Johns Hopkins University, Department of Neuroscience
 

 

 

 

Peter  Holland, PhD

Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences

Telephone Number:   (410) 516-6396

Fax Number:   (410) 516-0494

 

Johns Hopkins University

Homewood Campus

3400 N. Charles St.

Baltimore, MD 21218

Room: 222 Ames Hall
pch@jhu.edu

Neural systems in learning, motivation, and attention

     I study mechanisms of behavior. Much of my research explores brain circuitry involved in Pavlovian appetitive conditioning of rats. Currently, in collaboration with Dr. Michela Gallagher, we are examining roles of amygdala-cortical circuitry in attention, motivation, and event representation, and the influence of amygdala subsystems in a number of conditioning functions. These include the potentiation of orienting responses, the enhancement of conditioned stimulus (CS) associability by surprise, and CSs' acquisition of motivational properties, such as the ability to serve as reinforcers or to modulate feeding. Other projects include the investigation of behavioral mechanisms for hierarchical organization of events in discrimination learning (including "occasion setting"), motivational functions in the organization of behavior, and the representation of sensory, temporal, and motivational information in conditioning.



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