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Dr. Steve Berry
Professor of Psychology

University Affiliations
Dept. of Psychology Psychology Faculty
Brain & Cog Sci Program


Education
Ph. D., 1976
University of Connecticut

Stephen D. Berry, Ph. D.
Department of Psychology
216 Psychology Building
Miami University
Oxford, Ohio 45056

(513) 529-6941 (voice)
(513) 529-2420 (fax)

berrysd@muohio.edu (e-mail)

Research Interests
Brain substrates of learning and memory. Research deals specifically with changes in field potentials and single cell activity during acquisition of a learned motor response, concentrating on areas in the brain related to motivational properties of stimuli and response control systems. Recent experiments have evaluated the effects of aging, psychoactive drugs and a brain-computer interface on both behavioral learning, and electrophysiological activity in animals.
Representative Publications

Asaka, Y., Mauldin, K.N., Griffin, A.L., Seager, M.A., Shurell, E., & Berry, S.D. (2005). Nonpharmacological amelioration of age-related learning deficits: The impact of hippocampal theta-triggered training.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 102, 13284-13288.

Griffin, A.L., Asaka, Y., Darling, R., & Berry, S.D. (2004). Theta contingent trial presentation accelerates learning rate and enhances hippocampal plasticity during trace eyeblink conditioning. Behavioral Neuroscience, 118, 403-411.

Griffin, A.L., & Berry, S.D. (2004). Inactivation of the anterior cingulate cortex impairs extinction of rabbit jaw movement conditioning and prevents extinction-related inhibition of hippocampal activity. Learning & Memory, 11, 604-610.

Seager, M.A., Johnson, L.D., Chabot, E.S., Asaka, Y., & Berry, S.D. (2002). Oscillatory brain states and learning: Impact of hippocampal theta-contingent training. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 99, 1616-1620.

Asaka, Y., Griffin, A.L., & Berry, S.D. (2002). Reversible septal inactivation disrupts hippocampal slow wave and unit activity and impairs trace conditioning in rabbits. Behavioral Neuroscience, 116, 434-442.

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