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Dr E. Clea Warburton Visual recognition and spatial memory Full contact details |
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Research
Our research focuses upon the brain regions involved in visual recognition and spatial memory, particularly the perirhinal and prefrontal cortices and the hippocampus, and the cellular and molecular mechanisms that may underlie memory processes within these regions.
Anatomy department website | Further information on the work of the group may be found at the MRC Centre for Synaptic Plasticity website. |
- Neural regions involved in processing visuo-spatial information
- Neuronal plasticity underlying recognition in the perirhinal cortex
- Role of peririhinal and prefrontal cortex in recognition memory
Developments in integrating the behavioural assessment of learning and memory with advances in pharmacology and molecular biology to further understand the cellular mechanisms underlying learning and memory processes.
Behavioural assessment of learning and memory, immunocytochemistry, fluorescence microscopy
Fluorescence microscope/automated counting software, behavioural testing apparatus
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Grants and funding
MRC, Wellcome Trust, BBSRCCollaborations
At the University of Bristol, UK:- Professor Malcolm Brown
- Professor Zafar Bashir
- Professor James Uney
- Dr Elek Molnar
Teaching
- Level 1: Techniques in Neuroscience Unit
- Level 2 : Lectures within the Central Nervous System Unit
- Level 3: Seminars within the Neural Bases of Learning and Memory Unit
- Seminars within the Brain Functions and Disorders Unit
Publications, recommended reading and further information
Warburton,EC, Koder,TJ, Cho,K, Massey,PV, Duguid,GL, Barker,GRI, (Aggleton,J),
Bashir,ZI & Brown,MW
Cholinergic neurotransmission is essential for perirhinal cortical plasticity
and recognition memory
Neuron (2003) 38, 987 - 996
Massey,PV, Warburton,EC, Wynick,D, Brown,MW & Bashir,ZI
Galanin regulates spatial memory but not visual recognition or synaptic
plasticity in perirhinal cortex.
Neuropharmacology (2003) 44, 40 - 48
Warburton,EC, (Baird,AL, Morgan,A, Muir,JL & Aggleton,JP)
The cojoint importance of the hippocampus and anterior thalamic nuclei
for allocentric spatial learning.
J. Neuroscience (2001) 21, 7323 - 7330
A.Parker, E.Wilding and T.Bussey (eds.)
A role for extra-perirhinal cortices in recognition memory? Evidence
from neuronal recording and immunohistochemical imaging studies'
Chapter(s) in The Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory Encoding and Retrieval (2002)
, Psychology Press
| Further information on the work of the group may be found at the MRC Centre for Synaptic Plasticity website. |
Projects - Diseases - Processes - Techniques - Equipment - Funding - Collaborations - Teaching - Group members - Publications & further information