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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2004 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)
  • 1993 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Martin Sarter is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience, with significant contributions to medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Sarter's work spans cellular and molecular neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience, molecular biology, neurology, and pharmacology.

The main topics of their research include neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, nicotinic acetylcholine receptors study, memory and neural mechanisms, neurotransmitter receptor influence on behavior, cholinesterase and neurodegenerative diseases, neural dynamics and brain function, and neural and behavioral psychology studies.

Sarter has published frequently in journal venues including bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Journal of Neuroscience, Psychopharmacology, eNeuro, and eLife.

  • Forebrain Cholinergic Signaling: Wired and Phasic, Not Tonic, and Causing Behavior (2020), Journal of Neuroscience
  • Cholinergic systems, attentional-motor integration, and cognitive control in Parkinson's disease (2022), Progress in brain research
  • Complex Movement Control in a Rat Model of Parkinsonian Falls: Bidirectional Control by Striatal Cholinergic Interneurons (2020), Journal of Neuroscience
  • Addiction vulnerability and the processing of significant cues: Sign-, but not goal-, tracker perceptual sensitivity relies on cue salience (2020), Behavioral Neuroscience
  • α4β2 * Nicotinic Cholinergic Receptor Target Engagement in Parkinson Disease Gait-Balance Disorders (2021), Annals of Neurology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Sarter include Cassandra Avila, Cindy Lustig, Aaron Kucinski, Vinay Parikh, and Roger L. Albin.

Sarter has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) since 2004 and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) since 1993.

Best Publications

  • The cognitive neuroscience of sustained attention: where top-down meets bottom-up.

    Martin Sarter;Ben Givens;John P Bruno

  • Cognitive functions of cortical acetylcholine: toward a unifying hypothesis

    Martin Sarter;John P Bruno

  • Modes and models of forebrain cholinergic neuromodulation of cognition.

    Michael E Hasselmo;Martin Sarter

  • Unraveling the attentional functions of cortical cholinergic inputs: interactions between signal-driven and cognitive modulation of signal detection.

    Martin Sarter;Michael E. Hasselmo;John P. Bruno;Ben Givens

  • Prefrontal acetylcholine release controls cue detection on multiple timescales.

    Vinay Parikh;Rouba Kozak;Vicente Martinez;Martin Sarter

  • More attention must be paid: the neurobiology of attentional effort.

    Martin Sarter;William J. Gehring;Rouba Kozak

  • Attenuation of scopolamine-induced impairment of spontaneous alternation behaviour by antagonist but not inverse agonist and agonist β-carbolines

    Martin Sarter;Geert Bodewitz;David N. Stephens

  • Cortical cholinergic inputs mediating arousal, attentional processing and dreaming: differential afferent regulation of the basal forebrain by telencephalic and brainstem afferents.

    M Sarter;J.P Bruno

  • Choline transporters, cholinergic transmission and cognition.

    Martin Sarter;Vinay Parikh

  • Behavioral vigilance following infusions of 192 IgG-saporin into the basal forebrain : Selectivity of the behavioral impairment and relation to cortical AChE-positive fiber density

    Jill McGaughy;Tiffany Kaiser;Martin Sarter

  • Involvement of the amygdala in learning and memory: a critical review, with emphasis on anatomical relations.

    Martin Sarter;Hans J. Markowitsch

  • Phasic acetylcholine release and the volume transmission hypothesis: time to move on

    Martin Sarter;Vinay Parikh;W. Matthew Howe

  • Behavioral vigilance in rats: task validation and effects of age, amphetamine, and benzodiazepine receptor ligands.

    Jill McGaughy;Martin Sarter

  • Anxiety and cardiovascular reactivity: the basal forebrain cholinergic link.

    Gary G Berntson;Martin Sarter;John T Cacioppo

  • Increases in cortical acetylcholine release during sustained attention performance in rats.

    Anne Marie Himmelheber;Martin Sarter;John P Bruno

  • Brain imaging and cognitive neuroscience: Toward strong inference in attributing function to structure.

    Martin Sarter;Gary G. Berntson;John T. Cacioppo

  • Attentional functions of cortical cholinergic inputs: what does it mean for learning and memory?

    Martin Sarter;John P. Bruno;Ben Givens

  • Modulators in concert for cognition: modulator interactions in the prefrontal cortex.

    Lisa A. Briand;Howard Gritton;William M. Howe;Damon A. Young

  • Sustained Visual Attention Performance-Associated Prefrontal Neuronal Activity: Evidence for Cholinergic Modulation

    T. Michael Gill;Martin Sarter;Ben Givens

  • Ascending visceral regulation of cortical affective information processing

    Gary G. Berntson;Martin Sarter;John T. Cacioppo

  • Differential cortical acetylcholine release in rats performing a sustained attention task versus behavioral control tasks that do not explicitly tax attention

    H.M Arnold;J.A Burk;E.M Hodgson;M Sarter

Frequent Co-Authors

John P. Bruno
John P. Bruno The Ohio State University
Cindy Lustig
Cindy Lustig University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Vinay Parikh
Vinay Parikh Temple University
Gary G. Berntson
Gary G. Berntson The Ohio State University
Paul A. Dudchenko
Paul A. Dudchenko University of Stirling
Jean-Marc Fritschy
Jean-Marc Fritschy University of Zurich
Shelly B. Flagel
Shelly B. Flagel University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Nicolaas I. Bohnen
Nicolaas I. Bohnen University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Martijn L.T.M. Müller
Martijn L.T.M. Müller University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Hans J. Markowitsch
Hans J. Markowitsch Bielefeld University

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