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Overview

Louis D. Matzel is affiliated with Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Psychology and Neuroscience, with a focus on subfields such as Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Molecular Biology, Social Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Behavioral Neuroscience.

The scientist's published works examine various topics including Cognitive Abilities and Testing, Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling, Neuroendocrine Regulation and Behavior, Stress Responses and Cortisol, Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies, Alzheimer's Disease Research and Treatments, and Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms.

Recent papers by Louis D. Matzel include the following:

  • "A multi-faceted role of dual-state dopamine signaling in working memory, attentional control, and intelligence" (2023, Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience)
  • "A Chronic Increase in Blood-Brain Barrier Permeability Facilitates Intraneuronal Deposition of Exogenous Bloodborne Amyloid-Beta1-42 Peptide in the Brain and Leads to Alzheimer's Disease-Relevant Cognitive Changes in a Mouse Model" (2024, Journal of Alzheimer s Disease)
  • "Intelligence demands flexibility: Individual differences in attentional disengagement strongly predict the general cognitive ability of mice" (2020, Learning and Motivation)
  • "General Cognitive Ability Predicts Survival-Readiness in Genetically Heterogeneous Laboratory Mice" (2020, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution)
  • "Déjà vu All Over Again: A Unitary Biological Mechanism for Intelligence Is (Probably) Untenable" (2020, Journal of Intelligence)

Louis D. Matzel frequently collaborates with the following coauthors:

  • Dylan W. Crawfordli>
  • Himali M. Patel
  • Bruno Sauce
  • Margarita D. Manzano
  • Monica C. Piela

The usual publication venues where this researcher has contributed multiple times are:

  • Learning and Motivation
  • Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
  • Journal of Alzheimer s Disease
  • Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  • Journal of Intelligence

Best Publications

  • The Comparator Hypothesis: A Response Rule for The Expression of Associations

    Ralph R. Miller;Louis D. Matzel

  • Long-term potentiation: What's learning got to do with it?

    Tracey J. Shors;Louis D. Matzel

  • The role of the hippocampus in trace conditioning: Temporal discontinuity or task difficulty?

    Anna V. Beylin;Chetan C. Gandhi;Gwendolyn E. Wood;Andrew C. Talk

  • Recovery of an overshadowed association achieved by extinction of the overshadowing stimulus.

    Louis D Matzel;Todd R Schachtman;Ralph R Miller

  • Information and expression of simultaneous and backward associations: Implications for contiguity theory☆

    Louis D. Matzel;Fran P. Held;Ralph R. Miller

  • Individual differences in the expression of a "general" learning ability in mice.

    Louis D. Matzel;Yu Ray Han;Henya Grossman;Meghana S. Karnik

  • The Neuroscience of Learning: Beyond the Hebbian Synapse

    C. R. Gallistel;Louis D. Matzel

  • The paradox of intelligence: Heritability and malleability coexist in hidden gene-environment interplay.

    Bruno Sauce;Louis D. Matzel

  • The repeatability of cognitive performance: a meta-analysis

    Maxime Cauchoix;P Chow;P Chow;J van Horik;C Atance

  • Memory involves far more than 'consolidation'.

    Ralph R. Miller;Louis D. Matzel

  • Selective attention, working memory, and animal intelligence.

    Louis D. Matzel;Stefan Kolata

  • Exploration in outbred mice covaries with general learning abilities irrespective of stress reactivity, emotionality, and physical attributes

    Louis D. Matzel;David A. Townsend;Henya Grossman;Yu Ray Han

  • Working memory training promotes general cognitive abilities in genetically heterogeneous mice.

    Kenneth R. Light;Stefan Kolata;Christopher Wass;Alexander Denman-Brice

  • Regulation of short-term associative memory by calcium-dependent protein kinase

    LD Matzel;II Lederhendler;DL Alkon

  • Associative effects of US preexposure: modulation of conditioned responding by an excitatory training context.

    Louis D. Matzel;Andrea M. Brown;Ralph R. Miller

  • Retrieval failure versus memory loss in experimental amnesia: definitions and processes.

    Ralph R. Miller;Louis D. Matzel

  • Learned irrelevance exceeds the sum of CS-preexposure and US-preexposure deficits.

    Louis D. Matzel;Todd R. Schachtman;Ralph R. Miller

  • Variations in working memory capacity predict individual differences in general learning abilities among genetically diverse mice.

    Stefan Kolata;Kenneth Light;David A. Townsend;Gregory Hale

  • Selective attention is a primary determinant of the relationship between working memory and general learning ability in outbred mice.

    Stefan Kolata;Kenneth Light;Henya C. Grossman;Gregory Hale

  • Contraction of neuronal branching volume: an anatomic correlate of Pavlovian conditioning.

    D L Alkon;H Ikeno;J Dworkin;D L McPhie

Frequent Co-Authors

Ralph R. Miller
Ralph R. Miller Binghamton University
Daniel L. Alkon
Daniel L. Alkon West Virginia University
Bernard G. Schreurs
Bernard G. Schreurs West Virginia University
Tracey J. Shors
Tracey J. Shors Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Joël Fagot
Joël Fagot Aix-Marseille University
Stephen E. G. Lea
Stephen E. G. Lea University of Exeter
Ludwig Huber
Ludwig Huber University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
Melitta Schachner
Melitta Schachner Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Charles R. Gallistel
Charles R. Gallistel Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Michael Lewis
Michael Lewis Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

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