613(97)01077-2

Killcross AS; Stanhope KJ; Dourish CT; Piras G, 1997, 'WAY100635 and latent inhibition in the rat: Selective effects at preexposure', Behavioural Brain Research, 88, pp. 51 - 57, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0166-4328(97)02309-7

Killcross S; Robbins TW; Everitt BJ, 1997, 'Different types of fear-conditioned behaviour mediated by separate nuclei within amygdala', Nature, 388, pp. 377 - 380, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/41097

Killcross AS; Everitt BJ; Robbins TW, 1997, 'Symmetrical effects of amphetamine and alpha-flupenthixol on conditioned punishment and conditioned reinforcement: Contrasts with midazolam', Psychopharmacology, 129, pp. 141 - 152, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s002130050174

Killcross AS, 1997, 'The neuropsychology of anxiety: the role of the amygdala', Behavioural Pharmacology, 8, pp. 652 - 652, http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/00008877-199711000-00046

Wilkinson LS; Humby T; Killcross S; Robbins TW; Everitt BJ, 1996, 'Dissociations in hippocampal 5-hydroxytryptamine release in the rat following Pavlovian aversive conditioning to discrete and contextual stimuli', European Journal of Neuroscience, 8, pp. 1479 - 1487, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-9568.1996.tb01610.x

Molinari S; Battini R; Ferrari S; Pozzi L; Killcross AS; Robbins TW; Jouvenceau A; Billard JM; Dutar P; Lamour Y; Baker WA; Cox H; Emson PC, 1996, 'Deficits in memory and hippocampal long-term potentiation in mice with reduced calbindin D28K expression', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 93, pp. 8028 - 8033, http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.93.15.8028

Killcross S; Dickinson A, 1996, 'Contextual Control of Latent Inhibition by the Reinforcer', Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section B Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 49, pp. 45 - 59, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/713932613

Killcross S; Balleine B, 1996, 'Role of primary motivation in stimulus preexposure effects', Journal of Experimental Psychology Animal Behavior Processes, 22, pp. 32 - 42, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0097-7403.22.1.32

Killcross AS; Dickinson A; Robbins TW, 1995, 'The on-baseline latent inhibition effect is not counterconditioning', Psychopharmacology, 118, pp. 104 - 106, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02245256

Balleine B; Killcross S, 1994, 'Effects of ibotenic acid lesions of the Nucleus Accumbens on instrumental action', Behavioural Brain Research, 65, pp. 181 - 193, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0166-4328(94)90104-X

Killcross AS; Dickinson A; Robbins TW, 1994, 'Amphetamine-induced disruptions of latent inhibition are reinforcer mediated: implications for animal models of schizophrenic attentional dysfunction', Psychopharmacology, 115, pp. 185 - 195, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02244771

Killcross AS; Dickinson A; Robbins TW, 1994, 'Effects of the neuroleptic α-flupenthixol on latent inhibition in aversively- and appetitively-motivated paradigms: evidence for dopamine-reinforcer interactions', Psychopharmacology, 115, pp. 196 - 205, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02244772

Wilkinson LS; Killcross SS; Humby T; Hall FS; Geyer MA; Robbins TW, 1994, 'Social isolation in the rat produces developmentally specific deficits in prepulse inhibition of the acoustic startle response without disrupting latent inhibition', Neuropsychopharmacology, 10, pp. 61 - 72, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/npp.1994.8

Killcross AS; Robbins TW, 1993, 'Differential effects of intra-accumbens and systemic amphetamine on latent inhibition using an on-baseline, within-subject conditioned suppression paradigm', Psychopharmacology, 110, pp. 479 - 489, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02244656

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