Outputs (11)

The well‐worn route revisited: Striatal and hippocampal system contributions to familiar route navigation (2024)
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Buckley, M., McGregor, A., Ihssen, N., Austen, J., Thurlbeck, S., Smith, S. P., …Lew, A. R. (2024). The well‐worn route revisited: Striatal and hippocampal system contributions to familiar route navigation. Hippocampus, https://doi.org/10.1002/hipo.23607

Classic research has shown a division in the neuroanatomical structures that support flexible (e.g., short‐cutting) and habitual (e.g., familiar route following) navigational behavior, with hippocampal–caudate systems associated with the former and p... Read More about The well‐worn route revisited: Striatal and hippocampal system contributions to familiar route navigation.

The effects of spatial stability and cue type on spatial learning: Implications for theories of parallel memory systems (2021)
Journal Article
Buckley, M. G., Austen, J. M., Myles, L. A., Smith, S., Ihssen, N., Lew, A. R., & McGregor, A. (2021). The effects of spatial stability and cue type on spatial learning: Implications for theories of parallel memory systems. Cognition, 214, Article 104802. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104802

Some theories of spatial learning predict that associative rules apply under only limited circumstances. For example, learning based on a boundary has been claimed to be immune to cue competition effects because boundary information is the basis for... Read More about The effects of spatial stability and cue type on spatial learning: Implications for theories of parallel memory systems.

Thinking outside of the box II: Disrupting the cognitive map (2018)
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Buckley, M. G., Smith, A. D., & Haselgrove, M. (2018). Thinking outside of the box II: Disrupting the cognitive map. Cognitive Psychology, 108, 22-41. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogpsych.2018.11.001

A number of influential spatial learning theories posit that organisms encode a viewpoint independent (i.e. allocentric) representation of the global boundary shape of their environment in order to support spatial reorientation and place learning. In... Read More about Thinking outside of the box II: Disrupting the cognitive map.

A new human delayed-matching-to-place test in a virtual environment reverse-translated from the rodent watermaze paradigm: characterization of performance measures and sex differences (2018)
Journal Article
Buckley, M. G., & Bast, T. (2018). A new human delayed-matching-to-place test in a virtual environment reverse-translated from the rodent watermaze paradigm: characterization of performance measures and sex differences. Hippocampus, 28(11), 796-812. https://doi.org/10.1002/hipo.22992

Watermaze tests of place learning and memory in rodents and corresponding reverse‐translated human paradigms in real or virtual environments are key tools to study hippocampal function. In common variants, the animal or human participant has to find... Read More about A new human delayed-matching-to-place test in a virtual environment reverse-translated from the rodent watermaze paradigm: characterization of performance measures and sex differences.

Walking through doorways differentially affects recall and familiarity (2018)
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Seel, S., Easton, A., McGregor, A., Buckley, M., & Eacott, M. (2019). Walking through doorways differentially affects recall and familiarity. British Journal of Psychology, 110(1), 173-184. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12343

Previous research has reported that walking through a doorway to a new location makes memory for objects and events experienced in the previous location less accurate. This effect, termed the location updating effect, has been used to suggest that lo... Read More about Walking through doorways differentially affects recall and familiarity.

Thinking outside of the box: Transfer of shape-based reorientation across the boundary of an arena (2016)
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Buckley, M., Smith, A., & Haselgrove, M. (2016). Thinking outside of the box: Transfer of shape-based reorientation across the boundary of an arena. Cognitive Psychology, 87, 53-87. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogpsych.2016.04.001

The way in which human and non-human animals represent the shape of their environments remains a contentious issue. According to local theories of shape learning, organisms encode the local geometric features of the environment that signal a goal loc... Read More about Thinking outside of the box: Transfer of shape-based reorientation across the boundary of an arena.

Enhanced latent inhibition in high schizotypy individuals (2015)
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Granger, K., Moran, P., Buckley, M., & Haselgrove, M. (2016). Enhanced latent inhibition in high schizotypy individuals. Personality and Individual Differences, 91, 31-39. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2015.11.040

Latent inhibition refers to a retardation in learning about a stimulus that has been rendered familiar by non-reinforced preexposure, relative to a non-preexposed stimulus. Latent inhibition has been shown to be inversely correlated with schizotypy,... Read More about Enhanced latent inhibition in high schizotypy individuals.

Blocking Spatial Navigation Across Environments that have a Different Shape (2015)
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Buckley, M., Smith, A., & Haselgrove, M. (2016). Blocking Spatial Navigation Across Environments that have a Different Shape. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, 42(1), 51-66. https://doi.org/10.1037/xan0000084

According to the geometric module hypothesis, organisms encode a global representation of the space in which they navigate, and this representation is not prone to interference from other cues. A number of studies, however, have shown that both human... Read More about Blocking Spatial Navigation Across Environments that have a Different Shape.

The Developmental Trajectory of Intramaze and Extramaze Landmark Biases in Spatial Navigation: An Unexpected Journey (2015)
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Buckley, M., Smith, A., & Haselgrove, M. (2015). The Developmental Trajectory of Intramaze and Extramaze Landmark Biases in Spatial Navigation: An Unexpected Journey. Developmental Psychology, 51(6), 771-791. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0039054

Adults learning to navigate to a hidden goal within an enclosed space have been found to prefer information provided by the distal cues of an environment, as opposed to proximal landmarks within the environment. Studies with children, however, have s... Read More about The Developmental Trajectory of Intramaze and Extramaze Landmark Biases in Spatial Navigation: An Unexpected Journey.

Learned predictiveness training modulates biases towards using boundary or landmark cues during navigation (2014)
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Buckley, M., Smith, A., & Haselgrove, M. (2015). Learned predictiveness training modulates biases towards using boundary or landmark cues during navigation. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 68(6), 1183-1202. https://doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2014.977925

A number of navigational theories state that learning about landmark information should not interfere with learning about shape information provided by the boundary walls of an environment. A common test of such theories has been to assess whether la... Read More about Learned predictiveness training modulates biases towards using boundary or landmark cues during navigation.