Departments and Programs

• Psychological and Brain Sciences

Related Links

• http://www.dartmouth.edu/~psych/people/faculty/index.html

Contact Information

Email: jerald.d.kralik@dartmouth.edu
Phone: 603-646-0610
Office: 6207 Moore Hall

Education

B.S. Michigan State University; A.M. Harvard University; Ph.D. Harvard University

Areas of Expertise

Decision making; prefrontal cortex; behavioral neuroscience; neuroethology

Selected Works

• Chudasama, Y, J D Kralik, and E A Murray, "Rhesus Monkeys with Orbital Prefrontal Cortex Lesions Can Learn to Inhibit Prepotent Responses in the Reversed-Reward Contingency Task," Cerebral Cortex, 17:5 (2007) 1154-1159.
• Kralik, J D, "Inhibitory Control and Response Selection in Problem Solving: How Cotton-top Tamarins (Saguinus oedipus) Overcome a Bias for Selecting the Larger Quantity of Food," Journal of Comparative Psychology, 119:1 (2005) 78-89.
• Murray, E A, J D Kralik and S P Wise, "Learning to Inhibit Prepotent Responses: Successful Performance by Rhesus Macaques on the Reversed-contingency Task," Animal Behaviour, 69 (2005) 991-998.
• Kralik, J D, D F Dimitrov, D J Krupa, D B Katz, D Cohen, and M A L Nicolelis, "Techniques for Chronic, Multisite Neuronal Ensemble Recordings in Behaving Animals," Methods, 25:2 (2001) 121-150.
• Wessberg, J, C R Stambaugh, J D Kralik, P D Beck, M Laubach, J K Chapin, J Kim, S J Biggs, M A Srinivasan, and M A L Nicolelis, "Real-time Prediction of Hand Trajectory by Ensembles of Cortical Neurons in Primates," Nature, 408 (2000) 361-365.

Current Projects

"Reaching for Reward: Contributions of Four Cortical Areas to Kinematics, Dynamics and Reward Processing during Food Reaching;" "Distance Discounting by Rhesus Monkeys (Macaca mulatta): A Field Experiment on Decision Making Based on the Amount and Distance of Food;" "To Act or Not to Act: A Neuroanatomically Realistic, Systems-level Brain Model of Reward Valuation, Decision Making, and Inhibitory Control;" "Differences in Spatial Tuning for Attended and Remembered Locations in Prefrontal Cortex;" "Decision-making: An Emergent Property of a Widely Distributed Cortical Network?"