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Dr Andrew Talk

Lecturer, School of Behavioural, Cognitive and Social Sciences

Qualifications

BA (Southwestern), MS (Rutgers), PhD (Rutgers)

Contact

Email:
Room: Psychology (S6) Room 46
Phone: 02 6773 3725 (or +61 2 6773 3725 overseas)
Fax: 02 6773 3820

Areas of Teaching

PSYC 366 Biopsychology

Research interests

I study electrophysiological and biochemical mechanisms that underlie the storage and retrieval of information in the brain. One interest has been the neural changes that occur during forms of behaviourally silent learning, such as occurs during sensory preconditioning, and latent inhibition.

Recent publications

Rawson, T., O'Kane, M., & Talk, A. (2010). The medial prefrontal cortex and memory of cue location in the rat. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 93(1), 132-136.

Talk, A., Stoll, E., & Gabriel, M. (2005). Cingulate cortical coding of context-dependent latent inhibition. Behavioral neuroscience, 119(6), 1524-1532.

Talk, A., Kashef, A., & Gabriel, M. (2004). Effects of conditioning during amygdalar inactivation on training-induced neuronal plasticity in the medial geniculate nucleus and cingulate cortex in rabbits (oryctolagus cuniculus). Behavioral neuroscience, 118(5), 944-955.

Talk, A., Kang, E., & Gabriel, M. (2004). Independent generation of theta rhythm in the hippocampus and posterior cingulate cortex. Brain Research, 1015(1-2), 15-24.