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19704
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1593
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166

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David Gaffan is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. They have contributed to academic research primarily through their work at this institution.

No specific publications, co-authors, or detailed topics of study are available for David Gaffan at this time.

There is no record of awards or recognitions granted to David Gaffan in the provided data.

Their academic profile currently does not include documented paper titles, publication venues, or citations, nor information on books published or research subfields within their broader domain.

Given the absence of detailed information on research topics, co-authors, and publication output, the profile rests firmly on the single confirmed affiliation with the University of Oxford.

Best Publications

  • Dynamic Coding for Cognitive Control in Prefrontal Cortex

    Mark G. Stokes;Makoto Kusunoki;Makoto Kusunoki;Natasha Sigala;Hamed Nili

  • Scene-specific memory for objects: A model of episodic memory impairment in monkeys with fornix transection

    David Gaffan

  • Projections from inferior temporal cortex to prefrontal cortex via the uncinate fascicle in rhesus monkeys.

    L. G. Ungerleider;D. Gaffan;V. S. Pelak

  • Excitotoxic Lesions of the Amygdala Fail to Produce Impairment in Visual Learning for Auditory Secondary Reinforcement But Interfere with Reinforcer Devaluation Effects in Rhesus Monkeys

    Ludis̆e Málková;David Gaffan;Elisabeth A. Murray

  • Neural substrates of visual stimulus-stimulus association in rhesus monkeys

    Elisabeth A. Murray;David Gaffan;Mortimer Mishkin

  • Monkeys (Macaca fascicularis) with rhinal cortex ablations succeed in object discrimination learning despite 24-hr intertrial intervals and fail at matching to sample despite double sample presentations.

    David Gaffan;Elisabeth A. Murray

  • Preserved recognition memory for small sets, and impaired stimulus identification for large sets, following rhinal cortex ablations in monkeys.

    M. J. Eacott;D. Gaffan;E. A. Murray

  • Dissociated effects of perirhinal cortex ablation, fornix transection and amygdalectomy: evidence for multiple memory systems in the primate temporal lobe.

    D. Gaffan

  • Specialization in the medial temporal lobe for processing of objects and scenes.

    Andy C. H. Lee;Mark J. Buckley;Sarah J. Pegman;Hugo Spiers

  • The human medial temporal lobe processes online representations of complex objects.

    Morgan D. Barense;David Gaffan;Kim Samantha Graham;Kim Samantha Graham

  • Perirhinal Cortex Ablation Impairs Visual Object Identification

    Mark J. Buckley;David Gaffan

  • Place memory and scene memory: effects of fornix transection in the monkey.

    D. Gaffan;S. Harrison

  • Associative recognition in a patient with selective hippocampal lesions and relatively normal item recognition.

    Andrew R. Mayes;J. S. Holdstock;C. L. Isaac;D. Montaldi

  • Selective perceptual impairments after perirhinal cortex ablation.

    Mark J. Buckley;Michael C. A. Booth;Edmund T. Rolls;David Gaffan

  • The effect of cingulate lesions on social behaviour and emotion.

    K.A Hadland;M.F.S Rushworth;D Gaffan;R.E Passingham

  • A comparative analysis of the role of fornix and cingulate cortex in memory: rats.

    A. L. Markowska;A. L. Markowska;D. S. Olton;E. A. Murray;D. Gaffan

  • Differential cognitive effects of colloid cysts in the third ventricle that spare or compromise the fornix.

    John Patrick Aggleton;D. McMackin;K. Carpenter;J. Hornak

  • Filtering of neural signals by focused attention in the monkey prefrontal cortex.

    Stefan Everling;Chris J. Tinsley;Chris J. Tinsley;David Gaffan;John Duncan

  • The Anterior Cingulate and Reward-Guided Selection of Actions

    K. A. Hadland;M.F.S. Rushworth;D. Gaffan;R. E. Passingham

  • Effects of fornix transection and cingulate cortical ablation on spatial memory in rhesus monkeys.

    E. A. Murray;M. Davidson;D. Gaffan;D. S. Olton

  • A comparison of the effects of fornix transection and sulcus principalis ablation upon spatial learning by monkeys

    David Gaffan;Susan Harrison

  • Hemispheric asymmetry: what's right and what's left

    David Gaffan

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark J. Buckley
Mark J. Buckley University of Oxford
Mark G. Baxter
Mark G. Baxter Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
John S. Duncan
John S. Duncan University College London
Elisabeth A. Murray
Elisabeth A. Murray National Institutes of Health
Madeline J. Eacott
Madeline J. Eacott University of Essex
Kim S. Graham
Kim S. Graham Cardiff University
John R. Hodges
John R. Hodges University of Sydney
Edmund T. Rolls
Edmund T. Rolls University of Warwick
Matthew F. S. Rushworth
Matthew F. S. Rushworth University of Oxford
Richard E. Passingham
Richard E. Passingham University of Oxford

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