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Professor Simon Killcross

Professor Simon Killcross

Head of School

BA, MA, PhD (Cantab), FRSN, FASSA

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School of Psychology

ABOUT ME

Biography

Professor Simon Killcross’ main areas of research interest concern brain mechanisms underlying learning and cognition. He is Head of the School of Psychology at UNSW. After gaining his UG degrees and PhD from the University Cambridge, he was a research Fellow at Magdalene College, Cambridge until 1996 when he took up a lectureship in Psychology at the University of York. He moved to a Senior Research Fellowship in the School of Psychology at Cardiff University in 1999, where he was subseqently promoted to Reader, Professor, and then served as Deputy Head of School from 2006. In 2009 he moved to take up his current position as Professor and Head of the School of Psychology at UNSW Australia. He was reappointed for a second term in 2014 and a third term in 2019.

Supervision Opportunities/Areas

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Advice for prospective students

Psychology is one of the most interesting and challenging areas of scientific enquiry with the potential to benefit both individuals and society as a whole

Phone
+61 (0)2 93853034
Location
School of Psychology UNSW Sydney NSW 2052 Mathews Building
  • Books | 2006
    Haddon JE; Killcross AS, 2006, Reward and decision making in corticobasal ganglia networks, Annals of the New York Academy Of Sciences, Lake Arrowhead, CA,
  • Book Chapters | 2010
    George DN; Duffaud AM; Killcross AS, 2010, 'Neural correlates of attentional set', in Mitchell C; Le Pelley M (ed.), Attention and Associative Learning:From Brain to Behaviour, OUP, Oxford, pp. 351 - 383
    Book Chapters | 2002
    Killcross S; Blundell P, 2002, '3. Associative representations of emotionally significant outcomes', in Advances in Consciousness Research, John Benjamins Publishing Company, pp. 35 - 73,
  • Journal articles | 2024
    Debs SR; Conn I; Navaneethan B; Penklis AG; Meyer U; Killcross S; Weickert CS; Purves-Tyson TD, 2024, 'Maternal immune activation and estrogen receptor modulation induce sex-specific dopamine-related behavioural and molecular alterations in adult rat offspring', Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 118, pp. 236 - 251,
    Journal articles | 2024
    Kennedy NGW; Lee JC; Killcross S; Westbrook RF; Holmes NM, 2024, 'Prediction error determines how memories are organized in the brain', eLife, 13,
    Journal articles | 2023
    George DN; Killcross S; Haddon JE, 2023, 'Competing contextual processes rely on the infralimbic and prelimbic medial prefrontal cortices in the rat.', Oxf Open Neurosci, 2, pp. kvad003,
    Journal articles | 2023
    Qureshi OA; Leake J; Delaney AJ; Killcross S; Westbrook RF; Holmes NM, 2023, 'Danger Changes the Way the Brain Consolidates Neutral Information; and Does So by Interacting with Processes Involved in the Encoding of That Information', Journal of Neuroscience, 43, pp. 2934 - 2949,
    Journal articles | 2022
    Andrews SC; Parekh D; Brady B; Delbaere K; Huque MH; Killcross S; Anstey KJ, 2022, 'Associations Between Planned Exercise, Walking, Incidental Physical Activity, and Habit Strength in Older People: A Cross-Sectional Study', Journal of Aging and Physical Activity, 30, pp. 813 - 823,
    Journal articles | 2022
    Bingul A; Merlin S; Carrive P; Killcross S; Furlong TM, 2022, 'Targeting the lateral hypothalamus with short hairpin RNAs reduces habitual behaviour following extended instrumental training in rats', Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 193,
    Journal articles | 2022
    Panayi MC; Killcross S, 2022, 'Outcome devaluation by specific satiety disrupts sensory-specific Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer', Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 16,
    Journal articles | 2021
    Panayi MC; Khamassi M; Killcross S, 2021, 'The rodent lateral orbitofrontal cortex as an arbitrator selecting between model-based and model-free learning systems.', Behavioral Neuroscience, 135, pp. 226 - 244,
    Journal articles | 2021
    Panayi MC; Killcross S, 2021, 'The Role of the Rodent Lateral Orbitofrontal Cortex in Simple Pavlovian Cue-Outcome Learning Depends on Training Experience.', Cereb Cortex Commun, 2, pp. tgab010,
    Journal articles | 2021
    Roughley S; Killcross S, 2021, 'The role of the infralimbic cortex in decision making processes', Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 41, pp. 138 - 143,
    Journal articles | 2021
    Roughley S; Marcus A; Killcross S, 2021, 'Dopamine D1 and D2 Receptors Are Important for Learning About Neutral-Valence Relationships in Sensory Preconditioning', Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 15,
    Journal articles | 2020
    Andrews S; Parekh D; Brady B; Delbaere K; Killcross S; Anstey K, 2020, 'Do Automatic Habits Predict Physical Activity Engagement in Older People?', Innovation in Aging, 4, pp. 496 - 496,
    Journal articles | 2020
    Andrews SC; Parekh D; Brady B; Delbaere K; Killcross S; Anstey KJ, 2020, 'The role of automatic habit in physical activity behaviours in older people: A new target for lifestyle interventions for dementia risk reduction?', Alzheimer's & Dementia, 16,
    Journal articles | 2020
    Jean-Richard-dit-Bressel P; Ma C; Bradfield L; Killcross S; McNally G, 2020, 'Punishment insensitivity emerges from impaired contingency detection, not aversion insensitivity or reward dominance', eLife,
    Journal articles | 2020
    Liu Y; Jean-Richard-Dit-Bressel P; Yau JOY; Willing A; Prasad AA; Power JM; Killcross S; Clifford CWG; McNally GP, 2020, 'The mesolimbic dopamine activity signatures of relapse to alcohol-seeking', Journal of Neuroscience, 40, pp. 6409 - 6427,
    Journal articles | 2020
    Ma C; Jean-Richard-Dit-Bressel P; Roughley S; Vissel B; Balleine BW; Killcross S; Bradfield LA, 2020, 'Medial Orbitofrontal Cortex Regulates Instrumental Conditioned Punishment, but not Pavlovian Conditioned Fear.', Cereb Cortex Commun, 1, pp. tgaa039,
    Journal articles | 2020
    Ma C; Jean-Richard-dit-Bressel P; Roughley S; Vissel B; Balleine B; Killcross S; Bradfield L, 2020, 'Medial Orbitofrontal Cortex Regulates Instrumental Conditioned Punishment, but not Pavlovian Conditioned Fear', ,
    Journal articles | 2020
    Panayi M; Killcross S, 2020, 'The role of the rodent lateral orbitofrontal cortex in simple Pavlovian cue-outcome learning depends on training experience', ,
    Journal articles | 2020
    Prasad AA; Xie C; Chaichim C; Nguyen JH; McClusky HE; Killcross S; Power JM; McNally GP, 2020, 'Complementary roles for ventral pallidum cell types and their projections in relapse', Journal of Neuroscience, 40, pp. 880 - 893,
    Journal articles | 2019
    Jean-Richard-dit-Bressel P; Ma C; Bradfield LA; Killcross S; McNally GP, 2019, 'Punishment insensitivity emerges from impaired contingency detection, not aversion insensitivity or reward dominance', eLife, 8, pp. e52765,
    Journal articles | 2019
    Roughley S; Killcross S, 2019, 'Differential involvement of dopamine receptor subtypes in the acquisition of Pavlovian sign-tracking and goal-tracking responses', Psychopharmacology, 236, pp. 1853 - 1862,
    Journal articles | 2019
    Roughley S; Killcross S, 2019, 'Loss of hierarchical control by occasion setters following lesions of the prelimbic and infralimbic medial prefrontal cortex in rats', Brain Sciences, 9,
    Journal articles | 2019
    Sharpe MJ; Stalnaker T; Schuck NW; Killcross S; Schoenbaum G; Niv Y, 2019, 'An Integrated Model of Action Selection: Distinct Modes of Cortical Control of Striatal Decision Making', Annual Review of Psychology, 70, pp. 53 - 76,
    Journal articles | 2018
    Gibson GD; Prasad AA; Jean-Richard-dit-Bressel P; Yau JOY; Millan EZ; Liu Y; Campbell EJ; Lim J; Marchant NJ; Power JM; Killcross S; Lawrence AJ; McNally GP, 2018, 'Distinct Accumbens Shell Output Pathways Promote versus Prevent Relapse to Alcohol Seeking', Neuron, 98, pp. 512 - 520.e6,
    Journal articles | 2018
    Holmes NM; Raipuria M; Qureshi OA; Killcross S; Westbrook F, 2018, 'Danger changes the way the mammalian brain stores information about innocuous events: A study of sensory preconditioning in rats', eNeuro, 5,
    Journal articles | 2018
    Jean-Richard-Dit-Bressel P; Killcross S; McNally GP, 2018, 'Behavioral and neurobiological mechanisms of punishment: Implications for psychiatric disorders', Neuropsychopharmacology, 43, pp. 1639 - 1650,
    Journal articles | 2018
    Lingawi NW; Andrew E; Laurent V; Killcross S; Westbrook RF; Holmes NM, 2018, 'The conditions that regulate formation of a false fear memory in rats', Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 156, pp. 53 - 59,
    Journal articles | 2018
    Panayi M; Killcross S, 2018, 'The rodent lateral orbitofrontal cortex represents expected Pavlovian outcome value but not identity', ,
    Journal articles | 2018
    Panayi MC; Killcross S, 2018, 'Functional heterogeneity within the rodent lateral orbitofrontal cortex dissociates outcome devaluation and reversal learning deficits', eLife, 7,
    Journal articles | 2018
    Sharpe MJ; Killcross S, 2018, 'Modulation of attention and action in the medial prefrontal cortex of rats', Psychological Review, 125, pp. 822 - 843,
    Journal articles | 2017
    Furlong TM; Supit ASA; Corbit LH; Killcross S; Balleine BW, 2017, 'Pulling habits out of rats: adenosine 2A receptor antagonism in dorsomedial striatum rescues meth-amphetamine-induced deficits in goal-directed action', Addiction Biology, 22, pp. 172 - 183,
    Journal articles | 2017
    Nguyen JCD; Ali SF; Kosari S; Woodman OL; Spencer SJ; Killcross AS; Jenkins TA, 2017, 'Western diet chow consumption in rats induces striatal neuronal activation while reducing dopamine levels without affecting spatial memory in the radial arm maze', Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 11, pp. 22,
    Journal articles | 2016
    Haselgrove M; Le Pelley ME; Singh NK; Teow HQ; Morris RW; Green MJ; Griffiths O; Killcross S, 2016, 'Disrupted attentional learning in high schizotypy: Evidence of aberrant salience', British journal of psychology (London, England : 1953), 107, pp. 601 - 624,
    Journal articles | 2016
    Rogers N; Killcross S; Curnoe D, 2016, 'Hunting for evidence of cognitive planning: Archaeological signatures versus psychological realities', Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 5, pp. 225 - 239,
    Journal articles | 2015
    Reichelt AC; Killcross S; Hambly LD; Morris MJ; Westbrook RF, 2015, 'Impact of adolescent sucrose access on cognitive control, recognition memory, and parvalbumin immunoreactivity', Learning and Memory, 22, pp. 215 - 224,
    Journal articles | 2015
    Sharpe M; Killcross S, 2015, 'The prelimbic cortex uses contextual cues to modulate responding towards predictive stimuli during fear renewal', Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 118, pp. 20 - 29,
    Journal articles | 2015
    Sharpe MJ; Killcross S, 2015, 'The prelimbic cortex directs attention toward predictive cues during fear learning', Learning and Memory, 22, pp. 289 - 293,
    Journal articles | 2015
    Sharpe MJ; Killcross S, 2015, 'The prelimbic cortex uses higher-order cues to modulate both the acquisition and expression of conditioned fear', Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 8,
    Journal articles | 2014
    Haddon JE; George DN; Grayson L; McGowan C; Honey RC; Killcross S, 2014, 'Extreme elemental processing in a high schizotypy population: Relation to cognitive deficits', Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 67, pp. 918 - 935,
    Journal articles | 2014
    Nguyen JCD; Killcross AS; Jenkins TA, 2014, 'Obesity and cognitive decline: Role of inflammation and vascular changes', Frontiers in Neuroscience, 8,
    Journal articles | 2014
    Nguyen JCD; Killcross AS; Jenkins TA, 2014, 'Obesity and cognitive decline: Role of inflammation and vascular changes', Frontiers in Neuroscience, 8,
    Journal articles | 2014
    Panayi MC; Killcross S, 2014, 'Orbitofrontal cortex inactivation impairs between- but not within-session Pavlovian extinction: An associative analysis', Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 108, pp. 78 - 87,
    Journal articles | 2014
    Sharpe MJ; Killcross S, 2014, 'The prelimbic cortex contributes to the down-regulation of attention toward redundant cues', Cerebral Cortex, 24, pp. 1066 - 1074,
    Journal articles | 2013
    Blundell P; Symonds M; Hall G; Killcross S; Bailey GK, 2013, 'Within-event learning in rats with lesions of the basolateral amygdala', Behavioural Brain Research, 236, pp. 48 - 55,
    Journal articles | 2013
    Hogarth L; Balleine BW; Corbit LH; Killcross S, 2013, 'Associative learning mechanisms underpinning the transition from recreational drug use to addiction', Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1282, pp. 12 - 24,
    Journal articles | 2013
    Holmes NM; Parkes SL; Killcross AS; Westbrook RF, 2013, 'The Basolateral Amygdala is critical for learning about neutral stimuli in the presence of danger, and the perirhinal cortex is critical in the absence of danger', Journal of Neuroscience, 33, pp. 13112 - 13125,
    Journal articles | 2013
    Leung HT; Killcross AS; Westbrook RF, 2013, 'A further assessment of the hall-rodriguez theory of latent inhibition', Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 39, pp. 117 - 125,
    Journal articles | 2013
    Leung HT; Killcross AS; Westbrook RF, 2013, 'Error correction in latent inhibition and its disruption by opioid receptor blockade with naloxone', Neuropsychopharmacology, 38, pp. 2439 - 2445,
    Journal articles | 2013
    Nelson AJD; Killcross S, 2013, 'Accelerated habit formation following amphetamine exposure is reversed by D1, but enhanced by D2, receptor antagonists', Frontiers in Neuroscience,
    Journal articles | 2013
    Nguyen JCD; Killcross AS; Jenkins TA, 2013, 'Effect of low-intensity treadmill exercise on behavioural measures and hippocampal parvalbumin immunoreactivity in the rat', Behavioural Brain Research, 256, pp. 598 - 601,
    Journal articles | 2013
    Pacitti H; Balleine B; Killcross S, 2013, 'C.18 - STUCK IN A LOOP', Behavioural Pharmacology, 24, pp. e35 - e35,
    Journal articles | 2013
    Pacitti H; Balleine B; Killcross S, 2013, 'NANOSYMPOSIUM N 1 CORTICOSTRIATAL SUBSTRATES OF ADDICTION', Behavioural Pharmacology, 24, pp. e17 - e17,
    Journal articles | 2013
    Reichelt AC; Good MA; Killcross S, 2013, 'Attenuation of acute d-amphetamine-induced disruption of conflict resolution by clozapine, but not α-flupenthixol in rats', Journal of Psychopharmacology, 27, pp. 1023 - 1031,
    Journal articles | 2013
    Reichelt AC; Killcross AS; Wilkinson LS; Humby T; Good MA, 2013, 'Transgenic expression of the FTDP-17 tauV337M mutation in brain dissociates components of executive function in mice', Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 104, pp. 73 - 81,
    Journal articles | 2012
    Chesworth R; Downey L; Logge W; Killcross AS; Karl T, 2012, 'Cognition in female transmembrane domain neuregulin 1 mutant mice', Behavioural Brain Research, 226, pp. 218 - 223,
    Journal articles | 2012
    Haddon JE; Killcross AS, 2012, 'Inactivation of the infralimbic prefrontal cortex in rats reduces the influence of inappropriate habitual responding in a response-conflict task', Neuroscience, 199, pp. 205 - 212,
    Journal articles | 2012
    Kosari S; Badoer E; Nguyen JCD; Killcross AS; Jenkins TA, 2012, 'Effect of western and high fat diets on memory and cholinergic measures in the rat', Behavioural Brain Research, 235, pp. 98 - 103,
    Journal articles | 2011
    George DN; Killcross AS; Jenkins T, 2011, 'Dissociation of prefrontal cortex and nucleus accumbens dopaminergic systems in conditional learning in rats.', Behavioural Brain Research, 225, pp. 47 - 55,
    Journal articles | 2011
    Haddon JE; George DN; Grayson L; C ; Honey RC; Killcross AS, 2011, 'Impaired conditional task performance in a high schizotypy population: Relation to cognitive deficits', Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 64, pp. 1 - 9,
    Journal articles | 2011
    Haddon JE; Killcross AS, 2011, 'Rat prefrontal dopamine and cognitive control: Impaired and enhanced conflict performance', Behavioral Neuroscience, 125, pp. 344 - 349,
    Journal articles | 2011
    Koychev I; Barkus EJ; Ettinger U; Killcross S; Roiser JP; Wilkinson L; Deakin B, 2011, 'Evaluation of state and trait biomarkers in healthy volunteers for the development of novel drug treatments in schizophrenia', Journal of Psychopharmacology, 25, pp. 1207 - 1225,
    Journal articles | 2011
    Leung H; Killcross AS; Westbrook F, 2011, 'Additional Exposures to a Compound of Two Preexposed Stimuli Deepen Latent Inhibition', Journal of Experimental Psychology - Animal Behavior Processes, 37, pp. 394 - 406,
    Journal articles | 2010
    Dwyer D; Dunn MJ; Rhodes SEV; Killcross AS, 2010, 'Lesions of the prelimbic prefrontal cortex prevent response conflict produced by action-outcome associations', Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 63, pp. 417 - 424
    Journal articles | 2010
    George DN; Duffaud AM; Pothuizen ; Haddon JE; Killcross AS, 2010, 'Lesions to the ventral, but not the dorsal, medial prefrontal cortex enhance latent inhibition', European Journal of Neuroscience, 31, pp. 1474 - 1482
    Journal articles | 2009
    Rhodes SEV; Creighton G; Killcross AS; Good M; Honey RC, 2009, 'Integration of Geometric With Luminance Information in the Rat: Evidence From Within-Compound Associations', Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 35, pp. 92 - 98,
    Journal articles | 2009
    Schmidt-Hansen M; Killcross AS; Honey RC, 2009, 'Latent inhibition, learned irrelevance, and schizotypy: Assessing their relationship', Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 14, pp. 11 - 29,
    Journal articles | 2008
    Haddon JE; George DP; Killcross AS, 2008, 'Contextual control of biconditional task performance: Evidence for cue and response competition in rats', Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 61, pp. 1307 - 1320,
    Journal articles | 2007
    Duffaud AM; Killcross AS; George DP, 2007, 'Optional-shift behaviour in rats: A novel procedure for assessing attentional processes in discrimination learning', Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 60, pp. 534 - 542,
    Journal articles | 2007
    Dunn MJ; Killcross AS, 2007, 'Clozapine, SCH 23390 and alpha-flupenthixol but not haloperidol attenuate acute phencyclidine-induced disruption of conditional discrimination performance', Psychopharmacology, 190, pp. 403 - 414,
    Journal articles | 2007
    Iordanova MD; Killcross AS; Honey RC, 2007, 'Role of the medial prefrontal cortex in acquired distinctiveness and equivalence of cues', Behavioral Neuroscience, 121, pp. 1431 - 1436,
    Journal articles | 2007
    Killcross AS; Dunn MJ, 2007, 'Medial prefrontal cortex infusion of alpha-flupenthixol attenuates systemic d-amphetamine-induced disruption of conditional discrimination performance in rats', Psychopharmacology, 192, pp. 347 - 355,
    Journal articles | 2007
    Marquis JP; Killcross AS; Haddon JE, 2007, 'Inactivation of the prelimbic, but not infralimbic, prefrontal cortex impairs the contextual control of response conflict in rats', European Journal of Neuroscience, 25, pp. 559 - 566,
    Journal articles | 2007
    Marquis JP; Killcross S; Haddon JE, 2007, 'Inactivation of the prelimbic, but not infralimbic, prefrontal cortex impairs the contextual control of response conflict in rats', European Journal of Neuroscience, 25, pp. 559 - 566,
    Journal articles | 2007
    Rhodes SEV; Killcross AS, 2007, 'Lesions of rat infralimbic cortex enhance renewal of extinguished appetitive Pavlovian responding', European Journal of Neuroscience, 25, pp. 2498 - 2503,
    Journal articles | 2007
    Rhodes SEV; Killcross AS, 2007, 'Lesions of rat infralimbic cortex result in disrupted retardation but normal summation test performance following training on a Pavlovian conditioned inhibition procedure', European Journal of Neuroscience, 26, pp. 2654 - 2660,
    Journal articles | 2007
    Wickens JR; Costa JC; Killcross RM; Killcross AS, 2007, 'Dopaminergic mechanisms in actions and habits', Journal of Neuroscience, 27, pp. 8181 - 8183,
    Journal articles | 2006
    Balleine BW; Killcross AS, 2006, 'Parallel incentive processing: an integrated view of amygdala function', Trends in Neurosciences, pp. 272 - 279
    Journal articles | 2006
    Dunn MJ; Killcross AS, 2006, 'Clozapine but not haloperidol treatment reverses sub-chronic phencyclidine-induced disruption of conditional discrimination performance', Behavioural Brain Research, 175, pp. 271 - 277,
    Journal articles | 2006
    Dunn MJ; Killcross AS, 2006, 'Differential attenuation of d-amphetamine-induced disruption of conditional discrimination performance by dopamine and serotonin antagonists', Psychopharmacology, 188, pp. 183 - 192,
    Journal articles | 2006
    Dwyer DE; Killcross AS, 2006, 'Lesions of the basolateral amygdala disrupt conditioning based on the retrieved representations of motivationally significant events', Journal of Neuroscience, 26, pp. 8305 - 8309,
    Journal articles | 2006
    Haddon JE; Killcross AS, 2006, 'Both motivational and training factors affect response conflict choice performance in rats', Neural Networks, 19, pp. 1192 - 1202,
    Journal articles | 2006
    Haddon JE; Killcross AS, 2006, 'Prefrontal cortex lesions disrupt the contextual control of response conflict', Journal of Neuroscience, 26, pp. 2933 - 2940,
    Journal articles | 2006
    Iordanova MD; Westbrook RF; Killcross AS, 2006, 'Dopamine activity in the nucleus accumbens modulates blocking in fear conditioning', European Journal of Neuroscience, 24, pp. 3265 - 3270
    Journal articles | 2006
    Killcross S; Burton M, 2006, 'The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology: Editorial', Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 59, pp. 1,
    Journal articles | 2006
    Nelson A; Killcross AS, 2006, 'Amphetamine exposure enhances habit formation', Journal of Neuroscience, 26, pp. 3805 - 3812,
    Journal articles | 2005
    Burton M; Killcross S, 2005, 'Editorial announcement', QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY SECTION A-HUMAN EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY, 58, pp. 385 - 386,
    Journal articles | 2005
    Dunn MJ; Futter D; Bonardi C; Killcross AS, 2005, 'Attenuation of d-amphetamine-induced disruption of conditional discrimination performance by alpha-flupenthixol', Psychopharmacology, 177, pp. 296 - 306,
    Journal articles | 2005
    Haddon JE; Killcross AS, 2005, 'Medial prefrontal cortex lesions abolish contextual control of competing responses', Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 84, pp. 485 - 504,
    Journal articles | 2005
    Morris RW; Westbrook RF; Kilcross A, 2005, 'Reinstatement of extinguished fear by beta-adrenergic arousal elicited by a conditioned context', Behavioral Neuroscience, 119, pp. 1662 - 1671
    Journal articles | 2005
    Ward-robinson J; Coutureau E; Honey RC; Killcross AS, 2005, 'Excitotoxic lesions of the entorhinal cortex leave gustatory within-event learning intact', Behavioral Neuroscience, 119, pp. 1131 - 1135,
    Journal articles | 2004
    Rhodes SEV; Killcross AS, 2004, 'Lesions of rat infralimbic cortex enhance recovery and reinstatement of an appetitive Pavlovian response', Learning and Memory, 11, pp. 611 - 616,
    Journal articles | 2003
    Balleine BW; Killcross AS; Dickinson A, 2003, 'The effect of lesions of the basolateral amygdala on instrumental conditioning', Journal of Neuroscience, 23, pp. 666 - 675
    Journal articles | 2003
    Blair CAJ; Blundell P; Galtress T; Hall G; Killcross AS, 2003, 'Discrimination between outcomes in instrumental learning: Effects of preexposure to the reinforcers', Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section B - Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 56, pp. 253 - 265,
    Journal articles | 2003
    Blundell P; Hall G; Killcross AS, 2003, 'Preserved sensitivity to outcome value after lesions of the basolateral amygdala', Journal of Neuroscience, 23, pp. 7702 - 7709
    Journal articles | 2003
    Hodder KI; George DN; Killcross AS; Honey RC, 2003, 'Representational blending in human conditional learning: Implications for associative theory', Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section B - Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 56, pp. 223 - 238,
    Journal articles | 2003
    Hodder KI; George DN; Killcross AS; Honey RC, 2003, 'Representational blending in human conditional learning: Implications for associative theory', Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section B: Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 56 B, pp. 223 - 228,
    Journal articles | 2003
    Killcross AS; Coutureau E, 2003, 'Coordination of actions and habits in the medial prefrontal cortex of rats', Cerebral cortex, 13, pp. 400 - 408
    Journal articles | 2003
    Killcross AS; Coutureau E, 2003, 'Inactivation of the infralimbic prefrontal cortex reinstates goal-directed responding in overtrained rats', Behavioural Brain Research, 146, pp. 167 - 174,
    Journal articles | 2003
    Zorawski M; Killcross AS, 2003, 'Glucocorticoid receptor agonist enhances Pavlovian appetitive conditioning but disrupts outcome-specific associations', Behavioral Neuroscience, 117, pp. 1453 - 1457,
    Journal articles | 2002
    Coutureau E; Killcross AS; Good M; Marshall VJ; Ward-Robinson J; Honey RC, 2002, 'Acquired equivalence and distinctiveness of cues: II. Neural manipulations and their implications', JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-ANIMAL BEHAVIOR PROCESSES, 28, pp. 388 - 396,
    Journal articles | 2002
    Coutureau E; Killcross AS; Good M; Marshall VJ; Ward-Robinson J; Honey RC, 2002, 'Acquired equivalence and distinctiveness of cues: II. Neural manipulations and their implications', Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 28, pp. 388 - 396,
    Journal articles | 2002
    Zorawski M; Killcross S, 2002, 'Posttraining glucocorticoid receptor agonist enhances memory in appetitive and aversive Pavlovian discrete-cue conditioning paradigms', Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 78, pp. 458 - 464,
    Journal articles | 2001
    Blundell P; Hall G; Killcross S, 2001, 'Lesions of the basolateral amygdala disrupt selective aspects of reinforcer representation in rats', Journal of Neuroscience, 21, pp. 9018 - 9026,
    Journal articles | 2001
    Coutureau E; Blundell PJ; Killcross S, 2001, 'Basolateral amygdala lesions disrupt latent inhibitionin rats', Brain Research Bulletin, 56, pp. 49 - 53,
    Journal articles | 2001
    Killcross S, 2001, 'Loss of latent inhibition in conditioned taste aversion following exposure to a novel flavour before test', Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section B: Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 54, pp. 271 - 288,
    Journal articles | 2001
    Ward-Robinson J; Coutureau E; Good M; Honey RC; Killcross AS; Oswald CJP, 2001, 'Excitotoxic lesions of the hippocampus leave sensory preconditioning intact: Implications for models of hippocampal function', Behavioral Neuroscience, 115, pp. 1357 - 1362,
    Journal articles | 2001
    Ward-Robinson J; Coutureau E; Good M; Honey RC; Killcross AS; Oswald CJP, 2001, 'Excitotoxic lesions of the hippocampus leave sensory preconditioning intact: Implications for models of hippocampal functioning.', Behavioral Neuroscience, 115, pp. 1357 - 1362,
    Journal articles | 2000
    Killcross S, 2000, 'Reinforcement and punishment: Dissociable systems for action and emotion?', Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 23, pp. 205,
    Journal articles | 2000
    Killcross S, 2000, 'The amygdala, emotion and learning', Psychologist, 13, pp. 502 - 506
    Journal articles | 1998
    Killcross AS; Kiernan MJ; Dwyer DE; Westbrook RF, 1998, 'Effects of retention interval on latent inhibition and perceptual learning.', Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section B - Comparative and Physiological Psychology, pp. 59 - 74
    Journal articles | 1998
    Killcross AS; Kiernan MJ; Dwyer DE; Westbrook RF, 1998, 'Loss of latent inhibition of contextual conditioning following non-reinforced context exposure in rats.', Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section B - Comparative and Physiological Psychology, pp. 75 - 90
    Journal articles | 1998
    Wilkinson LS; Humby T; Killcross AS; Torres EM; Everitt BJ; Robbins TW, 1998, 'Dissociations in dopamine release in medial prefrontal cortex and ventral striatum during the acquisition and extinction of classical aversive conditioning in the rat', European Journal of Neuroscience, 10, pp. 1019 - 1026,
    Journal articles | 1997
    Killcross AS; Everitt BJ; Robbins TW, 1997, 'Symmetrical effects of amphetamine and alpha-flupenthixol on conditioned punishment and conditioned reinforcement: Contrasts with midazolam', Psychopharmacology, 129, pp. 141 - 152,
    Journal articles | 1997
    Killcross AS; Stanhope KJ; Dourish CT; Piras G, 1997, 'WAY100635 and latent inhibition in the rat: Selective effects at preexposure', Behavioural Brain Research, 88, pp. 51 - 57,
    Journal articles | 1997
    Killcross S; Robbins TW; Everitt BJ, 1997, 'Different types of fear-conditioned behaviour mediated by separate nuclei within amygdala', Nature, 388, pp. 377 - 380,
    Journal articles | 1997
    Killcross S; Robbins TW; Everitt BJ, 1997, 'Response from Killcross, Robbins and Everitt', TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES, 1, pp. 244 - 246,
    Journal articles | 1996
    Killcross S; Balleine B, 1996, 'Role of primary motivation in stimulus preexposure effects', Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 22, pp. 32 - 42,
    Journal articles | 1996
    Killcross S; Dickinson A, 1996, 'Contextual Control of Latent Inhibition by the Reinforcer', Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section B: Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 49, pp. 45 - 59,
    Journal articles | 1996
    Molinari S; Battini R; Ferrari S; Pozzi L; Killcross AS; Robbins TW; Jouvenceau A; Billard JM; Dutar P; Lamour Y; Baker WA; Cox H; Emson PC, 1996, 'Deficits in memory and hippocampal long-term potentiation in mice with reduced calbindin D28K expression', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 93, pp. 8028 - 8033,
    Journal articles | 1996
    Wilkinson LS; Humby T; Killcross S; Robbins TW; Everitt BJ, 1996, 'Dissociations in hippocampal 5-hydroxytryptamine release in the rat following Pavlovian aversive conditioning to discrete and contextual stimuli', European Journal of Neuroscience, 8, pp. 1479 - 1487,
    Journal articles | 1995
    Killcross AS; Dickinson A; Robbins TW, 1995, 'The on-baseline latent inhibition effect is not counterconditioning', Psychopharmacology, 118, pp. 104 - 106,
    Journal articles | 1994
    Balleine B; Killcross S, 1994, 'Effects of ibotenic acid lesions of the Nucleus Accumbens on instrumental action', Behavioural Brain Research, 65, pp. 181 - 193,
    Journal articles | 1994
    Killcross AS; Dickinson A; Robbins TW, 1994, 'Amphetamine-induced disruptions of latent inhibition are reinforcer mediated: implications for animal models of schizophrenic attentional dysfunction', Psychopharmacology, 115, pp. 185 - 195,
    Journal articles | 1994
    Killcross AS; Dickinson A; Robbins TW, 1994, 'Effects of the neuroleptic α-flupenthixol on latent inhibition in aversively- and appetitively-motivated paradigms: evidence for dopamine-reinforcer interactions', Psychopharmacology, 115, pp. 196 - 205,
    Journal articles | 1994
    Wilkinson LS; Killcross SS; Humby T; Hall FS; Geyer MA; Robbins TW, 1994, 'Social isolation in the rat produces developmentally specific deficits in prepulse inhibition of the acoustic startle response without disrupting latent inhibition', Neuropsychopharmacology, 10, pp. 61 - 72,
    Journal articles | 1993
    Killcross AS; Robbins TW, 1993, 'Differential effects of intra-accumbens and systemic amphetamine on latent inhibition using an on-baseline, within-subject conditioned suppression paradigm', Psychopharmacology, 110, pp. 479 - 489,
  • Preprints | 2024
    Kennedy N; Lee J; Killcross S; Westbrook F; Holmes N, 2024, Prediction error determines how memories are organized in the brain: a study of Pavlovian fear extinction in rats,
    Preprints | 2024
    Kennedy NGW; Lee JC; Killcross S; Westbrook RF; Holmes NM, 2024, Prediction error determines how memories are organized in the brain,
    Preprints | 2022
    Panayi MC; Killcross S, 2022, Orbitofrontal Cortex is necessary for the behavioural expression, but not learning, of Pavlovian conditioned inhibition,
    Preprints | 2022
    Qureshi O; Leake J; Delaney A; Killcross S; Westbrook F; Holmes N, 2022, Danger changes the way the brain consolidates neutral information; and does so by interacting with processes involved in the encoding of that information,
    Preprints | 2020
    Liu Y; Jean-Richard-dit-Bressel P; Yau JO-Y; Willing A; Prasad A; Power J; Killcross S; Clifford CWG; McNally G, 2020, The mesolimbic dopamine signatures of relapse to alcohol-seeking,
    Preprints | 2019
    Prasad A; Xie C; Chaichim C; Killcross S; Power J; McNally G, 2019, Complementary roles for ventral pallidum cell types and their projections in relapse,
    Conference Abstracts | 2015
    Nguyen J; Kosari S; Badoer E; Spencer SJ; Killcross S; Jenkins TA, 2015, 'The effect of western diet consumption on neuronal activation in the hippocampus and associated brain regions', in JOURNAL OF NEUROCHEMISTRY, WILEY-BLACKWELL, AUSTRALIA, Cairns, Vol. 134, pp. 172 - 172, presented at 25th Biennial Meeting of the International-Society-for-Neurochemistry Jointly with the 13th Meeting of the Asian-Pacific-Society-for-Neurochemistry in Conjunction with the 35th Meeting of the Australasian-Neuroscience-Society, AUSTRALIA, Cairns, 23 August 2015 - 27 August 2015,
    Conference Papers | 2010
    Reichelt AC; Haddon JE; Wilkinson LS; Killcross AS; Good MA, 2010, 'ATTENUATION OF D-AMPHETAMINE-INDUCED DISRUPTION OF CONFLICT RESOLUTION BY CLOZAPINE IN RATS', in JOURNAL OF PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY, SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD, ENGLAND, Harrogate, pp. A17 - A17, presented at Summer Meeting of the British-Association-for-Psychopharmacology, ENGLAND, Harrogate, 25 July 2010 - 28 July 2010,
    Conference Papers | 2007
    Nelson AJD; Killcross S, 2007, 'Inactivation of the infralimbic cortex reinstates goal-directed responding in amphetamine-sensitized animals', in BEHAVIOURAL PHARMACOLOGY, LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS, GERMANY, Tubingen, pp. S66 - S66, presented at 12th Biennial Meeting of the European-Pharmacology-Society, GERMANY, Tubingen, 31 August 2007 - 03 September 2007,
    Conference Papers | 2003
    Killcross S, 2003, 'Time course of behavioural and molecular changes in learning', in JOURNAL OF PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY, SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD, ENGLAND, CAMBRIDGE, pp. A6 - A6, presented at Summer Meeting of the British-Association-for-Psychopharmacology, ENGLAND, CAMBRIDGE, 20 July 2003 - 23 July 2003,

International and National Competition:

2019-2022ÌýNHMRC Project grant (1160399) Role of neuroinflammation and neurotransmitter systems in the improved cognition induced by estrogen receptor modulation (Co-CIs Shannon-Weikert, Purves-Tyson, Meyer) $712,518
2018-2019ÌýARC LEIF grant (LE180100012) All-optical manipulation and recording of neural circuit activity (Co-CIs, McNally, Balleine, Dayas, Richardson, Brichta, Graham)Ìý$456,060
2017-2019ÌýARC Discovery grant (DP170103952) The neural substrates of a false fear memory in rats (Co-CIs, Holmes, Laurent, Westbrook)Ìý$495,837
2016-2018ÌýNHMRC Project grant (1098436): Brain circuits promoting abstinence and preventing relapse to alcohol seeking. (Co-CIs, McNally, Power)Ìý$591,995
2014-2017 NHMRC Project Grant (1069487): Prediction error processing in schizophrenia. (Co-CIs, Le Pelley, Morris, Green, Whitford)Ìý$245,000
2013 -2015 ARC Discovery grant: Neural substrates of higher-order conditioned fear. (CI, Prof RF Westbrook) $314,000
2012-2014 ARC Discovery grant: Uncertainty and response control in the prefrontal cortex. $336,000
2012-2014 NHMRC project grant: Neuronal substrate of choice in the rat whisker system. (Co-CIs, Arabzadeh, Westbrook) $408,510
2010-2013 NHMRC project grant: Methamphetamine-induced habits and the re-establishment of behavioural control. (Co-CI, Prof BW Balleine) $556,500
2010-2013 ARC Discovery grant: Latent inhibition: behavioural characteristics and neural substrates. (CI, Prof RF Westbrook) $409,701
2009-2012 NHMRC project grant: The neurochemical basis of behavioural control: relevance for addiction, OCD and Tourette syndrome. $360,375
2009-2012 ARC Discovery grant: The role of the prefrontal cortex in responding to a changing world. $280,000
2006-2009 BBSRC project grant: Actions and habits: The relation between cognitive control and behavioural autonomy. £434,803
2006-2007 Tourette Syndrome Association: Animal models of TS and habit formation. $75,000
2004-2007 BBSRC IABB Initiative grant: The hippocampal formation - an examination and integration of spatial and non-spatial functions. Co-Is: R. Honey, M. Good (Cardiff), and K. Jeffery, N. Burgess (UCL). £701,879

2020 Fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales.

2017 Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Teaching Excellence, UNSW.

2012 Elected Fellow of the Eastern Psychological Association (USA).

2001/2 UK Experimental Psychology Society Prize lecturer award. For outstanding contributions to Experimental Psychology.

1999 British Psychological Society Spearman Medal winner. For published work of outstanding scientific merit.

1997Ìý SmithKline Beecham & British Association for Psychopharmacology, Young Psychopharmacologist of the Year Prize.

Simon’s main areas of interest concern brain mechanisms underlying learning and cognition. One focus of research is the neural substrates underlying executive function, particularly with reference to animal models of schizophrenia. The approach taken is to use well-defined behavioural procedures drawn from current associative learning theory, as well as novel behavioural paradigms, to allow the systematic investigation of the role played by different brain systems in the executive control of cognition and behaviour, with the intention of informing not only psychopharmacological research on putative treatments for mental disorders such as schizophrenia, but also current theories about the interaction of different systems in the higher level control of cognitive function. As such, many areas that touch on on the role of fronto-striatal systems in the control of behaviour are of interest, including projects on addiction, decision making and gambling. Simon also does research applying these findings in a translational manner to patient populations (mostly schizophrenia) and to studies of the broader schizotypic phenotype in the general population.

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Recent Students PhD and Honours

PhD

2023 - currentÌý Ìý Ìý Abigail Marcus, School of Psychology, UNSW.

2021 – currentÌýÌýÌýÌý Cassandra Ma, School of Psychology, UNSW.

2012-2016ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý Phillip Green, School of Psychology, UNSW.

2011-2015ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý Helena Pacitti, School of Psychology, UNSW.

2011-2015ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý Stephanie Roughly, School of Psychology, UNSW.

2010-2014ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý Marios Panayi, School of Psychology, UNSW.

2010-2014ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý Melissa Sharpe, School of Psychology, UNSW.

Honours:

2021Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Nashita Khan