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Associate Professor Vincent Laurent

Associate Professor Vincent Laurent

Associate Professor
Science
School of Psychology

I am a Senior Lecturer in the School of Psychology. My field of research is behavioural neuroscience, I employ animal models to understand how we learn about important events in our environment and how we use this learning to influence our choices and decisions. 

For more information please click here.
Phone
02938551836
E-mail
v.laurent@unsw.edu.au
Location
Mathews Building, Office 510
  • Book Chapters | 2018
    Bertran-Gonzalez J; Laurent V, 2018, 'Chapter 10 Studying Integrative Processing and Prospected Plasticity in Cholinergic Interneurons The Importance of Pavlovian–Instrumental Transfer', in Goal-Directed Decision Making, Elsevier, pp. 221 - 241, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-12-812098-9.00010-3
    Book Chapters | 2018
    Bertran-Gonzalez J; Laurent V, 2018, 'Studying Integrative Processing and Prospected Plasticity in Cholinergic Interneurons: The Importance of Pavlovian–Instrumental Transfer', in Goal-Directed Decision Making Computations and Neural Circuits, Academic Press
  • Journal articles | 2023
    Campese VD; Laurent V, 2023, 'Editorial: Pavlovian-instrumental transfer: Neurobehavioral and clinical findings', Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 17, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2023.1151180
    Journal articles | 2023
    Fam J; Chieng B; Westbrook RF; Laurent V; Holmes NM, 2023, 'Second-order fear conditioning involves formation of competing stimulus-danger and stimulus-safety associations', Cerebral Cortex, 33, pp. 1843 - 1855, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhac176
    Journal articles | 2023
    Gladding JM; Lingawi NW; Leung BK; Kendig MD; Chieng BC; Laurent V, 2023, 'High fat diet allows food-predictive stimuli to energize action performance in the absence of hunger, without distorting insulin signaling on accumbal cholinergic interneurons', Appetite, 188, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2023.106769
    Journal articles | 2022
    Crimmins B; Burton TJ; McNulty M; Laurent V; Hart G; Balleine BW, 2022, 'Response-Independent Outcome Presentations Weaken the Instrumental Response-Outcome Association', Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, 48, pp. 396 - 412, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xan0000340
    Journal articles | 2022
    Crimmins BE; Lingawi NW; Chieng BC; Leung BK; Maren S; Laurent V, 2022, 'Basal forebrain cholinergic signaling in the basolateral amygdala promotes strength and durability of fear memories', Neuropsychopharmacology, 48, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41386-022-01427-w
    Journal articles | 2022
    Holmes NM; Fam JP; Clemens KJ; Laurent V; Westbrook RF, 2022, 'The neural substrates of higher-order conditioning: A review', Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 138, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2022.104687
    Journal articles | 2022
    Laurent V; Westbrook RF; Balleine BW, 2022, 'Affective Valence Regulates Associative Competition in Pavlovian Conditioning', Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 16, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2022.801474
    Journal articles | 2022
    Lingawi NW; Berman T; Bounds J; Laurent V, 2022, 'Sensory-Specific Satiety Dissociates General and Specific Pavlovian-Instrumental Transfer', Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 16, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2022.877720
    Journal articles | 2021
    Laurent V; Balleine BW, 2021, 'How predictive learning influences choice: Evidence for a GPCR-based memory process necessary for Pavlovian-instrumental transfer', Journal of Neurochemistry, 157, pp. 1436 - 1449, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jnc.15339
    Journal articles | 2021
    Laurent V; Priya P; Crimmins BE; Balleine BW, 2021, 'General Pavlovian-instrumental transfer tests reveal selective inhibition of the response type – whether Pavlovian or instrumental – performed during extinction', Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 183, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nlm.2021.107483
    Journal articles | 2021
    Lingawi NW; Laurent V; Westbrook RF; Holmes NM, 2021, 'Acquisition and extinction of second-order context conditioned fear: Role of the amygdala', Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 183, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nlm.2021.107485
    Journal articles | 2020
    Morse AK; Leung BK; Heath E; Bertran-Gonzalez J; Pepin E; Chieng BC; Balleine BW; Laurent V, 2020, 'Basolateral Amygdala Drives a GPCR-Mediated Striatal Memory Necessary for Predictive Learning to Influence Choice', Neuron, 106, pp. 855 - 869.e8, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2020.03.007
    Journal articles | 2019
    Lingawi NW; Laurent V; Westbrook RF; Holmes NM, 2019, 'The role of the basolateral amygdala and infralimbic cortex in (re)learning extinction', Psychopharmacology, 236, pp. 303 - 312, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00213-018-4957-x
    Journal articles | 2018
    Goarin EHF; Lingawi NW; Laurent V, 2018, 'Role played by the passage of time in reversal learning', Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2018.00075
    Journal articles | 2018
    Laurent V; Balleine BW; Westbrook RF, 2018, 'Motivational state controls the prediction error in Pavlovian appetitive-aversive interactions', Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 147, pp. 18 - 25, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nlm.2017.11.006
    Journal articles | 2018
    Lingawi NW; Andrew E; Laurent V; Killcross S; Westbrook RF; Holmes NM, 2018, 'The conditions that regulate formation of a false fear memory in rats', Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 156, pp. 53 - 59, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nlm.2018.10.009
    Journal articles | 2018
    Lingawi NW; Holmes NM; Westbrook RF; Laurent V, 2018, 'The infralimbic cortex encodes inhibition irrespective of motivational significance', Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 150, pp. 64 - 74, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nlm.2018.03.001
    Journal articles | 2017
    Laurent V; Wong FL; Balleine BW, 2017, 'The lateral habenula and its input to the rostromedial tegmental nucleus mediates outcome-specific conditioned inhibition', Journal of Neuroscience, 37, pp. 10932 - 10942, http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3415-16.2017
    Journal articles | 2017
    Lingawi NW; Westbrook RF; Laurent V, 2017, 'Extinction and Latent Inhibition Involve a Similar Form of Inhibitory Learning that is Stored in and Retrieved from the Infralimbic Cortex', Cerebral Cortex, 27, pp. 5547 - 5556, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhw322
    Journal articles | 2017
    Lingawi NW; Westbrook RF; Laurent V, 2017, 'Extinction of relapsed fear does not require the basolateral amygdala', Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 139, pp. 149 - 156, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nlm.2017.01.005
    Journal articles | 2017
    Quail SL; Laurent V; Balleine BW, 2017, 'Inhibitory pavlovian-instrumental transfer in humans', Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, 43, pp. 315 - 324, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xan0000148
    Journal articles | 2016
    Laurent V; Chieng B; Balleine BW, 2016, 'Extinction Generates Outcome-Specific Conditioned Inhibition', Current Biology, 26, pp. 3169 - 3175, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2016.09.021
    Journal articles | 2015
    Laurent V; Balleine BW, 2015, 'Factual and counterfactual action-outcome mappings control choice between goal-directed actions in rats', Current Biology, 25, pp. 1074 - 1079, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2015.02.044
    Journal articles | 2015
    Laurent V; Morse AK; Balleine BW, 2015, 'The role of opioid processes in reward and decision-making', British Journal of Pharmacology, 172, pp. 449 - 459, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bph.12818
    Journal articles | 2015
    Laurent V; Wong FL; Balleine BW, 2015, 'δ-Opioid receptors in the accumbens shell mediate the influence of both excitatory and inhibitory predictions on choice', British Journal of Pharmacology, 172, pp. 562 - 570, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bph.12731
    Journal articles | 2014
    Laurent V; Bertran-Gonzalez J; Chieng BC; Balleine BW, 2014, 'δ-Opioid and dopaminergic processes in accumbens shell modulate the cholinergic control of predictive learning and choice', Journal of Neuroscience, 34, pp. 1358 - 1369, http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4592-13.2014
    Journal articles | 2013
    Bertran-Gonzalez J; Laurent V; Chieng BC; Christie MJ; Balleine BW, 2013, 'Learning-related translocation of δ-Opioid receptors on ventral striatal cholinergic interneurons mediates choice between goal-directed actions', Journal of Neuroscience, 33, pp. 16060 - 16071, http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1927-13.2013
    Journal articles | 2012
    Bertran-Gonzalez J; Chieng BC; Laurent V; Valjent E; Balleine BW, 2012, 'Striatal Cholinergic Interneurons Display Activity-Related Phosphorylation of Ribosomal Protein S6', PLoS ONE, 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0053195
    Journal articles | 2012
    Laurent V; Leung B; Maidment N; Balleine BW, 2012, 'μ- and δ-Opioid-related processes in the accumbens core and shell differentially mediate the influence of reward-guided and stimulus-guided decisions on choice', Journal of Neuroscience, 32, pp. 1875 - 1883, http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4688-11.2012
    Journal articles | 2009
    Laurent V; Westbrook RF, 2009, 'Inactivation of the infralimbic but not the prelimbic cortex impairs consolidation and retrieval of fear extinction', Learning and Memory, 16, pp. 520 - 529
    Journal articles | 2009
    Laurent V; Westbrook RF, 2009, 'Infusion of the NMDA receptor antagonist, DL-APV, into the basolateral amygdala disrupts learning to fear a novel and a familiar context as well as relearning to fear an extinguished context', Learning and Memory, 16, pp. 96 - 105
    Journal articles | 2008
    Laurent V; Marchand AP; Westbrook RF, 2008, 'The basolateral amygdala is necessary for learning but not relearning extinction of context conditioned fear', Learning and Memory, 15, pp. 304 - 314, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/lm.928208
    Journal articles | 2008
    Laurent V; Westbrook RF, 2008, 'Distinct contributions of the basolateral amygdala and the medial prefrontal cortex to learning and relearning extinction of context conditioned fear', Learning and Memory, 15, pp. 657 - 666
    Journal articles | 2007
    Leung HT; Bailey GK; Laurent V; Westbrook RF, 2007, 'Rapid reacquisition of fear to a completely extinguished context is replaced by transient impairment with additional extinction training', Journal of Experimental Psychology - Animal Behavior Processes, 33, pp. 299 - 313
    Journal articles | 2004
    Laurent V; Podhorna J, 2004, 'Subchronic phencyclidine treatment impairs performance of C57BL/6 mice in the attentional set-shifting task', BEHAVIOURAL PHARMACOLOGY, 15, pp. 141 - 148, http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/00008877-200403000-00006
    Journal articles | 2004
    Laurent V; Podhorna J, 2004, 'Subchronic phencyclidine treatment impairs performance of C57BL/6 mice in the attentional set-shifting task', Behavioural Pharmacology, 15, pp. 141 - 148, http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/00008877-200403000-00006
  • Preprints | 2023
    Gladding J; Lingawi N; Leung B; Kendig M; Chieng B; Laurent V, 2023, High fat diet allows food-predictive stimuli to energize action performance in the absence of hunger, without distorting insulin signaling on accumbal cholinergic interneurons, , http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2023.03.29.534845
    Preprints | 2021
    Crimmins B; McNulty M; Laurent V; Hart G; Balleine B, 2021, Response-independent outcome presentations weakens the instrumental response-outcome association, , http://dx.doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/c83kx
    Preprints |
    Morse A; Leung B; Heath E; Bertran-Gonzalez J; Pepin E; Chieng B; Balleine B; Laurent V, A Novel GPCR-Based Memory Process is Necessary for the Influence of Predictive Learning on Choice, , http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3472044