Discrimination Learning

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "Transitive inference" in multiple conditional discriminations. 
  • 'Unwilling' versus 'unable': chimpanzees' understanding of human intentional action. 
  • 5-HT2C Agonists Modulate Schizophrenia-Like Behaviors in Mice. 
  • A Deep Generative-Discriminative Learning for Multimodal Representation in Imaging Genetics. 
  • A Theory of Causal Learning in Children: Causal Maps and Bayes Nets. 
  • A competitive nonverbal false belief task for children and apes. 
  • A formal cognitive model of the go/no-go discrimination task: evaluation and implications. 
  • A memory model of sequential effects in scaling tasks. 
  • A sensory source for motor variation. 
  • Activation of specific interneurons improves V1 feature selectivity and visual perception. 
  • Age differences and similarities in the improvement of controlled search. 
  • Age-related differences in neural correlates of face recognition during the toddler and preschool years. 
  • Aging and attentional guidance during visual search: functional neuroanatomy by positron emission tomography. 
  • Aging gracefully: compensatory brain activity in high-performing older adults. 
  • Approach and exploration of a novel alternative by 12-month-old infants. 
  • Auditory attention in the congenitally blind: where, when and what gets reorganized? 
  • Behavioral and neurochemical changes in rats dosed repeatedly with diisopropylfluorophosphate. 
  • Behavioral properties of the trigeminal somatosensory system in rats performing whisker-dependent tactile discriminations. 
  • Being bad isn't always good: affective context moderates the attention bias toward negative information. 
  • Can chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) discriminate appearance from reality? 
  • Changes in S1 neural responses during tactile discrimination learning. 
  • Characterization of the cognitive effects of combined muscarinic and nicotinic blockade. 
  • Chlorpyrifos exposure of developing zebrafish: effects on survival and long-term effects on response latency and spatial discrimination. 
  • Cholinergic-dopaminergic interactions in cognitive performance. 
  • Cholinergic-dopaminergic interactions in radial-arm maze performance. 
  • Chronic nicotine and withdrawal effects on radial-arm maze performance in rats. 
  • Combined organizational and activational effects of short and long photoperiods on spatial and temporal memory in rats. 
  • Conflict monitoring in the human anterior cingulate cortex during selective attention to global and local object features. 
  • Contribution of Sensory Encoding to Measured Bias. 
  • Control networks and hemispheric asymmetries in parietal cortex during attentional orienting in different spatial reference frames. 
  • Creating illusions of past encounter through brief exposure. 
  • Differential effects of ethanol on memory in adolescent and adult rats. 
  • Differential effects of high-dose magnetic seizure therapy and electroconvulsive shock on cognitive function. 
  • Differential vocalization in budgerigars: towards an experimental analysis of naming. 
  • Discriminability of nicotine in tobacco smoke: implications for titration. 
  • Discriminating imagined from perceived information engages brain areas implicated in schizophrenia. 
  • Discriminative and participant-rated effects of methylphenidate in children diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). 
  • Distinct neural signatures of threat learning in adolescents and adults. 
  • Distinguishing intentional from accidental actions in orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus), chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), and human children (Homo sapiens). 
  • Do great apes use emotional expressions to infer desires? 
  • Dopamine levels modulate the updating of tastant values. 
  • Dynamics of time discrimination. 
  • Effects of combined muscarinic and nicotinic blockade on choice accuracy in the radial-arm maze. 
  • Effects of perinatal PCB exposure on discrimination-reversal learning in monkeys. 
  • Effects of spatial cuing on luminance detectability: psychophysical and electrophysiological evidence for early selection. 
  • Effects of the nicotinic receptor blocker mecamylamine on radial-arm maze performance in rats. 
  • Effects of training dose on the relationship between discriminative-stimulus and self-reported drug effects of d-amphetamine in humans. 
  • Electrophysiological activity underlying inhibitory control processes in normal adults. 
  • Embedding a Panoramic Representation of Infrared Light in the Adult Rat Somatosensory Cortex through a Sensory Neuroprosthesis. 
  • Encoding of tactile stimulus location by somatosensory thalamocortical ensembles. 
  • Fornix transection selectively impairs fast learning of conditional visuospatial discriminations. 
  • Further consideration of the learning impairment after aceperone in the marmoset: effects of the drug on shape and colour discrimination and on an alternation task. 
  • Genetic animal models of depression and ethanol preference provide support for cholinergic and serotonergic involvement in depression and alcoholism. 
  • Gustatory stimulus control and reversal learning in rats. 
  • Hemispheric differences in memory search. 
  • Holistic versus analytic process models: a reply. 
  • How toddlers and preschoolers learn to uniquely identify referents for others: a training study. 
  • Human fear conditioning conducted in full immersion 3-dimensional virtual reality. 
  • Improving aerobic capacity in healthy older adults does not necessarily lead to improved cognitive performance. 
  • Interval timing and the encoding of signal duration by ensembles of cortical and striatal neurons. 
  • Ironic effects of drawing attention to story errors. 
  • Layer-specific somatosensory cortical activation during active tactile discrimination. 
  • Licking-induced synchrony in the taste-reward circuit improves cue discrimination during learning. 
  • Long-term effects of developmental halothane exposure on radial arm maze performance in rats. 
  • Long-term visuospatial retention unaffected by fornix transection. 
  • Maxi-Min discriminant analysis via online learning. 
  • Mistaking a house for a face: neural correlates of misperception in healthy humans. 
  • Modulation of prefrontal cortex activity by information toward a decision rule. 
  • Mouse primary visual cortex is used to detect both orientation and contrast changes. 
  • Neurobehavioral toxicology of halothane in rats. 
  • Neurocognitive function and joint attention ability in young children with autism spectrum disorder versus developmental delay. 
  • Neurophysiology: electrically evoking sensory experience. 
  • Neuropsychological correlates of central monoamine function in chronic schizophrenia: relationship between CSF metabolites and cognitive function. 
  • On the independence of physical and nominal codes: a correlational analysis. 
  • Orbitofrontal ensemble activity monitors licking and distinguishes among natural rewards. 
  • Organizational changes in cholinergic activity and enhanced visuospatial memory as a function of choline administered prenatally or postnatally or both. 
  • Organizational effects of early gonadal secretions on sexual differentiation in spatial memory. 
  • Overriding age differences in attentional capture with top-down processing. 
  • Perceiving the intensity of light. 
  • Perception of objects that are translating and rotating. 
  • Perseverative behaviour after amphetamine; dissociation of response tendency from reward association. 
  • Pilocarpine seizures cause age-dependent impairment in auditory location discrimination. 
  • Pre- and postnatal choline supplementation produces long-term facilitation of spatial memory. 
  • Prefrontal mechanisms for executive control over emotional distraction are altered in major depression. 
  • Prenatal choline availability alters the context sensitivity of Pavlovian conditioning in adult rats. 
  • Prenatal ethanol exposure in rats does not alter maze exploration or impair visual discrimination with or without distracting stimuli. 
  • Prenatal-choline supplementation differentially modulates timing of auditory and visual stimuli in aged rats. 
  • Psychopharmacological effects in the radial-arm maze. 
  • Recovery of function after brain damage: facilitation by the calcium entry blocker nimodipine. 
  • Reinforcers in infancy: classical conditioning using stroking or intra-oral infusions of milk as UCS. 
  • Responses to olfactory stimuli in spotted hyenas (Crocuta crocuta): I. Investigation of environmental odors and the function of rolling. 
  • Responses to olfactory stimuli in spotted hyenas (Crocuta crocuta): II. Discrimination of conspecific scent 
  • Scopolamine interactions with D1 and D2 antagonists on radial-arm maze performance in rats. 
  • Selective adjustment of the speed of internal clock and memory processes. 
  • Selective attention and visual search: revision of an allocation model and application to age differences. 
  • Semi-supervised generative and discriminative adversarial learning for motor imagery-based brain-computer interface. 
  • Spatial working and reference memory in rats bred for autonomic sensitivity to cholinergic stimulation: acquisition, accuracy, speed, and effects of cholinergic drugs. 
  • Specificity of cognitive impairment from Pfiesteria piscicida exposure in rats: attention and visual function versus behavioral plasticity. 
  • Status, age, and sex effects on performance of discrimination tasks in group-tested rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta). 
  • Studying primate learning in group contexts: Tests of social foraging, response to novelty, and cooperative problem solving. 
  • Sustained and transient neural modulations in prefrontal cortex related to declarative long-term memory, working memory, and attention. 
  • The assessment of intention-cue detection skills in children: implications for developmental psychopathology. 
  • The importance of decision making in causal learning from interventions. 
  • The operant assessment of taste discrimination. 
  • The prototype effect in face recognition: extension and limits. 
  • Time and memory. 
  • Timescale invariance and Weber's law in choice. 
  • Timing of nicotine effects on learning in zebrafish. 
  • Transcranial magnetic stimulation differentially affects speed and direction judgments. 
  • Twelve-month-olds point to share attention and interest. 
  • Two- and four-year-olds learn to adapt referring expressions to context: effects of distracters and feedback on referential communication. 
  • Waiting in pigeons: the effects of daily intercalation on temporal discrimination. 
  • What is odd in the oddball task? Prefrontal cortex is activated by dynamic changes in response strategy. 
  • Wisconsin Card Sorting Test performance in schizophrenia: the role of working memory. 
  • Young children follow pointing over words in interpreting acts of reference. 
  • Young children's knowledge of the "determiner" and "adjective" categories. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Turkington, Timothy Garvey, Associate Professor in Radiology, Radiology