Peer-reviewed publications
Esber, G. R., Usypchuk, A., Saini, G. K., Deroche, M., & Iordanova, M. D. (2024). OFC neurons do not represent the negative value of a conditioned inhibitor. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 207, 107869, doi: 10.1016/j.nlm.2023.107869. [PubMed] [DOI]
Iordanova, M. D. (2023). Cortico-amygdala regulation of fear propagation. Neuropsychopharmacology, 48, 48-48.
Lay, B. P. P., Choudhury, R., Esber, G. R., & Iordanova, M. D. (2023). Persistent disruption of overexpectation learning after inactivation of the lateral orbitofrontal cortex in male rats. Psychopharmacology, 240(3), 501-511, doi: 10.1007/s00213-022-06198-2. [PubMed] [DOI]
Lay, B. P. P., Koya, E., Hope, B. T., Esber, G. R., & Iordanova, M. D. (2023). The recruitment of a neuronal ensemble in the central nucleus of the amygdala during the first extinction episode has persistent effects on extinction expression. Biological Psychiatry, 93(4), 300-308., doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2022.07.021. [PubMed] [DOI]
Roque, P. S., Perez, C. T., Hooshmandi, M., Wong, C., Eslamizade, M. J., et al. (2023). Parvalbumin interneuron loss mediates repeated anesthesia-induced memory deficits in mice. The Journal of Clinical Investigation, 133(2), doi: 10.1172/JCI159344. [PubMed] [DOI]
Usypchuk, A. A., Maes, E. J. P., Lozzi, M., Gardner, M. P. H., & Schoenbaum, G. (2022). Rewarding value or prediction error: Settling the debate over the role of dopamine in reward learning. BioRxiv, doi: 10.1101/2022.11.06.515338. [DOI]
Gostolupce, D., Lay, B. P. P., Maes, E. J. P., & Iordanova, M. D. (2022). Understanding associative learning through higher-order conditioning. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 16, 845616, doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2022.845616. [PubMed] [DOI]
Lay, B. P. P., Koya, E., Hope, B. T., Esber, G. R., & Iordanova, M. D. (2022). A critical contribution of a sparse neuronal ensemble in the amygdala central nucleus to extinction. BioRxiv, doi: 10.1101/2022.03.02.481339. [DOI]
Gostolupce, D., Iordanova, M. D., & Lay, B. P. P. (2021). Mechanisms of higher-order learning in the amygdala. Behavioural Brain Research, 414, 113435, doi: 10.1016/j.bbr.2021.113435. [PubMed] [DOI]
Kang, M., Reverte, I., Volz, S., Kaufman, K., Fevola, S., Matarazzo, A., & Iordanova, M. D. (2021). Agency rescues competition for credit assignment among predictive cues from adverse learning conditions. Scientific Reports, 11(1), 16187, doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-95541-2. [PubMed] [DOI]
Bradfield, L. A., & Iordanova, M. D. (2021). Threat perception: Fear and the retrorubal field. Current Biology, 31(10), R469-R471, doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.03.065. [PubMed] [DOI]
Iordanova, M. D., Yau, J. O., McDannald, M. A., & Corbit, L. H. (2021). Neural substrates of appetitive and aversive prediction error. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 123, 337-351, doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2020.10.029. [PubMed] [DOI]
Manning, E. E., Bradfield, L. A., & Iordanova, M. D. (2021). Adaptive behaviour under conflict: Deconstructing extinction, reversal, and active avoidance learning. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 120, 526-536, doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2020.09.030. [PubMed] [DOI]
Lay, B. P. P., Frate, M., Lozzi, M., Esber, G. R., & Iordanova, M. D. (2020). Female rats take longer than male rats to update reward expectancies when outcomes are worse than expected. Behavioral Neuroscience, 134(5), 417, doi: 10.1037/bne0000396. [PDF] [DOI]
Lay, B. P. P., Pitaru, A., Boulianne, N., Esber, G. R., Iordanova, M. D. 2020. Different methods of fear reduction are supported by distinct cortical substrates. eLife, 9:e55294. doi:10.7554/eLife.55294. [PubMed] [DOI]
Maes EJP, Sharpe MJ, Gardner MPH, Chang CY, Schoenbaum G, Iordanova MD (2020). Causal evidence supporting the proposal that dopamine transients function as temporal difference prediction errors. Nature Neuroscience . [PDF] [DOI]
Iordanova MD (2019). Dopamine signalling is critical for supporting cue-driven behavioral control. Neuroscience. [PubMed] [DOI]
Mahmud A, Petrov P, Esber G, Iordanova MD (2019). The serial blocking effect: A tesbed for temporal difference reinforcement learning. Scientific Reports, 9(1), 5962, doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-42244-4. [PubMed] [DOI]
Iordanova MD (2018) Thought control with the dopamine transient. Learn Behav [Epub before print]. [PubMed] [DOI]
Lay BPP, Nicolosi M, Usypchuk AA, Esber GR, Iordanova MD (2018) Dissociation of appetitive overexpectation and extinction in the infralimbic cortex. Cereb Cortex [Epub before print]. [PubMed] [DOI]
Iordanova MD, Deroche ML, Esber GR, Schoenbaum G (2016) Neural correlates of two different types of extinction learning in the amygdala central nucleus. Nature Communications 7:12330. [PubMed] [DOI]
Schoenbaum G, Esber GR, Iordanova MD (2013) Dopamine signals mimic reward prediction errors. Nature Neuroscience 16:777-779. [PubMed] [DOI]
Honey RC, Iordanova MD, Good M (2014) Associative structures in animal learning: dissociating elemental and configural processes. Neurobiol Learn Mem 108:96-103. [PubMed] [DOI]
Iordanova MD, Haralambous T, McNally GP, Westbrook RF (2013) Accumbal opioid receptors modulate cue competition in one-trial overshadowing. Brain Res 1517:57-67. [PubMed] [DOI]
Albasser MM, Amin E, Lin TC, Iordanova MD, Aggleton JP (2012) Evidence that the rat hippocampus has contrasting roles in object recognition memory and object recency memory. Behav Neurosci 126:659-669. [PubMed] [DOI]
Iordanova MD, Honey RC (2012) Generalization of contextual fear as a function of familiarity: the role of within- and between-context associations. J Exp Psychol Anim Behav Process 38:315-321. [PubMed] [DOI]
Albasser MM, Amin E, Iordanova MD, Brown MW, Pearce JM, Aggleton JP (2011) Perirhinal cortex lesions uncover subsidiary systems in the rat for the detection of novel and familiar objects. Eur J Neurosci 34:331-342. [PubMed] [DOI]
Iordanova MD, Good M, Honey RC (2011) Retrieval-mediated learning involving episodes requires synaptic plasticity in the hippocampus. J Neurosci 31:7156-7162. [PubMed] [DOI]
Albasser MM, Amin E, Iordanova MD, Brown MW, Pearce JM, Aggleton JP (2011) Separate but interacting recognition memory systems for different senses: the role of the rat perirhinal cortex. Learn Mem 18:435-443. [PubMed] [DOI]
Iordanova MD, Burnett DJ, Good M, Honey RC (2011) Pattern memory involves both elemental and configural processes: evidence from the effects of hippocampal lesions. Behav Neurosci 125:567-577. [PubMed] [DOI]
Albasser MM, Chapman RJ, Amin E, Iordanova MD, Vann SD, Aggleton JP (2010) New behavioral protocols to extend our knowledge of rodent object recognition memory. Learn Mem 17:407-419. [PubMed][DOI]
Horne MR, Iordanova MD, Pearce JM (2010) Spatial learning based on boundaries in rats is hippocampus-dependent and prone to overshadowing. Behav Neurosci 124:623-632. [PubMed] [DOI]
Iordanova MD (2010) Dopamine transmission in the amygdala modulates surprise in an aversive blocking paradigm. Behav Neurosci 124:780-788. [PubMed] [DOI]
Dwyer DM, Iordanova MD (2010) The amygdala and flavour preference conditioning: Crossed lesions and inactivation. Physiol Behav 101:403-412. [PubMed] [DOI]
Horne MR, Iordanova MD, Albasser MM, Aggleton JP, Honey RC, Pearce JM (2010) Lesions of the perirhinal cortex do not impair integration of visual and geometric information in rats. Behav Neurosci 124:311-320. [PubMed] [DOI]
Iordanova MD (2009) Dopaminergic modulation of appetitive and aversive predictive learning. Rev Neurosci 20:383-404. [PubMed] [DOI]
Iordanova MD, Burnett DJ, Aggleton JP, Good M, Honey RC (2009) The role of the hippocampus in mnemonic integration and retrieval: complementary evidence from lesion and inactivation studies. Eur J Neurosci 30:2177-2189. [PubMed] [DOI]
Iordanova MD, Good MA, Honey RC (2008) Configural learning without reinforcement: integrated memories for correlates of what, where, and when. Q J Exp Psychol (Hove) 61:1785-1792. [PubMed] [DOI]
Iordanova MD, Killcross AS, Honey RC (2007) Role of the medial prefrontal cortex in acquired distinctiveness and equivalence of cues. Behav Neurosci 121:1431-1436. [PubMed] [DOI]
Moalem-Taylor G, Allbutt HN, Iordanova MD, Tracey DJ (2007) Pain hypersensitivity in rats with experimental autoimmune neuritis, an animal model of human inflammatory demyelinating neuropathy. Brain Behav Immun 21:699-710. [PubMed] [DOI]
Iordanova MD, McNally GP, Westbrook RF (2006) Opioid receptors in the nucleus accumbens regulate attentional learning in the blocking paradigm. J Neurosci 26:4036-4045. [PubMed] [DOI]
Iordanova MD, Westbrook RF, Killcross AS (2006) Dopamine activity in the nucleus accumbens modulates blocking in fear conditioning. Eur J Neurosci 24:3265-3270. [PubMed] [DOI]
Westbrook RF, Iordanova M, McNally G, Richardson R, Harris JA (2002) Reinstatement of fear to an extinguished conditioned stimulus: two roles for context. J Exp Psychol Anim Behav Process 28:97-110. [PubMed] [DOI]
Book chapters
Honey RC, Iordanova MD, Good M (2009) Latent inhibition and habituation: evaluation of an associative analysis. pp163-182. In R.E. Lubow & I. Weiner (Eds.), Latent Inhibition: Cognition, Neuroscience and Applications to Schizophrenia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.