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  4. Dr. David Euston

Dr. David Euston

Name: David Euston

Phone: 403.394.3970

E-mail: euston@uleth.ca

Office: SA8246

Lab: SA8166

Degrees:
PhD - University of Oregon
MA - New Mexico State University
BA&S - University of California, Davis
Biography:
 David Euston received his PhD in Psychology from the University of Oregon in 2000. His dissertation research, under the direction of Terry Takahashi, concerned the computation of sound source location in barn owl. David did postdoctoral work in the lab of Bruce McNaughton at the University of Arizona from 2000-2007, doing multi-electrode recording from hippocampus and frontal cortex. He was promoted to the position of research scientist in 2007. In 2008, David took a faculty position at the University of Lethbridge.
Recent
Publications:

Euston, D.R., and Steenland, H.W. (2014). Memories--getting wired during sleep. Science 344, 1087-1088. (Invited Perspective Article)

Himmler, BT, Kisko, TM, Euston, DR, Kolb, B, and Pellis, SM (2014). Are 50-kHz calls used as play signals in the playful interactions of rats? I. Evidence from the timing and context of their use. Behavioural Processes 106:60-66. doi: 10.1016/j.beproc.2014.04.014

Skelin, I, Hakstol, R, VanOyen, J, Mudiayi, D, Molina, LA, Holec, V, Hong, NS, Euston, DR, McDonald, RJ, and Gruber, AJ (2014). Lesions of dorsal striatum eliminate lose-switch responding but not mixed-response strategies in rats. European Journal of Neuroscience. 39(10):1655-1663. doi: 10.1111/ejn.12518

Holec, V, Pirot, HL, and Euston, DR (2014). Not all effort is equal: the role of the anterior cingulate cortex in different forms of effort-reward decisions. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience 8:12. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00012

Euston, DR, Gruber, AJ, and McNaughton, BL (2012). The Role of Medial Prefrontal Cortex in Memory and Decision Making. Neuron 76:1057-1070

Johnson, LA, Euston, DR, Tatsuno, M, and McNaughton, BL (2010). Stored-trace reactivation in rat prefrontal cortex is correlated with down-to-up state fluctuation density. J Neurosci 30(7): 2650-2661

Euston, DR, Tatsuno, M, and McNaughton, BL (2007). Fast-forward playback of recent memory sequences in prefrontal cortex during sleep. Science 318: 1147-50

Euston DR, McNaughton BL (2006) Apparent encoding of sequential context in rat medial prefrontal cortex is accounted for by behavioral variability. J Neurosci 26:13143-13155.

Bower MR, Euston DR, McNaughton BL (2005) Sequential-context-dependent hippocampal activity is not necessary to learn sequences with repeated elements. J Neurosci 25:1313-1323.

Euston, DR, Tatasuno, M, and McNaughton, BL (2007). Fast?forward playback of recent memory sequences in prefrontal cortex during sleep. Science 318: 1147?50

Euston DR, McNaughton BL (2006) Apparent encoding of sequential context in rat
medial prefrontal cortex is accounted for by behavioral variability. J Neurosci
26:13143?13155.

Bower MR, Euston DR, McNaughton BL (2005) Sequential?context?dependent
hippocampal activity is not necessary to learn sequences with repeated elements.
J Neurosci 25:1313?1323.

Takahashi, TT, Bala, ADS, Spitzer, MW, Euston, DR, and Spezio, ML (2003) The
synthesis and use of the owl's space map. Biological Cybernetics 89(5): 378-87.

Euston, DR and Takahashi, TT (2002). From spectrum to space: the contribution of level difference cues to spatial receptive fields in the barn owl inferior colliculus.
Journal of Neuroscience 22(1): 284?293.