About the Memory Theme
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Memory Theme Members
Recent Publications & Presentations
This area of the site lists alphabetically recent publications, conference proceedings and presentations by members of the University of Otago Memory Theme.
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Cliff Abraham
Claasen, A.M., Guévremont, D., Mason-Parker, S.E., Bourne, K., Tate, W.P.,
Abraham, W.C. and Williams, J.M. (2009). Secreted amyloid precursor protein-α
upregulates synaptic protein synthesis by a protein kinase G-dependent
mechanism. Neuroscience Letters, 460, 92-96.
Abraham, W.C., & Philpot, B. (2009). Metaplasticity. Scholarpedia, 4(5):4894. (http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Metaplasticity)
Zheng, Y., Mason-Parker, S.E., Logan, B., Darlington, C.L., Smith, P.F., & Abraham, W.C. (in press). Hippocampal synaptic transmission and LTP in vivo are intact following bilateral vestibular deafferentation in the rat. Hippocampus,
Ireland, D.R. & Abraham, W.C. (2009). Mechanisms of Group I mGluR-dependent depression of NMDA receptor-mediated transmission at Schaffer collateral-CA1 synapses. Journal of Neurophysiology, 101, 1375-1385.
Sajikumar, S., Qin, L., Abraham, W.C., & Xiao, Z.C. (2009). Priming of short-term potentiation and synaptic tagging/capture mechanisms by ryanodine receptor activation in rat hippocampal CA1. Learning and Memory, 16, 178-186.
Kennard, J.T.T., Guévremont, D., Mason-Parker, S.E., Abraham, W.C., & Williams, J.M. (2009). Increased expression but not postsynaptic localisation of ionotropic glutamate receptors at the late phase of LTP in the rat dentate gyrus in vivo. Neuropharmacology, 56, 66-72.
Taylor, C.J., Ireland, D.R., Ballagh, I., Bourne, K., Marechal, N.M., Turner, P.R., Bilkey, D.K., Tate, W.P., Abraham, W.C. (2008). Endogenous secreted amyloid precursor protein-α regulates hippocampal NMDA receptor function, long-term potentiation and spatial memory. Neurobiology of Disease, 31, 250-260.
Abraham, W.C. (2008). Metaplasticity – tuning synapses and networks for plasticity. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 9, 387-399.
Abraham, W.C., & Williams, J.M. (2008). LTP maintenance and its protein synthesis-dependence. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 89, 260-268.
Williams, J.M., Guévremont, D., Mason-Parker, S.E., Luxmanan, C., Tate, W.P., Abraham, W.C. (2007). Differential trafficking of AMPA and NMDA receptors during LTP in awake adult animals. Journal of Neuroscience, 27, 14171-14178.
Abraham, W.C., Logan, B., Wolff, A., & Benuskova, L. (2007). “Heterosynaptic” LTD in the dentate gyrus of anesthetized rat requires homosynaptic activity. Journal of Neurophysiology, 98, 1048-1051.
Turner, P.R., Bourne, K., Garama, D., Carne, A., Abraham, W.C., Tate, W.P. (2007). Production, purification and functional validation of human secreted amyloid precursor proteins as neuropharmacological reagents. Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 164, 68-74.
Mockett, B.G., Guévremont, D., Williams, J.M., Abraham, W.C. (2007). Dopamine D1/D5 receptor activation reverses NMDA receptor-dependent long-term depression in rat hippocampus through GluR1 serine 845 phosphorylation. Journal of Neuroscience, 27, 2918-2926.
Benuskova, L., & Abraham, W.C. (2007). STDP rule endowed with the BCM sliding threshold accounts for hippocampal heterosynaptic plasticity. Journal of Computational Neuroscience, 22, 129-133.
Mellentin, C., Jahnsen, H.R., & Abraham, W.C. (2007). Priming of LTP mediated by ryanodine receptor activation in rat hippocampal slices. Neuropharmacology, 52, 118-125.
Abraham, W.C. (2006). Memory maintenance – the changing nature of neural mechanisms. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 15, 5-8
Clapp, W.C., Eckert, M.J., Teyler, T.J., & Abraham, W.C. (2006). Rapid visual stimulation induces N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor-dependent sensory long-term potentiation in the rat cortex. Neuroreport, 17, 511-515.
Abraham, W.C., Mason-Parker, S.E., Irvine, G.I., Logan, B., & Gill, A.I. (2006). Induction and activity-dependent reversal of persistent LTP and LTD in lateral perforant path synapses in vivo. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 86, 82-90
Irvine, G.I., Logan, B., Eckert, M., & Abraham, W.C. (2006). Enriched environment exposure alters excitability, synaptic transmission and LTP in the dentate gyrus of freely moving rats. Hippocampus, 16, 149-160
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David Bilkey
Refereed Publications
Bilkey, D.K., & Clearwater J.M. (2005). The dynamic nature of spatial encoding in the hippocampus. Behavioural Neuroscience 119, 1533-1545.
Kyd, R., & Bilkey, D.K. (2005). Hippocampal place cells show increased sensitivity to changes in the local environment following prefrontal cortex lesions. Cerebral Cortex 15, 720-731.
Liu, P., Smith, P.F., Appleton, I., Darlington, C.,m & Bilkey, D.K. (2005). Hippocampal nitric oxide synthase and arginase and age-associated behavioural deficits. Hippocampus 15, 642-55.
Nerad L., & Bilkey D.K. (2005). A 10 to 12 Hz frequency EEG oscillation in the rat hippocampus and rhinal cortex that is modulated by environmental familiarity. J Neurophysiology 93,1246-1254.
Smith, P.F., Horii, A., Russell, N., Bilkey, D.K., Zheng, Y., Liu, P., D. Kerr, S., & Darlington, C.L. (2005). The Effects of Vestibular Lesions on Hippocampal Function In Rats. Progress in Neurobiology 75, 391-405.
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Mike Colombo
Referred Publications (2000-present)
Journal Articles
Colombo, M. (2005). The value of a comparative perspective: Theoretical commentary on Pearce et al. (2005). Behavioral Neuroscience, 119, 1411-1414.
Reese, E., & Colombo, M. (2005). Memory research in the southern most psychology department. Cognitive Processing, 6, 266-271.
Rose, J., & Colombo, M. (2005). Neural correlates of executive control in the avian brain. PLoS Biology, 3, 1139-1146.
Kalenscher, T., Windmann, S., Diekamp, B., Rose, J., Güntürkün, O., & Colombo, M. (2005). Single units in the pigeon brain integrate reward amount and time-to-reward in an impulsive choice task. Current Biology, 15, 594-602.
Book Chapters
Colombo, M., Gulya, M. & Rovee-Collier, C. (in press). The development of serial-order behavior: Knowledge of ordinal position. In Child Psychology: New Research. Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
Colombo, M., Gulya, M., & Rovee-Collier (in press). The ontogeny of serial-order behavior. In Cognition and Language: Perspectives from New Zealand. Australian Academic Press.
Refereed Conference Proceedings
Rose, J., & Colombo, M. (2004). Stimulus control of working memory cells. 22nd International Australasian Winter Conference on Brain Research, Queenstown, New Zealand
Other (Non Refereed Conference Proceedings)
Colombo, M. (2005). Neural correlates of executive control in the avian brain. 29th Winter Conference
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Liz Franz
Miller, K. & Franz, E.A.(2005). Bimanual gestures: Expressions of spatial representations that accompany speech processes. Laterality, 10, (3), 243-265.
Shook, S.K., Franz, E.A., Higginson, C.I., Wheelock, V.L., & Sigvardt, K.A. (2005). Dopamine dependency of cognitive switching and response repetition effects in Parkinson's disease. Neuropsychologia. In Press.
Smith, M., Franz, E.A., Joy,S., & Whitehead, K.(2005). Superior performance in the blind on bimanual object size estimations. Psychological Science, 16, (1),11-14.
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Jamin Halberstadt
Halberstadt, J. B., & Wilson, T. (in press). Reflections on Conscious Reflection: Mechanisms of Impairment by Reasons Analysis. Chapter to appear in L. Rips and J. Adler (Eds.). Reasoning: Studies of Human Inference and its Foundations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Halberstadt, J. B. (in press). Language, emotion attribution, and emotional experience. Psychological Inquiry.
Halberstadt, J. B. & Badland, C. (accepted, pending revision). Mere exposure-based emotional response categorization. Polish Psychological Bulletin.
Halberstadt, J. (2005). Featural shift in explanation-biased memory for emotional faces. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 88, 38-49.
Rhodes, G., Halberstadt, J. B., Jeffrey, L., & Palermo, R. (2005). The attractiveness of average faces is not a generalized mere exposure effect. Social Cognition, 23, 205-217.
Harlene Hayne
Edited Books
Garry, M., & Hayne, H. (Eds.) (to appear mid-2006). Retrospection: Elizabeth Loftus and her contributions to science, law, and academic freedom. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Book Chapters
Hayne, H. (in press). Verbal recall of preverbal memories. In M. Garry & H. Hayne (Eds.). Retrospection: Elizabeth Loftus and her contributions to science, law, and academic freedom. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Hayne, H. (in press). The developmental psychology of autobiographical memory. In H. Welzer & H. Markowitsch (Eds.), Gedachtnis interdisziplinar.
Hayne, H. (in press). Infant memory development: New questions, new answers. In L. Oakes & P. Bauer (Eds.), Short- and long-term memory in infancy and early childhood: Taking the first steps toward remembering. New York: Oxford University Press
Hayne, H. (in press). Bridging the gap: The relation between learning and memory during infancy. In M. H. Johnson & Y. Munakata (Eds.), Attention and Performance XXI: Processes of change in brain and cognitive development. London: Oxford University Press.
Gross, J., Hayne, H., & Poole, A. (in press). The use of drawing in interviews with children: A potential pitfall. Child Psychology. New York: Nova Publishers.
Hayne, H. (2005). Learning and memory during infancy. In J. Low & P. Jose (Eds.), Lifespan Development: The New Zealand Context. Auckland, New Zealand: Pearson.
Refereed Journal Articles
Herbert, H., Gross, J., & Hayne, H. (in press). Crawling is associated with more flexible memory retrieval by 9-month-old infants. Developmental Science.
Herbert, H., Gross, J., & Hayne, H. (in press). Age-related changes in deferred imitation between 6- and 9-months of age. Infant Behavior and Development.
Zajac, R., & Hayne, H. (in press). The negative effect of cross-examination style questioning on children's accuracy: Older children are not immune. Applied Cognitive Psychology.
Morgan, K., & Hayne, H. (in press). Age-related changes in memory reactivation by 1- and 2-year-old human infants. Developmental Psychobiology.
Willcock, E., Morgan, K., & Hayne, H. (in press). Body maps do not facilitate children's reports of touch. Applied Cognitive Psychology.
Sugrue, K., & Hayne, H. (in press). False memories in children and adults. Applied Cognitive Psychology.
Brian Hyland
Pan, W. X., & Hyland, B. I. (2005). Pedunculopontine tegmental nucleus controls conditioned responses of midbrain dopamine neurons in behaving rats. J Neurosci. 25, 4725-4732.
Pan, W. X., Schmidt, R., Wickens, J. R., & Hyland, B. I. (2005). Dopamine cells respond to predicted events during classical conditioning: evidence for eligibility traces in the reward-learning network. J Neurosci. 25, 6235-6242.
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Steve Kerr
Sawant, P.M., Munday, R., Holland, P.T., Mountfort, D.O. and Kerr, D.S. (2009) Spectral analysis of electrocorticographic activity during pharmacological preconditioning and seizure induction by intrahippocampal domoic acid. (in press Hippocampus).
Kerr, D.S. (2008) Domoic acid neurotoxicity. In Encyclopedia of Neuroscience. Windhorst, U., Binder, M. and Hirokawa, N., eds., Springer-Verlag Press, Germany.
Tramoundanas, A.V., Harrison, J.C., Clarkson, A.N., Kapoor, M., Winburn, I.C., Kerr, D.S. and Sammut, I.A. (2008) Domoic acid impairment of cardiac energetics. Toxicological Sci. 105:395-407.
Sawant, P.M., Munday, R., Holland, P.T., Mountfort, D.O. and Kerr, D.S. (2008) In vivo studies of seizure induction and pharmacological preconditioning by domoic acid and isodomoic acids A, B and C. Neuropharmacology 55:1412-1418.
Sawant, P.M., Weare, B.A., Holland, P.T., Selwood, A.I., King, K.L., Mikulski, C.M., Doucette, G.J., Mountfort, D.O. and Kerr, D.S. (2007) Isodomoic acids A and C exhibit low KA receptor affinity and reduced in vitro potencyin hippocampal region CA1. Toxicon 50(5):627-638.
Hesp, B.R., Clarkson, A. and Kerr, D.S. (2006) Domoic acid preconditioning and seizure induction in young and aged rats. (submitted to: Experimental Neurol).
Brewer, L.D., Porter, N.M, Kerr, D.S., Landfield, P.W. and Thibault, O. (2006) Chronic 1a,25-(OH)2Vitamin D3 treatment reduces Ca2+-mediated hippocampal biomarkers of aging. Cell Calcium 40:277-286.
Hoedemaker, J.R., Peake, B.M., and Kerr, D.S. (2005) Reduction in functional potency of the neurotoxin domoic acid in the presence of cadmium and zinc ions. Environ. Toxicol. & Pharm. 20(1):175-181.
Clarkson, A., Liu, H., Rahman, R., Appleton, I., Jackson, D., Kerr, D.S. (2005) Clomethiazole: Mechanisms underlying lasting neuroprotection following hypoxia-ischemia. FASEB Journal 19:1036-1038 and http://www.fasebj.org/cgi/doi/10.1096/fj.04-3367fje.
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Richard Lincott
Linscott, R. J., & Knight, R. G. (2004). Potentiated automatic memory in schizotypy. Personality and Individual Differences, 37, 1503-1517.
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Neil McNaughton
Pan, W-X., & McNaughton, N. (2004). The supramammillary area: its organization, functions and relationship to the hippocampus. Progress in Neurobiology, 74, 127-166.
Janice Murray
Ruffman, T., Murray, J., Halberstadt, J., & Taumoepau, M. (in press).Verbosity and emotion recognition in older adults. Psychology & Aging.
Ruffman, T., Halberstadt, J., & Murray J. (in press). Recognition of facial, auditory, and bodily emotions in older adults. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences.
Ryan, M., Murray, J. & Ruffman, T. (in press). Aging and the perception
of emotion: processing vocal expressions alone and with faces. Experimental
Aging Research.
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Mike Paulin
Rotem M, Sestieri E, Cohen D, Paulin M, Meiri H and Yarom Y. The functional architecture of the shark’s dorsal-octavolateral nucleus: an in vitro study. J. exp. Biol. 210(15):2730-2742 (2007)
Paulin, M.G. The cerebellum as a neuronal machine for Bayesian state estimation. J. Neur. Eng. 2:219-234 (2005)
Paulin, M.G. Evolutionary Origins and Principles of Distributed Neural
Computation for State Estimation and Movement Control in Vertebrates.
Complexity 10(3): 56-65 (2005)
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Elaine Reese
Reese, E., Chen, Y., Jack, F., & Hayne, H. (2010). Emerging identities: Narrative and self in early adolescence. In K. McLean & M. Pasupathi (Eds.), Narrative development in adolescence. NY: Springer.
Friedman, W., Reese, E., & Dai, J. (2009). Children’s memory for the times of events from the past years. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 23, 1-17.
Reese, E. (2009). Development of autobiographical memory: Origins and consequences. In P. Bauer (Ed.), Advances in Child Development and Behavior, Vol. 37, pp. 145-200. The Netherlands: Elsevier.
Jack, F., MacDonald, S., Reese, E., & Hayne, H. (2009). Maternal reminiscing style during early childhood predicts the age of adolescents’ earliest memories. Child Development, 80, 496-505.
Leyva, D., Reese, E., Grolnick, W., & Price, C. (2008). Elaboration and autonomy support in low-income mothers’ reminiscing: Links to children’s autobiographical narratives. Journal of Cognition and Development, 9, 363-389.
Reese, E. (2008). Maternal coherence in the Adult Attachment Interview is linked to maternal reminiscing and to children’s self concept. Attachment and Human Development, 10, 451-464.
Reese, E., & Fivush, R. (2008). Collective memory across the lifespan. Memory, 16, 201-212.
Reese, E., Hayne, H., & MacDonald, S. (2008). Looking back to the future: Māori and Pakeha mother-child birth stories. Child Development, 79, 114-125.
Bird, A. & Reese, E. (2008). Autobiographical memory in childhood and the development of a continuous self. In F. Sani (Ed.), Individual and collective self-continuity: Psychological perspectives (pp. 43-54). NY: Psychology Press.
Cleveland, E. S., & Reese, E. (2008). Children remember early childhood: Long-term recall across the offset of childhood amnesia. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 22, 127-142.
Reese, E., & Newcombe, R. (2007). Training mothers in elaborative reminiscing enhances children’s autobiographical memory and narrative. Child Development, 78, 1153-1170.
Reese, E., Bird, A., & Tripp, G. (2007). Children’s self esteem and moral self: Links to parent-child conversations about emotion. Social Development, 16, 460-478.
Fivush, R., Haden, C.A., & Reese, E. (2006). Elaborating on elaborations: The role of maternal reminiscing style in cognitive and socioemotional development. Child Development, 77, 1568-1588.
Reese, E., & Cleveland, E. (2006). Mother-child reminiscing and children’s understanding of mind. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 52, 17-43.
Bird, A., & Reese, E. (2006). Emotional reminiscing and the development of an autobiographical self. Developmental Psychology, 42, 613-626.
Bird, A., Reese, E., & Tripp, G. (2006). Parent-child talk about past emotional events: Associations with child temperament and goodness-of-fit. Journal of Cognition and Development, 7, 189-210.
Cleveland, E., & Reese, E. (2005). Maternal structure and autonomy
support in conversations about the past: Contributions to children’s autobiographical
memory. Developmental Psychology, 41, 376-388.
Anthony Robins
Abraham, C., & Robins A. (2005). Memory retention ¬ the synaptic stability versus plasticity dilemma. Trends in Neuroscience, 28, (2),73 ¬78.
Robins, A. (2004). Sequential learning in neural networks: A review and a discussion of pseudorehearsal based methods. Intelligent Data Analysis, 8, (3),301 ¬322.
Robins, A., & McCallum, (2004). S. A robust method for distinguishing between learned and spurious attractors. Neural Networks, 17, 313 ¬326.
Robins, A., & McCallum, S. (2001). Learned and spurious attractors in Hopfield type networks. Proceedings of the Fifth Biannual Conference on Artificial Neural Networks and Expert Systems. Dunedin: University of Otago 146-150.
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Rachel Zajac
Zajac, R., & Cannan, P. (in press). Cross-examination of sexual assault complainants: A developmental comparison. Psychiatry, Psychology and Law.
Zajac, R., Jury, E., & O’Neill, S. (in press). The influence of psychosocial factors on children’s responses to cross-examination style questioning. Applied Cognitive Psychology.
Zajac, R., & Henderson, N. (2009). Don’t it make my brown eyes blue: Co-witness misinformation about a target’s appearance can impair target-absent line-up performance. Memory, 17, 266-278.
Zajac, R., & Karageorge, A. (2009). The wildcard: A simple technique for improving children’s target-absent lineup performance. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 23, 358-368.