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Burton M. Slotnick

Burton M. Slotnick

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Neuroscience

D-Index
57
Citations
7605
World Ranking
4429
National Ranking
2004

Overview

Burton M. Slotnick is affiliated with American University in the United States. Their research spans several fields, primarily focusing on neuroscience and psychology.

The main fields of study for Slotnick include:

  • Neuroscience
  • Psychology

Their subfields of study cover:

  • Social Psychology
  • Behavioral Neuroscience
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Ecology

Slotnick's work addresses key topics such as:

  • Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
  • Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies

They have contributed to multiple publications, including research articles in the following venues:

  • Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
  • Animal Cognition

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Slotnick include:

  • Rats (Rattus norvegicus) find occupancy of a restraint tube rewarding, 2020, Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
  • No evidence tube entrapment distresses rodents in typical empathy tests, 2024, Animal Cognition

Slotnick has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Alan Silberberg
  • María José Velasco Gómez
  • Yosuke Hachiga
  • Dwi Atmoko Agung Nugroho
  • Sri Kusrohmaniah

Best Publications

  • Effects of odors on pain perception: deciphering the roles of emotion and attention

    Chantal Villemure;Burton M Slotnick;M Catherine Bushnell

  • Olfactory learning-set formation in rats.

    Burton M. Slotnick;Howard M. Katz

  • Performance of mice in an automated olfactometer: odor detection, discrimination and odor memory.

    Natalya Bodyak;Burton Slotnick

  • Dual olfactory representation in the rat thalamus: An anatomical and electrophysiological study

    Joseph L. Price;Burton M. Slotnick

  • Rats with low levels of brain docosahexaenoic acid show impaired performance in olfactory-based and spatial learning tasks.

    Rebecca Sheaff Greiner;Toru Moriguchi;Ana Hutton;Burton M. Slotnick

  • Cognitive deficits in docosahexaenoic acid-deficient rats.

    Janice Catalan;Toru Moriguchi;Burton Slotnick;Mahadev Murthy

  • Desire for social contact, not empathy, may explain “rescue” behavior in rats

    Alan Silberberg;Candice Allouch;Samantha Sandfort;David Kearns

  • Olfactory projections to the hypothalamus

    Joseph L (Joel) Price;B. M. Slotnick;M. ‐F Revial

  • Disturbances of Maternal Behavior in the Rat Following Lesions of the Cingulate Cortex

    Burton M. Slotnick

  • Odors Detected by Mice Deficient in Cyclic Nucleotide-Gated Channel Subunit A2 Stimulate the Main Olfactory System

    Weihong Lin;Julie Arellano;Burton Slotnick;Diego Restrepo

  • Animal cognition and the rat olfactory system

    Burton Slotnick

  • Does Intranasal Application of Zinc Sulfate Produce Anosmia in the Mouse? An Olfactometric and Anatomical Study

    Kathleen McBride;Burton Slotnick;Frank L. Margolis

  • Alterations in brain function after loss of docosahexaenoate due to dietary restriction of n-3 fatty acids.

    Norman Salem;Toru Moriguchi;Rebecca Sheaff Greiner;Kathleen McBride;Kathleen McBride

  • What the rat's nose tells the rat's mouth: Long delay aversion conditioning with aqueous odors and potentiation of taste by odors

    Burton M. Slotnick;Fred Westbrook;Frances M. C. Darling

  • Role of Mediodorsal Thalamic Nucleus in Olfactory Discrimination Learning in Rats

    Burton M. Slotnick;Naohiro Kaneko

  • Olfactory discrimination deficits in n-3 fatty acid-deficient rats.

    Rebecca Sheaff Greiner;Toru Moriguchi;Burton M Slotnick;Ana Hutton

  • Intraspecific fighting in albino mice with septal forebrain lesions

    Burton M. Slotnick;Martha F. McMullen

  • Olfactory discrimination, reversal learning, and stimulus control in rats.

    Barry J. Nigrosh;Burton M. Slotnick;John A. Nevin

  • Roles of olfactory system dysfunction in depression.

    Ti-Fei Yuan;Burton M. Slotnick

  • Olfaction in rats with extensive lesions of the olfactory bulbs: implications for odor coding

    X.-C.M Lu;B.M Slotnick

Frequent Co-Authors

David G. Laing
David G. Laing University of New South Wales
Diego Restrepo
Diego Restrepo University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Richard E. Brown
Richard E. Brown Dalhousie University
Joseph L. Price
Joseph L. Price Washington University in St. Louis
Yadin Dudai
Yadin Dudai Weizmann Institute of Science
Paul Witkovsky
Paul Witkovsky New York University
Ti-Fei Yuan
Ti-Fei Yuan Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Vahe E. Amassian
Vahe E. Amassian SUNY Downstate Medical Center
William A. Mason
William A. Mason University of California, Davis
Shepard Siegel
Shepard Siegel McMaster University

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