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Effects of manipulating prefrontal activity and dopamine D1 receptor signalling in an appetitive feature-negative discrimination learning task (2024)
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Hock, R. M., Owusu-Amoah, N., Waite, L., Muir, C., Stevenson, C. W., Bonardi, C., & Cassaday, H. J. (2024). Effects of manipulating prefrontal activity and dopamine D1 receptor signalling in an appetitive feature-negative discrimination learning task. Behavioral Neuroscience, 138(6), 420-432. https://doi.org/10.1037/bne0000603

Healthy cognition requires inhibitory modulation of associative learning; conversely, impaired inhibitory discrimination is implicated in behavioral disorders. The medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) and its dopamine innervation are key to understanding... Read More about Effects of manipulating prefrontal activity and dopamine D1 receptor signalling in an appetitive feature-negative discrimination learning task.

Attitudes to the use of animals in biomedical research: Effects of stigma and selected research project summaries (2023)
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Cassaday, H. J., Cavenagh, L., Aluthgamage, H., Crooks, A., Bonardi, C., Stevenson, C. W., Waite, L., & Muir, C. (2023). Attitudes to the use of animals in biomedical research: Effects of stigma and selected research project summaries. PLoS ONE, 18(8), Article e0290232. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0290232

Three groups of participants (largely recruited from the UK) completed a survey to examine attitudes to the use of animals in biomedical research, after reading the lay (N = 182) or technical (N = 201) summary of a research project, or no summary (N... Read More about Attitudes to the use of animals in biomedical research: Effects of stigma and selected research project summaries.

From safety to frustration: The neural substrates of inhibitory learning in aversive and appetitive conditioning procedures (2023)
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Cassaday, H. J., Muir, C., Stevenson, C. W., Bonardi, C., Hock, R., & Waite, L. (2023). From safety to frustration: The neural substrates of inhibitory learning in aversive and appetitive conditioning procedures. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 202, Article 107757. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nlm.2023.107757

Inhibitory associative learning counters the effects of excitatory learning, whether appetitively or aversively motivated. Moreover, the affective responses accompanying the inhibitory associations are of opponent valence to the excitatory conditione... Read More about From safety to frustration: The neural substrates of inhibitory learning in aversive and appetitive conditioning procedures.

Strain comparisons in inhibitory discrimination learning and novel object recognition procedures (2021)
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Waite, L., Bonardi, C., Stevenson, C. W., & Cassaday, H. J. (2021). Strain comparisons in inhibitory discrimination learning and novel object recognition procedures. Physiology and Behavior, 240, Article 113557. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physbeh.2021.113557

Strain differences in visual abilities and exploratory tendencies can confound rats’ performance in cognitive tests of learning and memory. In the present study we compared the performance of albino Wistar and pigmented Lister Hooded rats in appetiti... Read More about Strain comparisons in inhibitory discrimination learning and novel object recognition procedures.

An associative analysis of recognition memory: Relative recency effects in an eye-tracking paradigm (2020)
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Nitka, A. W., Bonardi, C., & Robinson, J. (2020). An associative analysis of recognition memory: Relative recency effects in an eye-tracking paradigm. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, 46(3), 314-326. https://doi.org/10.1037/xan0000258

We report 2 eye-tracking experiments with human variants of 2 rodent recognition memory tasks, relative recency and object-in-place. In Experiment 1 participants were sequentially exposed to 2 images, A then B, presented on a computer display. When s... Read More about An associative analysis of recognition memory: Relative recency effects in an eye-tracking paradigm.

Timing impairments in early Alzheimer's disease: Evidence from a mouse model (2020)
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Armstrong, P., Pardon, M. C., & Bonardi, C. (2020). Timing impairments in early Alzheimer's disease: Evidence from a mouse model. Behavioral Neuroscience, 134(2), 82-100. https://doi.org/10.1037/bne0000359

A key characteristic of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is loss of episodic memory-memory for what happened, where and when; this final aspect-timing-is the focus of the present article. Although timing deficits have been reported in AD patients, few parall... Read More about Timing impairments in early Alzheimer's disease: Evidence from a mouse model.

The effect of conditioned inhibitors and preexposed cues on the outcome-specific Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer (PIT) effect in humans (2019)
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Alarcon, D. E., & Bonardi, C. (2020). The effect of conditioned inhibitors and preexposed cues on the outcome-specific Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer (PIT) effect in humans. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 73(5), 645-653. https://doi.org/10.1177/1747021819887725

Using a human Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer (PIT) task, Alarcón and Bonardi showed that the selective elevation of instrumental responding produced by excitatory transfer cues was reduced when these cues were presented with a conditioned inhibit... Read More about The effect of conditioned inhibitors and preexposed cues on the outcome-specific Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer (PIT) effect in humans.

Associative mechanisms involved in specific Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer (PIT) in human learning tasks (2018)
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Alarcón, D., Bonardi, C., & Delamater, A. (2018). Associative mechanisms involved in specific Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer (PIT) in human learning tasks. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 71(7), 1607-1625. https://doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2017.1342671

Four experiments compared the effect of forward and backward conditioning procedures on the ability of conditioned stimuli (CSs) to elevate instrumental responding in a Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer (PIT) task. Two responses were each trained wi... Read More about Associative mechanisms involved in specific Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer (PIT) in human learning tasks.

The effects of stimulus distribution form during trace conditioning (2018)
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Bonardi, C., & Jennings, D. J. (2019). The effects of stimulus distribution form during trace conditioning. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 72(2), 285-297. https://doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2017.1367017

Three experiments examined the effect of the distribution form of the trace interval on trace conditioning. In Experiments 1 and 2 two groups of rats were conditioned to a fixed duration CS in a trace interval procedure; rats in Group Fix received a... Read More about The effects of stimulus distribution form during trace conditioning.