Publications (1999-Present)

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• Akers, K.G., Candelaria-Cook, F.T., Rice, J.P., Johnson, T.E. & Hamilton, D.A. Cued platform training reveals early development of directional responding among preweanling rats in the Morris water task. Developmental Psychobiology. in press.
• Savage, D.D., Rosenberg, M.J., Wolff, C.R., Akers, K.G., El-Emawy, A., Staples, M.C., Varaschin, R.K., Wright, C.A., Seidel, J.L., Caldwell, K.K., & Hamilton, D.A. (2010). Effects of a Novel Cognition-Enhancing Agent On Fetal Ethanol-Induced Learning Deficits. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, in press.
• Hüfner, K., Binetti, C., Hamilton, D.A., Stephan, T., Flanagin, V.L., Linn, J., Labudda, K., Markowitsch, H., Glasauer, S., Jahn, K., Strupp, M., & Brandt, T. (2010) Structural and functional plasticity of the hippocampal formation in professional dancers and slackliners. Hippocampus, in press.
• Hamilton, D.A., Candelaria-Cook, F.T., Akers, K.G., Rice, J.P., Maes, L.I., Rosenberg, M., Valenzuela, C.F., & Savage, D.D. (2010). Patterns of social-experience-related c-fos and Arc expression in the frontal cortices of rats exposed to saccharin or moderate levels of ethanol during prenatal brain development. Behavioural Brain Research, 214, 66-74.
• Varaschin, R. K., Rosenberg, M.J., Akers, K.G., Hamilton, D.A., & Savage, D.D. (2010). Effects of the Cognition-Enhancing Agent ABT-239 on Fetal Ethanol-induced Deficits in Dentate Gyrus Synaptic Plasticity. Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, 334, 191-198.
• Barkas, L.J., Henderson, J.L., Hamilton, D.A., Redhead, E.S., & Gray, W.P. (2010). Selective temporal resections and spatial memory impairments: Cue dependent lateralization effects. Behavioural Brain Research, 208, 535-544.
• Hamilton, D. A., Akers, K. G., Rice, J. P., Johnson, T. E. Candelaria-Cook, F. T., Maes, L. I., Rosenberg, M., Valenzuela, C. F., & Savage, D. D. (2010). Prenatal exposure to moderate levels of ethanol alters social behavior in adult rats: Relationship to structural plasticity and immediate early gene expression in frontal cortex. Behavioural Brain Research, 207, 290-304. [ PDF ]
• Hüfner, K., Stephan, T., Hamilton, D. A., Kalla, R., Glasauer, S., Strupp, M., & Brandt, T. (2009). Gray matter atrophy after chronic complete unilateral vestibular deafferentation. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1164, 383-385.
• Hamilton, D. A., Johnson, T. E., Redhead, E.S. & Verney, S.P. (2009). Control of human and rodent navigation by room and apparatus cues. Behavioural Processes, 81, 154-169. [ PDF ]
• Akers, K. G., Candelaria, F. T., Rice, J. P., Johnson, T. E., & Hamilton, D. A. (2009). Delayed development of place navigation compared to directional responding in preweanling rats. Behavioral Neuroscience, 123, 267-275. [ PDF ]
• Hamilton, D. A., Akers, K. G., Johnson, T. E., Rice, J. P., Candelaria, F. T., & Redhead, E.S. (2009). Evidence for a shift from place navigation to directional responding in one variant of the Morris water task. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 35, 271-278. [ PDF ]
• Redhead, E. S., & Hamilton, D. A. (2009). Evidence of blocking with geometric cues in a virtual watermaze. Learning and Motivation, 40, 15-34. [ PDF ]
• Silasi, G., Hamilton, D. A., & Kolb, B. (2008). Social instability blocks functional restitution following motor cortex stroke in rats. Behavioural Brain Research, 188, 219-226. [ PDF ]
• Hamilton, D. A., Akers, K. G., Johnson, T. E., Rice, J. P., Candelaria, F. T., Sutherland, R. J., Weisend, M. P., & Redhead, E. S. (2008). The relative influence of place and direction in the Morris water task. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 34, 31-53. [ PDF ]
• Akers, K.G., Candelaria, F.T., & Hamilton, D.A. (2007). Preweanling rats solve the Morris water task via directional navigation. Behavioral Neuroscience, 121, 1426-1430. [ PDF ]
• Dougher, M. J., Hamilton, D. A., Fink, B. C. , & Harrington, J. (2007). Transformation of the discriminative and eliciting functions of generalized relational stimuli. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 88, 179-197. [ PDF ]
• Akers, K. G., & Hamilton, D. A. (2007). Comparison of the developmental trajectories of place and cued navigation in the Morris water task. Developmental Psychobiology, 49, 553-564 . [ PDF ]
• Redhead, E. S., & Hamilton, D. A. (2007). Interaction between locale and taxon strategies in human spatial learning. Learning and Motivation, 38, 262-283. [ PDF ]
• Hüfner, K., Hamilton, D. A., Kalla, R., Stephan, T., Glasauer, S., Ma, J., Bruning, R., Markowitsch, H. J., Labudda, K., Schichor, C., Strupp, M., & Brandt, T. (2007). Spatial memory and hippocampal volume in humans with unilateral vestibular deafferentation. Hippocampus, 17, 471-485. [ PDF ]
• Hamilton, D. A., Akers, K. G., Weisend, M. P, & Sutherland, R. J. (2007). How do room and apparatus cues control navigation in the Morris water task?: Evidence for distinct contributions to a movement vector. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 33, 100-114 . [ PDF ] [ VIDEOS : #1 mp4 mov ; #2 mp4 mov ]
• Hanlon, F. M., Weisend, M. P., Hamilton, D. A., Jones, A., Thoma, R. J., Huang, M-X., Martin, K., Yeo, R. A., Miller, G. A., & Canive, J. M. (2006). Impairment on the hippocampal-dependent virtual Morris water task in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research, 87, 67-80. [ PDF ]
• Clark, B. J., Hamilton, D. A., & Whishaw, I. Q. (2006). Motor Activity (exploration) and formation of home bases in mice (C57BL/6) influenced by visual and tactile cues: modification of movement geometry, distance, location, and speed. Physiology & Behavior, 87, 805-816. [ PDF ]
• Wallace, D. G., Hamilton, D. A., & Whishaw, I. Q. (2006). Movement characteristics support a role for dead reckoning in organizing exploratory behavior. Animal Cognition, 9, 219-228. [ PDF ]
• Brandt, T. Schautzer, F., Hamilton, D. A., Bruning, R., Markowitsch, H. J., Kalla, R., Darlington, C., Smith, P., & Strupp, M. (2005). Vestibular loss causes hippocampal atrophy and impaired spatial memory in humans. Brain, 128, 2732-2741. [ PDF ]
• Clark, B. J., Hines, D. J., Hamilton, D. A., & Whishaw, I.Q. (2005). Movements of exploration intact in rats with hippocampal lesions. Behavioural Brain Research, 163, 91-99. [ PDF ]
• Driscoll, I., Hamilton, D. A., Yeo, R. A., Brooks, W. M., & Sutherland, R. J. (2005). Virtual navigation in humans: The impact of age, sex, and hormones on place learning. Hormones and Behavior, 47, 326-335.
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• Hamilton, D. A., & Kolb, B. (2005). Differential effects of nicotine and complex housing on subsequent experience-dependent structural plasticity in the nucleus accumbens. Behavioral Neuroscience, 119, 355-365. [ PDF ]
• Sutherland, R. J., & Hamilton, D. A. (2004). Rodent spatial navigation: At the crossroads of cognition and movement. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 28, 687-697. [ PDF ]
• Villarreal, G. Hamilton, D. A., Graham, D. P., Driscoll, I., Qualls, C., Petropoulos, H., and Brooks, W. M. (2004). Reduced area of the corpus callosum in PTSD. Psychiatry Research, 131, 227-235.
• Hamilton, D. A., Rosenfelt, C. S., & Whishaw, I. Q. (2004). Sequential control of navigation by locale and taxon cues in the Morris water task, Behavioural Brain Research, 154, 385-397. [ PDF ] [ MPEG-1 VIDEO ]
• Schautzer, F., Hamilton, D., Kalla, R., Strupp, M, & Brandt, T. (2003). Spatial learning deficits in patients with chronic bilateral vestibular failure. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1004, 316-324. [ PDF ]
• Driscoll, I., Hamilton, D. A., Petropoulos, H., Yeo, R. A., Brooks, W. M., Baumgartner, R. N., & Sutherland, R. J. (2003). The aging hippocampus: Cognitive, structural, and biochemical findings. Cerebral Cortex, 13, 1344-1351. [ PDF ]
• Hamilton, D. A., Kodituwakku, P., Sutherland, R. J., & Savage, D. D. (2003). Children with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome are impaired at place learning but not cued-navigation in a virtual Morris water task. Behavioural Brain Research, 143, 85-94. [ PDF ]
• Villarreal, G., Petropoulos, H., Hamilton, D. A., Rowland, L. M., Horan, W. P., Griego, J. A., Moreshead, M., Hart, B. L., & Brooks, W. M. (2002). Proton-MRS of the medial temporal lobes and occipital white matter in PTSD: Preliminary results. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 47, 666-670.
• Villarreal, G., Hamilton, D. A., Petropoulos, H., Driscoll, I., Rowland, L. M., Griego, J. A., Kodituwakku, P. W., Hart, B. L., Escalona, R., & Brooks, W. M. (2002). Reduced hippocampal volume and total white matter volume in PTSD. Biological Psychiatry, 52, 119-125. [ PDF ]
• Hamilton, D. A., Driscoll, I., & Sutherland, R. J. (2002). Human place learning in a virtual Morris water task: Some important constraints on the flexibility of place navigation. Behavioural Brain Research, 129, 159-170. [ PDF ]
• Sutherland, R. J., Weisend, M. P., Mumby, D., Astur, R. S., Hanlon, F. M., Koerner, A., Thomas, M. J., Wu, Y., Moses, S., Cole, C., Hamilton, D. A., & Hoesing, J. M. (2001). Retrograde amnesia after hippocampal damage: Recent vs. remote memories in two tasks. Hippocampus, 11, 27-42. [ PDF ]
• Hamilton, D. A., & Sutherland, R. J. (1999). Blocking in human place learning : Evidence from virtual navigation. Psychobiology, 27, 453-461. [ PDF ]
• Amrhein, P. C., Bond, J. K., & Hamilton, D. A. (1999). Locus of control and the age difference in free recall from episodic memory. Journal of General Psychology, 126, 146-161.