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Department Lecturer, MRC Centre for Clinical and Behavioural Neuroscience |
Tutor; Director of Studies in Psychology Cambridge |
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I am responsible for research collaboration between members of the
MRC Instititute for
Behavioural
and Clinical Neuroscience. Major topics
are: relating functional neuroimaging and associative learning
processes [1]; Associative models of causal learning and categorisation
and concept formation [2]; Mechanisms of self-controlled decision
making and impulsive behaviour [3].
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[1]
Turner, D.C., Aitken, M.R.F., Shanks, D.R., Sahakian, B.J., Robbins, T.W., Schwarzbauer, C., Fletcher,P.C.(2004) The role of the lateral frontal cortex in casual associative learning: exploring preventative and super-learning. Cerebral Cortex, 14, 872 –880. DOI:10.1093/cercor/bhh046
Mehta, M.A., McGowan, S. Lawrence, A.D., Aitken M.R.F., Montgomery, A.J. and Grasby, P. 2003. Systemic Sulpiride Modulates Striatal Blood Flow: Relationships to Spatial Working Memory and Planning. NeuroImage. 20(4):1982-94. DOI:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2003.08.007
Corlett, P.R., Aitken, M.R.F., Dickinson,A., Shanks,D.R., Honey,G.,Honey,R., Robbins,T.W., Bullmore, E.T., Fletcher, P.C. (2004) Prediction Error during Retrospective Revaluation of Causal Associations in Humans: fMRI Evidence in Favor of an Associative Model of Learning. Neuron, 44, 1–20.
[2]
Larkin, M.J.W., Aitken, M.R.F., and Dickinson, A., 1998. Retrospective Revaluation under positive and Negative Contingencies. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition, 24 (6), 1331-1352.
Aitken, M.R.F., 1999. Alternative Accounts are Preferable to Value Transfer Theory: Commentary on Dorrance, Kaiser and Zentall (1998). Animal Learning & Behavior, 27(4), 490-493.
Aitken, M.R.F., Larkin, M.J.W., and Dickinson, A., 2000. Super-Learning of Causal Judgements Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 53B (1) 59-81.
Aitken,
M.R.F., Larkin, M.J.W., and Dickinson, A., 2001. Re-examination
of the role of within-compound associations in the retrospective
revaluation of causal judgements. Quarterly Journal of
Experimental Psychology, 54B (1), 27-51
Aitken, M.R.F. and Dickinson, A., (2004, In Press). Simulations of a modified SOP model applied toretrospective revaluation of human causal learning. Learning and Behavior
[3]
Manes F, Sahakian B, Clark L, Rogers R, Antoun N, Aitken M, and Robbins T, 2002. Decision-making processes following damage to the prefrontal cortex Brain 125(3); 624-39
Deakin, JB, Aitken M.R.F., Dowson, J, Robbins, TW, Sahakian, BJ, 2004. Diazepam produces disinhibitory cognitive effects in male volunteers. Psychopharmacology,173, 88 –97. DOI: 10.1007/s00213-003-1695-4
Deakin, JB, Aitken M.R.F., Robbins, TW, Sahakian, BJ, (2004) Risk Taking During Decision-Making in Normal Volunteers Changes with Age. Journal of the International Neuroscience Society, 10, 590-598. DOI: 10.1017/S1355617704104104
Watkins, L.H., Sahakian, B.J., Robertson, M.M., Veale, D.M., Rogers, R.D., Pickard, K.M., Aitken M.R.F., and Robbins, T.W. (2004, In press). Executive Function in Tourette's Syndrome and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. Psychological Medicine.
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