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Andrew Delamater
Professor
Psychology
Location: 4401 James Hall
Phone: 718.951.5000 x6026
Fax: 718.951.4814
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Andrew Delameter came to Brooklyn College as an assistant professor of psychology in 1994. He became associate professor in 2000 and full professor in 2008. Prior to that, he was visiting assistant professor at Indiana University, Bloomington (1990-91) and postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Pennsylvania (1991-94). Since 2007, he has been fellow of the Association for Psychological Science as well as the Eastern Psychological Association, and he has served as associate editor, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology; consulting editor, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes; Psychonomic, Bulletin, and Review; and Learning & Behavior, and president of the Eastern Psychological Association for the 2012 meeting.
Education:
Ph.D., Dalhousie University - 1990 (Experimental Psychology)
M.Sc., Dalhousie University - 1984 (Experimental Psychology)
B.A., American University - 1982 (Psychology)
Areas of Expertise:
Delamater's research interests are directed toward an understanding of basic learning processes, particularly as they are revealed in simple Pavlovian and instrumental learning paradigms with laboratory animals. His focus is on understanding, both at the psychological and neural systems levels of analysis, how organisms represent the causal structure of their environment.
Books and Publications
"Effects of Nonreinforcement on Stimulus-outcome Associations." Book chapter for the Proceedings of the Mexican Society on Learning and Memory. In review. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2013
Campese, V. and A.R. Delamater. "ABA and ABC Renewal of Conditioned Magazine Approach Are Not Impaired by Doral hippocampus Inactivation or Lesions." Behavioural Brain Research. In press. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2013
Delamater, A.R. and R.F. Westbrook. "Update on the Psychological and Neural Mechanisms of Pavlovian Extinction Learning." Special issue of The Neurobiology of Learning and Memory. In review. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2013
Delamater, A.R., A. Desouza, Y. Rivkin and R. Derman. "Associative and Temporal Processes: A Dual Process Approach." Behavioural Processes. In review. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2013
Lewis, A.H., M.A. Niznikiewicz, A.R. Delamater and M.R. Delgado. "Avoidance-based Human Pavlovian-to-instrumental Transfer." Journal of Neuroscience. In review. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2013
"Issues in the Extinction of Specific Stimulus-outcome Associations in Pavlovian Conditioning." Behavioural Processes 90, 9-19. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2012
"On the Nature of CS and US Representations in Pavlovian Learning." Learning & Behavior 40: 1-23. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2012
Scarlet, J., A.R. Delamater, V. Campese, M. Fein and D.S. Wheeler. "Differential Involvement of the Basolateral Amygdala and the Orbitofrontal Cortex in the Formation of Sensory-specific Associations in Conditioned Flavor Preference and Magazine Approach Paradigms." European Journal of Neuroscience 35, 1799-1809. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2012
"At the Interface of Learning and Cognition: An Associative Learning Perspective." International Journal of Comparative Psychology 24: 389-411. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2011
"Partial Reinforcement and Latent Inhibition Effects on Stimulus-outcome Associations in Flavor Preference Conditioning." Learning & Behavior 39: 259-70. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2011
Nadler, N., M. Delgado and A.R. Delamater. "Pavlovian to Instrumental Transfer of Control in a Human Learning Task." Emotion 11: 1112-23. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2011
Delamater, A.R., A. Kranjec and M. Fein. "Differential Outcome Effects in Pavlovian Biconditional and Ambiguous Occasion Setting Tasks." Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes 36: 471-81. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2010
Delamater, A.R., V. Campese and R.F. Westbrook. "Renewal and Spontaneous Recovery, but Not Latent Inhibition, Are Mediated by GABA in Appetitive Conditioning." Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes 35: 224-37. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2009
Ranaldi, R., J. Egan, K. Kest, M. Fein and A.R. Delamater. "Repeated Heroin in Rats Produces Behavioral Sensitization and Enhances Appetitive Pavlovian and Instrumental Learning Involving Food Reward." Pharmacology, Biochemistry, and Behavior 91: 351-57. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2009
Scarlet, J., V. Campese and A.R. Delamater. "Sensory-Specific Associations in Flavor Preference Reversal Learning." Learning & Behavior 37: 179-87. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2009
Delamater, A.R. and P.C. Holland. "Effects of CS-US Interval on Sensory Specific Learning in Pavlovian Conditioning." Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes 34: 202-22. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2008
"Extinction of Conditioned Flavor Preferences." Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes 33.2: 160-71. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2007
"The Role of the Orbitofrontal Cortex in Sensory-Specific Encoding of Associations in Pavlovian and Instrumental Conditioning." Linking Affect to Action: Critical Contributions of the Orbitofrontal Cortex 1121: 152-73. Eds. G. Schoenbaum, E. Murray, S. Ramus and J. Gottfried. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2007
Campese, V.D., J. Scarlet and A.R. Delamater. "Outcome-Specific Encoding in Flavor Preference Learning and Its Reversal in Rats: Effects of Basolateral Amygdala and Orbitofrontal Cortex Lesions." Society for Neuroscience, San Diego. (Books and Publications: Abstract) 2007
Delamater, A.R. and S. Oakeshott. "Learning about Multiple Attributes of Reward." Reward and Decision Making in Cortico-Basal Ganglia Networks 1140: 1-20. Eds. B. Balleine, K Doya, J. O'Doherty and M. Sakagami. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2007
Delamater, A.R., V. Campese, V.M. LoLordo and A. Sclafani. "Unconditioned Stimulus Devaluation Effects in Nutrient-Conditioned Flavor Preferences." Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes 32: 295-306. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2006
Campese, V., R.F. Westbrook and A.R. Delamater. "FG 7142 Eliminates ABA vs ABB Renewal of Appetitively-Conditioned Pavlovian Magazine Approach." Society for Neurosciences, Washington, D.C. (Books and Publications: Abstract) 2005
"Experimental Extinction: Behavioural and Neuroscience Perspectives." Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 57B: 97-132. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2004
Delamater, A.R., V.M. LoLordo and W. Sosa. "Outcome-Specific Conditioned Inhibition in Pavlovian Backward Conditioning." Learning & Behavior 31: 393-402. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2003
Azzara, A.V., R.J. Bodnar, A.R. Delamater and A. Sclafani. "D1 but Not D2 Dopamine Receptor Antagonism Blocks the Acquisition of a Flavor Preference Conditioned by Intragastric Carbohydrate Infusions." Pharmacology, Biochemistry, and Behavior 68.4: 709-20. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2001
A.V. Azzara, R.J. Bodnar, A.R. Delamater and A. Sclafani. "Naltrexone Fails to Block the Acquisition or Expression of a Flavor Preference Conditioned by Intragastric Carbohydrate Infusions." Pharmacology, Biochemistry & Behavior 67: 545-57. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2000
Delamater A.R., A. Sclafani and R.J. Bodnar. "Pharmacology of Sucrose-Reinforced Place-Preference Conditioning: Effects of Naltrexone." Pharmacology, Biochemistry & Behavior 65: 697-704. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2000
Delamater, A.R. and P. Joseph. "Common Coding in Symbolic Matching Tasks with Humans: Training with a Common Consequence or Antecedent." The Quartely Journal of Experimental Psychology 53B: 255-73. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2000
W.Z. Yu, R.M. Silva, A. Sclafani, A.R. Delamater and R.J. Bodnar. "Role of D(1) and D(2) Dopamine Receptors in the Acquisition and Expression of Flavor-Preference Conditioning in Sham-Feeding Rats." Pharmacology, Biochemistry & Behavior 67: 537-44. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2000
Yu, W.Z., R.M. Silva, A. Sclafani, A.R. Delamater and R.J. Bodnar. "Pharmacology of Flavor Preference Conditioning in Sham-Feeding Rats: Effects of Dopamine Receptor Antagonists." Pharmacology, Biochemistry & Behavior 65: 635-47. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2000
Awards, Honors and Fellowships
NIDA, for "A Multi-component Approach to Extinction in Pavlovian Learning. $1,000,000, direct costs. 2012-16. (Grants and Fellowships) 2012
Visiting Professorial Fellow of University of New South Wales, June-July. (Grants and Fellowships) 2012
CUNY Collaborative Incentive Grant (co-principal investigator), for "Behavioral and Neural Mechanisms in the Pavlovian Modulation of Food and Drug Reinforced Instrumental Behavior." $40,000; 2007-08. (Grants and Fellowships) 2007
Fellow, Association for Psychological Science. (Awards and Honors) 2007
NIMH Grant (RO1), for "US Specific and General Processes in Pavlovian Learning." 2003-07. (Grants and Fellowships) 2003
Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums
"Timing and Associative Processes in Pavlovian Learning." Associative Learning Symposium (XVII). Gregynog, Wales. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2013
Derman, R.C. and A.R. Delamater. "On the Relative Salience of Temporal and Visual Cues in Pavlovian Simple and Conditional Discriminations." Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association. New York. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2013
"A Multilayered Connectionist Approach to Pavlovian Learning." Society of Computational Modeling of Associative Learning. Jersey City, N.J. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2012
"Effects of Nonreinforcement on Stimulus-outcome Associations" keynote address. Meeting on Learning and Memory, 22nd Convention of the Mexican Society for Behavior Analysis. Guanajuato, Mexico. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2012
"On the Richness of Pavlovian Learning" presidential address. Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association. Pittsburgh. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2012
"U.S. Devaluation Effects in Flavor Preference Conditioning: Potential Neural Substrates." Annual Meeting of the Pavlovian Society. Jersey City, N.J. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2012
Lewis, A.H., M.A. Niznikiewicz, N. Nadler, A.R. Delamater and M.R. Delgado. "Human Pavlovian-to-instrumental Transfer in an Avoidance Learning Task." Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. New Orleans. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2012
Nadler, N. and A.R. Delamater. "Encoding Sensory and Temporal Components of Expected Outcomes." Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. New Orleans. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2012
Nadler, N. and A.R. Delamater. "Event-time Encoding of Outcomes in Human Associative Learning." Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association. Pittsburgh. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2012
"Extinction Effects on Sensory-specific Associations." 34th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Quantitative Analysis of Behavior. Denver. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2011
Delamater, A.R., R. Derman, M. Fein and A. Desouza. "Temporal and Non-temporal Factors Modulate the US Preexposure Effect." Associative Learning Symposium (XV). Gregynog, Wales. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2011
"Computational Models of Extinction Symposium" discussant. Annual Meeting of the Pavlovian Society. Baltimore. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2010
Campese, V. and A.R. Delamater. "The Role of the Dorsal Hippocampus in Appetitive Renewal of Magazine Approach Using Physical and Temporal Contexts." Annual Meeting of the Pavlovian Society. Baltimore. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2010
Campese, V. and A.R. Delamater. "The Role of the Dorsal Hippocampus in Appetitive Renewal of Magazine Approach Using Physical and Temporal Contexts." Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. San Diego. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2010
Campese, V.D. and A.R. Delamater. "The Dorsal Hippocampus: Renewal and Spontaneous Recovery of Extinguished Appetitive Learning." Eastern Psychological Association. Brooklyn, N.Y. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2010
Fein, M.I. and A.R. Delamater. "The Effects of Robust Control Conditions on Pavlovian Conditioned Inhibition in Rats." Eastern Psychological Association. Brooklyn, N.Y. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2010
Fein, M.I., R. Derman, V. Campese, P. Balsam and A.R. Delamater. "The Time Between USs Critically Affects the Magnitude of the US Preexposure Effect." Annual Meeting of the Pavlovian Society. Baltimore. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2010
Scarlet, J. and A.R. Delamater. "Pretraining BLA, OFC, or GC Lesions Fail to Impair the Formation of Sensory-specific Flavor-nutrient Associations, but BLA and OFC Lesions Disrupt Sensory-specific Pavlovian-instrumental Transfer in Thirsty Rats." Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. San Diego. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2010
Scarlet, J.L., M. Fein, V. Campese and A.R. Delamater. "Sensory-Specific Associations Are Not Affected by Insular Lesions and Insular-Basolateral Amygdala Disconnection." Eastern Psychological Association. Brooklyn, N.Y. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2010
Schapiro, B. and A.R. Delamater. "Mediated Conditioning in Humans with Abstract, Neutral Cues." Eastern Psychological Association. Brooklyn, N.Y. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2010
Campese, V.D. and A.R. Delamater. "The Role of the Dorsal Hippocampus in Renewal and Spontaneous Recovery of Extinguished Appetitive Learning." Pavlovian Society. Burlington, Vt. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2009
Campese, V.D. and A.R. Delamater. "The Role of the Dorsal Hippocampus in Renewal and Spontaneous Recovery of Extinguished Appetitive Learning." Society for Neuroscience. Chicago. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2009
"Expectancies in Pavlovian Conditioning: On the Acquisition and Extinction of 'What' and 'When' Information." Hofstra University. Hempstead, N.Y., spring. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2008
"On the Nature of CS and US Representations in Pavlovian Conditioning." Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience, Rutgers University. Newark, N.J., winter. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2008
"Several Properties of Outcome-Specific Associations in Pavlovian Learning." Pavlovian Society. Weehawkin, N.J. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2008
Kest, K., M. Fein, A.R. Delamater and R. Ranaldi. "Chronic Heroin Produces Behavioural Sensitization and Enhances Appetitive Learning." Society for Neuroscience. Washington, D.C. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2008
Scarlet, J., M. Fein, V.D. Campese and A.R. Delamater. "Sensory-Specific Encoding of Sequentially Trained Associations in a Flavor-Nutrient Reversal Task: Effects of Basolateral Amygdala and Orbitofrontal Cortex Lesions." Society for Neuroscience. Washington, D.C. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2008
Scarlet, J., V.D. Campese, M. Fein and A.R. Delamater. "Outcome-Specific Encoding in Flavor Preference Reversal Learning Does Not Depend upon Basolateral Amygdala or Orbitofrontal Cortex." Eastern Psychological Association. Boston. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2008
"Expectancies in Pavlovian Conditioning: On the Acquisition and Extinction of 'What' and 'When' Information." Rutgers University. Newark, N.J., fall. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2007
Campese, V.D. and A.R. Delamater. "The Role of GABA in Spontaneous Recovery of Appetitive Pavlovian Conditioned Responding." Eastern Psychological Association. Philadelphia. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2007
Scarlet, J., V. Campese, S. Oakeshott and A.R. Delamater. "On the Fate of First and Second Learned Associations in Flavor Preference Conditioning." Eastern Psychological Association. Philadelphia. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2007
"CS-US Interval and US Density Variations Have No Impact on the Learning of Sensory-Specific CS-US Associations." Associative Learning Symposium (VII). Gregynog, Wales. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2005
Professional Leadership
Past president and ex-officio member of the board of directors for the Eastern Psychological Association. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2013
Ad-hoc member of the Biobehavioral Regulation, Learning, & Ethology (BRLE) Study Section for the National Institutes of Health, October meeting. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2012
President, Eastern Psychological Association (term begins summer 2010). (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2010
Other Professional Activities
Co-editor for a special issue on "Associative Perspectives on the Neurobiology of Learning," for The Neurobiology of Learning and Memory. 2013
