By Professor Simon Killcross

Journal articles

Zorawski M; Killcross S, 2002, 'Posttraining glucocorticoid receptor agonist enhances memory in appetitive and aversive Pavlovian discrete-cue conditioning paradigms', Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 78, pp. 458 - 464, http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/nlme.2002.4075

Coutureau E; Killcross AS; Good M; Marshall VJ; Ward-Robinson J; Honey RC, 2002, 'Acquired equivalence and distinctiveness of cues: II. Neural manipulations and their implications', JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-ANIMAL BEHAVIOR PROCESSES, 28, pp. 388 - 396, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037//0097-7403.28.4.388

Blundell P; Hall G; Killcross S, 2001, 'Lesions of the basolateral amygdala disrupt selective aspects of reinforcer representation in rats', Journal of Neuroscience, 21, pp. 9018 - 9026, http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/jneurosci.21-22-09018.2001

Coutureau E; Blundell PJ; Killcross S, 2001, 'Basolateral amygdala lesions disrupt latent inhibitionin rats', Brain Research Bulletin, 56, pp. 49 - 53, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0361-9230(01)00592-5

Killcross S, 2001, 'Loss of latent inhibition in conditioned taste aversion following exposure to a novel flavour before test', Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section B Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 54, pp. 271 - 288, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02724990143000063

Ward-Robinson J; Coutureau E; Good M; Honey RC; Killcross AS; Oswald CJP, 2001, 'Excitotoxic lesions of the hippocampus leave sensory preconditioning intact: Implications for models of hippocampal function', Behavioral Neuroscience, 115, pp. 1357 - 1362, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0735-7044.115.6.1357

Ward-Robinson J; Coutureau E; Good M; Honey RC; Killcross AS; Oswald CJP, 2001, 'Excitotoxic lesions of the hippocampus leave sensory preconditioning intact: Implications for models of hippocampal functioning.', Behavioral Neuroscience, 115, pp. 1357 - 1362, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037//0735-7044.115.6.1357

Killcross S, 2000, 'The amygdala, emotion and learning', Psychologist, 13, pp. 502 - 506

Killcross S, 2000, 'Reinforcement and punishment: Dissociable systems for action and emotion?', Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 23, pp. 205, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X00352426

Wilkinson LS; Humby T; Killcross AS; Torres EM; Everitt BJ; Robbins TW, 1998, 'Dissociations in dopamine release in medial prefrontal cortex and ventral striatum during the acquisition and extinction of classical aversive conditioning in the rat', European Journal of Neuroscience, 10, pp. 1019 - 1026, http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1460-9568.1998.00119.x

Killcross AS; Kiernan MJ; Dwyer DE; Westbrook RF, 1998, 'Effects of retention interval on latent inhibition and perceptual learning.', Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section B - Comparative and Physiological Psychology, pp. 59 - 74

Killcross AS; Kiernan MJ; Dwyer DE; Westbrook RF, 1998, 'Loss of latent inhibition of contextual conditioning following non-reinforced context exposure in rats.', Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section B - Comparative and Physiological Psychology, pp. 75 - 90

Killcross S; Robbins TW; Everitt BJ, 1997, 'Response from Killcross, Robbins and Everitt', TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES, 1, pp. 244 - 246, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1364-6613(97)01077-2

Killcross AS; Stanhope KJ; Dourish CT; Piras G, 1997, 'WAY100635 and latent inhibition in the rat: Selective effects at preexposure', Behavioural Brain Research, 88, pp. 51 - 57, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0166-4328(97)02309-7

Killcross S; Robbins TW; Everitt BJ, 1997, 'Different types of fear-conditioned behaviour mediated by separate nuclei within amygdala', Nature, 388, pp. 377 - 380, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/41097

Killcross AS; Everitt BJ; Robbins TW, 1997, 'Symmetrical effects of amphetamine and alpha-flupenthixol on conditioned punishment and conditioned reinforcement: Contrasts with midazolam', Psychopharmacology, 129, pp. 141 - 152, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s002130050174

Wilkinson LS; Humby T; Killcross S; Robbins TW; Everitt BJ, 1996, 'Dissociations in hippocampal 5-hydroxytryptamine release in the rat following Pavlovian aversive conditioning to discrete and contextual stimuli', European Journal of Neuroscience, 8, pp. 1479 - 1487, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-9568.1996.tb01610.x

Molinari S; Battini R; Ferrari S; Pozzi L; Killcross AS; Robbins TW; Jouvenceau A; Billard JM; Dutar P; Lamour Y; Baker WA; Cox H; Emson PC, 1996, 'Deficits in memory and hippocampal long-term potentiation in mice with reduced calbindin D28K expression', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 93, pp. 8028 - 8033, http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.93.15.8028

Killcross S; Dickinson A, 1996, 'Contextual Control of Latent Inhibition by the Reinforcer', Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section B Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 49, pp. 45 - 59, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/713932613

Killcross S; Balleine B, 1996, 'Role of primary motivation in stimulus preexposure effects', Journal of Experimental Psychology Animal Behavior Processes, 22, pp. 32 - 42, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0097-7403.22.1.32

Killcross AS; Dickinson A; Robbins TW, 1995, 'The on-baseline latent inhibition effect is not counterconditioning', Psychopharmacology, 118, pp. 104 - 106, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02245256

Balleine B; Killcross S, 1994, 'Effects of ibotenic acid lesions of the Nucleus Accumbens on instrumental action', Behavioural Brain Research, 65, pp. 181 - 193, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0166-4328(94)90104-X

Killcross AS; Dickinson A; Robbins TW, 1994, 'Amphetamine-induced disruptions of latent inhibition are reinforcer mediated: implications for animal models of schizophrenic attentional dysfunction', Psychopharmacology, 115, pp. 185 - 195, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02244771

Killcross AS; Dickinson A; Robbins TW, 1994, 'Effects of the neuroleptic α-flupenthixol on latent inhibition in aversively- and appetitively-motivated paradigms: evidence for dopamine-reinforcer interactions', Psychopharmacology, 115, pp. 196 - 205, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02244772

Wilkinson LS; Killcross SS; Humby T; Hall FS; Geyer MA; Robbins TW, 1994, 'Social isolation in the rat produces developmentally specific deficits in prepulse inhibition of the acoustic startle response without disrupting latent inhibition', Neuropsychopharmacology, 10, pp. 61 - 72, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/npp.1994.8

Killcross AS; Robbins TW, 1993, 'Differential effects of intra-accumbens and systemic amphetamine on latent inhibition using an on-baseline, within-subject conditioned suppression paradigm', Psychopharmacology, 110, pp. 479 - 489, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02244656

Conference Papers

Reichelt AC; Haddon JE; Wilkinson LS; Killcross AS; Good MA, 2010, 'ATTENUATION OF D-AMPHETAMINE-INDUCED DISRUPTION OF CONFLICT RESOLUTION BY CLOZAPINE IN RATS', in JOURNAL OF PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY, SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD, ENGLAND, Harrogate, pp. A17 - A17, presented at Summer Meeting of the British-Association-for-Psychopharmacology, ENGLAND, Harrogate, 25 July 2010 - 28 July 2010, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000281115000050&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Nelson AJD; Killcross S, 2007, 'Inactivation of the infralimbic cortex reinstates goal-directed responding in amphetamine-sensitized animals', in BEHAVIOURAL PHARMACOLOGY, LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS, GERMANY, Tubingen, pp. S66 - S66, presented at 12th Biennial Meeting of the European-Pharmacology-Society, GERMANY, Tubingen, 31 August 2007 - 03 September 2007, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000250203800162&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Killcross S, 2003, 'Time course of behavioural and molecular changes in learning', in JOURNAL OF PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY, SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD, ENGLAND, CAMBRIDGE, pp. A6 - A6, presented at Summer Meeting of the British-Association-for-Psychopharmacology, ENGLAND, CAMBRIDGE, 20 July 2003 - 23 July 2003, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000185623500024&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Conference Abstracts

Nguyen J; Kosari S; Badoer E; Spencer SJ; Killcross S; Jenkins TA, 2015, 'The effect of western diet consumption on neuronal activation in the hippocampus and associated brain regions', in JOURNAL OF NEUROCHEMISTRY, WILEY-BLACKWELL, AUSTRALIA, Cairns, Vol. 134, pp. 172 - 172, presented at 25th Biennial Meeting of the International-Society-for-Neurochemistry Jointly with the 13th Meeting of the Asian-Pacific-Society-for-Neurochemistry in Conjunction with the 35th Meeting of the Australasian-Neuroscience-Society, AUSTRALIA, Cairns, 23 August 2015 - 27 August 2015, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000360206300408&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Preprints

Bradfield L; Mahmoudi M; Wang E; Watson P; Panayi M; Rehn S; Kendig M; Turner K; Marcus A; Killcross S, 2025, Modelling compulsive actions in rats and mice: The back-translation of value-modulated attentional capture from humans to rodents, http://dx.doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/xdehk_v1

Wong FS; Thomas AB; Killcross S; Laurent V; Westbrook RF; Holmes NM, 2025, Integration of sensory and fear memories in the rat medial temporal lobe, http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.101965

Kennedy NGW; Lee JC; Killcross S; Westbrook RF; Holmes NM, 2024, Prediction error determines how memories are organized in the brain, http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.95849

Wong F; Thomas A; Killcross S; Laurent V; Westbrook F; Holmes N, 2024, Integration of sensory and fear memories in the rat medial temporal lobe: advancing research by Wong et al. (2019), http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2024.07.31.605652

Kennedy N; Lee J; Killcross S; Westbrook F; Holmes N, 2024, Prediction error determines how memories are organized in the brain: a study of Pavlovian fear extinction in rats, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2024.01.16.575867

Panayi MC; Killcross S, 2022, Orbitofrontal Cortex is necessary for the behavioural expression, but not learning, of Pavlovian conditioned inhibition, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2022.09.29.510151

Qureshi O; Leake J; Delaney A; Killcross S; Westbrook F; Holmes N, 2022, Danger changes the way the brain consolidates neutral information; and does so by interacting with processes involved in the encoding of that information, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2022.12.02.518124

Ma C; Jean-Richard-dit-Bressel P; Roughley S; Vissel B; Balleine B; Killcross S; Bradfield L, 2020, Medial Orbitofrontal Cortex Regulates Instrumental Conditioned Punishment, but not Pavlovian Conditioned Fear, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2020.05.12.092205

Liu Y; Jean-Richard-dit-Bressel P; Yau JO-Y; Willing A; Prasad A; Power J; Killcross S; Clifford CWG; McNally G, 2020, The mesolimbic dopamine signatures of relapse to alcohol-seeking, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2020.03.06.981605

Panayi M; Killcross S, 2020, The role of the rodent lateral orbitofrontal cortex in simple Pavlovian cue-outcome learning depends on training experience, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2020.10.16.342832

Prasad A; Xie C; Chaichim C; Killcross S; Power J; McNally G, 2019, Complementary roles for ventral pallidum cell types and their projections in relapse, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/533554

Panayi M; Killcross S, 2018, The rodent lateral orbitofrontal cortex represents expected Pavlovian outcome value but not identity, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/303800

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