1. Attention in learning and action

Review paper:

• Holland, P.C., & Maddux, J.-M. (2010). Brain systems of attention in associative learning. In Mitchell, C.J., & LePelley, M.E. Attention and learning. Oxford: Oxford University Press.[email for pdf]

Selected other papers:

• Lee, H.J., Groshek, F., Cantalini, J.P., Petrovich, G. D., Gallagher, M., and Holland, P.C. (2005). Role of amygdalo-nigral circuitry in conditioning of a visual stimulus paired with food. Journal of Neuroscience, 25, 3881-3888. [PDF]
• Holland, P.C., & Gallagher, M. (2006). Different roles for amygdala central nucleus and substantia innominata in the surprise-induced enhancement of learning. Journal of Neuroscience, 26, 3791-3797. [PDF] [PDF2]
• Lee, H.J., Youn, J.M., O, M.J., Gallagher, M., & Holland, P.C. (2006). Role of substantia nigra-amygdala connections in surprise-induced enhancement of attention. Journal of Neuroscience, 26, 6077-6081.  [PDF]
• Maddux, J.-M., Kerfoot, E.C., Chatterjee, S., & Holland, P.C. (2007). Dissociation of attention in learning and action: Effects of lesions of the amygdala central nucleus, medial prefrontal cortex, and posterior parietal cortex. Behavioral Neuroscience, 121, 63-79. [email for pdf]
• Lee, H.J., Youn, J.M., Gallagher, M., & Holland, P.C. (2008). Temporally-limited role of substantia nigra-central amygdala connections in surprise-induced enhancement of learning. European Journal of Neuroscience, 27, 3043-3049. [PDF]
• Calu, D.J., Roesch, M.R., Haney, R.Z., Holland, P.C., & Schoenbaum, G. (2010). Neural correlates of variations in event processing during learning in central nucleus of amygdala. Neuron, 68, 991-1001. [PDF]
• Lee, H.J., Gallagher, M., & Holland, P.C. (2010). The central amygdala projection to the substantia nigra reflects prediction error information in appetitive conditioning. Learning and Memory, 17, 531-538 [PDF]
• Lee, H.J., Wheeler, D.S., & Holland, P.C. (2011). Interactions between amygdala central nucleus and the ventral tegmental area in the acquisition of conditioned cue-directed behavior in rats. European Journal of Neuroscience, 33, 1876-1884. [PDF]
• Chang, S.E., McDannald, M.A., Wheeler, D.S., & Holland, P.C. (2012).  The effects of basolateral amygdala lesions on unblocking. Behavioral Neuroscience, 126, 279-287. [email for pdf]
• Esber, G.R., Roesch, M.R., Bali, S., Trageser, J., Bissonette, G.B., Puche. A.C., Holland, P.C., & Schoenbaum, G. (2012). Attention-related Pearce-Kay-Hall signals in basolateral amygdala require the midbrain dopaminergic system. Biological Psychiatry, in press.

2. Role of learning processes in feeding and motivated behavior.

 Review paper:

• Holland, P.C., and Petrovich, G.D. (2005).  A neural systems analysis of the potentiation of feeding by conditioned stimuli. Physiology and Behavior, 86, 747-761. [PDF]

Selected other papers:            

• Petrovich, G.P., Holland, P.C., & Gallagher, M. (2005). Amygdalar and prefrontal pathways to the lateral hypothalamus are activated by a learned cue that stimulates eating. Journal of Neuroscience, 25, 8295-8302.[PDF]
• El-Amamy, H., & Holland, P.C. (2007).  Dissociable effects of disconnecting amygdala central nucleus from the ventral tegmental area or substantia nigra on learned orienting and incentive motivation. European Journal of Neuroscience, 25, 1557-1567.  [PDF]
• Petrovich, G.D., Ross, C.A., Holland, P.C., & Gallagher, M. (2007).  Medial prefrontal cortex is necessary for an appetitive contextual conditioned stimulus to promote eating in sated rats. Journal of Neuroscience, 27, 6436-6441.  [PDF]
• Crombag, H.S., Sutton, J.M., Takamiya, K., Lee, H.K., Holland, P.C., Gallagher, M., & Huganir, R.L. (2008). A role for AMPA GluR1 phosphorylation in the modulatory effects of appetitive reward cues on goal-directed behavior. European Journal of Neuroscience, 27, 3284-3291.  [PDF]
• Johnson, A.W., Chen, X., Crombag, H.S., Zhang, C., Smith, D.R., Shokat, K.M., Gallagher, M., Holland, P.C., & Ginty, D.D. (2008). The BDNF receptor TrkB is critical to the acquisition but not expression of conditioned incentive value. European Journal of Neuroscience, 28, 997-1002.[PDF]
• Johnson, A.W., Canter, R., Gallagher, M., & Holland, P.C. (2009). Assessing the role of the growth hormone secretagogue receptor in motivational learning and food intake. Behavioral Neuroscience, 123,1058-1065. [email for pdf]
• Petrovich, G.D., Ross, C.A., Mody, P., Holland, P.C., & Gallagher, M. (2009). Central, but not basolateral amygdala, is critical for control of feeding by aversive learned cues. Journal of Neuroscience, 29, 15205-15212. [PDF]
• Galarce, E.M., McDannald, M.A., & Holland, P.C. (2010).  The basolateral amygdala mediates the effects of cues associated with meal interruption on feeding behavior. Brain Research, 1350, 112-122. [PDF]
• Chang, S.E., Wheeler, D.S., & Holland, P.C. (2012). Roles of nucleus accumbens and basolateral amygdala in autoshaped lever pressing. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 97, 441-451. [PDF]
• Sherwood, A., Wosiski-Kuhn, M., Nguyen, T, Holland, P.C.,Lakaye, B, Adamantidis, A., & Johnson, A.W. (2012).  The role of melanin concentrating hormone in conditioned reward learning. European Journal of Neuroscience, in press. 

 3. Event representation in associative learning

Review papers:

• Holland, P.C., & Gallagher, M. (2004). Amygdala-frontal interactions and reward expectancy. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 14, 148-155. [PDF]
• Holland, P.C., & Wheeler, D.S.  (2008). Representation-mediated food aversions. In Reilly, S., & Schachtman, T. (Eds.),  Conditioned  Taste Aversion: Behavioral and Neural Processes, pp. 196-225. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [email for pdf]

Selected other papers:

• Kerfoot, E.C., Agarwal, I., Lee, H.J., & Holland, P.C. (2007). Control of appetitive and aversive taste-reactivity responses by an auditory conditioned stimulus in a devaluation task: a FOS and behavioral analysis. Learning and Memory, 14, 581-589. [PDF]
• Furuyashiki, T., Holland, P.C., & Gallagher, M. (2008). Rat orbitofrontal cortex separately encodes response and outcome information during performance of goal-directed behavior. Journal of Neuroscience, 28, 5127-5138.[PDF]
• Holland, P.C., Lasseter, H., & Agarwal, I. (2008).  Amount of training and cue-evoked taste-reactivity responding in reinforcer devaluation.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 34, 119-132. [email for pdf]
• Wheeler, D.S., Sherwood, A., & Holland, P.C. (2008). Excitatory and inhibitory learning with absent stimuli. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 34, 247-255. [email for pdf]
• Jhou, T.C., Fields, H.L., Baxter, M.G., Saper, C.B., & Holland, P.C. (2009). The rostromedial tegmental nucleus (RMTg), a GABAergic afferent to midbrain dopamine neurons, selectively encodes aversive stimuli and inhibits motor responses. Neuron, 61, 788-800. [PDF]
• Johnson, A.W., Gallagher, M., & Holland, P.C. (2009). The basolateral amygdala is critical to the expression of Pavlovian and instrumental outcome-specific reinforcer devaluation effects, Journal of Neuroscience, 29, 696-704. [PDF]
• Saddoris, M.P., Holland, P.C., &  Gallagher, M. (2009).  Associatively-learned representations of taste outcomes activate taste-encoding neural ensembles in gustatory cortex. Journal of Neuroscience,  29, 15386-15396.  [PDF]
• Crombag, H.S., Johnson, A.J., Zimmer, A.M., Zimmer, A., & Holland, P.C. (2010). Deficits in sensory-specific devaluation task performance following genetic deletions of cannabinoid (CB1) receptor. Learning & Memory, 17, 807-811. [PDF]
• Asem, J.S.A., & Holland, P.C. (2012). The effect of high-fat diet on extinction and renewal. Behavioral Neuroscience, 126, 493-498.  [email for pdf]
• Purgert, R.J., Wheeler, D.S., McDannald, M.A., & Holland, P.C. (2012). Role of amygdala central nucleus in aversive learning produced by shock or by unexpected omission of food. Journal of Neuroscience, 32, 2461-2472.  [PDF]

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