Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit Alexandra House, 17 Queen Square, LONDON, WC1N 3AR, UK, Tel: +44 (0) 20 7679 1176, Fax +44 (0) 20 7679 1173 abla@gatsby.ucl.ac.uk, www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk   Selected Bibliography |Index|Objective|Attendees|Programme|References|Travel information|Accommodation| Aramakis, V.B. and Metherate, R. (1998) Nicotine selectively enhances NMDA receptor-mediated synaptic transmission during postnatal development in sensory neocortex. Journal of Neuroscience 18:8485-8495. PDF   Aramakis, V.B., Hsieh, C.Y., Leslie, F.M. and Metherate, R. (2000) A critical period for nicotine-induced disruption of synaptic development in rat auditory cortex. Journal of Neuroscience 20:6106-6116. PDF Arnold, H.M., Burk, J.A., Hodgson, E., Sarter, M., & Bruno, J.P. (2002) Differential increases in cortical acetylcholine release in rats performing a sustained attention task versus behavioral control tasks that do not explicitly tax attention. Neuroscience, 114, 451-460. PDF Arnold, H.M., Nelson, C.L., Sarter, M., & Bruno, J.P. (2003) Sensitization of cortical acetylcholine release by repeated administration of nicotine. Psychopharmacology, 165, 436-358. PDF Aston-Jones G, Rajkowski J, Cohen J (2000) Locus coeruleus and regulation of behavioral flexibility and attention. Prog Brain Res 126:165-182. Aston-Jones G, Rajkowski J, Kubiak P (1997) Conditioned responses of monkey locus coeruleus neurons anticipate acquisition of discriminative behavior in a vigilance task. Neuroscience 80:697-715. Aston-Jones G, Rajkowski J, Kubiak P, Alexinsky T (1994) Locus coeruleus neurons in the monkey are selectively activated by attended stimuli in a vigilance task. J Neurosci 14:4467-4480. Atri, A., Sherman, S.J., Norman, K.A., Kirchhoff, B.A., Nicolas, M.M., Greicius, M.D., Cramer, S.C., Breiter, H.C., Hasselmo, M.E., Stern, C.E. (2003) Blockade of central cholinergic receptors impairs new learning and increases proactive interference in a word paired-associate memory task. Behavioral Neurosci.  In press. Baxter, M. G. and Murg, S. L.  (2002) The basal forebrain cholinergic system and memory: Beware of dogma.  In: L. R. Squire and D. L. Schacter (Eds.), Neuropsychology of Memory (3rd edition), pp. 425-436.  New York: Guilford Press. Bentley,P., Vuilleumier,P., Thiel,C.M., Driver,J., and Dolan,R.J. (2003) Cholinergic enhancement modulates neural correlates of selective attention and emotional processing. Neuroimage. 20, 58-70. Bentley,P., Vuilleumier,P., Thiel,C.M., Driver,J., and Dolan,R.J. (2003) Effects of attention and emotion on repetition priming and their modulation by cholinergic enhancement. J.Neurophysiol. 90, 1171-1181. Berntson, G.G., Sarter, M. & Cacioppo, J.T. (2003) Ascending visceral regulation of cortical affective information processing. European Journal of Neurosience, 18, 2103-2109. PDF Berntson, G.G., Shafi, R., & Sarter, M. (2002) Specific contributions of the basal forebrain corticopetal cholinergic system to electroencephalographic activity and sleep/waking behavior. European Journal of Neuroscience, 16, 2453-2461. PDF Berntson, G.G., Shafi, R., Knox, D. & Sarter, M. (2003) Blockade of epinephrine priming of the cerebral auditory evoked response by cortical cholinergic deafferentation. Neuroscience, 116, 179-186. PDF Birrell J, Brown V (2000) Medial frontal cortex mediates perceptual attentional set shifting in the rat. The Journal of Neuroscience 20:4320-4324.  PDF Brown VJ, Bowman EM (2002) Rodent models of prefrontal cortical function. Trends in Neurosciences 25 (7): 340-343. PDF Burk, J.A., & Sarter, M. (2001) Dissociation between the attentional functions mediated via basal forebrain cholinergic and GABAergic neurons. Neuroscience, 105, 899-909. PDF Burk, J.A., Herzog, C.D., Porter, C., & Sarter, M. (2002) Interactions between aging and cortical cholinergic deafferentation on attention. Neurobiology of Aging, 23, 467-477. PDF Clayton E, Rajkowski J, Cohen JD, Aston-Jones G (2003) Decision-related activation of monkey locus coeruleus neurons in a forced choice task. Soc Neurosci Abstr 29:722.727. Collins, P., Roberts, A.C., Dias, R., Everitt, B.J., and Robbins, T.W.  (1998) Perseveration and strategy in a novel spatial self-ordered sequencing task for non-human primates: effects of excitotoxic lesions and dopamine depletions of the prefrontal cortex.  Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience,10, 332-354. Collins, P., Wilkinson, L.S., Everitt, B.J., Robbins, T.W., and Roberts, A.C. (2000) The effect of dopamine depletion from the caudate nucleus of the common marmoset (callithrix jacchus) on tests of prefrontal cognitive function. Behavioral Neuroscience, 114, 3-17. Cools R., Stefanova E, Barker R, Robbins TW, Owen AM (2002) Dopaminergic modulation of high level cognition in Parkinson’s disease: the role of prefrontal cortex by PET. Brain, 125, 584-594 Coull, J. & Thiel, C. (2003) Functional Imaging of Cognitive Psychopharmacology. In: Human Brain Function 2nd edition. RSJ Frackowiak, K.J. Friston, C.D. Frith, R.J. Dolan, C. Price, S.Zeki, J. Ashburner, W.Penny. Elsevier; p:303-327. Crofts HS, Dalley JW, Collins P, Van Denderen JCM, Everitt BJ, Robbins TW, Roberts AC (2001) Differential effects of 6-OHDA lesions of the prefrontal cortex and caudate nucleus on the ability to acquire an attentional set. Cerebral Cortex, 11 , 1015-1026. Dalley JW, McGaughy J, O’Connell MT, Cardinal RN, Levita L and Robbins TW (2001) Distinct changes in cortical acetylcholine and noradrenaline efflux during contingent and noncontingent performance of a visual attentional task. J Neuroscience 21(13): 4908-4914. 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Yuan, Q., Harley, C.W., McLean, J.H. and T. Knopfel (2002) Optical imaging of odor preference memory in the rat olfactory bulb. Journal of Neurophysiology 87:3156-3159. email: abla@gatsby.ucl.ac.uk