By Professor Simon Killcross

Journal articles

Leung HT; Killcross AS; Westbrook RF, 2013, 'A further assessment of the hall-rodriguez theory of latent inhibition', Journal of Experimental Psychology Animal Behavior Processes, 39, pp. 117 - 125, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0031724

Holmes NM; Parkes SL; Killcross AS; Westbrook RF, 2013, 'The Basolateral Amygdala is critical for learning about neutral stimuli in the presence of danger, and the perirhinal cortex is critical in the absence of danger', Journal of Neuroscience, 33, pp. 13112 - 13125, http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1998-13.2013

Nelson AJD; Killcross S, 2013, 'Accelerated habit formation following amphetamine exposure is reversed by D1, but enhanced by D2, receptor antagonists', Frontiers in Neuroscience, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2013.00076

Hogarth L; Balleine BW; Corbit LH; Killcross S, 2013, 'Associative learning mechanisms underpinning the transition from recreational drug use to addiction', Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1282, pp. 12 - 24, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-6632.2012.06768.x

Blundell P; Symonds M; Hall G; Killcross S; Bailey GK, 2013, 'Within-event learning in rats with lesions of the basolateral amygdala', Behavioural Brain Research, 236, pp. 48 - 55, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2012.08.030

Pacitti H; Balleine B; Killcross S, 2013, 'C.18 - STUCK IN A LOOP', Behavioural Pharmacology, 24, pp. e35 - e35, http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/01.fbp.0000434802.96581.97

Pacitti H; Balleine B; Killcross S, 2013, 'NANOSYMPOSIUM N 1 CORTICOSTRIATAL SUBSTRATES OF ADDICTION', Behavioural Pharmacology, 24, pp. e17 - e17, http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/01.fbp.0000434746.35592.9a

Reichelt AC; Killcross AS; Wilkinson LS; Humby T; Good MA, 2013, 'Transgenic expression of the FTDP-17 tauV337M mutation in brain dissociates components of executive function in mice', Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 104, pp. 73 - 81, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nlm.2013.05.005

Chesworth R; Downey L; Logge W; Killcross AS; Karl T, 2012, 'Cognition in female transmembrane domain neuregulin 1 mutant mice', Behavioural Brain Research, 226, pp. 218 - 223, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2011.09.019

Kosari S; Badoer E; Nguyen JCD; Killcross AS; Jenkins TA, 2012, 'Effect of western and high fat diets on memory and cholinergic measures in the rat', Behavioural Brain Research, 235, pp. 98 - 103, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2012.07.017

Haddon JE; Killcross AS, 2012, 'Inactivation of the infralimbic prefrontal cortex in rats reduces the influence of inappropriate habitual responding in a response-conflict task', Neuroscience, 199, pp. 205 - 212, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroscience.2011.09.065

Leung H; Killcross AS; Westbrook F, 2011, 'Additional Exposures to a Compound of Two Preexposed Stimuli Deepen Latent Inhibition', Journal of Experimental Psychology - Animal Behavior Processes, 37, pp. 394 - 406, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0023714

George DN; Killcross AS; Jenkins T, 2011, 'Dissociation of prefrontal cortex and nucleus accumbens dopaminergic systems in conditional learning in rats.', Behavioural Brain Research, 225, pp. 47 - 55, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2011.06.028

Koychev I; Barkus EJ; Ettinger U; Killcross S; Roiser JP; Wilkinson L; Deakin B, 2011, 'Evaluation of state and trait biomarkers in healthy volunteers for the development of novel drug treatments in schizophrenia', Journal of Psychopharmacology, 25, pp. 1207 - 1225, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0269881111414450

Haddon JE; George DN; Grayson L; C ; Honey RC; Killcross AS, 2011, 'Impaired conditional task performance in a high schizotypy population: Relation to cognitive deficits', Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 64, pp. 1 - 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2010.529579

Haddon JE; Killcross AS, 2011, 'Rat prefrontal dopamine and cognitive control: Impaired and enhanced conflict performance', Behavioral Neuroscience, 125, pp. 344 - 349, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0023572

Dwyer D; Dunn MJ; Rhodes SEV; Killcross AS, 2010, 'Lesions of the prelimbic prefrontal cortex prevent response conflict produced by action-outcome associations', Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 63, pp. 417 - 424

George DN; Duffaud AM; Pothuizen ; Haddon JE; Killcross AS, 2010, 'Lesions to the ventral, but not the dorsal, medial prefrontal cortex enhance latent inhibition', European Journal of Neuroscience, 31, pp. 1474 - 1482

Rhodes SEV; Creighton G; Killcross AS; Good M; Honey RC, 2009, 'Integration of Geometric With Luminance Information in the Rat: Evidence From Within-Compound Associations', Journal of Experimental Psychology Animal Behavior Processes, 35, pp. 92 - 98, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0097-7403.35.1.92

Schmidt-Hansen M; Killcross AS; Honey RC, 2009, 'Latent inhibition, learned irrelevance, and schizotypy: Assessing their relationship', Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 14, pp. 11 - 29, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13546800802664539

Haddon JE; George DP; Killcross AS, 2008, 'Contextual control of biconditional task performance: Evidence for cue and response competition in rats', Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 61, pp. 1307 - 1320, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17470210701515819

Marquis JP; Killcross S; Haddon JE, 2007, 'Inactivation of the prelimbic, but not infralimbic, prefrontal cortex impairs the contextual control of response conflict in rats', European Journal of Neuroscience, 25, pp. 559 - 566, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-9568.2006.05295.x

Dunn MJ; Killcross AS, 2007, 'Clozapine, SCH 23390 and alpha-flupenthixol but not haloperidol attenuate acute phencyclidine-induced disruption of conditional discrimination performance', Psychopharmacology, 190, pp. 403 - 414, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00213-006-0605-y

Wickens JR; Costa JC; Killcross RM; Killcross AS, 2007, 'Dopaminergic mechanisms in actions and habits', Journal of Neuroscience, 27, pp. 8181 - 8183, http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/jneurosci.1671-07.2007

Marquis JP; Killcross AS; Haddon JE, 2007, 'Inactivation of the prelimbic, but not infralimbic, prefrontal cortex impairs the contextual control of response conflict in rats', European Journal of Neuroscience, 25, pp. 559 - 566, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-9568.2006.05295..x

Rhodes SEV; Killcross AS, 2007, 'Lesions of rat infralimbic cortex enhance renewal of extinguished appetitive Pavlovian responding', European Journal of Neuroscience, 25, pp. 2498 - 2503, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-9568.2007.05486.x

Rhodes SEV; Killcross AS, 2007, 'Lesions of rat infralimbic cortex result in disrupted retardation but normal summation test performance following training on a Pavlovian conditioned inhibition procedure', European Journal of Neuroscience, 26, pp. 2654 - 2660, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-9568.2007.05855.x

Killcross AS; Dunn MJ, 2007, 'Medial prefrontal cortex infusion of alpha-flupenthixol attenuates systemic d-amphetamine-induced disruption of conditional discrimination performance in rats', Psychopharmacology, 192, pp. 347 - 355, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00213-007-0714-2

Duffaud AM; Killcross AS; George DP, 2007, 'Optional-shift behaviour in rats: A novel procedure for assessing attentional processes in discrimination learning', Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 60, pp. 534 - 542, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17470210601154487

Iordanova MD; Killcross AS; Honey RC, 2007, 'Role of the medial prefrontal cortex in acquired distinctiveness and equivalence of cues', Behavioral Neuroscience, 121, pp. 1431 - 1436, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0735-7044.121.6.1431

Killcross S; Burton M, 2006, 'The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology: Editorial', Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 59, pp. 1, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17470210500459912

Nelson A; Killcross AS, 2006, 'Amphetamine exposure enhances habit formation', Journal of Neuroscience, 26, pp. 3805 - 3812, http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/jneurosci.4305-05.2006

Haddon JE; Killcross AS, 2006, 'Both motivational and training factors affect response conflict choice performance in rats', Neural Networks, 19, pp. 1192 - 1202, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neunet.2006.04.004

Dunn MJ; Killcross AS, 2006, 'Clozapine but not haloperidol treatment reverses sub-chronic phencyclidine-induced disruption of conditional discrimination performance', Behavioural Brain Research, 175, pp. 271 - 277, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2006.08.028

Dunn MJ; Killcross AS, 2006, 'Differential attenuation of d-amphetamine-induced disruption of conditional discrimination performance by dopamine and serotonin antagonists', Psychopharmacology, 188, pp. 183 - 192, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00213-006-0488-y

Iordanova MD; Westbrook RF; Killcross AS, 2006, 'Dopamine activity in the nucleus accumbens modulates blocking in fear conditioning', European Journal of Neuroscience, 24, pp. 3265 - 3270

Dwyer DE; Killcross AS, 2006, 'Lesions of the basolateral amygdala disrupt conditioning based on the retrieved representations of motivationally significant events', Journal of Neuroscience, 26, pp. 8305 - 8309, http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/jneurosci.1647-06.2006

Balleine BW; Killcross AS, 2006, 'Parallel incentive processing: an integrated view of amygdala function', Trends in Neurosciences, pp. 272 - 279

Haddon JE; Killcross AS, 2006, 'Prefrontal cortex lesions disrupt the contextual control of response conflict', Journal of Neuroscience, 26, pp. 2933 - 2940, http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/jneurosci.3243-05.2006

Burton M; Killcross S, 2005, 'Editorial announcement', QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY SECTION A-HUMAN EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY, 58, pp. 385 - 386, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02724980443000881

Dunn MJ; Futter D; Bonardi C; Killcross AS, 2005, 'Attenuation of d-amphetamine-induced disruption of conditional discrimination performance by alpha-flupenthixol', Psychopharmacology, 177, pp. 296 - 306, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00213-004-1954-z

Ward-robinson J; Coutureau E; Honey RC; Killcross AS, 2005, 'Excitotoxic lesions of the entorhinal cortex leave gustatory within-event learning intact', Behavioral Neuroscience, 119, pp. 1131 - 1135, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0735-7044.119.4.1131

Haddon JE; Killcross AS, 2005, 'Medial prefrontal cortex lesions abolish contextual control of competing responses', Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 84, pp. 485 - 504, http://dx.doi.org/10.1901/jeab.2005.81-04

Morris RW; Westbrook RF; Kilcross A, 2005, 'Reinstatement of extinguished fear by beta-adrenergic arousal elicited by a conditioned context', Behavioral Neuroscience, 119, pp. 1662 - 1671

Rhodes SEV; Killcross AS, 2004, 'Lesions of rat infralimbic cortex enhance recovery and reinstatement of an appetitive Pavlovian response', Learning and Memory, 11, pp. 611 - 616, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/lm.79704

Hodder KI; George DN; Killcross AS; Honey RC, 2003, 'Representational blending in human conditional learning: Implications for associative theory', Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section B Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 56 B, pp. 223 - 228, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02724990244000269

Killcross AS; Coutureau E, 2003, 'Coordination of actions and habits in the medial prefrontal cortex of rats', Cerebral cortex, 13, pp. 400 - 408

Blair CAJ; Blundell P; Galtress T; Hall G; Killcross AS, 2003, 'Discrimination between outcomes in instrumental learning: Effects of preexposure to the reinforcers', Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section B - Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 56, pp. 253 - 265, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02724990244000241

Zorawski M; Killcross AS, 2003, 'Glucocorticoid receptor agonist enhances Pavlovian appetitive conditioning but disrupts outcome-specific associations', Behavioral Neuroscience, 117, pp. 1453 - 1457, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0735-7044.117.6.1453

Killcross AS; Coutureau E, 2003, 'Inactivation of the infralimbic prefrontal cortex reinstates goal-directed responding in overtrained rats', Behavioural Brain Research, 146, pp. 167 - 174, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2003.09.025

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