PROGRAM
Pavlovian Society Meeting
Paradise Pier Hotel, Disneyland
Thursday, September 29
2:00—on
Onsite Registration.
5:00—7:00
Welcome reception by the pool with cash bar and complementary hors
d’oeuvres. (Pier Side Pavillion)
7:00 —
Dinner on your own.
Friday, September 30
7:00—8:20
Continental Breakfast (Pacific Ballroom C & D)
8:20—8:30
Opening Remarks – Richard Thompson – (Pacific Ballroom C & D)
8:30—9:40
Symposium (Pacific Ballroom C & D)
Lever-Press Avoidance: From Coping to Psychopathology
Chair: Rick Servatius
Introductory Remarks
New Jersey Medical School
Tom Minor
”Effects of Handling on the Acquisition of Temporally Spaced (Sidman) and Discrete Trial
Lever-Press Avoidance in Rats.”
University of California, Los Angeles
Kevin Beck
“Inescapable Stress Influences Subsequent Learning of Coping Responses in Female Rats.”
New Jersey Medical School
Xilu Jiao
”Gender Difference in Extinction of a Lever-press Avoidance Response in Wistar-Kyoto Rats.”
University of California, Los Angeles
9:40—9:55
Break
9:55—11:45
Symposium (Pacific Ballroom C & D)
Amygdala and Emotional Learning.
Chair: Stephen Maren
“Amygdaloid Central Nucleus Mediates Overtrained Fear in Rats with Basolateral Complex
Lesions.”
University of Michigan
Tad Blair
“Unilateral Storage of Fear Memories by the Amygdala.”
University of California, Los Angeles
Larry Swanson
“Pathways Interconnecting the Amygdala and Bed Nuclei of the Stria Terminalis.”
University of Southern California
Jeansok Kim
“Intra-Amygdalar Circuit Mediating Pavlovian Fear Conditioning.”
University of Washington
Michael Fanselow
“Bypassing the BLA: How the Brain Compensates for a Broken Basolateral Amygdala.”
University of California, Los Angeles
11:45—1:15
Lunch on your own
1:15—2:25
Symposium (Pacific Ballroom C & D)
Brain Systems and Conditioned Motivation.
Chair: Gorica D. Petrovich
Bernard W. Balleine Ph.D
"Corticostriatal circuits and Pavlovian-instrumental transfer."
University of California, Los Angeles
Barry Setlow
"Ventral striatum and modulation of responding during discrimination learning."
Texas A&M University
Gorica D. Petrovich
"Amygdala circuits and control of feeding by learned cues."
Johns Hopkins University
2:25—2:55
Invited Address (Pacific Ballroom C & D)
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Molecular Networks In Memory Processing.
Tom Carew
University of California, Irvine
Chair: Tad Blair, University of California, Los Angeles
2:55—3:10
Break
3:10—3:40
Invited Address (Pacific Ballroom C & D)
How Do Error-Correcting Principles of Classical Conditioning Relate to the Behavioral
and Neural Bases of Human Category Learning?
Mark Gluck
Rutgers University
Chair: Kimberly Christian, National Institute of Mental Health
3:40—4:40
Paper Session (Pacific Ballroom C & D)
Chair: Ralph Miller
Behavioral and Neuroanatomical Comparisons of Trace and Delay Fear Conditioning
Assessed by Fear-Potentiated Startle.
Michael A. Burman, & Jonathan C. Gewirtz
University of Minnesota
Learning in Antlions, Sit-and-Wait Predators: Hurry up and Wait.
Karen L. Hollis, Amber Hayden, & Margaret McDermott
Mount Holyoke College
Temporally-Specific Extinction Despite CS-US Contiguity in the Rabbit Nictitating
Membrane Preparation.
E. James Kehoe
The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Recency-to-Primacy Effects in Pavlovian Responding.
Ralph R. Miller, & Daniel S. Wheeler
SUNY-Binghamton
5:00—6:30
Posters with complimentary wine & cheese (Crystal Cove)
1. Choice and Probabilistic Reinforcement Learning in Rats.
Stephanie Lazzaro, Thomas Boraud, Elliot Ludvig, & Mark Gluck
Rutgers University
2. Latent Inhibition Did Not Develop in Appetitive Signaled Barpressing Following 500
Massed Pre-Exposures With or Without a Masking Task.
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Katherine Salte, & Daniel P. Miller
Carthage College
3. The Influence of Relative Stimulus Salience on Retrospective Revaluation.
Mimi Liljeholm, & Bernard Balleine
University of California, Los Angeles
4. Dynamics of Conditioning and Extinction Under Lagged Omission Contingencies.
Federico Sanabria, Igor Dolgov, & Peter Killeen
Arizona State University
5. The Time-Window Phenomenon: Spacing Effects and Retention.
Vivian C. Hsu, & Carolyn Rovee-Collier
Rutgers University
6. Developmental Shifts in Sensory Preconditioning in Young Infants.
Kimberly Cuevas, & Carolyn Rovee-Collier
Rutgers University
7. The Relative Permanence of Extinction in 3-Month-Olds.
C. Shafer, & C. Rovee-Collier.
Rutgers University
8. Examination of Contextual Fear Retention and Generalization Following Extensive
Overtraining in Basolateral Amygdala Complex Lesioned Rats.
A.M. Poulos, S. Sterlace, & M.S. Fanselow
University of California, Los Angeles
9. Influence of the delta subunit of the GABA receptor on context fear acquisition and
context discrimination in mice.
Jesse Cushman1, Matthew J. Sanders1, Gregg Homanics2, & Michael S. Fanselow1
1
University of California, Los Angeles
2
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
10. Assessment of Amygdala-Independent Learning, Memory and Expression of Context
Fear Using Muscimol Inactivation.
Ravikumar Ponnusamy, & Michael S.Fanselow
University of California, Los Angeles
11. Excitotoxic Lesions of the Dorsal Hippocampus Impair Neither the Acquisition Nor the
Reversal of Context Discrimination.
M.J. Sanders, & M.S. Fanselow
University of California, Los Angeles
12. Fear Memory and the Importance of the Mammalian Target of Rapamycin Kinase
Pathway.
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Gafford, G.M., Parsons, R.G., Lonergan, M. E., & Helmstetter, F.J.
University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee
13. The Formation of Auditory Fear Memory Requires the Synthesis of Protein and mRNA
in the Medial Geniculate Nucleus of the Thalamus.
Parsons, R.G., Riedner, B.A., Gafford, G.M., & Helmstetter, F.J.
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
14. Stimulus-Evoked Changes in Human Brain Activity During Extinction of Pavlovian
Fear Conditioning.
J.A. Richards, D.T. Cheng, & F.J. Helmstetter
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Medical College of Wisconsin
15. Conditioning-Produced Changes in Perirhinal Single-Unit Responses to an Ultrasonic
Vocalization.
Sharon C. Furtak, Timothy A. Allen, & Thomas H. Brown
Yale University
16. Differential Fear Conditioning to a 22 kHz Ultrasonic Vocalization and TemporallyMatched Discontinuous Tones.
Timothy A. Allen, Lauren K. Jones, & Thomas H. Brown
Yale University
17. Post-Training Lesions of Auditory Cortex Block Auditory Conditioned Fear Responses
in Rats.
Boatman, J.A., & Kim, J.J.
University of Washington
18. Transgenic Inhibition of Protein Kinase A Facilitates Extinction of Context-Evoked
Freezing.
Carolina Isiegas1, Ted Abel1, & Matthew Lattal2
1
University of Pennsylvania
2
Oregon Health & Science University
19. Blockade of the CB1 Receptor with AM251 Alters the Processing of Contextual
Information.
David J. Bucci1, Jeremy D. Arenos2, & Richard E. Musty2
1
Dartmouth College
2
University of Vermont
20. Lack of Phenotype for LTP and Fear Conditioning Learning in Calpain I Knockout
Mice.
Michael Grammer, Shafi Kuchay, Athar Chishti, & Michel Baudry.
University of Southern California &
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University of Illinois College of Medicine
21. pGLU-GLU-PRO-NH2 (EEP), A TRH Analogue, Mitigates the Fear Response Typical
in Learned Helplessness.
Alexis E. Witt1, Thomas R. Minor1, A. Eugene Pekary2, & Albert Sattin2
1
University of California, Los Angeles
2
VA Hospital, West Los Angeles
22. Post-Stress Glucose Mitigates Enhanced Fear Conditioning Following Inescapable
Shock in Rats.
Katherine K. Collins, Alexis E. Witt, & Thomas R. Minor
University of California Los Angeles
23. Glucocorticoids Impair the Consolidation of Pavlovian Fear Conditioning in Women.
Eric D. Jackson, Lynn Nadel, & W. Jake Jacobs
University of Arizona
24. Opioid Receptors Regulate Prediction Errors During Pavlovian Fear Conditioning.
Gavan P. McNally
The University of New South Wales
25. A Parametric Analysis of Unconditional and Classically Conditioned Eyeblink
Responses in Control and Ethanol-Exposed Rats.
D. H. Lindquist, E.M. Wheat, G. Sokoloff, & J. E. Steinmetz
Indiana University
26. Effects of CNQX in Anterior Cerebellar Cortex on Eyeblink Classical Conditioning.
Vogel, R.W., & Steinmetz, J. E.
Indiana University
27. CRF and the BNST: Their Role in the Facilitation of Trace Conditioning after Stress.
Debra A. Bangasser, & Tracey J. Shors
Rutgers University
28. Intra-Cerebellar Infusions of an NMDA Antagonist During Extinction of the
Conditioned Eyeblink Response.
Karla Robleto, Jenilee Tuazon, & Richard F. Thompson
University of Southern California
29. The Role of the Cerebellar Interpositus Nucelus in Trace Eyeblink Conditioning.
Narawut Pakaprot, & Richard F. Thompson
University of Southern California
30. Conditioned Eyeblink Responses are Reduced in Plasma Membrane Calcium ATPase 2
(PMCA2) Deficient Mice.
K.H. Lee1, S. Elkabes2, 3, M. P. Kurnellas2, 3, K.S. Kaleka1, & R.F. Thompson1
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1
University of Southern California
UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School
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Neurology Service, Veterans Affairs
2
31. Within-Subject Comparison of Appetitive Delay and Trace Pavlovian Conditioning in
the Rat: Effects of Scopolamine.
Megan L. Anderson, Christina M. Busuito, David S. Goodyear V, & W. Jeffrey Wilson
Albion College
32. Within-Subject Comparison of Appetitive Delay and Trace Pavlovian Conditioning in
the Rat: Effects of Medial Septal Lesions.
Christina M. Busuito, David S. Goodyear V, Megan L. Anderson, & W. Jeffrey Wilson
Albion College
33. Within-Subject Comparison of Appetitive Delay and Trace Pavlovian Conditioned
Inhibitors in the Rat: Effects of Scopolamine.
David S. Goodyear V, Megan L. Anderson, Christina M. Busuito, & W. Jeffrey Wilson
Albion College
34. Perirhinal Cortex Lesions Impair Simultaneous Feature Positive Discrimination.
Matthew M. Campolattaro, & John H. Freeman Jr.
University of Iowa
35. Beta Amyloid Plaques in the Entorhinal Cortex Disrupt Learned Irrelevance in Rabbit
Eyeblink Conditioning.
M. Todd Allen, Adam G. Walker, & C.J. Mckinney
University of Northern Colorado
36. Aging and Delayed Conditioned Taste Aversion Learning in Rats.
Michael R. Foy1,2, Judith G. Foy1, & Richard F. Thompson2
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Loyola Marymount University
2
University of Southern California
37. Contributions of the Retrosplenial Cortex to Attentional Processing of Conditioned
Stimuli and Spatial Learning.
C.S. Keene, & D.J. Bucci
Dartmouth College
38. Disentangling Tactile, Visual and Spatial Cues in the Drug-Induced Place Preference
Conditioning Procedure.
Christopher L. Cunningham, Priya Patel, & Lauren Milner
Oregon Health & Science University
39. Infusion of 8-(3-Chlorostyrl)-Caffeine into Ventral Medial Striatum Eliminates
Lipopolysacchride-Induced Swim Deficits in Rats.
Adam Gaines, Thomas Hanff, Diane Pham, & Thomas R. Minor
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University of California, Los Angeles
40. Lesions of the Orbitofrontal Cortex Disrupt Pavlovian, But Not Instrumental,
Outcome-Encoding.
Sean B. Ostlund, & Bernard W. Balleine
University of California, Los Angeles
6:30—
Dinner on your own
Saturday, October 1
7:00—8:30
Continental Breakfast (Pacific Ballroom C & D)
8:30—9:00
Invited Address (Pacific Ballroom C & D)
Transcriptional Regulation During Memory Storage.
Ted Abel
University of Pennsylvania
Chair: Ravikumar Ponnusamy, University of California, Los Angeles
9:00—10:10
Symposium (Pacific Ballroom C & D)
The Bed Nucleus and Stria Terminalis Connection to Fear and Anxiety.
Chair: Tracey J. Shors
Introductory Remarks
Rutgers University
James McGaugh
"Using the right connections: BLA projections modulate memory consolidation."
University of California, Irvine
David Walker
"BNST mediation of stress and anxiety-associated startle increases."
Emory University
Jaylyn Waddell
"Effect of BNST lesions on aversive conditioning with long-duration conditioned stimulus and
reinstatement of extinguished fear."
Rutgers University
10:10—10:25
Break
10:25—10:55
Invited Address (Pacific Ballroom C & D)
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Barrel Field and Hippocampal Changes in Trace Eyeblink Conditioning with Vibrissa CS.
John Disterhoft, Roberto Galvez and Aldis Weible
Northwestern University
Chair: Jaylyn Waddell, Rutgers University
10:55—11:55
Keynote Address (Pacific Ballroom C & D)
Assessing Changes in Associative Strength.
Robert A. Rescorla
University of Pennsylvania
Chair: Tracey Shors, Rutgers University
11:55—1:30
Lunch on your own
1:30—2:30
Paper Session (Pacific Ballroom C & D)
Chair: John Freeman
Amelioration of Nicotine Withdrawal-Associated Deficits in Contextual Fear Conditioning
by a Noradrengeric Agonist.
J. A. Davis, & T. J. Gould
Temple University
Medial Geniculate Lesions Impair Acquisition of Eyeblink Conditioning.
Hunter E. Halverson, & John H. Freeman Jr.
University of Iowa
Behavioral and Cell Signaling Substrates of Latent Inhibition of Cued Fear Conditioning.
Michael C. Lewis, & Thomas J. Gould
Temple University
Effects of low dose MK-801 Administration During Neonatal Ethanol Withdrawal Upon
Alcohol-Related Cerebellar Deep Nuclear Cell Loss.
B.W. Young, & D.R. Sengelaub, & J.E. Steinmetz
Indiana University
2:30—3:00
Invited Address (Pacific Ballroom C & D)
Why Care About Primary Auditory Cortex to Understand Learning and Memory?
Norman M. Weinberger
University of California, Irvine
Chair: Andrew Poulos, University of California, Los Angeles
3:00—3:15
Break
3:15—4:45
Presidential Symposium (Pacific Ballroom C & D)
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Using Eyeblink Classical Conditioning to Study the Brain Substrates of Associative
Learning.
Chair: Joseph E. Steinmetz
Introductory Remarks
Richard F. Thompson
University of Southern California
“An Engram Found?”
Tracey J. Shors
Rutgers University
“Learning and Neurogenesis: What is it about Learning that Makes the New Neurons Survive?”
Diana S. Woodruff-Pak
Temple University
“Cerebellar Cortex in Delay and Trace Eyeblink Classical Conditioning;”
Joseph E. Steinmetz
Indiana University
“Eyeblink Classical Conditioning and a Model of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome;”
4:45—5:30
Cash Bar (Pacific Ballroom A)
5:30—6:30
Banquet Speech (Crystal Cove)
What's the Matter with Memory?
Elizabeth Loftus
University of California, Irvine
Chair, Richard Thompson, University of Southern California
6:30—
Banquet and Presentation of Awards (Crystal Cove)
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