By Professor Simon Killcross

Journal articles

Kennedy NGW; Lee JC; Killcross S; Westbrook RF; Holmes NM, 2024, 'Prediction error determines how memories are organized in the brain', eLife, 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/elife.95849.3

Debs SR; Conn I; Navaneethan B; Penklis AG; Meyer U; Killcross S; Weickert CS; Purves-Tyson TD, 2024, 'Maternal immune activation and estrogen receptor modulation induce sex-specific dopamine-related behavioural and molecular alterations in adult rat offspring', Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 118, pp. 236 - 251, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bbi.2024.02.034

Qureshi OA; Leake J; Delaney AJ; Killcross S; Westbrook RF; Holmes NM, 2023, 'Danger Changes the Way the Brain Consolidates Neutral Information; and Does So by Interacting with Processes Involved in the Encoding of That Information', Journal of Neuroscience, 43, pp. 2934 - 2949, http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1796-22.2023

George DN; Killcross S; Haddon JE, 2023, 'Competing contextual processes rely on the infralimbic and prelimbic medial prefrontal cortices in the rat.', Oxf Open Neurosci, 2, pp. kvad003, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oons/kvad003

Panayi MC; Killcross S, 2022, 'Outcome devaluation by specific satiety disrupts sensory-specific Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer', Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 16, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2022.983480

Andrews SC; Parekh D; Brady B; Delbaere K; Huque MH; Killcross S; Anstey KJ, 2022, 'Associations Between Planned Exercise, Walking, Incidental Physical Activity, and Habit Strength in Older People: A Cross-Sectional Study', Journal of Aging and Physical Activity, 30, pp. 813 - 823, http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/japa.2021-0284

Bingul A; Merlin S; Carrive P; Killcross S; Furlong TM, 2022, 'Targeting the lateral hypothalamus with short hairpin RNAs reduces habitual behaviour following extended instrumental training in rats', Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 193, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nlm.2022.107657

Roughley S; Killcross S, 2021, 'The role of the infralimbic cortex in decision making processes', Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 41, pp. 138 - 143, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cobeha.2021.06.003

Roughley S; Marcus A; Killcross S, 2021, 'Dopamine D1 and D2 Receptors Are Important for Learning About Neutral-Valence Relationships in Sensory Preconditioning', Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 15, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2021.740992

Panayi MC; Khamassi M; Killcross S, 2021, 'The rodent lateral orbitofrontal cortex as an arbitrator selecting between model-based and model-free learning systems.', Behavioral Neuroscience, 135, pp. 226 - 244, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/bne0000454

Panayi MC; Killcross S, 2021, 'The Role of the Rodent Lateral Orbitofrontal Cortex in Simple Pavlovian Cue-Outcome Learning Depends on Training Experience.', Cereb Cortex Commun, 2, pp. tgab010, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/texcom/tgab010

Andrews S; Parekh D; Brady B; Delbaere K; Killcross S; Anstey K, 2020, 'Do Automatic Habits Predict Physical Activity Engagement in Older People?', Innovation in Aging, 4, pp. 496 - 496, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.1602

Liu Y; Jean-Richard-Dit-Bressel P; Yau JOY; Willing A; Prasad AA; Power JM; Killcross S; Clifford CWG; McNally GP, 2020, 'The mesolimbic dopamine activity signatures of relapse to alcohol-seeking', Journal of Neuroscience, 40, pp. 6409 - 6427, http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.072420.2020

Prasad AA; Xie C; Chaichim C; Nguyen JH; McClusky HE; Killcross S; Power JM; McNally GP, 2020, 'Complementary roles for ventral pallidum cell types and their projections in relapse', Journal of Neuroscience, 40, pp. 880 - 893, http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0262-19.2019

Jean-Richard-dit-Bressel P; Ma C; Bradfield L; Killcross S; McNally G, 2020, 'Punishment insensitivity emerges from impaired contingency detection, not aversion insensitivity or reward dominance', eLife, http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.52765

Ma C; Jean-Richard-dit-Bressel P; Roughley S; Vissel B; Balleine B; Killcross S; Bradfield L, 2020, 'Medial Orbitofrontal Cortex Regulates Instrumental Conditioned Punishment, but not Pavlovian Conditioned Fear', , http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2020.05.12.092205

Ma C; Jean-Richard-Dit-Bressel P; Roughley S; Vissel B; Balleine BW; Killcross S; Bradfield LA, 2020, 'Medial Orbitofrontal Cortex Regulates Instrumental Conditioned Punishment, but not Pavlovian Conditioned Fear.', Cereb Cortex Commun, 1, pp. tgaa039, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/texcom/tgaa039

Andrews SC; Parekh D; Brady B; Delbaere K; Killcross S; Anstey KJ, 2020, 'The role of automatic habit in physical activity behaviours in older people: A new target for lifestyle interventions for dementia risk reduction?', Alzheimer's & Dementia, 16, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/alz.047510

Panayi M; Killcross S, 2020, 'The role of the rodent lateral orbitofrontal cortex in simple Pavlovian cue-outcome learning depends on training experience', , http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2020.10.16.342832

Jean-Richard-dit-Bressel P; Ma C; Bradfield LA; Killcross S; McNally GP, 2019, 'Punishment insensitivity emerges from impaired contingency detection, not aversion insensitivity or reward dominance', eLife, 8, pp. e52765, http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.52765

Roughley S; Killcross S, 2019, 'Differential involvement of dopamine receptor subtypes in the acquisition of Pavlovian sign-tracking and goal-tracking responses', Psychopharmacology, 236, pp. 1853 - 1862, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00213-019-5169-8

Roughley S; Killcross S, 2019, 'Loss of hierarchical control by occasion setters following lesions of the prelimbic and infralimbic medial prefrontal cortex in rats', Brain Sciences, 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/brainsci9030048

Sharpe MJ; Stalnaker T; Schuck NW; Killcross S; Schoenbaum G; Niv Y, 2019, 'An Integrated Model of Action Selection: Distinct Modes of Cortical Control of Striatal Decision Making', Annual Review of Psychology, 70, pp. 53 - 76, http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-psych-010418-102824

Lingawi NW; Andrew E; Laurent V; Killcross S; Westbrook RF; Holmes NM, 2018, 'The conditions that regulate formation of a false fear memory in rats', Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 156, pp. 53 - 59, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nlm.2018.10.009

Sharpe MJ; Killcross S, 2018, 'Modulation of attention and action in the medial prefrontal cortex of rats', Psychological Review, 125, pp. 822 - 843, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/rev0000118

Panayi MC; Killcross S, 2018, 'Functional heterogeneity within the rodent lateral orbitofrontal cortex dissociates outcome devaluation and reversal learning deficits', eLife, 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.37357.001

Jean-Richard-Dit-Bressel P; Killcross S; McNally GP, 2018, 'Behavioral and neurobiological mechanisms of punishment: Implications for psychiatric disorders', Neuropsychopharmacology, 43, pp. 1639 - 1650, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41386-018-0047-3

Gibson GD; Prasad AA; Jean-Richard-dit-Bressel P; Yau JOY; Millan EZ; Liu Y; Campbell EJ; Lim J; Marchant NJ; Power JM; Killcross S; Lawrence AJ; McNally GP, 2018, 'Distinct Accumbens Shell Output Pathways Promote versus Prevent Relapse to Alcohol Seeking', Neuron, 98, pp. 512 - 520.e6, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2018.03.033

Holmes NM; Raipuria M; Qureshi OA; Killcross S; Westbrook F, 2018, 'Danger changes the way the mammalian brain stores information about innocuous events: A study of sensory preconditioning in rats', eNeuro, 5, http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0381-17.2017

Panayi M; Killcross S, 2018, 'The rodent lateral orbitofrontal cortex represents expected Pavlovian outcome value but not identity', , http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/303800

Nguyen JCD; Ali SF; Kosari S; Woodman OL; Spencer SJ; Killcross AS; Jenkins TA, 2017, 'Western diet chow consumption in rats induces striatal neuronal activation while reducing dopamine levels without affecting spatial memory in the radial arm maze', Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 11, pp. 22, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2017.00022

Furlong TM; Supit ASA; Corbit LH; Killcross S; Balleine BW, 2017, 'Pulling habits out of rats: adenosine 2A receptor antagonism in dorsomedial striatum rescues meth-amphetamine-induced deficits in goal-directed action', Addiction Biology, 22, pp. 172 - 183, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/adb.12316

Haselgrove M; Le Pelley ME; Singh NK; Teow HQ; Morris RW; Green MJ; Griffiths O; Killcross S, 2016, 'Disrupted attentional learning in high schizotypy: Evidence of aberrant salience', British journal of psychology (London, England : 1953), 107, pp. 601 - 624, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12175

Rogers N; Killcross S; Curnoe D, 2016, 'Hunting for evidence of cognitive planning: Archaeological signatures versus psychological realities', Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 5, pp. 225 - 239, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2015.11.002

Sharpe MJ; Killcross S, 2015, 'The prelimbic cortex directs attention toward predictive cues during fear learning', Learning and Memory, 22, pp. 289 - 293, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/lm.038273.115

Reichelt AC; Killcross S; Hambly LD; Morris MJ; Westbrook RF, 2015, 'Impact of adolescent sucrose access on cognitive control, recognition memory, and parvalbumin immunoreactivity', Learning and Memory, 22, pp. 215 - 224, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/lm.038000.114

Sharpe M; Killcross S, 2015, 'The prelimbic cortex uses contextual cues to modulate responding towards predictive stimuli during fear renewal', Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 118, pp. 20 - 29, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nlm.2014.11.005

Sharpe MJ; Killcross S, 2015, 'The prelimbic cortex uses higher-order cues to modulate both the acquisition and expression of conditioned fear', Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 8, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnsys.2014.00235

Panayi MC; Killcross S, 2014, 'Orbitofrontal cortex inactivation impairs between- but not within-session Pavlovian extinction: An associative analysis', Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 108, pp. 78 - 87, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nlm.2013.08.002

Haddon JE; George DN; Grayson L; McGowan C; Honey RC; Killcross S, 2014, 'Extreme elemental processing in a high schizotypy population: Relation to cognitive deficits', Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 67, pp. 918 - 935, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2013.838281

Nguyen JCD; Killcross AS; Jenkins TA, 2014, 'Obesity and cognitive decline: Role of inflammation and vascular changes', Frontiers in Neuroscience, 8, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2014.00375

Nguyen JCD; Killcross AS; Jenkins TA, 2014, 'Obesity and cognitive decline: Role of inflammation and vascular changes', Frontiers in Neuroscience, 8, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2014.00375

Sharpe MJ; Killcross S, 2014, 'The prelimbic cortex contributes to the down-regulation of attention toward redundant cues', Cerebral Cortex, 24, pp. 1066 - 1074, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhs393

Reichelt AC; Good MA; Killcross S, 2013, 'Attenuation of acute d-amphetamine-induced disruption of conflict resolution by clozapine, but not α-flupenthixol in rats', Journal of Psychopharmacology, 27, pp. 1023 - 1031, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0269881113503503

Nguyen JCD; Killcross AS; Jenkins TA, 2013, 'Effect of low-intensity treadmill exercise on behavioural measures and hippocampal parvalbumin immunoreactivity in the rat', Behavioural Brain Research, 256, pp. 598 - 601, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2013.09.004

Leung HT; Killcross AS; Westbrook RF, 2013, 'Error correction in latent inhibition and its disruption by opioid receptor blockade with naloxone', Neuropsychopharmacology, 38, pp. 2439 - 2445, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/npp.2013.144

Leung HT; Killcross AS; Westbrook RF, 2013, 'A further assessment of the hall-rodriguez theory of latent inhibition', Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 39, pp. 117 - 125, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0031724

Holmes NM; Parkes SL; Killcross AS; Westbrook RF, 2013, 'The Basolateral Amygdala is critical for learning about neutral stimuli in the presence of danger, and the perirhinal cortex is critical in the absence of danger', Journal of Neuroscience, 33, pp. 13112 - 13125, http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1998-13.2013

Nelson AJD; Killcross S, 2013, 'Accelerated habit formation following amphetamine exposure is reversed by D1, but enhanced by D2, receptor antagonists', Frontiers in Neuroscience, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2013.00076

Hogarth L; Balleine BW; Corbit LH; Killcross S, 2013, 'Associative learning mechanisms underpinning the transition from recreational drug use to addiction', Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1282, pp. 12 - 24, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-6632.2012.06768.x

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