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Psychology Faculty

Curriculum Vita

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	Mark Bouton
	Professor of Psychology
	General/Experimental Program Biobehavioral/Neuroscience Cluster
	Ph.D. University of Washington, 1980

John Dewey Hall Room 354

(802) 656-4164

mark.bouton@uvm.edu

Directorships

Director, General/Experimental Graduate Program Assistant Director, Neuroscience Graduate Program

Areas

The goal of my research is to understand the basic mechanisms of learning, memory, and emotion that are represented in classical conditioning, one of the most fundamental examples of associative learning that we know. I have been especially interested in extinction and other inhibitory processes in learning and memory, and how "contexts," or cues that are present in the background whenever learning and remembering occur, control them. In classical conditioning, the context can include external cues provided by the setting or environment, the internal state created by drugs, emotions, recent events, and even the passage of time. Members of my lab and I study all of these things. I am especially interested in: the implications of our findings for theories of conditioning and associative learning, theories of memory, and theories of certain clinical issues, such as relapse after therapy. the brain mechanisms behind our effects. learning itself, which I see as the essential process by which humans and animals adapt to the environment during their lives.

Books

Learning and Behavior: A Contemporary Synthesis

Bouton Laboratory Room 446 John Dewey Hall

Research in the Bouton Laboratory examines basic behavioral processes in learning, memory and emotion, and how time and context influence them.

Representative Publications

Bouton, M. E., Vurbic, D., & Woods, A. M. (2008). D-cycloserine facilitates context-specific fear extinction learning. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 90, 504-510. Sunsay, C., & Bouton, M. E. (2008). Analysis of a trial spacing effect with relatively long intertrial intervals. Learning & Behavior, 36, 104-115. Woods, A. M., & Bouton, M. E. (2007). Occasional reinforced responses during extinction can slow the rate of reacquisition of an operant response. Learning and Motivation, 38, 56-74. Waddell, J., Morris, R. W., & Bouton, M. E. (2006). Effect of bed nucleus of the stria terminalis lesions on conditioned anxiety: Aversive conditioning with long-duration conditional stimuli and reinstatement of extinguished fear. Behavioral Neuroscience, 120, 324-336. Morris, R. W., & Bouton, M. E. (2006). Effect of unconditioned stimulus magnitude on the emergence of conditioned responding. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 32, 371-385. Bouton, M. E., Woods, A. M., Moody, E. W., Sunsay, C., & Garcia-Gutierrez, A. (2006). Counteracting the context-dependence of extinction: Relapse and tests of some relapse prevention methods. In M. G. Craske, D. Hermans, & D. Vansteenwegen (Eds.), Fear and learning: Basic science to clinical application (pp. 175-196). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. Bouton (2004). Context and behavioral processes in extinction. Learning & Memory, 11, 485-494.

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