Dr. Pamela Jackson

Title: Associate Professor

Program: Experimental

Ph.D., M.A.: University of Kentucky...Postdoctoral fellowship at University of Utah 

Office: 436 Russell Hall

E-mail: pjackson@radford.edu

Phone: (540) 831-5116

Homepage: www.radford.edu/~pjackson

Areas of Research Interest: Animal cognition, Neurobiological basis of learning and memory

Recent Publications/Presentations:

  • Thomas, T. M., & Jackson, P. A.  (Under revision).  Spatial maze performance in rats:  Does Mozart help? 

  • Swander, J. A., & Jackson, P. A.  (Under revision).  Effects of prenatal stress on the physical and behavioral development of Long-Evans rats.

  • Chiba, A. A., Kesner, R. P., & Jackson, P. A.  (2002).  Two forms of spatial memory:  A double dissociation between the parietal cortex and the hippocampus in the rat.  Behavioral Neuroscience, 116(5), 874-883.

  • Kesner, R.P., Ravindranathan, A., Jackson, P., Giles, R., & Chiba,A.A. (2001).  A neural circuit analysis of visual recognition memory: Role of perirhinal, medial, and lateral entorhinal cortex. Learning & Memory, 8, 87-95.  

  • Jackson, P.A., Kesner, R.P., & Amann, K. (1998). Memory for duration: Role of the hippocampus and medial prefrontal cortex. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 70, 328-348.

  • Fremouw, T., Jackson-Smith, P. A., & Kesner, R.P. (1997). Impaired place learning and unimpaired cue learning in hippocampal-lesioned pigeons. Behavioral Neuroscience, 111(5), 963-975.

  • Kesner, R.P., Jackson-Smith, P., Henry, C., & Amann, K. (1995). Effects of Ibogaine on sensory-motor function, activity, and spatial learning in rats. Pharmacology, Biochemistry, and Behavior, 51, 103-109.

  • Kesner, R.P., Chiba, A.A., & Jackson-smith, P. (1994). Rats do show primacy and recency effects in memory for lists of spatial locations: A reply to Gaffan. Animal Learning & Behavior, 22,214-218.

  • Jackson-Smith, P., Kesner, R.P., & Chiba, A.A. (1993). Continous recognition of spatial and nonspatial stimuli in hippocampal-lesioned rats. Behavioral and Neural Biology, 59, 107-119.