Verity Brown

Verity Brown

Pro-Vice Chancellor, Impact & Innovation

Department of Psychology & Human Development , School of Childhood and Social Care

Qualifications

  • BSc
  • MBA
  • PhD
  • FRSE
Verity Brown

CURRENT RESEARCH

  •  Research interest: cognitive and executive function in humans and other animals 

PUBLICATIONS

  • Tait, D. S., Bowman, E. E., Miller, S., Dovlatyan, M., Sanchez, C., & Brown, V. J. (2021). Escitalopram restores reversal learning impairments in rats with lesions of orbital frontal cortext. In S. Löbner, T. Gamerschlag, T. Kalenscher, M. Schrenk, & H. Zeevat (Eds.), Concepts, frames and cascades in semantics, cognition and ontology (pp. 389–409). Springer. 

  • Wang, J., Tait, D. S., Brown, V. J., & Bowman, E. M. (2019). Exacerbation of the credit assignment problem in rats with lesions of the medial prefrontal cortex is revealed by Bayesian analysis of behavior in the pre-solution period of learning. Behavioural Brain Research, 372, 112037. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2019.112037Brown, V. J., & Tait, D. S. (2016). Attentional Set-Shifting Across Species. Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences, 28, 363–395.

  • Dhawan, S. S., Tait, D. S., & Brown, V. J. (2019). More rapid reversal learning following overtraining in the rat is evidence that behavioural and cognitive flexibility are dissociable. Behavioural Brain Research, 363, 45–52. 

  • Daggett, J. M., Brown, V. J., & Brennan, C. H. (2019). Food or friends? What motivates zebrafish (Danio rerio) performing a visual discrimination. Behavioural Brain Research, 359, 190–196.

  • Dhawan, S. S., Xia, S., Tait, D. S., Bundgaard, C., Bowman, E., & Brown, V. J. (2018). Oral dosing of rodents using a palatable tablet. Psychopharmacology, 235(5), 1527–1532.

  • Tait, D. S., Phillips, J. M., Blackwell, A. D., & Brown, V. J. (2017). Effects of lesions of the subthalamic nucleus/zona incerta area and dorsomedial striatum on attentional set-shifing in the rat. Neuroscience, 345, 287–296.

  • Brown, V. J., & Tait, D. S. (2016). Attentional Set-Shifting Across Species. Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences, 28, 363–395.

  • Tait, D. S., Chase, E. A., & Brown, V. J. (2014). Attentional Set-Shifting in Rodents: A Review of Behavioural Methods and Pharmacological Results. Current Pharmaceutical Design, 20(31), 5046–5059.

  • Barker, V., Pope, M., Smith, S., Brown, V., & Hall, J. (2014). Set shifting and reversal learning in borderline personality disorder. Personality and Mental Health, 8(1), 1–13.

  • Schumann, G., Binder, E. B., Holte, A., de Kloet, E. R., Oedegaard, K. J., Robbins, T. W., Walker-Tilley, T. R., Bitter, I., Brown, V. J., Buitelaar, J., Ciccocioppo, R., Cools, R., Escera, C., Fleischhacker, W., Flor, H., Frith, C. D., Heinz, A., Johnsen, E., Kirschbaum, C., … Wittchen, H. U. (2014). Stratified medicine for mental disorders. European Neuropsychopharmacology, 24(1), 5–50.

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