Handbook of Object Novelty Recognition Handbook of Behavioral Neuroscience Series

Handbook of Object Novelty Recognition, Volume 26, synthesizes the empirical and theoretical advances in the field of object recognition and memory that have occurred since the development of the spontaneous object recognition task. The book is divided into four sections, covering vision and perception of object features and attributions, definitions of concepts that are associated with object recognition, the influence of brain lesions and drugs on various memory functions and processes, and models of neuropsychiatric disorders based on spontaneous object recognition tasks. A final section covers genetic and developmental studies and gender and hormone studies.

1. Object Novelty Recognition Memory
2. Theories and Concepts
3. Object Novelty Memory Tests: Methods, Test Procedures and Measurements
4. The Mouse Visual System and Visual Perception
5. Methodological Approaches to the Behavioural Investigation of Visual Perception in Rodents
6. Exploiting Novelty and Oddity Exploratory Preferences in Rodents to Study Multisensory Object Memory and Perception
7. Variants of the Spontaneous Recognition Procedure Assessing Multisensory Integration Reveal Behavioral Alterations in Rodent Models of Psychiatric and Neurological Disorders
8. Visual Object Recognition Task: A Translational Paradigm to Evaluate Sustained Attention Across Species
9. Object Novelty and Object Location Recognition Memory in Fish – Recent Advances
10. Integration of Human Eye-Tracking Responses and Object Recognition Test Performance
11. Developmental Trajectories of Object and Spatial Recognition Memory in Infant Rhesus Macaques
12. Perirhinal Cortex Lesions and Spontaneous Object Recognition Memory in Rats: Detecting Novelty But Not Distinguishing Novelty
13. Using the Spontaneous Object Recognition Memory Tasks to Uncover the Neural Circuitry of Recognition Memory: The Importance of Thalamic Nuclei
14. The Hippocampal-Cortical Networks Subserving Episodic Memory and Its Component Memory Systems for Object, Place and Temporal Order
15. The Papez Circuit and Recognition Memory: Contributions of the Medial Diencephalon and Retrosplenial Cortex to What, Where and When Aspects of Object Recognition Memory
16. Correlates of Object Exploration and Recognition Memory in Mouse Anterior Cingulate Cortex
17. The Amygdala and Emotional Arousal Effects on Object Recognition Memory
18. Immediate-Early Gene Expression in Neural Circuits Related to Object Recognition Memory
19. Item-Place Encoding Through Hippocampal Long-Term Depression
20. The Contribution of Recollection, Familiarity and Discrimination to Object Recognition Deficits in Advanced Age
21. The Value of the Object Recognition Paradigm in Investigating Animal Models of Alzheimer's Disease: Advances and Future Directions
22. Mild Traumatic Brain Injuries and Object Recognition
23. The Use of Object Recognition Task in Animal Models of Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
24. The Neuropharmacology of What, Where, When: How Dopamine Modulates Recognition Memory for Objects and Their Contexts
25. The Role of Cholinergic System in Novel Object Recognition
26. Nicotinic Receptor Ligands and Novel Object Recognition
27. Novel Object Recognition Test in Rodents: Which Roles for Serotonin Receptors?
28. Object Recognition and Object Location Recognition Memory – The Role of Dopamine and Noradrenaline
29. Histaminergic Modulation of Recognition Memory
30. The Roles of Neurotrophins in Novel Object Recognition
31. Cannabinoid Modulation of Object Recognition and Location Memory—A Preclinical Assessment
32. Hormonal Regulation of Object Memory Consolidation
33. The Role of Sex and Sex Steroids in the Novel Object Recognition Task
34. Sex Differences in Cognitive Responses to Stress in Rodents
35. Glutamate Signalling in Object Novelty Recognition Memory Tests
36. The Role of Ketamine in Object Recognition Memory in Rodents
37. Nitrinergic Signalling in Object Novelty Recognition
38. Phosphodiesterase Inhibitors in Object Recognition and Object Location Memory Test

• Details the brain structures and the neural circuits that underlie memory of objects, including vision and olfaction
• Provides a thorough description of the object novelty recognition task, variations on the basic task, and methods and techniques to help researchers avoid common pitfalls
• Assists researchers in understanding all aspects of object memory, conducting object novelty recognition tests, and producing reliable, reproducible results