Dissertation
Selective Delay Activity In The Medial Prefrontal Cortex: The Contribution Of Sensory-Motor Information And Expectation (2008). The University of Arizona, Ph.D. Dissertation. [PDF] [HTML]
Journal Articles and Book Chapters
McNaughton, B.L., Barnes, C.A., Battaglia, F.P., Bower, M.R., Cowen, S.L., Ekstrom, A.D., Gerrard, J.L., Hoffman, K.L., Houston, P.F., Karten, Y., Lipa, P., Pennartz, C.M.A. and Sutherland, G.R. (2003) Off-line reprocessing of recent memory and its role in memory consolidation: A progress report. In: P. Maguet, C. Smith and B. Stickgold (Eds.) Sleep and Brain Plasticity. Oxford University Press: United Kingdom, pp. 225-246.
Abstracts and Presentations
Kudrimoti, H.S., McNaughton, B.L., and Cowen, S.L. Direct demonstration of hippocampal memory reactivation in sleep using population vector correlations. Society for Neuroscience Meeting, Los Angeles, California, November, 1998
Cowen, S., Hau, B.S., McNaughton, B.L., Barnes, C.A. Selective reactivation of hippocampal place cells associated with a single reward arm following a reference-memory task. Tenth Annual Undergraduate Biology Research Conference, Tucson, AZ January, 1999.
Gerrard, J.L., Cowen, S.L., Kudrimoti, H.S., Rosenzweig, E.S., Redish, A.D., Barnes, C.A., and McNaughton, B.L. Equivalent reactivation of hippocampal memory traces for a novel experience in young adult and aged rats. Society for Neuroscience Meeting, New Orleans, November 2000. (Abstract)
Cowen, S.L., Kudrimoti, H.S., Gerrard, J.L., McNaughton, B.L., and Barnes, C.A. Three measures of neural ensemble reactivation in the hippocampus fail to reflect reward probabilities present in a familiar task. Society for Neuroscience Meeting, New Orleans, November 2000. (Abstract)
Battaglia, F.P., McNaughton, B.L., Cowen, S.L., and Bower, M.R. Detecting memory trace reactivation with hidden Markov models. Society for Neuroscience Meeting, New Orleans, November 2000. (Abstract)
Lindstedt, E.R., Cowen, S.L., Karten, Y.J., and McNaughton, B.L. How are dreams remembered? A neurophysiological investigation of reactivation of REM sleep activity patterns during subsequent slow wave sleep. Thirteenth Annual Undergraduate Biology Research Conference, Tucson, AZ, January 2002. (Abstract)
Gerrard, J.L, Kudrimoti, H.S., Cowen, S.L., Redish, A.D., Rosenzweig, E.S., Barnes, C.A. & McNaughton, B.L. Dissociation of pattern and sequence reactivation efficiency in the aged rat hippocampus. Society for
Neuroscience Meeting, Orlando. FL, November 2002. (Abstract)
Karten, Y.J., Cowen, S.L., Lindstedt, E.R., Kudrimoti, H.S., Gerrard, J.L., McNaughton, B.L. & Barnes, C.A. Reactivation of activity of neural ensembles during sleep in the rat hippocampus is not affected by positive or negative events during waking. Society for Neuroscience Meeting, Orlando. FL, November 2002. (Abstract)
Cowen, S.L. Delay activity in the medial prefrontal cortex of the rat. RIKEN, Tokyo, Japan, July 2005. (Presentation)
Maurer, A.P., Cowen, S.L., Burke, S.N., Meltzer, J., Dees, J.A., McNaughton, B.L., and Barnes, C.A. Lack of hysteresis of place fields during radial maze rotations. Society for Neuroscience Meeting, Washington DC, November 2005. (Abstract)
Cowen, S.L., Ruiz Luna, M.L., Martin, J.P., Burke, S.N., and McNaughton, B.L. Delay activity in the medial prefrontal cortex of the rat discriminates between stimulus sequences that predict future reward. Society for Neuroscience Meeting, Washington DC, November 2005. (Abstract)
Maurer, A.P., Cowen, S.N., Burke, S.N., Barnes, C.A., and McNaughton, B.L. Spike timing of CA1 interneurons relative to the theta rhythm in the freely behaving rat. 5th Forum of European Neuroscience, Vienna, Austria, July 2006. (Abstract)
Cowen, S.L. and McNaughton, B.L. Firing rate activity of a subset of neurons in the medial prefrontal cortex of the rat increases in response to cues that improve the prediction of future delivery of food reward. Society for Neuroscience Meeting, Atlanta, GA, October 2006 (Abstract).
Maurer, A.P., Cowen, S.L., Burke, S.N., Barnes, C.A. and McNaughton, B.L. Organization of hippocampal cell assemblies based on theta phase precession. Society for Neuroscience Meeting, Atlanta, GA, October 2006 (Abstract).
McNaughton, B.L., Maurer, A.P., Cowen, S.L., Burke, S.N. and Barnes, C.A. Spike timing of CA1 interneurons relative to the theta rhythm in the freely behaving rat. Society for Neuroscience Meeting, Atlanta, GA, October 2006 (Abstract).
Cowen, S.L. and McNaughton, B.L. Reward Expectancy Increases the Sensitivity of mPFC Neurons to Sensory-Motor Information. Society for Neuroscience Meeting, San Diego, CA, October 2007 (Abstract).