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Email: david.j.bucci@dartmouth.edu Phone: 603-646-3439 Office: 6207 Moore Hall
Education
B.A. Wesleyan University; Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Areas of Expertise
Neural mechanisms of learning and memory; neurobiology of attention; psychopharmacology; biological substrates of emotion; neural bases of cognitive disorders
Selected Works
"Posterior Parietal Cortex: An Interface Between Attention and Learning?" Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, (2008).
Keene, C S, and D J Bucci, "Contributions of the Retrosplenial and Posterior Parietal Cortices to Cue-specific and Contextual Fear Conditioning," Behavioral Neuroscience, 122:1 (2008) 89-97.
Bucci, D J, M E Hopkins, C S Keene, M Sharma, and L E Orr, "Sex Differences in Learning and Inhibition in Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats," Behavioural Brain Research, 187:1 (2008) 27-32.
Bucci, D J, M E Hopkins, A A Nunez, S M Breedlove, C Sisk, and J T Nigg, "Effects of Sex Hormones on Associative Learning in the Spontaneously Hypertensive Rat," Physiology and Behavior, 93:3 (2008) 651-657.
Bucci, D J, and J E MacLeod, "Changes in Neural Activity Associated with a Surprising Change in the Predictive Validity of a Conditioned Stimulus," European Journal of Neuroscience, 26:9 (2007) 2669-2676.
Chess, A C, M K Simoni, T E Alling, and D J Bucci, "Elevations of Endogenous Kynurenic Acid Produce Spatial Working Memory Deficits," Schizophrenia Bulletin, 33:3 (2007) 797-804.
Current Projects
Cortical mechanisms of stimulus processing and attention; involvement of glio-transmitters in cognitive dysfunction; cholinergic contributions to attentional dysfunction
