By Scientia Professor Bernard Balleine

Journal articles

Shiflett MW; Balleine BW, 2011, 'Contributions of ERK signaling in the striatum to instrumental learning and performance', Behavioural Brain Research, 218, pp. 240 - 247, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2010.12.010

Liljeholm M; Tricomi E; O'Doherty JP; Balleine BW, 2011, 'Neural correlates of instrumental contingency learning: Differential effects of action-reward conjunction and disjunction', Journal of Neuroscience, 31, pp. 2474 - 2480, http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3354-10.2011

Wassum KM; Cely IC; Balleine BW; Maidment NT, 2011, 'μ-opioid receptor activation in the basolateral amygdala mediates the learning of increases but not decreases in the incentive value of a food reward', Journal of Neuroscience, 31, pp. 1591 - 1599, http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3102-10.2011

Ostlund SB; Wassum KM; Murphy NP; Balleine BW; Maidment NT, 2011, 'Extracellular dopamine levels in striatal subregions track shifts in motivation and response cost during instrumental conditioning', Journal of Neuroscience, 31, pp. 200 - 207, http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4759-10.2011

Balleine BW; Leung BK; Ostlund SB, 2011, 'The orbitofrontal cortex, predicted value, and choice', Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1239, pp. 43 - 50, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-6632.2011.06270.x

Shiflett MW; Balleine BW, 2010, 'At the limbic-motor interface: Disconnection of basolateral amygdala from nucleus accumbens core and shell reveals dissociable components of incentive motivation', European Journal of Neuroscience, 32, pp. 1735 - 1743, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-9568.2010.07439.x

Ostlund SB; Maidment NT; Balleine BW, 2010, 'Alcohol-paired contextual cues produce an immediate and selective loss of goal-directed action in rats', Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, pp. 1 - 8, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnint.2010.00019

Liljeholm M; Balleine BW, 2010, 'Extracting Functional Equivalence From Reversing Contingencies', Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 36, pp. 165 - 171, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0016484

Shiflett MW; Brown RA; Balleine BW, 2010, 'Acquisition and performance of goal-directed instrumental actions depends on ERK signaling in distinct regions of dorsal striatum in rats', Journal of Neuroscience, 30, pp. 2951 - 2959, http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1778-09.2010

Balleine BW; O'Doherty JP, 2010, 'Human and rodent homologies in action control: Corticostriatal determinants of goal-directed and habitual action', Neuropsychopharmacology, 35, pp. 48 - 69, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/npp.2009.131

Wassum KM; Cely IC; Maidment NT; Balleine BW, 2009, 'Disruption of endogenous opioid activity during instrumental learning enhances habit acquisition', Neuroscience, 163, pp. 770 - 780, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroscience.2009.06.071

Wassum KM; Ostlund SB; Maidment NT; Balleine BW, 2009, 'Distinct opioid circuits determine the palatability and the desirability of rewarding events', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 106, pp. 12512 - 12517, http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0905874106

de Wit S; Ostlund SB; Balleine BW; Dickinson A, 2009, 'Resolution of Conflict Between Goal-Directed Actions: Outcome Encoding and Neural Control Processes', Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 35, pp. 382 - 393, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0014793

Ostlund SB; Winterbauer NE; Balleine BW, 2009, 'Evidence of action sequence chunking in goal-directed instrumental conditioning and its dependence on the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex', Journal of Neuroscience, 29, pp. 8280 - 8287, http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1176-09.2009

Liljeholm M; Balleine BW, 2009, 'Mediated conditioning versus retrospective revaluation in humans: The influence of physical and functional similarity of cues', Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 62, pp. 470 - 482, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17470210802008805

Tricomi E; Balleine BW; O'Doherty JP, 2009, 'A specific role for posterior dorsolateral striatum in human habit learning', European Journal of Neuroscience, 29, pp. 2225 - 2232, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-9568.2009.06796.x

Balleine BW; Liljeholm M; Ostlund SB, 2009, 'The integrative function of the basal ganglia in instrumental conditioning', Behavioural Brain Research, 199, pp. 43 - 52, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2008.10.034

Ostlund SB; Balleine BW, 2008, 'On habits and addiction: an associative analysis of compulsive drug seeking', Drug Discovery Today: Disease Models, 5, pp. 235 - 245, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ddmod.2009.07.004

Yin HH; Ostlund SB; Balleine BW, 2008, 'Reward-guided learning beyond dopamine in the nucleus accumbens: The integrative functions of cortico-basal ganglia networks', European Journal of Neuroscience, 28, pp. 1437 - 1448, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-9568.2008.06422.x

Ostlund SB; Balleine BW, 2008, 'The disunity of Pavlovian and instrumental values', Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 31, pp. 456 - 457, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X08004925

Tanaka SC; Balleine BW; O'Doherty JP, 2008, 'Calculating consequences: Brain systems that encode the causal effects of actions', Journal of Neuroscience, 28, pp. 6750 - 6755, http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1808-08.2008

Bray S; Rangel A; Shimojo S; Balleine B; O'Doherty JP, 2008, 'The neural mechanisms underlying the influence of pavlovian cues on human decision making', Journal of Neuroscience, 28, pp. 5861 - 5866, http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0897-08.2008

Ostlund SB; Balleine BW, 2008, 'Differential involvement of the basolateral amygdala and mediodorsal thalamus in instrumental action selection', Journal of Neuroscience, 28, pp. 4398 - 4405, http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5472-07.2008

Espinet A; Artigas AA; Balleine EW, 2008, 'Inhibitory sensory preconditioning detected with a sodium depletion procedure', Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 61, pp. 240 - 247, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17470210601154594

Liljeholm M; Balleine B, 2008, 'It's elemental my dear Watson', Behavioural Processes, 77, pp. 434 - 436, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2007.09.007

Corbit LH; Janak PH; Balleine BW, 2007, 'General and outcome-specific forms of Pavlovian-instrumental transfer: The effect of shifts in motivational state and inactivation of the ventral tegmental area', European Journal of Neuroscience, 26, pp. 3141 - 3149, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-9568.2007.05934.x

Winterbauer NE; Balleine BW, 2007, 'The influence of amphetamine on sensory and conditioned reinforcement: Evidence for the re-selection hypothesis of dopamine function', Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 1, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/neuro.07.009.2007

Lobo MK; Cui Y; Ostlund SB; Balleine BW; William Yang X, 2007, 'Genetic control of instrumental conditioning by striatopallidal neuron-specific S1P receptor Gpr6', Nature Neuroscience, 10, pp. 1395 - 1397, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nn1987

Balleine BW, 2007, 'The neural basis of choice and decision making', Journal of Neuroscience, 27, pp. 8159 - 8160, http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1939-07.2007

Balleine BW; Delgado MR; Hikosaka O, 2007, 'The role of the dorsal striatum in reward and decision-making', Journal of Neuroscience, 27, pp. 8161 - 8165, http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1554-07.2007

Nader K; Balleine B, 2007, 'Ambiguity and anxiety: When a glass half full is empty', Nature Neuroscience, 10, pp. 807 - 808, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nn0707-807

Ostlund SB; Balleine BW, 2007, 'Orbitofrontal cortex mediates outcome encoding in pavlovian but not instrumental conditioning', Journal of Neuroscience, 27, pp. 4819 - 4825, http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5443-06.2007

Wiltgen BJ; Law M; Ostlund S; Mayford M; Balleine BW, 2007, 'The influence of Pavlovian cues on instrumental performance is mediated by CaMKII activity in the striatum', European Journal of Neuroscience, 25, pp. 2491 - 2497, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-9568.2007.05487.x

Ostlund SB; Balleine BW, 2007, 'Selective reinstatement of instrumental performance depends on the discriminative stimulus properties of the mediating outcome', Learning and Behavior, 35, pp. 43 - 52, http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/bf03196073

Winterbauer NE; Balleine BW, 2007, 'The influence of amphetamine on sensory and conditioned reinforcement: evidence for the re-selection hypothesis of dopamine function', FRONTIERS IN INTEGRATIVE NEUROSCIENCE, 1, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/neuro.07/009.2007

Liljeholm M; Balleine BW, 2006, 'Stimulus salience and retrospective revaluation', Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 32, pp. 481 - 487, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0097-7403.32.4.481

De Wit S; Kosaki Y; Balleine BW; Dickinson A, 2006, 'Dorsomedial prefrontal cortex resolves response conflict in rats', Journal of Neuroscience, 26, pp. 5224 - 5229, http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5175-05.2006

Yin HH; Zhuang X; Balleine BW, 2006, 'Instrumental learning in hyperdopaminergic mice', Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 85, pp. 283 - 288, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nlm.2005.12.001

Yin HH; Knowlton BJ; Balleine BW, 2006, 'Inactivation of dorsolateral striatum enhances sensitivity to changes in the action-outcome contingency in instrumental conditioning', Behavioural Brain Research, 166, pp. 189 - 196, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2005.07.012

Balleine BW; Dickinson A, 2006, 'Motivational control of blocking', Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 32, pp. 33 - 43, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0097-7403.32.1.33

Balleine BW; Killcross AS, 2006, 'Parallel incentive processing: an integrated view of amygdala function', Trends in Neurosciences, pp. 272 - 279

Balleine BW; Dickinson A, 2005, 'Effects of Outcome Devaluation on the Performance of a Heterogeneous Instrumental Chain', International Journal of Comparative Psychology, 18, http://dx.doi.org/10.46867/ijcp.2005.18.04.09

Ostlund SB; Balleine BW, 2005, 'Lesions of medial prefrontal cortex disrupt the acquisition but not the expression of goal-directed learning', Journal of Neuroscience, 25, pp. 7763 - 7770, http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1921-05.2005

Yin HH; Knowlton BJ; Balleine BW, 2005, 'Blockade of NMDA receptors in the dorsomedial striatum prevents action-outcome learning in instrumental conditioning', European Journal of Neuroscience, 22, pp. 505 - 512, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-9568.2005.04219.x

Winterbauer NE; Balleine BW, 2005, 'Motivational control of second-order conditioning', Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 31, pp. 334 - 340, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0097-7403.31.3.334

Balleine BW; Espinet A; González F, 2005, 'Perceptual learning enhances retrospective revaluation of conditioned flavor preferences in rats', Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 31, pp. 341 - 350, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0097-7403.31.3.341

Yin HH; Ostlund SB; Knowlton BJ; Balleine BW, 2005, 'The role of the dorsomedial striatum in instrumental conditioning', European Journal of Neuroscience, 22, pp. 513 - 523, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-9568.2005.04218.x

Wang SH; Ostlund SB; Nader K; Balleine BW, 2005, 'Consolidation and reconsolidation of incentive learning in the amygdala', Journal of Neuroscience, 25, pp. 830 - 835, http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4716-04.2005

Corbit LH; Balleine BW, 2005, 'Double dissociation of basolateral and central amygdala lesions on the general and outcome-specific forms of pavlovian-instrumental transfer', Journal of Neuroscience, 25, pp. 962 - 970, http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4507-04.2005

Glasner SV; Overmier JB; Balleine BW, 2005, 'The role of Pavlovian cues in alcohol seeking in dependent and nondependent rats', Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 66, pp. 53 - 61, http://dx.doi.org/10.15288/jsa.2005.66.53

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