School of Psychology

My research has centred on the neural mechanisms involved in regulating predictive learning in associative fear conditioning. More recently, I have been involved in examining the behavioural and neural processes involved in configural learning and stimulus generalisation.

Selected Publications

Iordanova, M. D., Killcross, A. S., & Honey, R. C. (2007). Role of the medial prefrontal cortex in acquired distinctiveness and equivalence of cues. Behavioral Neuroscience (under revision).

Iordanova, M. D., McNally, G. P., & Westbrook, R. F. (2006). Opioid receptors in the nucleus accumbens regulate attentional learning in the blocking paradigm. Journal of Neuroscience, 26(15), 4036-45.

Iordanova M. D., Westbrook, R. F., & Killcross, A. S. (2006). Dopamine activity in the nucleus accumbens modulates blocking in fear conditioning. European Journal of Neuroscience (in press).

Westbrook, R. F., Iordanova, M., McNally, G. P., Richardson, R., & Harris, J. A. (2002). Reinstatement of fear to an extinguished conditioned stimulus: two roles for context. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes. 28(1), 97-110.

Research Projects

(S19788) BBSRC project grant awarded to Professor RC Honey and Professor AS Killcross.

(A10007151) Australian Research Council grant awarded to Scientia Professor RF Westbrook.

(063095/Z/00/Z) Wellcome Trust Biomedical Research Collaboration grant awarded to Professor AS Killcross and Scientia Professor RF Westbrook.