Douglas G. Wallace

Research Interests

• Neural basis of spatial navigation
• Rodent models of Alzheimer’s disease
• Neuroethology

Frequently Taught Classes

• PSYC 300: Brain and Behavior
• PSYC 431: Physiological Psychology Lab
• PSYC 411: Conditioning and Learning Lab
• PSYC 601: Foundations of Learning

Representative Publications

• Wallace D.G., Martin M.M., Winter S.S. (2008). Fractionating dead reckoning: role of the compass, odometer, logbook, and home base establishment in spatial orientation. Naturwissenschaften.
• Martin M.M., Wallace D.G. (2007). Selective hippocampal cholinergic deafferentation impairs self-movement cue use during a food hoarding task. Behav Brain Res. 183(1):78-86.
• Wallace, D.G., Hines, D.J., Pellis, S. and Whishaw, I.Q. (2002). Vestibular information is required for dead reckoning in the rat. Journal of Neuroscience, 22 (22), 10009-17.
• Wallace D.G., Choudhry S., Martin M.M. (2006).Comparative analysis of movement characteristics during dead reckoning based navigation in humans (Homo Sapiens) and rats (Rattus Norvegicus). Journal of Comparative Psychology. 120(4): 331-344.
• Wallace D.G., Wallace P.S., Field E, Whishaw I.Q. (2006). Pharmacological manipulations of food protection behavior in rats: Evidence for dopaminergic contributions to time perception during a natural behavior. Brain Research. 1112(1): 213-21.
• Wallace D.G., Fountain S.B. (2002). What is learned in sequential learning? An associative model of reward magnitude serial-pattern learning. J Exp Psychol Anim Behav Process. 28(1):43-63.

Representative Grants

• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; Approved: 1/1/2006-12/31/2008
  NINDS/Biobehavioral, Regulation, Learning, and Ethology
  “Role of the cholinergic system in spatial orientation”, PI $217,500.00