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Overview

Bernard W. Balleine is affiliated with the University of New South Wales in Australia and focuses primarily on neuroscience research. Their body of work encompasses several subfields including cognitive neuroscience, cellular and molecular neuroscience, neurology, behavioral neuroscience, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

They have contributed extensively to understanding key topics within neuroscience, including:

  • Neurotransmitter receptor influence on behavior
  • Memory and neural mechanisms
  • Neuroscience and neuropharmacology research
  • Neural and behavioral psychology studies
  • Stress responses and cortisol
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders

Their recent publications illustrate the focus areas of their research. Key papers include:

  • Local D2- to D1-neuron transmodulation updates goal-directed learning in the striatum, 2020, Science
  • Determining the effects of training duration on the behavioral expression of habitual control in humans: a multilaboratory investigation, 2021, Learning & Memory
  • Goal-directed actions transiently depend on dorsal hippocampus, 2020, Nature Neuroscience
  • Striatal direct and indirect pathway neurons differentially control the encoding and updating of goal-directed learning, 2020, eLife
  • Intact corticostriatal control of goal-directed action in Alcohol Use Disorder: a Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer and outcome-devaluation study, 2020, Scientific Reports

Balleine frequently collaborates with other researchers, with some of the most common coauthors being Laura A Bradfield, Beatrice K. Leung, Billy Chieng, Serena Becchi, and Genevra Hart.

Their work is published predominantly in journals such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), eLife, Neuroscience, SSRN Electronic Journal, and Scientific Reports.

Best Publications

  • Human and rodent homologies in action control: corticostriatal determinants of goal-directed and habitual action

    Bernard W Balleine;John P O'Doherty;John P O'Doherty

  • Goal-directed instrumental action: Contingency and incentive learning and their cortical substrates

    Bernard W Balleine;Anthony Dickinson

  • The Role of the Dorsal Striatum in Reward and Decision-Making

    Bernard W. Balleine;Mauricio R. Delgado;Okihide Hikosaka

  • Lesions of dorsolateral striatum preserve outcome expectancy but disrupt habit formation in instrumental learning.

    Henry H. Yin;Barbara J. Knowlton;Bernard W. Balleine

  • The role of the dorsomedial striatum in instrumental conditioning.

    Henry H. Yin;Sean B. Ostlund;Barbara J. Knowlton;Bernard W. Balleine

  • Reward, Motivation, and Reinforcement Learning

    Peter Dayan;Bernard W. Balleine

  • A specific role for posterior dorsolateral striatum in human habit learning

    Elizabeth Tricomi;Bernard W. Balleine;Bernard W. Balleine;John P. O’Doherty;John P. O’Doherty

  • Parallel incentive processing: an integrated view of amygdala function.

    Bernard W. Balleine;Simon Killcross

  • Double dissociation of basolateral and central amygdala lesions on the general and outcome-specific forms of pavlovian-instrumental transfer.

    Laura H. Corbit;Bernard W. Balleine

  • The Role of the Nucleus Accumbens in Instrumental Conditioning: Evidence of a Functional Dissociation between Accumbens Core and Shell

    Laura H. Corbit;Janice L. Muir;Bernard W. Balleine

  • The Role of Learning in the Operation of Motivational Systems

    Anthony Dickinson;Bernard Balleine

  • Inactivation of dorsolateral striatum enhances sensitivity to changes in the action–outcome contingency in instrumental conditioning

    Henry H. Yin;Barbara J. Knowlton;Bernard W. Balleine

  • Blockade of NMDA receptors in the dorsomedial striatum prevents action-outcome learning in instrumental conditioning.

    Henry H. Yin;Barbara J. Knowlton;Bernard W. Balleine

  • The role of prelimbic cortex in instrumental conditioning.

    Laura H Corbit;Bernard W Balleine

  • Reward‐guided learning beyond dopamine in the nucleus accumbens: the integrative functions of cortico‐basal ganglia networks

    Henry H. Yin;Sean B. Ostlund;Bernard W. Balleine

  • Orbitofrontal Cortex Mediates Outcome Encoding in Pavlovian But Not Instrumental Conditioning

    Sean B. Ostlund;Bernard W. Balleine

  • The Effect of Lesions of the Basolateral Amygdala on Instrumental Conditioning

    Bernard W. Balleine;A. Simon Killcross;Anthony Dickinson

  • The integrative function of the basal ganglia in instrumental conditioning.

    Bernard W. Balleine;Mimi Liljeholm;Sean B. Ostlund

  • Neural bases of food-seeking: Affect, arousal and reward in corticostriatolimbic circuits ☆

    Bernard W. Balleine

  • Habits, action sequences and reinforcement learning

    Amir Dezfouli;Bernard W. Balleine

Frequent Co-Authors

Sean B. Ostlund
Sean B. Ostlund University of California, Irvine
Anthony Dickinson
Anthony Dickinson University of Cambridge
John P. O'Doherty
John P. O'Doherty California Institute of Technology
Simon Killcross
Simon Killcross University of New South Wales
Nigel T. Maidment
Nigel T. Maidment University of California, Los Angeles
Henry H. Yin
Henry H. Yin Duke University
Ian B. Hickie
Ian B. Hickie University of Sydney
Bryce Vissel
Bryce Vissel St Vincent's Hospital Sydney
Barbara J. Knowlton
Barbara J. Knowlton University of California, Los Angeles
Adam J. Guastella
Adam J. Guastella University of Sydney

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