Dr Tim Bussey

University position
Reader
Dr Tim Bussey is pleased to consider applications from prospective PhD students.
Departments
Institutes
Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute
Home page
http://www.tcnlab.psychol.cam.ac.uk (personal home page)
Research Themes
Interests
We are interested in the neurobiology of visual learning, memory and perception. Our research is conducted at two different levels of brain organisation, the anatomical systems and neural network levels. The former is concerned with brain structures and their function and relationship to one another. The latter is concerned mainly with neocortical circuitry and the action of neurotransmitters. These two levels are, we think, the appropriate ones at which to begin to address the two ‘big questions’ in which we are interested, namely 'How are visual memory and perception organised in the brain?' and 'What are the mechanisms of visual memory and perception in the brain?'

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Research Focus
Keywordstemporal lobes visual perception memory perirhinal cortex neural circuit |
Clinical conditionsAlzheimer's disease Amnesia Cognitive impairment Dementia Huntington's disease |
Equipment
Genetically modified mouse models
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
Neuropsychological testing
Pharmacological manipulations
Temporary and permanent brain lesions
Collaborators
Cambridge | United KingdomKim Graham Web: http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/psych/p... InternationalAndrew Holmes Web: http://www.niaaa.nih.gov/Researc... Elisabeth Murray Web: http://neuron.nimh.nih.gov/murray.... Larry Rothblat Web: http://www.gwu.edu/~psycde... |
Key publications
Creer DJ, Romberg C, Saksida LM, van Praag H, Bussey TJ (2010), “Running enhances spatial pattern separation in mice.” Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 107(5):2367-72 Details
Clelland CD, Choi M, Romberg C, Clemenson GD Jr, Fragniere A, Tyers P, Jessberger S, Saksida LM, Barker RA, Gage FH, Bussey TJ (2009), “A functional role for adult hippocampal neurogenesis in spatial pattern separation.” Science 325(5937):210-3 Details
Bartko SJ, Winters BD, Cowell R, Saksida LM, Bussey TJ (2007), “Perceptual impairments following perirhinal cortex lesions in rats: zero-delay object recognition and simultaneous oddity discriminations” Journal of Neuroscience 27(10):2548-2559 Details
Winters BD, Saksida LM, Bussey TJ (2006), “Paradoxical facilitation of object recognition memory following infusion of scopolamine into perirhinal cortex: implications for cholinergic system function” Journal of Neuroscience 26:9520-9529 Details
Publications
2012
Romberg C, Bussey TJ, Saksida LM (2012), “Paying more attention to attention: Towards more comprehensive cognitive translation using mouse models of Alzheimer's disease.” Brain Res Bull Details
2011
Barkus C, Feyder M, Graybeal C, Wright T, Wiedholz L, Izquierdo A, Kiselycznyk C, Schmitt W, Sanderson DJ, Rawlins JN, Saksida LM, Bussey TJ, Sprengel R, Bannerman D, Holmes A (2011), “Do GluA1 knockout mice exhibit behavioral abnormalities relevant to the negative or cognitive symptoms of schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder?” Neuropharmacology Details
Bartko SJ, Romberg C, White B, Wess J, Bussey TJ, Saksida LM (2011), “Intact attentional processing but abnormal responding in M1 muscarinic receptor-deficient mice using an automated touchscreen method.” Neuropharmacology 61(8):1366-78 Details
Bartko SJ, Vendrell I, Saksida LM, Bussey TJ (2011), “A computer-automated touchscreen paired-associates learning (PAL) task for mice: impairments following administration of scopolamine or dicyclomine and improvements following donepezil.” Psychopharmacology (Berl) 214(2):537-48 Details
Bekinschtein P, Oomen CA, Saksida LM, Bussey TJ (2011), “Effects of environmental enrichment and voluntary exercise on neurogenesis, learning and memory, and pattern separation: BDNF as a critical variable?” Semin Cell Dev Biol 22(5):536-42 Details
Bussey TJ, Holmes A, Lyon L, Mar AC, McAllister KA, Nithianantharajah J, Oomen CA, Saksida LM (2011), “New translational assays for preclinical modelling of cognition in schizophrenia: The touchscreen testing method for mice and rats.” Neuropharmacology Details
Graybeal C, Feyder M, Schulman E, Saksida LM, Bussey TJ, Brigman JL, Holmes A (2011), “Paradoxical reversal learning enhancement by stress or prefrontal cortical damage: rescue with BDNF.” Nat Neurosci 14(12):1507-9 Details
Lederle L, Weber S, Wright T, Feyder M, Brigman JL, Crombag HS, Saksida LM, Bussey TJ, Holmes A (2011), “Reward-related behavioral paradigms for addiction research in the mouse: performance of common inbred strains.” PLoS One 6(1):e15536 Details
Lyon L, Saksida LM, Bussey TJ (2011), “Spontaneous object recognition and its relevance to schizophrenia: a review of findings from pharmacological, genetic, lesion and developmental rodent models.” Psychopharmacology (Berl) Details
McCarthy AD, Owens IJ, Bansal AT, McTighe SM, Bussey TJ, Saksida LM (2011), “FK962 and donepezil act synergistically to improve cognition in rats: potential as an add-on therapy for Alzheimer's disease.” Pharmacol Biochem Behav 98(1):76-80 Details
Romberg C, Mattson MP, Mughal MR, Bussey TJ, Saksida LM (2011), “Impaired attention in the 3xTgAD mouse model of Alzheimer's disease: rescue by donepezil (Aricept).” J Neurosci 31(9):3500-7 Details
2010
Barense MD, Rogers TT, Bussey TJ, Saksida LM, Graham KS (2010), “Influence of conceptual knowledge on visual object discrimination: insights from semantic dementia and MTL amnesia.” Cereb Cortex 20(11):2568-82 Details
Bartko SJ, Cowell RA, Winters BD, Bussey TJ, Saksida LM (2010), “Heightened susceptibility to interference in an animal model of amnesia: impairment in encoding, storage, retrieval--or all three?” Neuropsychologia 48(10):2987-97 Details
Brigman JL, Mathur P, Harvey-White J, Izquierdo A, Saksida LM, Bussey TJ, Fox S, Deneris E, Murphy DL, Holmes A (2010), “Pharmacological or genetic inactivation of the serotonin transporter improves reversal learning in mice.” Cereb Cortex 20(8):1955-63 Details
Cowell RA, Bussey TJ, Saksida LM (2010), “Components of recognition memory: Dissociable cognitive processes or just differences in representational complexity?” Hippocampus 20(11):1245-62 Details
Cowell RA, Bussey TJ, Saksida LM (2010), “Functional dissociations within the ventral object processing pathway: cognitive modules or a hierarchical continuum?” J Cogn Neurosci 22(11):2460-79 Details
McTighe SM, Cowell RA, Winters BD, Bussey TJ, Saksida LM (2010), “Paradoxical false memory for objects after brain damage.” Science 330(6009):1408-10 Details
Saksida LM, Bussey TJ (2010), “Animal models of amnesia.” Neuropsychologia 48(8):2231-3 Details
Saksida LM, Bussey TJ (2010), “The representational-hierarchical view of amnesia: translation from animal to human.” Neuropsychologia 48(8):2370-84 Details
Winters BD, Bartko SJ, Saksida LM, Bussey TJ (2010), “Muscimol, AP5, or scopolamine infused into perirhinal cortex impairs two-choice visual discrimination learning in rats.” Neurobiol Learn Mem 93(2):221-8 Details
Winters BD, Saksida LM, Bussey TJ (2010), “Implications of animal object memory research for human amnesia.” Neuropsychologia 48(8):2251-61 Details
2009
Brigman JL, Ihne J, Saksida LM, Bussey TJ, Holmes A (2009), “Effects of Subchronic Phencyclidine (PCP) Treatment on Social Behaviors, and Operant Discrimination and Reversal Learning in C57BL/6J Mice.” Front Behav Neurosci 3:2 Details
Karlsson RM, Tanaka K, Saksida LM, Bussey TJ, Heilig M, Holmes A (2009), “Assessment of glutamate transporter GLAST (EAAT1)-deficient mice for phenotypes relevant to the negative and executive/cognitive symptoms of schizophrenia.” Neuropsychopharmacology 34(6):1578-89 Details
McTighe SM, Mar AC, Romberg C, Bussey TJ, Saksida LM (2009), “A new touchscreen test of pattern separation: effect of hippocampal lesions.” Neuroreport 20(9):881-5 Details
2008
Brigman JL, Feyder M, Saksida LM, Bussey TJ, Mishina M, Holmes A (2008), “Impaired discrimination learning in mice lacking the NMDA receptor NR2A subunit.” Learn Mem 15(2):50-4 Details
Bussey TJ, Padain TL, Skillings EA, Winters BD, Morton AJ, Saksida LM (2008), “The touchscreen cognitive testing method for rodents: how to get the best out of your rat.” Learn Mem 15(7):516-23 Details
Hefner K, Whittle N, Juhasz J, Norcross M, Karlsson RM, Saksida LM, Bussey TJ, Singewald N, Holmes A (2008), “Impaired fear extinction learning and cortico-amygdala circuit abnormalities in a common genetic mouse strain.” J Neurosci 28(32):8074-85 Details
Winters BD, Saksida LM, Bussey TJ (2008), “Object recognition memory: neurobiological mechanisms of encoding, consolidation and retrieval.” Neurosci Biobehav Rev 32(5):1055-70 Details
2007
Bartko SJ, Winters BD, Cowell RA, Saksida LM, Bussey TJ (2007), “Perirhinal cortex resolves feature ambiguity in configural object recognition and perceptual oddity tasks.” Learn Mem 14(12):821-32 Details
Forwood SE, Bartko SJ, Saksida LM, Bussey TJ (2007), “Rats spontaneously discriminate purely visual, two-dimensional stimuli in tests of recognition memory and perceptual oddity.” Behav Neurosci 121(5):1032-42 Details
Murray EA, Bussey TJ, Saksida LM (2007), “Visual perception and memory: a new view of medial temporal lobe function in primates and rodents.” Annu Rev Neurosci 30:99-122 Details
Saksida LM, Bussey TJ, Buckmaster CA, Murray EA (2007), “Impairment and facilitation of transverse patterning after lesions of the perirhinal cortex and hippocampus, respectively.” Cereb Cortex 17(1):108-15 Details
Winters BD, Bartko SJ, Saksida LM, Bussey TJ (2007), “Scopolamine infused into perirhinal cortex improves object recognition memory by blocking the acquisition of interfering object information.” Learn Mem 14(9):590-6 Details
2006
Bussey TJ, Saksida LM, Murray EA (2006), “Perirhinal cortex and feature-ambiguous discriminations.” Learn Mem 13(2):103-5; author reply 106-7 Details
Cowell RA, Bussey TJ, Saksida LM (2006), “Why does brain damage impair memory? A connectionist model of object recognition memory in perirhinal cortex.” J Neurosci 26(47):12186-97 Details
Graham KS, Scahill VL, Hornberger M, Barense MD, Lee AC, Bussey TJ, Saksida LM (2006), “Abnormal categorization and perceptual learning in patients with hippocampal damage.” J Neurosci 26(29):7547-54 Details
Izquierdo A, Wiedholz LM, Millstein RA, Yang RJ, Bussey TJ, Saksida LM, Holmes A (2006), “Genetic and dopaminergic modulation of reversal learning in a touchscreen-based operant procedure for mice.” Behav Brain Res 171(2):181-8 Details
Morton AJ, Skillings E, Bussey TJ, Saksida LM (2006), “Measuring cognitive deficits in disabled mice using an automated interactive touchscreen system.” Nat Methods 3(10):767 Details
Saksida LM, Bussey TJ, Buckmaster CA, Murray EA (2006), “No effect of hippocampal lesions on perirhinal cortex-dependent feature-ambiguous visual discriminations.” Hippocampus 16(4):421-30 Details
2005
Barense MD, Bussey TJ, Lee AC, Rogers TT, Davies RR, Saksida LM, Murray EA, Graham KS (2005), “Functional specialization in the human medial temporal lobe.” J Neurosci 25(44):10239-46 Details
Brasted PJ, Bussey TJ, Murray EA, Wise SP (2005), “Conditional motor learning in the nonspatial domain: effects of errorless learning and the contribution of the fornix to one-trial learning.” Behav Neurosci 119(3):662-76 Details
Brigman JL, Bussey TJ, Saksida LM, Rothblat LA (2005), “Discrimination of multidimensional visual stimuli by mice: intra- and extradimensional shifts.” Behav Neurosci 119(3):839-42 Details
Bussey TJ, Saksida LM (2005), “Object memory and perception in the medial temporal lobe: an alternative approach.” Curr Opin Neurobiol 15(6):730-7 Details
Bussey TJ, Saksida LM, Murray EA (2005), “The perceptual-mnemonic/feature conjunction model of perirhinal cortex function.” Q J Exp Psychol B 58(3-4):269-82 Details
Forwood SE, Winters BD, Bussey TJ (2005), “Hippocampal lesions that abolish spatial maze performance spare object recognition memory at delays of up to 48 hours.” Hippocampus 15(3):347-55 Details
Lee AC, Buckley MJ, Pegman SJ, Spiers H, Scahill VL, Gaffan D, Bussey TJ, Davies RR, Kapur N, Hodges JR, Graham KS (2005), “Specialization in the medial temporal lobe for processing of objects and scenes.” Hippocampus 15(6):782-97 Details
Lee AC, Bussey TJ, Murray EA, Saksida LM, Epstein RA, Kapur N, Hodges JR, Graham KS (2005), “Perceptual deficits in amnesia: challenging the medial temporal lobe 'mnemonic' view.” Neuropsychologia 43(1):1-11 Details
Winters BD, Bussey TJ (2005), “Glutamate receptors in perirhinal cortex mediate encoding, retrieval, and consolidation of object recognition memory.” J Neurosci 25(17):4243-51 Details
Winters BD, Bussey TJ (2005), “Removal of cholinergic input to perirhinal cortex disrupts object recognition but not spatial working memory in the rat.” Eur J Neurosci 21(8):2263-70 Details
Winters BD, Bussey TJ (2005), “Transient inactivation of perirhinal cortex disrupts encoding, retrieval, and consolidation of object recognition memory.” J Neurosci 25(1):52-61 Details
2004
Winters BD, Forwood SE, Cowell RA, Saksida LM, Bussey TJ (2004), “Double dissociation between the effects of peri-postrhinal cortex and hippocampal lesions on tests of object recognition and spatial memory: heterogeneity of function within the temporal lobe.” J Neurosci 24(26):5901-8 Details
2003
Brasted PJ, Bussey TJ, Murray EA, Wise SP (2003), “Role of the hippocampal system in associative learning beyond the spatial domain.” Brain 126(Pt 5):1202-23 Details
Bussey TJ, Saksida LM, Murray EA (2003), “Impairments in visual discrimination after perirhinal cortex lesions: testing 'declarative' vs. 'perceptual-mnemonic' views of perirhinal cortex function.” Eur J Neurosci 17(3):649-60 Details
Cardinal RN, Parkinson JA, Marbini HD, Toner AJ, Bussey TJ, Robbins TW, Everitt BJ (2003), “Role of the anterior cingulate cortex in the control over behavior by Pavlovian conditioned stimuli in rats.” Behav Neurosci 117(3):566-87 Details
Clayton NS, Bussey TJ, Dickinson A (2003), “Can animals recall the past and plan for the future?” Nat Rev Neurosci 4(8):685-91 Details
Clayton NS, Bussey TJ, Emery NJ, Dickinson A (2003), “Prometheus to Proust: the case for behavioural criteria for 'mental time travel'.” Trends Cogn Sci 7(10):436-7; author reply 437-8 Details
2002
Brasted PJ, Bussey TJ, Murray EA, Wise SP (2002), “Fornix transection impairs conditional visuomotor learning in tasks involving nonspatially differentiated responses.” J Neurophysiol 87(1):631-3 Details
Bussey TJ, Saksida LM (2002), “The organization of visual object representations: a connectionist model of effects of lesions in perirhinal cortex.” Eur J Neurosci 15(2):355-64 Details
Bussey TJ, Saksida LM, Murray EA (2002), “Perirhinal cortex resolves feature ambiguity in complex visual discriminations.” Eur J Neurosci 15(2):365-74 Details
Bussey TJ, Wise SP, Murray EA (2002), “Interaction of ventral and orbital prefrontal cortex with inferotemporal cortex in conditional visuomotor learning.” Behav Neurosci 116(4):703-15 Details
2001
Bussey TJ, Dias R, Amin E, Muir JL, Aggleton JP (2001), “Perirhinal cortex and place-object conditional learning in the rat.” Behav Neurosci 115(4):776-85 Details
Bussey TJ, Saksida LM, Rothblat LA (2001), “Discrimination of computer-graphic stimuli by mice: a method for the behavioral characterization of transgenic and gene-knockout models.” Behav Neurosci 115(4):957-60 Details
Bussey TJ, Wise SP, Murray EA (2001), “The role of ventral and orbital prefrontal cortex in conditional visuomotor learning and strategy use in rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta).” Behav Neurosci 115(5):971-82 Details
Chudasama Y, Bussey TJ, Muir JL (2001), “Effects of selective thalamic and prelimbic cortex lesions on two types of visual discrimination and reversal learning.” Eur J Neurosci 14(6):1009-20 Details
Murray EA, Bussey TJ (2001), “Consolidation and the medial temporal lobe revisited: methodological considerations.” Hippocampus 11(1):1-7 Details
2000
Bussey TJ, Dias R, Redhead ES, Pearce JM, Muir JL, Aggleton JP (2000), “Intact negative patterning in rats with fornix or combined perirhinal and postrhinal cortex lesions.” Exp Brain Res 134(4):506-19 Details
Bussey TJ, Duck J, Muir JL, Aggleton JP (2000), “Distinct patterns of behavioural impairments resulting from fornix transection or neurotoxic lesions of the perirhinal and postrhinal cortices in the rat.” Behav Brain Res 111(1-2):187-202 Details
Murray EA, Bussey TJ, Hampton RR, Saksida LM (2000), “The parahippocampal region and object identification.” Ann N Y Acad Sci 911:166-74 Details
Murray EA, Bussey TJ, Wise SP (2000), “Role of prefrontal cortex in a network for arbitrary visuomotor mapping.” Exp Brain Res 133(1):114-29 Details
1999
Bussey TJ, Muir JL, Aggleton JP (1999), “Functionally dissociating aspects of event memory: the effects of combined perirhinal and postrhinal cortex lesions on object and place memory in the rat.” J Neurosci 19(1):495-502 Details
Bussey TJ, Murray EA (1999), “Reply.” Trends Cogn Sci 3(7):249-250 Details
Murray EA, Bussey TJ (1999), “Perceptual-mnemonic functions of the perirhinal cortex.” Trends Cogn Sci 3(4):142-151 Details
1998
Bussey TJ, Clea Warburton E, Aggleton JP, Muir JL (1998), “Fornix lesions can facilitate acquisition of the transverse patterning task: a challenge for "configural" theories of hippocampal function.” J Neurosci 18(4):1622-31 Details
1997
Aggleton JP, Keen S, Warburton EC, Bussey TJ (1997), “Extensive cytotoxic lesions involving both the rhinal cortices and area TE impair recognition but spare spatial alternation in the rat.” Brain Res Bull 43(3):279-87 Details
Bussey TJ, Everitt BJ, Robbins TW (1997), “Dissociable effects of cingulate and medial frontal cortex lesions on stimulus-reward learning using a novel Pavlovian autoshaping procedure for the rat: implications for the neurobiology of emotion.” Behav Neurosci 111(5):908-19 Details
Bussey TJ, Muir JL, Everitt BJ, Robbins TW (1997), “Triple dissociation of anterior cingulate, posterior cingulate, and medial frontal cortices on visual discrimination tasks using a touchscreen testing procedure for the rat.” Behav Neurosci 111(5):920-36 Details
1996
Bussey TJ, Muir JL, Everitt BJ, Robbins TW (1996), “Dissociable effects of anterior and posterior cingulate cortex lesions on the acquisition of a conditional visual discrimination: facilitation of early learning vs. impairment of late learning.” Behav Brain Res 82(1):45-56 Details
Muir JL, Bussey TJ, Everitt BJ, Robbins TW (1996), “Dissociable effects of AMPA-induced lesions of the vertical limb diagonal band of Broca on performance of the 5-choice serial reaction time task and on acquisition of a conditional visual discrimination.” Behav Brain Res 82(1):31-44 Details
1993
Wood ER, Bussey TJ, Phillips AG (1993), “A glycine antagonist 7-chlorokynurenic acid attenuates ischemia-induced learning deficits.” Neuroreport 4(2):151-4 Details
1992
Wood ER, Bussey TJ, Phillips AG (1992), “A glycine antagonist reduces ischemia-induced CA1 cell loss in vivo.” Neurosci Lett 145(1):10-4 Details


