Suzanna (Sue) BeckerPhD (University of Toronto) |
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Professor,Department of Psychology Neuroscience & Behaviour McMaster University Bldg 34, Rm 312 1280 Main Street West Hamilton, ON, Canada L8S 4K1 +1-905-525-9140 ext23020 Contact and affiliations Publications Members of my lab |
Han, X. and Becker, S. (in revision), One spatial map or many? Spatial coding of connected environments.
Chrostowski, M., Stolzberg, D., Becker, S., Bruce, I.C. and Salvi, R. J. (submitted), Potential Role for Homeostatic Plasticity in Adult Primary Auditory Cortex.
Dery, N., Noseworthy, M.D., Toulouse, T., Gibala, M., Gillen, J., Wojtowicz, J.M., Macqueen, G. and Becker, S. (in revision), Magnetic resonance-based correlates of hippocampal neurogenesis and the cognitive benefits of exercise training
Toulouse, T. and Becker, S. (in revision), When do animals generalize, and when do they act on specific experiences? A Bayesian account of dopamine in reward learning and incentive salience,
[pdf] Dery, N., Pilgrim, M., Gibala, M., Gillen, J., Wojtowicz, J.M., MacQueen, G. and Becker, S. (2013), Adult hippocampal neurogenesis reduces memory interference in humans: opposing effects of aerobic exercise and depression, Frontiers in Neuroscience 7:66, DOI:10.3389/fnins.2013.00066 10.3389 pp.66
[pdf] Han, X., Byrne, P. Kahana, M. and Becker, S. (2012), When do objects become landmarks? A VR study of the effect of task relevance on spatial memory. PLoS ONE Volume: 7 Issue: 5 Article Number: e35940 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0035940.
Luu, P., Sill, O., Gao, L., Becker, S., Wojtowicz, J.M. and Smith, D. (2012), The Role of Adult Hippocampal Neurogenesis in Reducing Interference. Behavioural Neuroscience 126(3):381-391.
Winocur, G., Becker, S., Luu, P., Rosenzweig, S. and Wojtowicz, J.W. (2011), Adult hippocampal neurogenesis and memory interference. Behavioural Brain Research doi:10.1016/j.bbr.2011.05.032
Vaillancourt, T., Duku, E., Becker, S., Schmidt, L.A., Nicol, J., Muir, C. and MacMillan, H. (2011), Peer victimization, depressive symptoms and high salivary cortisol predict poorer memory in children, Brain and Cognition. Special Issue on Human aggression and victimization: Genetic, neurobiological, and neuroendocrine considerations doi: 10.1016/j.bandc.2011.06.012
Chrostowski, M., Yang, L., Wilson, H., Bruce, I. and Becker, S. (2011), Can homeostatic plasticity in deafferented primary auditory cortex lead to traveling waves of excitation? Journal of Computational Neuroscience 30(2):279-299. DOI 10.1007/s10827-010-0256-1
Becker, S., MacQueen, G. and Wojtowicz, J.M. (2009), Computational modeling and empirical studies of hippocampal neurogenesis-dependent memory: Effects of interference, stress and depression. Brain Research 1299:45-54.
Turnock, M. and Becker, S. (2008), A neural network model of hippocampal-striatal-prefrontal interactions in contextual conditioning. Brain Research 1202:87-96
[pdf] Byrne, P. and Becker, S. (2008), A principle for learning egocentric-allocentric transformations. Neural Computation. 20(3):709-737.
Byrne, P., Becker, S. and Burgess, N. (2007), Remembering the past and imagining the future: a neural model of spatial memory and imagery. Psychological Review 114(2):340-375.
Becker, S. and Wojtowicz, J.M. (2007), A model of hippocampal neurogenesis in memory and mood disorders. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 11(2):70-76.
Smith, A., Li, M., Becker, S. and Kapur, S. (2007), Linking animal models of psychosis to computational models of dopamine function. Neuropsychopharmacology 32(1):54-66, doi:10.1038/sj.npp.1301086
Becker, S. (2005) A computational principle for hippocampal learning and neurogenesis, Hippocampus 15(6):722-738.
Bondy, J., Becker, S., Bruce, I., Trainor, L. and Haykin. S. (2004). A novel signal-processing strategy for hearing-aid design: NeuroCompensation. Signal Processing 84(7):1239-1253.
Becker, S. and Lim, J. (2003), A computational model of prefrontal control in free recall: strategic memory use in the California Verbal Learning Task, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 15(6):347-374.
Becker, S., Moscovitch, M. Behrmann, M. and Joordens (1997), Long-term semantic priming: A computational account and empirical evidence. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 23(5):1059-1082.
Becker, S. and Hinton, G. E. (1992), A self-organizing neural network that discovers surfaces in random-dot stereograms, Nature, Vol. 355, pp. 161-163.