Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Behavioural neuroscience of learning and memory'
Create a spot-on reference in APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, and other styles
Consult the top 50 dissertations / theses for your research on the topic 'Behavioural neuroscience of learning and memory.'
Next to every source in the list of references, there is an 'Add to bibliography' button. Press on it, and we will generate automatically the bibliographic reference to the chosen work in the citation style you need: APA, MLA, Harvard, Chicago, Vancouver, etc.
You can also download the full text of the academic publication as pdf and read online its abstract whenever available in the metadata.
Browse dissertations / theses on a wide variety of disciplines and organise your bibliography correctly.
Kwok, Sze Chai. "Mnemonic functions in the macaque monkey : further insight into the role of the fornix." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2008. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:a66d1d30-149d-4e12-801e-3944b08f4b1a.
Full textHoon, A. C. "The effect of manipulating the expression of the NR2B subunit of the NMDA receptor on learning and memory." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:eae324a3-873f-4b50-9bcc-8c43b72866a3.
Full textShipton, Olivia Ashley. "Asymmetry of hippocampal function in mice : left-right differences in memory processing and vulnerability to amyloid beta." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:972d7dbf-fcf1-4f84-9a84-406418dbc7fb.
Full textLee, Aletheia. "Site-directed monoclonal antibodies : developing a tool for manipulating AMPA-type ionotropic glutamate receptor subunits in the mouse brain." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:aa83582e-d096-4b0b-be6f-55a74fb16014.
Full textLaatikainen, Linda Maria. "The role of catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) in hippocampal function." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2010. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:d0c9e1fa-a052-4af7-aaff-00548365e024.
Full textHölscher, Christian. "Behavioural and pharmacological studies of memory formation in the domestic chick, Gallus domesticus." Thesis, Open University, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.385848.
Full textEtherington, Rachel. "The behavioural consequences of cortical cholinergic deafferentation." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.305332.
Full textKanso, Riam. "The effect of interpersonal power on cognitive processing : a behavioural and neural perspective." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:cdde1f31-890a-444e-85fe-09b09348fcf1.
Full textRichter, Franziska Rebekka. "The control of task sets and long-term memory." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:6537ad2c-107b-4517-8b37-7d5d59edbe3b.
Full textQuinn, Connor. "Learning to read : effects of memory consolidation on orthographic and lexical learning." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2018. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/278394.
Full textKwon, Hyung-Wook. "Learning and memory in the American cockroach, Periplaneta americana: New behavioral paradigms for associative learning." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/280108.
Full textWolff, Gabriella Hannah. "Genealogical Correspondence of Learning and Memory Centers across Phyla." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/556847.
Full textShen, Jiemin 1968. "The aging hippocampus: Neural mechanisms underlying learning and memory deficits in old rats." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/290678.
Full textPritchett, David. "Sleep, circadian and behavioural characterisation of two schizophrenia-relevant transgenic mouse models." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:1853944f-8ee1-4ed8-9214-d8a61c6bb46d.
Full textBorder, Scott. "Investigating the role of macromolecules in learning and memory using a behavioural boiassay." Thesis, Oxford Brookes University, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.432788.
Full textSziklas, Viviane. "Behavioural investigation of the mammillary region in the rat." Thesis, McGill University, 1991. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=70274.
Full textChau, Ka Hung Bolton. "Neural mechanisms of suboptimal decisions." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:67c43f70-a7fa-40b1-9691-bb520d5f9e2d.
Full textClark, Ian Alexander. "A clinical neuroscience investigation into flashbacks and involuntary autobiographical memories." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:04f72e37-73fe-4347-8af1-8d8852c05f1b.
Full textBrowncross, Helen Anna. "The role of the primate frontopolar cortex in mnemonic and choice behaviour." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:2807879b-e535-474c-b884-fa4c3c5296ab.
Full textBarber, Alistair John. "A behavioural investigation of the function of glycoprotein fucosylation in learning and memory in the day-old domestic chicken." Thesis, Open University, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.236514.
Full textGudberg, Christel Alessandra. "Effects of age on sleep and consolidation of motor learning." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:4537a396-3947-4afb-be46-92105d17000a.
Full textDesai, Avanti N. "Effects of Perinatal Polychlorinated Biphenyl Mixtures on Estrogen Receptor Beta, Hippocampus, and Learning and Memory." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1182713137.
Full textCoulson, Louisa Katie. "The influence of emotional stimuli on cognitive processing during transient induced mood states." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:b8fc9fab-e9e0-4b3f-b78e-c76e25224972.
Full textMacLeod, Lindsey. "Visual Spatial Learning and Memory in Fragile X Syndrome and fmr1 Knockout Mice." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/26001.
Full textCosman, Joshua Daniel. "Task-specific learning supports control over visual distraction." Diss., University of Iowa, 2012. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/2845.
Full textGage, Stephanie Lauren. "The Behavioral Significance of Nitric Oxide in a Primary Olfactory Network: Insights into Learning and Memory in the Antennal Lobe of Manduca Sexta." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/306943.
Full textFrazier, Hilaree N. "Exploring the Role of Insulin Receptor Signaling in Hippocampal Learning and Memory, Neuronal Calcium Dysregulation, and Glucose Metabolism." UKnowledge, 2019. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/pharmacol_etds/32.
Full textJackson, Taryn. "Molecular and Genetic Analysis of Synaptic Signaling in Drosophila." Diss., Tucson, Arizona : University of Arizona, 2005. http://etd.library.arizona.edu/etd/GetFileServlet?file=file:///data1/pdf/etd/azu%5Fetd%5F1356%5F1%5Fm.pdf&type=application/pdf.
Full textDhawan, Sandeep Sonny. "Learning to focus and focusing to learn : more than a cortical trick." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/15883.
Full textAguiar, Sebastian. "Characterizing a Novel Monoclonal AMPA Receptor 1/2/3 Antibody in the Hippocampus and Prefrontal Cortex of Rat, Monkey, and Human." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2014. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/pitzer_theses/82.
Full textGulick, Danielle. "An Examination of the Neural Substrates Underlying the Dissociable and Interactive Effects of Acute Ethanol and Nicotine on Learning, Anxiety, and Locomotion in Fear Conditioning and the Plus Maze Discriminative Avoidance Task." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2008. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/18921.
Full textPh.D.
Studies have demonstrated dissociable effects of nicotine alone versus in combination with ethanol on learning, and these effects may depend on different neural substrates. Furthermore, the effects of nicotine in different brain areas may produce other behavioral changes - such as changes in anxiety - that alter learning. This research examines the interactive effects of ethanol and nicotine on learning, anxiety, and locomotion, and the dissociation of these effects by brain area. Specifically, we examine the interactive effects of systemic ethanol with nicotine infusion into the dorsal hippocampus, ventral hippocampus, or anterior cingulate on contextual and cued fear conditioning and the plus-maze discriminative avoidance task (PMDAT). In addition, we use dihydro-beta-erythroidine (DHbetaE), a nicotinic receptor antagonist, to examine the involvement of acetylcholingeric nicotinic receptors (nAChRs) in the effects of ethanol alone and in the mediation of ethanol-induced changes by nicotine. In the PMDAT, we examine whether caffeine produces the same effects as nicotine in the PMDAT. In fear conditioning, nicotine acts in the dorsal hippocampus to enhance contextual fear conditioning and in the anterior cingulate to reverse ethanol-induced contextual and cued fear conditioning deficits through inactivation of high-affinity beta2 subunit-containing nAChRs. In the PMDAT, ethanol produces learning deficits, anxiolysis, and increased locomotion, and nicotine reverses the effects of ethanol. Although caffeine and ethanol interact to modulate behavior in the PMDAT, caffeine fails to reverse ethanol-induced learning deficits. Finally, the effects of nicotine and ethanol, both alone and in combination, on learning, anxiety, and locomotion depend on distinct neural substrates. Nicotine acts in the anterior cingulate to reverse ethanol-induced learning deficits but produces diverse effects on anxiety that vary across all three brain areas.
Temple University--Theses
Barkus, Christopher. "Studies of emotionality in genetic mouse models of altered glutamate or 5-HT function." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2010. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:c144d0d0-ba1f-4127-b07a-372e6abf569b.
Full textRehn, Martin. "Aspects of memory and representation in cortical computation." Doctoral thesis, KTH, Numerisk Analys och Datalogi, NADA, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-4161.
Full textIn this thesis I take a modular approach to cortical function. I investigate how the cerebral cortex may realise a number of basic computational tasks, within the framework of its generic architecture. I present novel mechanisms for certain assumed computational capabilities of the cerebral cortex, building on the established notions of attractor memory and sparse coding. A sparse binary coding network for generating efficient representations of sensory input is presented. It is demonstrated that this network model well reproduces the simple cell receptive field shapes seen in the primary visual cortex and that its representations are efficient with respect to storage in associative memory. I show how an autoassociative memory, augmented with dynamical synapses, can function as a general sequence learning network. I demonstrate how an abstract attractor memory system may be realised on the microcircuit level -- and how it may be analysed using tools similar to those used experimentally. I outline some predictions from the hypothesis that the macroscopic connectivity of the cortex is optimised for attractor memory function. I also discuss methodological aspects of modelling in computational neuroscience.
QC 20100916
Porcheret, Kate L. "Sleep and sleep timing in relation to light and emotional processing." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:b759244a-c339-4d9f-bd03-e150a5fa1887.
Full textManganaro, Alessia. "Functional differentiation along the dorso-ventral axis of the hippocampus." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:a7b47ea6-d9f4-4999-a0be-12980ea81d90.
Full textChihabi, Kutibh. "Protein Kinase Mzeta (PKM-ζ) Regulates Kv1.2 Dependent Cerebellar Eyeblink Classical Conditioning." ScholarWorks @ UVM, 2017. http://scholarworks.uvm.edu/graddis/719.
Full textKolmogorova, Daria. "Sex Differences In the Enduring Neuroinflammatory and Behavioural Sequelae of Systemic Immune Challenge During Puberty." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/42155.
Full textHunt, Laurence T. "Modelling human decision under risk and uncertainty." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:244ce799-7397-4698-8dac-c8ca5d0b3e28.
Full textHelene, André Frazão. "Aquisição e uso de memória implícita." Universidade de São Paulo, 2006. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/41/41135/tde-23082007-152334/.
Full textThe notion that memory may be dissociated in distinct systems is antique. The development of this assumption seems to be associated with studies involving amnesic patients, which contributed for the notion that specific cognitive functions are underlied for specific brain regions. Taking into account the historic context in which the models for explicit and implicit long-term memory developed, the aims of this study was to evaluate (1) to which extent there is acquisition of perceptual-motor implicit knowledge by way of imagery - seen here as a manner of handling information in working memory by control of attention, and (2) to which extent implicit knowledge acquired in a specific context may be used to solve problems in novel contexts, confronting established assumptions that this type of knowledge is strongly associated to the context of its acquisition. The Experiment 1 showed that there is acquisition of perceptual-motor implicit knowledge by way of imagination; the time-course for this acquisition is similar to that seen when acquisition occurs by actual task performance, suggesting that similar properties underlie both types of acquisition. The Experiment 2 showed that prior implicit knowledge acquisition related to reading rotated texts favors performance for reading texts with completely novel types of rotations, indicating the occurrence of transfer of training and, more importantly, that implicit knowledge was flexibly used for performance of a novel task. Taken together, these results show that handling information in working memory promotes top-down acquisition of perceptualmotor implicit knowledge and that this type of knowledge is not strictly associated to the specific context of its acquisition, being used for novel tasks. These results indicate the need for a review of the current assumptions about the interaction of memory systems and about the admitted properties of the implicit memory system.
Byrom, Nicola. "Towards an understanding of the role of associative learning in risk for mental health problems." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:2d566024-1215-49e3-b1d6-666a8f99838b.
Full textSKELTON, MATTHEW RYAN. "EFFECTS OF NEONATAL 3,4-METHYLENEDIOXYMETHAMPHETAMINE ON HIPPOCAMPAL GENE EXPRESSION, SPATIAL LEARNING AND LONG-TERM POTENTIATION." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1148067008.
Full textPützer, Anika [Verfasser], Oliver T. [Gutachter] Wolf, Martin [Gutachter] Brüne, and Urs M. [Gutachter] Nater. "Olfactory cues in associative learning, emotional memory and stress / Anika Pützer ; Gutachter: Oliver T. Wolf, Martin Brüne, Urs M. Nater ; International Graduate School of Neuroscience." Bochum : Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 2020. http://d-nb.info/121786010X/34.
Full textSteffens, Adriana. "Cortisol Levels and Voltage Conditions of College Students." ScholarWorks, 2015. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/273.
Full textSanku, Rajesh Kishore kumar. "DEVELOPMENT AND BIOLOGICAL EVALUATION OF CARBONIC ANHYDRASE MODULATORS AS POTENTIAL NOOTROPICS AND ANTICANCER AGENTS." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2018. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/487142.
Full textPh.D.
Cancer is the second most common cause of death in the world. One of the objectives of this thesis is to biologically evaluate a series of anti-cancer polymeric aromatic/heterocyclic bis-sulfonamides and pyridinium sulfonamides which were synthesized from three established aminosulfonamide carbonic anhydrase (CA, EC 4.2.1.1) inhibitor pharmacophores. Testing of these novel inhibitors and their precursors against a panel of membrane-bound CA isoforms, including tumor-overexpressed CA IX and XII and cytosolic isozymes, identified nanomolar-potent inhibitors against both classes and several compounds with medium isoform selectivity. In the case of pyridinium sulfonamides we used complexes of the inhibitors with cyclodextrins or sulfocalixarene to enhance aqueous solubility for biological testing. The ability of CA inhibitors to kill tumor cells overexpressing CA IX and XII was tested under normoxic and hypoxic conditions, using 2D and 3D in vitro cellular models. The study identified a nanomolar potent PEGylated bis-sulfonamide CA inhibitor (25), as well as cyclodextrin and sulfocalixarenes complexes, which were able to significantly reduce the viability of colon HT-29, breast MDA-MB231, and ovarian SKOV-3 cancer cell lines, thus revealing the potential of polymer conjugates in CA inhibition and cancer treatment. As a different disease state yet still a concern, cognitive dysfunction markedly impacts patients with a host of psychiatric conditions including attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, autism spectrum disorder, drug addiction, schizophrenia, depression, bipolar disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and of course, Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases and other types of dementia. Another objective of this thesis was to profile several series of bis-imidazoles for physicochemical, in-vitro and in-vivo properties as potential memory and learning enhancers (nootropics). Biological testing on eight isozymes of carbonic anhydrase (CA) present in the human brain revealed compounds with nanomolar potency against at least one membrane bound, cytosolic or mitochondrial CA isozymes, combined with good physicochemical properties. We also identified lead compounds with the ability to rescue experimental animals from drug-induced memory deficits, using an optimized Novel Object Recognition Task (NORT) procedure.
Temple University--Theses
Agnes, Everton João. "Estabilidade de atividade basal, recuperação e formação de memórias em redes de neurônios." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/108536.
Full textThe brain, through complex electrical activity, is able to process different types of information, which are encoded, stored and retrieved. The processing is based on the activity of neurons that communicate primarily by discrete events in time: the action potentials. These action potentials can be observed via experimental techniques; for example, it is possible to measure the moment of action potentials (spikes) of hundreds of neurons in living mice. However, the strength of the connections among these neurons is not fully accessible, which, among other factors, preclude a more complete understanding of the neural network. Thus, computational neuroscience has an important role in understanding the processes involved in the brain, at various levels of detail. Within the field of computational neuroscience, this work presents a study on the acquisition and retrieval of memories given by spatial patterns, where space is defined by the neurons of the simulated network. First we use Hebb’s rule to build up networks of spiking neurons with static connections chosen from these spatial patterns. If memories are stored in the connections between neurons, then synaptic weights should be plastic so that learning is possible. Synaptic plasticity rules that allow memory formation (Hebbian) usually introduce instabilities on the neurons’ activity. Therefore, we developed homeostatic plasticity rules that stabilize baseline activity regimes in neural networks of spiking neurons. This thesis ends with analytical and numerical studies regarding plasticity rules that allow unsupervised learning by increasing the activity of specific neurons. We show that, with a plasticity rule based on experimental evidences, retrieval of learned patterns is possible, either with supervised or spontaneous recalling.
Takeuchi, Margareth Yuri. "Estudo do uso de mapa conceitual na promoção de aprendizagem significativa de conteúdo de neurociência na graduação." Universidade de São Paulo, 2009. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/47/47135/tde-08122009-102302/.
Full textThe study of cognitive processes provide a promising scenario to research aimed at better understanding of how the functioning of the brain may promote the education, enabling the development of new theories and approaches that encourage learning. This work will mainly occurs as the acquisition, storage, processing and retrieval of knowledge from the viewpoint of neuroscience, and how the conceptual map can map the knowledge of the individual. The conceptual map (CM) can be used both as a strategy of learning for the understanding of key concepts and relations between them and to promote critical thinking of the individual. Two-dimensional graphical representation, the CM allows visually organize the relationships between concepts. This structure from the wider concepts up to less comprehensive and relations between them can be indicated by words, phrases and symbols. It is used to facilitate the learning concepts ranking by building significant to the individual. The concepts appear in the boxes and lines that unite them: two concepts connected call proposition. During the construction of a CM, the individual exercises its ability to establish relationships between knowledge that he has already acquired in the course of learning to represent graphically the concepts of a particular subject.
Leganes, Fonteneau Mateo. "Attentional, hedonic and interoceptive correlates of implicit processes in addiction : a learning perspective." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2019. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/81901/.
Full textMatos, Pinto Thiago. "Computational models of intracellular signalling and synaptic plasticity induction in the cerebellum." Thesis, University of Hertfordshire, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2299/11560.
Full textNarula, Vaibhav, Antonio Giuliano Zippo, Alessandro Muscoloni, Gabriele Eliseo M. Biella, and Carlo Vittorio Cannistraci. "Can local-community-paradigm and epitopological learning enhance our understanding of how local brain connectivity is able to process, learn and memorize chronic pain?" Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2017. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-230803.
Full textVandenberghe, Muriel. "Les processus d'apprentissage préservés dans l'amnésie: étude neuropsychologique et cognitive." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/210585.
Full text