By Professor Simon Killcross

Journal articles

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

Blundell P; Hall G; Killcross AS, 2003, 'Preserved sensitivity to outcome value after lesions of the basolateral amygdala', Journal of Neuroscience, 23, pp. 7702 - 7709

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, pp. 223 - 238, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02724990244000269

Balleine BW; Killcross AS; Dickinson A, 2003, 'The effect of lesions of the basolateral amygdala on instrumental conditioning', Journal of Neuroscience, 23, pp. 666 - 675

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