Elisabeth A. Murray

Chief, Section on Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Recent publications by E. A. Murray and colleagues:

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Murray EA, and Izquierdo A (2007) Orbitofrontal cortex and amygdala contributions to affect and action in primates. To appear in: Schoenbaum G, Gottfried J, Murray EA, and Ramus S (Eds) Linking Affect to Action: Critical Contributions of the Orbitofrontal Cortex, New York Academy of Sciences, in press. View pdf  

Murray EA (2007) The amygdala, reward and emotion. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 11:489-497. View pdf  

Izquierdo A, Newman TK, Higley JD, and Murray EA (2007) Genetic modulation of cognitive flexibility and socioemotional behavior in rhesus monkeys. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 104: 14128-14133. View pdf  

Murray EA, O'Doherty JP, and Schoenbaum G (2007) What we know (and don't know) after 20 years of investigating orbitofrontal function across species. Journal of Neuroscience, 27: 8166-8169.

Murray EA, Bussey TJ, and Saksida LM (2007) Visual perception and memory: a new view of medial temporal lobe function in primates and rodents. Annual Review of Neuroscience, 30: 99-122. View pdf  

Izquierdo A and Murray EA (2007) Selective bilateral amygdala lesions in rhesus monkeys fail to disrupt object reversal learning. Journal of Neuroscience, 27: 1054-1062.

Chudasama Y, Kralik JD, and Murray EA (2007) Rhesus monkeys with orbital prefrontal cortex lesions can learn to inhibit prepotent responses in the reversed-reward contingency task. Cerebral Cortex, 17: 1154-1159. (Published online June 2006)

Saksida LM, Bussey TJ, Buckmaster CA, and Murray EA (2007) Impairment and facilitation of transverse patterning after lesions of the perirhinal cortex and hippocampus, respectively. Cerebral Cortex, 17: 108-115. (Published online 2006).

Saksida LM, Bussey TJ, Buckmaster CA, and Murray EA (2006) No effect of hippocampal lesions on perirhinal cortex-dependent feature-ambiguous visual discriminations. Hippocampus, 16: 421-430.

Barense MD, Bussey TJ, Lee ACH, Rogers TT, Davies RR, Saksida LM, Murray EA, and Graham KS (2005) Functional specialization in the human medial temporal lobe. Journal of Neuroscience, 25: 10239-10246.

Izquierdo A and Murray EA (2005) Opposing effects of amygdala and orbital prefrontal cortex lesions on the extinction of instrumental responding in macaque monkeys. European Journal of Neuroscience, 22: 2341-2346. View pdf  

Izquierdo A, Suda RK, and Murray EA (2005) Comparison of bilateral orbital prefrontal cortex lesions and amygdala lesions on emotional responses in rhesus monkeys. Journal of Neuroscience, 25: 8534-8542. View pdf  

Bussey TJ, Saksida LM, and Murray EA (2005) The perceptual-mnemonic/feature-conjunction model of perirhinal cortex function. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 58B: 269-282.

Murray EA, Graham KS, and Gaffan D (2005) Perirhinal cortex and its neighbors in the medial temporal lobe: contributions to memory and perception. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 58B: 378-396.

Hampton RR, Hampstead BM, and Murray EA (2005) Rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) demonstrate robust memory for what and where, but not when, in an open-field test of memory. Learning and Motivation, 36: 245-259. View pdf  

Brasted PJ, Bussey TJ, Murray EA, and Wise SP (2005) Conditional motor learning in the nonspatial domain: effects of errorless learning and the contribution of the fornix to one-trial learning. Behavioral Neuroscience, 119: 662-676. View pdf  

Lee ACH, Bussey TJ, Murray EA, Saksida LM, Epstein R, Kapur N, Hodges JR, and Graham KS (2005) Perceptual deficits in amnesia: challenging the medial temporal lobe `mnemonic' view. Neuropsychologia, 43: 1-11.

Murray EA, Kralik JD, and Wise SP (2005) Learning to inhibit prepotent responses: successful performance by rhesus macaques, Macaca mulatta, on the reversed-contingency task. Animal Behaviour, 69: 991-998. View pdf  

Murray EA and Wise SP (2004) What, if anything, is the medial temporal lobe, and how can the amygdala be part of it if there is no such thing? Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 82: 178-198. View pdf  

Izquierdo A, Suda RK, and Murray EA (2004) Bilateral orbital prefrontal cortex lesions in rhesus monkeys disrupt choices guided by both reward value and reward contingency. Journal of Neuroscience, 24: 7540-7548. View pdf  

Hampton RR, Zivin A, and Murray EA (2004) Rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) discriminate between knowing and not knowing and collect information as needed before acting. Animal Cognition, 7: 239-254.

Liu Z, Richmond BJ, Murray EA, Saunders RC, Steenrod S, Stubblefield BK, Montague DM, and Ginns EI (2004) DNA targeting of rhinal cortex D2 receptor protein reversibly blocks learning of cues that predict reward. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 101: 12336-12341. View pdf  

Hampton RR, Buckmaster CA, Anuszkiewicz-Lundgren D, and Murray EA (2004) A method for making selective lesions of the hippocampus in macaque monkeys using NMDA and a longitudinal surgical approach. Hippocampus, 14: 9-18.

Hampton RR, Hampstead BM, and Murray EA (2004) Selective hippocampal damage in rhesus monkeys impairs spatial memory in an open-field test. Hippocampus, 14: 808-818.

Izquierdo A and Murray EA (2004) Combined unilateral lesions of the amygdala and orbital prefrontal cortex impair affective processing in rhesus monkeys. Journal of Neurophysiology, 91: 2023-2039.

Murray EA and Gabrieli JDE (2004) Editorial Overview. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 14:135-138.

Bussey TJ, Saksida LM, and Murray EA (2003) Impairments in visual discrimination after perirhinal cortex lesions: testing `declarative' versus `perceptual-mnemonic' views of perirhinal cortex function. European Journal of Neuroscience, 17: 649-660.

Murray EA (2003) Temporal Cortex. In Nadel, L. (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science. Vol. 4, pp. 353 - 360. London: Nature Publishing Group.

Brasted PJ, Bussey TJ, Murray EA, and Wise SP (2003) A role of the hippocampal system in learning arbitrary associations beyond the spatial domain: evidence from nonhuman primates. Brain, 126: 1202-1223. View pdf  

Hadfield WS, Baxter MG, and Murray EA (2003) Effects of combined and separate removals of rostral dorsal superior temporal sulcus cortex and perirhinal cortex on visual recognition memory in rhesus monkeys. Journal of Neurophysiology, 90: 2419-2427.

Bussey TJ, Saksida LM, and Murray EA (2002) The role of perirhinal cortex in memory and perception: Conjunctive representations for object identification. In M.P. Witter and F.G. Wouterlood (eds.): The Parahippocampal Region: Organization and role in cognitive functions, Oxford Univ Press, Oxford, pp. 239-254.

Murray EA, Brasted PJ, and Wise SP (2002) Arbitrary sensorimotor mapping and the life of primates. In LR Squire and DL Schacter (eds.): The Neuropsychology of Memory. 3ed., Guilford Press, New York, pp. 339-348.

Brasted PJ, Bussey TJ, Wise SP, and Murray EA (2002) Fornix transection impairs conditional visuomotor learning in tasks involving nonspatially differentiated responses. Journal of Neurophysiology, 87: 631-633.

Bussey TJ, Wise SP, and Murray EA (2002) Interaction of ventral and orbital prefrontal cortex with inferotemporal cortex in conditional visuomotor learning. Behavioral Neuroscience, 116: 703-715.

Baxter MG and Murray EA (2002) The amygdala and reward. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 3: 563-573. View pdf  

Hampton RR and Murray EA (2002) Learning of discriminations impaired, but generalization to altered views intact, in monkeys with perirhinal cortex removals. Behavioral Neuroscience, 116: 363-377.

Bussey TJ, Saksida LM, and Murray EA (2002) Perirhinal cortex resolves feature ambiguity in complex visual discriminations. European Journal of Neuroscience, 15: 365-374. View pdf  

Bussey TJ, Wise SP, and Murray EA (2001) The role of the ventral and orbital prefrontal cortex in conditional visuomotor learning and strategy use in rhesus monkeys. Behavioral Neuroscience, 115: 971-982.

Baxter MG and Murray EA (2001) Effects of hippocampal lesions on delayed nonmatching-to-sample in monkeys: a Reply to Zola and Squire (2001). Hippocampus, 11: 201-203.

Murray EA and Richmond BJ (2001) Role of perirhinal cortex in object perception, memory, and associations. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 11: 188-193.

Goulet S and Murray EA (2001) Neural substrates of crossmodal association memory in monkeys: the amygdala versus the anterior rhinal cortex. Behavioral Neuroscience, 115: 271-284.

Murray EA (2001) Recognition memory (in primates), neural basis of. International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, 19: 12829-12832.

Baxter MG and Murray EA (2001) Impairments in visual discrimination learning and recognition memory produced by neurotoxic lesions of rhinal cortex in rhesus monkeys . European Journal of Neuroscience, 13: 1228-1238. View pdf  

Baxter MG and Murray EA (2001) Opposite relationship of hippocampal and rhinal cortex damage to delayed nonmatching-to-sample deficits in monkeys. Hippocampus, 11: 61-71.

Murray EA and Bussey TJ (2001) Consolidation and the medial temporal lobe revisited: methodological considerations. Hippocampus, 11: 1-7.

Liu Z, Murray EA, and Richmond BJ (2000) Learning motivational significance of visual cues for reward schedules requires rhinal cortex . Nature Neuroscience, 3: 1307-1315. View pdf  

Murray EA, Bussey, TJ, Hampton, RR, and Saksida, LM (2000) The parahippocampal region and object identification. Prepared for M. Witter (ed.): The Parahippocampal Region: Implications for Neurological and Psychiatric Diseases. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 911: 166-174.

Baxter MG, Parker A, Lindner CCC, Izquierdo AD, and Murray EA (2000) Control of response selection by reinforcer value requires interaction of amygdala and orbital frontal cortex. Journal of Neuroscience, 20: 4311-4319. View pdf  

Wise SP and Murray EA (2000) Arbitrary associations among antecedents and actions. Trends in Neurosciences,23: 271-276.

Baxter MG and Murray EA (2000) Reinterpreting the behavioral effects of amygdala lesions in nonhuman primates. Prepared for JP Aggleton (ed.): The Amygdala: A Functional Analysis, Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford,pp 545-568.

Murray EA, Bussey TJ, and Wise SP (2000) Role of prefrontal cortex in a network for arbitrary visuomotor mapping. Experimental Brain Research, 133: 114-129.

Murray EA (2000) Memory for objects in nonhuman primates. In M Gazzaniga (ed.): The Cognitive Neurosciences, 2ed., MIT Press, Cambridge, pp 753-763.

Other publications that may be of interest:

Meunier M, Bachevalier J, Murray EA, Malkova L, and Mishkin M (1999) Effects of aspiration versus neurotoxic lesions of the amygdala on emotional responses in monkeys. European Journal of Neuroscience, 11: 4403-4418.

Wise SP, and Murray EA (1999) Role of the hippocampal system in conditional motor learning: mapping antecedents to action. Hippocampus, 9: 101-117.

Murray EA and Bussey TJ (1999) Perceptual-mnemonic functions of the perirhinal cortex . Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 3: 142-151. View pdf  

Murray EA and Mishkin M (1998) Object recognition and location memory in monkeys with excitotoxic lesions of the amygdala and hippocampus . Journal of Neuroscience, 18: 6568-6582. View pdf  

Thornton JA, Rothblat LA, and Murray EA (1997) Rhinal cortex removal produces amnesia for preoperatively learned discrimination problems but fails to disrupt postoperative acquisition and retention in rhesus monkeys. Journal of Neuroscience, 17: 8536-8549.

Malkova L, Gaffan D, and Murray EA (1997) Excitotoxic lesions of the amygdala fail to produce impairment in visual learning for auditory secondary reinforcement but interfere with reinforcer devaluation effects in rhesus monkeys. Journal of Neuroscience, 17: 6011-6020.

Buckley MJ, Gaffan D, and Murray EA (1997) A functional double-dissociation between two inferior temporal cortical areas: perirhinal cortex vs middle temporal gyrus. Journal of Neurophysiology, 77: 587-598.

Meunier M, Bachevalier J, Mishkin M, and Murray EA (1993) Effects on visual recognition of combined and separate lesions of the entorhinal and perirhinal cortex in rhesus monkeys. Journal of Neuroscience 13: 5418-5432.