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2008, 'The disunity of Pavlovian and instrumental values', Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 31, pp. 456 - 457, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X08004925
,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
,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
,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
,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
,2008, 'It's elemental my dear Watson', Behavioural Processes, 77, pp. 434 - 436, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2007.09.007
,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
,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
,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
,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
,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
,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
,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
,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
,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
,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
,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
,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
,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
,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
,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
,2006, 'Parallel incentive processing: an integrated view of amygdala function', Trends in Neurosciences, pp. 272 - 279
,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
,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
,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
,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
,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
,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
,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
,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
,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
,2004, 'Inhibitory sensory preconditioning', Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section B: Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 57, pp. 261 - 272, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02724990344000105
,2004, 'Sensorimotor gating abnormalities in young males with fragile X syndrome and Fmr1-knockout mice', Molecular Psychiatry, 9, pp. 417 - 425, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sj.mp.4001432
,2004, 'Lesions of dorsolateral striatum preserve outcome expectancy but disrupt habit formation in instrumental learning', European Journal of Neuroscience, 19, pp. 181 - 189, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-9568.2004.03095.x
,2003, 'The role of prelimbic cortex in instrumental conditioning', Behavioural Brain Research, 146, pp. 145 - 157, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2003.09.023
,2003, 'Lesions of mediodorsal thalamus and anterior thalamic nuclei produce dissociable effects on instrumental conditioning in rats', European Journal of Neuroscience, 18, pp. 1286 - 1294, http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1460-9568.2003.02833.x
,2003, 'Instrumental and Pavlovian Incentive Processes Have Dissociable Effects on Components of a Heterogeneous Instrumental Chain', Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 29, pp. 99 - 106, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0097-7403.29.2.99
,2003, 'Helplessness and escape performance: Glutamate-adenosine interactions in the frontal cortex', Behavioral Neuroscience, 117, pp. 123 - 135, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0735-7044.117.1.123
,2003, 'The L-type calcium channel blocker nimodipine mitigates "learned helplessness" in rats', Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior, 74, pp. 269 - 278, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0091-3057(02)00957-7
,2003, 'The effect of lesions of the basolateral amygdala on instrumental conditioning', Journal of Neuroscience, 23, pp. 666 - 675
,2002, 'Sensitivity to instrumental contingency degradation is mediated by the entorhinal cortex and its efferents via the dorsal hippocampus', Journal of Neuroscience, 22, pp. 10976 - 10984, http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/jneurosci.22-24-10976.2002
,2002, 'Reward, motivation, and reinforcement learning', Neuron, 36, pp. 285 - 298, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0896-6273(02)00963-7
,2002, 'Effects of cytotoxic nucleus accumbens lesions on instrumental conditioning in rats', Experimental Brain Research, 144, pp. 50 - 68, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00221-002-1031-y
,2002, 'An assessment of factors contributing to instrumental performance for sexual reward in the rat', Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section B: Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 55, pp. 75 - 88, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02724990143000199
,2002, 'Sexual experience interacts with steroid exposure to shape the partner preferences of rats', Hormones and Behavior, 42, pp. 148 - 157, http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/hbeh.2002.1816
,2001, 'The role of the nucleus accumbens in instrumental conditioning: Evidence of a functional dissociation between accumbens core and shell', Journal of Neuroscience, 21, pp. 3251 - 3260, http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/jneurosci.21-09-03251.2001
,2001, 'Evidence of Selective Learning Deficits on Tests of Pavlovian and Instrumental Conditioning in α-CaMKIIT286A Mutant Mice', International Journal of Comparative Psychology, 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.46867/c4d01m
,2000, 'The effect of lesions of the insular cortex on instrumental conditioning: Evidence for a role in incentive memory', Journal of Neuroscience, 20, pp. 8954 - 8964, http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/jneurosci.20-23-08954.2000
,2000, 'The role of the hippocampus in instrumental conditioning', Journal of Neuroscience, 20, pp. 4233 - 4239, http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/jneurosci.20-11-04233.2000
,1998, 'The role of incentive learning in instrumental outcome revaluation by sensory-specific satiety', Animal Learning and Behavior, 26, pp. 46 - 59, http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/BF03199161
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