Student Research Projects:

Mitchum, K. (2005). Fornix and Caudate Lesioned Rat Performance on a Visual Discrimination Task.  Senior Honors Thesis, Neuroscience Program, Westmont College, Santa Barbara, CA.

 

Bocaletti, J. (2003). Non-Selective Dopamine Antagonist Blocks Learning in a Stimulus-Response Task. Senior Honors Thesis, Neuroscience Program, Westmont College, Santa Barbara, CA.

 

Bostock, K. (2003). The Effects of Hypoxia on the Striatum and Cerebellum: A Dual Task Experiment. Senior Research Project, Neuroscience Program, Westmont College, Santa Barbara, CA.

 

Rausch, E. (2002). Single Dissociation Involving the Hippocampus and Striatum Using Auditory Stimuli. Senior Honors Thesis, Neuroscience Program, Westmont College, Santa Barbara, CA.

 

Bocaletti, J., Bostock, K., Pahklevanyan, A., and Fikes, T. G. (2002). Dorsal Striatum Lesions Impair Category Learning in Rats: Implications for a Dopaminergic Plasticity Model.  Poster presented at the 38th Western Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Santa Barbara, CA.

 

Rausch, E., Bocaletti, J., Pahklevanyan, A., and Fikes, T. G. (2001). Perceptual Categorization Learning in Rats: Different Roles of the Striatum and Hippocampus. Poster presented at the Undergraduate Research Symposium, Westmont College, Santa Barbara, CA.

 

Bostock, K. & Fikes, T. G. (2001). Reinforcement and Category Learning in Rats: Implications for a Dopaminergic Plasticity Model. Poster presented at the 37th Western Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society. Santa Barbara, CA.

 

Bocaletti, J., Wright, E., Pakhlevanyan, A., Fikes, T. G. (2001). Circling behavior induced by apomorphine hydrochloride in substantia nigra-lesioned rats. Poster presented at the Undergraduate Research Symposium, Westmont College, Santa Barbara, CA.

 

Iden, S. and Fikes, T. G. (2000). Category Learning and Habit Formation in Rats: The Role of the Caudate Nucleus. Poster presented at the 29th Annual Western Psychology Conference for Undergraduate Research, Santa Clara, CA.

 

Iden, S. (2000). Category Learning and Habit Formation in Rats: The Role of the Caudate Nucleus. Senior Honors Thesis, Neuroscience Program, Westmont College, Santa Barbara, CA.

 


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