The Pavlovian Society Meeting

Louis Jolyon West Auditorium, C8-183 NPI

October 4-5, 2002

Note:  This is a tentative program.  We expect it to be essentially complete, but do not be surprised if it changes prior to the meeting.  The final program will appear here when it is available.

Friday, October 4, 2002

8:30 Continental Breakfast

9:00 Welcome And Opening Remarks

Michael S. Fanselow, UCLA

9:10 Paper Session One: Post Synaptic Mechanisms Of Conditioning

Tracey J. Shors, Chair

9:10 Postsynaptic Mechanisms Of Learning And Memory In Aplysia

David Glanzman, UCLA

9:40 Latent Inhibition Of Pavlovian Fear Conditioning Is Mediated Through NMDA Receptor Function But Is Independent Of Protein Synthesis

Thomas J. Gould & Michael Lewis, Temple University

10:10 Learning Extinction: Different Rules, Different Molecules

Mark Barad, UCLA

10:40 Break

11:00 Paper Session Two: Conditional Responses

Jeffrey Wilson, Chair

11:00 Gonadal Steroid Manipulation Of Delayed Conditioned Taste Aversion Learning In Rats

Judith G. Foy & Michael R. Foy, Loyola Marymount University

11:30 The S-R Information Stream: Where's The Filter?

Aaron Blaisdel, UCLA

12:00 Lunch

2:00 Historical Lecture

Bruce Overmier, Chair

2:00 Pavlovian Roots Of The Past And Present Missions Of The Pavlovian Society

John J. Furedy, Department Of Psychology, University Of Toronto

2:40 Symposium: Anxiety, Depression And Mood Disorders: What We Learn From Learning

Richard J. Servatius, Chair

Introduction, Richard J. Servatius, , New Jersey Medical School

2:45 Distress Affects Memory For Space And Emotion.

W. Jake Jacobs, University Of Arizona

3:20 Sex Hormones In Utero And Upon Birth Dictate How Stressful Experience Will Affect Learning In Adulthood

Tracey J. Shors, Rutgers University

4:00 Break

4:20 Cytokines And Learning: What Has Sex Have To Do With It?

Kevin D. Beck, New Jersey Health Care System

5:00 Cytokine-Purine Interactions In Reserpine-Induced Behavioral Depression In Rats

Thomas Minor, UCLA

5:40 Closing Remarks

Michael S. Fanselow, UCLA

5:50 Poster Session and Reception

Gonda (Goldschmied) Neuroscience and Genetics Research Center, 1357

Michael S. Fanselow, Chair

Saturday October 5, 2002

8:30 Continental Breakfast

9:00 Welcome And Opening Remarks

Michael Fanselow, UCLA

9:10 Paper Session Three: Pharmacological Agents As Unconditional Stimuli

Dave Riccio, Chair

9:10 Withdrawal Responses Elicited By Pharmacological Cues: Morphine-Precipitated Morphine Withdrawal

Robert V. McDonald, Marta Sokolowska And Shepard Siegel

McMaster University

9:40 Cannabinoid Agonists And Antagonists Modulate Lithium-Induced Conditioned Gaping: A Rat Model Of Nausea

Linda A. Parker, Wilfrid Laurier University

10:10 Break

10:30 Presidential Symposium: Attentional And Cognitive Aspects of Conditioning

Michael Fanselow, Chair

10:30 TBA

Robert Clark, UCSD

11:05 Associative Fear Conditioning and Cognitive Manipulations in Humans

Christof Koch, California Institute of Technology

11:40 Constraints On Cue Interaction Effects

Lorraine G. Allan & Jason M. Tangen, McMaster University

12:10 Lunch

2:10 Presidential Address

Joe Steinmetz, Chair

The Hippocampus: A Time And Place For Fear

Michael S. Fanselow, UCLA

3:10 Paper Session Four: Single Cell Activity During Conditioning

Richard Thompson, Chair

3:10 Putting Fear In Its Place: Remapping Of Hippocampal Place Cells During Contextual Fear Conditioning

Hugh Blair, UCLA

3:40 Purkinje Cell Activity In The Cerebellar Anterior Lobe During Eyeblink Conditioning In Rabbits

John T. Green & Joseph E. Steinmetz, Indiana University

4:10 Break

4:30 Paper Session Five: Organismic Factors In Learning

Tom Brown, Chair

4:30 Aged Rats Are Impaired In Trace Fear Conditioning

James R. Moyer, Jr., June Seek Choi, John P. Mcgann, & Thomas H. Brown, Yale University

5:00 A “General" Learning Factor Expressed By Individual Outbred Mice

Louis D. Matzel, Yu Ray Han, And Henya Grossman, Rutgers University

5:30 Critical Discussion: Conditional or Conditioned?

Shep Siegel, Chair

Discussants: J. Bruce Overmier & John J. Furedy

5:31 Closing Remarks, Michael S. Fanselow


Pavlovian Society Members’s Events (i.e, Registered Paid Participants)

Gonda (Goldschmied) Neuroscience and Genetics Research Center, First Floor Conference Room

Saturday, October 5, 2002

12:15 Lunch with Speakers

6:00 Reception

6:30 Awards Presentations

Michael Fanselow, Chair

6:45 Keynote Lecture

Arthur P. Arnold, UCLA

What Makes A Brain Feminine Or Masculine? It's Not Just Hormones Anymore

7:45 Dinner


The Pavlovian Society Meeting

Friday October 4, 2003 5:50

Poster Session Program

Gonda (Goldschmied) Neuroscience and Genetics Research Center, 1357

Michael S. Fanselow, Chair



1. A. Blouin, C. Cain & M. Barad, University of California, Los Angeles. Two forms of CS-alone learning, latent inhibition and novel object recognition, depend on L-type voltage-gated calcium channels

2. C. Cain, & M. Barad, University of California, Los Angeles. Blockade Of L-Type Voltage Gated Calcium Channels Prevents Conditional Fear Extinction And Other Forms Of Inhibitory CS-Alone Learning.

3. L.H. Corbit and B.W. Balleine, University of California, Los Angeles. Pavlovian and instrumental incentive processes have dissociable effects on the components of a heterogeneous instrumental chain.

4. N. Winterbauer & B. W. Balleine, University of California, Los Angeles. The motivational specificity of second-order stimuli.

5. D. P. Miller, A. Chapleau, & M. T. Allen, Carthage College & College Of Charleston. Serotonergic 1A Agonist 8-OH-DPAT As Well As Non-Selective Hippocampal Region Lesions Disrupt A Learned Irrelevance-Related Retardation Effect In AppetitiveSignaled Barpress Conditioning In Rats.

6. D. L. Stote, T. F. Newton, A. D. Kalechstein, & J. M. Roll, University of California, Los Angeles. Is Priming By Cocaine Context Dependent?

7. D.H. Lindquist And T.H. Brown, Yale University. Temporal Learning In Fear Conditioned Rats Revealed Through Facilitation Of The Rat Eyeblink Reflex

8. M.E. Stanton, M.G. Caron, & W.C. Wetsel, University Of Delaware, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, & Duke University Medical Center. Dopamine-Transporter Knockout Mice Show Normal Acquisition But Impaired Reversal Of Discriminative Eyeblink Conditioning.

9. M. J. Sanders, & M. S. Fanselow, University of California, Los Angeles. The Effects Of Selective And Non-Selective Opioid Antagonists On Fear Conditioning In C57bl/6 Mice

10. R. M. Carter, C. Hofstoetter, & C. Koch. California Institute of Technology. Working Memory And Fear Conditioning.

11. K-H. Lee, R. A. Ram, R. F. Thompson, University of Southern California. Effect Of Lesioning Interpositus Nucleus After Eyeblink Conditioning In Mice.

12. I. Y. C. Liu, A. Kwan & R. F. Thompson, University of Southern California. Activation Of Trk Receptors Rises In The Hippocampal CA1 Area 24 Hours After Fear Conditioning

13. K. M. Christian, & R. F. Thompson, University of Southern California. Long-Term Maintenance Of An Associative Memory Trace In The Interpositus Nucleus Of The Cerebellum.

14. S. Mojtahedian, S.A. Kanzawa, & R. F. Thompson, & D.G. Lavond. University of Southern California. Effects Of Muscimol Injections On Conditioned Eyeblink And Leg Flexion Responses In The Cerebellar Interpositus Nucleus.

15, A. M. Poulos & R. F. Thompson, University of Southern California. Classically Conditioned Alterations Of Intra-Cerebellar Excitability

16. C. J. Han, L. van Trigt, R. Mongeau, D. J. Anderson, & C. Koch, C. California Institute of Technology, The anterior cingulate cortex in trace fear conditioning.

17. B. Godsil & M. S. Fanselow, University of California, Los Angeles. Modulation of an activity response by fear in the rat.

18. J. J. Quinn, M. R. Tinsley, P. M. Diggins, F. Loya, & M. S. Fanselow, University of California, Los Angeles. Muscarinic And Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Involvement In Trace And Contextual Fear Conditioning In Mice.

19. Y. Ezzeddine, and D. L. Glanzman, University of California, Los Angeles. Postsynaptic Mechanisms Of Long-Term Habituation Of The Gill-Withdrawal Reflex In Aplysia.

20. B.J. Wiltgen, B. W. Balleine, M. S. Fanselow, B. Vissel & M. Mayford. University of California, Los Angeles, Salk Institute, & Scripts Institute.Contingency Degradation, Outcome Devaluation and Pavlovian-Instrumental Transfer in CA1 GluR2 Knockouts and Striatum Specific CAMKII Mutants.

21. C. D. Bryant, C. J. Evans, & M. S. Fanselow, University of California, Los Angeles. Context-Dependent Associative Tolerance To Morphine And Fentanyl In C57bl/6j Mice.

22. G. Gale & M. Fanselow, University of California, Los Angeles. Specificity of amnesia for Pavlovian fear conditioning following memory reactivation.