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    David C. Riccio

    David C. Riccio

    Department of Psychological Sciences
    Professor Emeritus, KSU Distinguished Scholar
    Campus:
    Kent
    Office Location:
    Kent Hall
    Contact Information
    Email:
    driccio@kent.edu
    Fax:
    330-672-3786
    Personal Website:
    https://www.kent.edu/psychology/riccio-lab

    Biography

    Research Area:
    • Psychological Science - Behavioral Neuroscience.

    Does Dr. Riccio plan to recruit a doctoral student for the next incoming class?

    Research Interests

    Research interests are in aversively motivated learning and memory processes using animals as models. Major current focus of my lab is on forgetting of stimulus attributes and mechanisms involved in retrograde amnesia.

    Dr. Riccio's website

    Courses Frequently Taught
    • Learning (undergraduate)
    • Learning (graduate)
    • Biopsychology of Memory (graduate)
    Publications:
    • Briggs, J. F., Fitz, K. I., and Riccio, D. C. (2007). Transfer of memory retrieval cues in rats. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 14, 495-499.
    • Briggs, J. F. and Riccio, D.C. (2007) Retrograde amnesia for extinction: Similarities with amnesia for original acquisition memories. Learning and Behavior, 35, 131-140.
    • Meehan, S. and Riccio, D.C. (2008). Memory phenomena and CTA. In: Schachtman, T. and Reilly, S. Conditioned Taste Aversion: Behavioral and Neural Processes. Oxford Univeristy Press.
    • Metzger, M.M. and Riccio, D.C. (2009). The forgetting of stimulus attributes in latent inhibition. Physiology and Behavior, 96, 194-198.
    • Caldwell, E. E., and Riccio, D. C. (2010). Alcohol self-administration in rats: Modulation by temporal parameters related to repeated mild social defeat stress. Alcohol, 44, 265-274.
    • Jasnow, A. M., Cullen, P. K., and Riccio, D. C. (2012). Remembering another aspect of forgetting. Frontiers in Psychology, 3, 1-8. (Invited paper).
    • Gisquet-Verrier, P., & Riccio, D.C. (2012). Memory reactivation effects independent of reconsolidation. Learning and Memory,19, 401-409.
    • Lynch, J. F., Cullen, P. K., Jasnow, A. M., and Riccio, D. C. (2013). Sex differences in the forgetting of stimulus attributes. Learning and Memory, 20, 628-632.
    • Fava, D. A., & Riccio, D. C. (2014). Mild hypothermia can disrupt extinction learning but not original conditioning. Physiology & Behavior, 125, 54-56.
    • Cullen, P. K., Dulka, B. N., Ortiz, S., Riccio, D. C., & Jasnow, A. M. (2014). GABA-mediated presynaptic inhibition is required for precision of long-term memory. Learning & Memory, 21(4), 180-184.
    • Gisquet-Verrier, P., Lynch, J. F., Cutolo, P., Toledano, D., Ulmen, A., Jasnow, A., & Riccio, D. C. (in press). Integration of new information with active memory accounts for retrograde amnesia: A challenge to the consolidation/reconsolidation hypothesis? The Journal of Neuroscience.

    Education

    Ph.D., Princeton University (1962)

    Expertise

    Memory Processes
    Fear Conditioning
    Avoidance Learning
    Extinction

    Documents

    PDF icon RiccioVITAJune2014_07232014_022422.doc
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