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Uncertainty and predictiveness modulate attention in human predictive learning (2020)
Journal Article
Chao, C., McGregor, A., & Sanderson, D. J. (2021). Uncertainty and predictiveness modulate attention in human predictive learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 150(6), 1177-1202. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0000991

Attention determines which cues receive processing and are learned about. Learning, however, leads to attentional biases. In the study of animal learning, in some circumstances, cues that have been previously predictive of their consequences are subs... Read More about Uncertainty and predictiveness modulate attention in human predictive learning.

The GluA1 AMPAR subunit is necessary for hedonic responding but not hedonic value in female mice (2020)
Journal Article
Strickland, J. A., Austen, J. M., Sprengel, R., & Sanderson, D. J. (2021). The GluA1 AMPAR subunit is necessary for hedonic responding but not hedonic value in female mice. Physiology & Behavior, 228, Article 113206. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physbeh.2020.113206

The GluA1 subunit of the AMPA receptor has been implicated in anhedonia. Mice that lack GluA1 (Gria1 knockout mice) show reduced lick cluster size, a measure of palatability in feeding behaviour. This deficit may reflect a role for GluA1 in encoding... Read More about The GluA1 AMPAR subunit is necessary for hedonic responding but not hedonic value in female mice.

Cue duration determines response rate but not rate of acquisition of Pavlovian conditioning in mice (2020)
Journal Article
Austen, J. M., & Sanderson, D. J. (2020). Cue duration determines response rate but not rate of acquisition of Pavlovian conditioning in mice. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 73(11), 2026-2035. https://doi.org/10.1177/1747021820937696

The duration of a conditioned stimulus (CS) is a key determinant of Pavlovian conditioning. Rate estimation theory (RET) proposes that reinforcement rate is calculated over cumulative exposure to a cue and the reinforcement rate of a cue, relative to... Read More about Cue duration determines response rate but not rate of acquisition of Pavlovian conditioning in mice.

Spontaneous object-location memory based on environmental geometry is impaired by both hippocampal and dorsolateral striatal lesions (2020)
Journal Article
Poulter, S. L., Kosaki, Y., Sanderson, D. J., & McGregor, A. (2020). Spontaneous object-location memory based on environmental geometry is impaired by both hippocampal and dorsolateral striatal lesions. Brain and Neuroscience Advances, 4, https://doi.org/10.1177/2398212820972599

We examined the role of the hippocampus and the dorsolateral striatum in the representation of environmental geometry using a spontaneous object recognition procedure. Rats were placed in a kite-shaped arena and allowed to explore two distinctive obj... Read More about Spontaneous object-location memory based on environmental geometry is impaired by both hippocampal and dorsolateral striatal lesions.