Palmisano, A. N., Hudd, E. C., Mcquade, C. M., Wit, H. D., & Astur, R. S. (in press). The effects of nicotine on conditioning, extinction, and reinstatement in humans. Addictive Behaviors, 77, 51-58.
Childs, E,. Astur, R.S., de Wit, H. (2017). Virtual reality conditioned place preference using monetary reward. Behavioural Brain Research. 322(Pt A):110-114.
Astur, R.S., Carew, A.W., Palmisano, A., Deaton, B.E., Kuhney, F., Niezrecki, R., & Santos, M. (2016). Cravings in a virtual reality room paired with chocolate predict eating disorder risk. International Journal of Child Health and Human Development, 9(3), 9-19.
Astur, R.S., Purton, A.J., Zaniewski, M.J., Cimadevilla, J., & Markus, E.J. (2016). Human sex differences in solving a virtual realty problem. Behavioural Brain Research, 308, 236-243.
Lu, X., Luh, P., Tucker, A., Gifford, T., Astur, R.S., & Olderman, N. (2016). Impacts of anxiety in building fire and smoke evacuation: Modeling and validation. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters.
Astur, R.S., Palmisano, A.N., Carew, A.W., Deaton, B.E., Kuhney, F., Niezrecki, R., Hudd, E., Mendicino, K.L., Ritter, C. (2015). Human conditioned place preferences using a secondary reinforcer. Behavioural Brain Research, 297, 15-19.
Astur, R.S., Palmisano, A., Hudd, E.C., Carew, A.W., Deaton, B.E., Kuhney, F., Niezrecki, R., & Santos, M. (2015). Pavlovian conditioning to food reward as a function of eating disorder risk. Behavioural Brain Research, 291, 277-82.
Astur, R.S., Carew, A.W., & Deaton, B.E. (2014). Conditioned place preferences in humans using virtual reality. Behavioural Brain Research, 267, 173-7.
Newhouse, P., Albert, K., Astur, R.S., Johnson, J., Naylor, M., Dumas, J. (2013). Tamoxifen improves cholinergically-modulated cognitive performance in postmenopausal women. Neuropsychopharmacology, 38(13), 2632-43.
Spieker, E.A., Griego, J.A., Astur, R.S., Holcomb, H. & Rowland, L.M. (2013). Facilitation of relational learning in schizophrenia, Behavioral Sciences, 3(2), 206-216.
Spieker, E.A., Astur, R.S., West, J.T., Griego, J.A., & Rowland, L.M. (2012). Spatial Memory Deficits in a Virtual Reality Eight-Arm Radial Maze in Schizophrenia, Schizophrenia Research, 135(1-3), 84-9.
Astur, R.S., Keller, M.W., & Reini, S.A. (2011). Can You Handle the Stress: Testing to Predict Submariner Performance in High Stress Situations. The Submarine Review, 3, 121-128.
Folley, B.S., Astur, R.S., Jagannathan, K., Calhoun, V.D., Pearlson, G.D. (2010). Anomalous neural circuit function in schizophrenia during a virtual Morris water task. Neuroimage, 49(4), 3373-84.
Shipman, S.L., Baker, E.K., Pearlson, G.D., & Astur, R.S. (2009) Absence of established sex differences in patients with schizophrenia on a 2-dimensional object array task. Psychiatry Research, 166(2), 158-65.
Canovas, R., Leon, I., Roldan, M.D., Astur, R. S., Cimadevilla, J.M. (2009). Virtual reality tasks disclose spatial memory alterations in fibromyalgia. Rheumatology, 48(10), 1273-8.
Allen, A.J., Meda, S.A., Astur, R.S., Calhoun, V.D., Ruopp, K.C., & Pearlson, G.D. (2009). Effects of alcohol on performance on a visual oddball task during simulated driving. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 33(4), 617-25.
Meda, S.A., Calhoun, V.D., Astur, R.S., Turner, B.M., Ruopp, K., & Pearlson, G.D. (2009). Alcohol dose effects on brain circuits during simulated driving: An fMRI study. Human Brain Mapping, 30, 1257-70.
Meda, S.A., Bhattarai, M., Morris, N.A., Kuzu, C.H., Astur, R.S., Calhoun, V.D., Mathalon, D.H., Kiehl, K.A., & Pearlson, G.D. (2008). An fMRI study of Working Memory in First-Degree Unaffected Relatives of Schizophrenia Patients. Schizophrenia Research, 104, 85-95.
Shipman, S., & Astur, R. (2008). Factors affecting the hippocampal BOLD response during spatial memory. Behavioural Brain Research, 187(2), 433-441.
Newhouse, P., Newhouse, C., & Astur, R. (2007). Sex differences in visual-spatial learning using a virtual water maze in pre-pubertal children. Behavioural Brain Research, 183(1), 1-7.
Kurtz, M., Baker, E., Pearlson, G., & Astur, R. (2007). A virtual reality apartment as a measure of medication management skills in patients with schizophrenia: A pilot study. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 33(5), 1162-1170.
Most, S., & Astur, R. (2007). Feature-based attentional set as a cause of traffic accidents. Visual Cognition, 15(2), 125-132.
Johnson, M., Morris, N., Astur, R., Calhoun, V., Mathalon, D., Kiehl, K., & Pearlson, G. (2006). A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study of Working Memory Abnormalities in Schizophrenia. Biological Psychiatry, 60(1), 11-21.
Baker, E., Kurtz, M., & Astur, R. (2006). Virtual reality assessment of medication compliance in patients with schizophrenia. CyberPsychology & Behavior, 9(2), 224-229.
Calhoun, V., Adali, T., Kiehl, K., Astur, R., Pekar, J., & Pearlson, G. (2006). A Method for Multitask fMRI Data Fusion Applied to Schizophrenia. Human Brain Mapping, 27(7), 598-610.
Astur, R., Germain, S., Tolin, D., Ford, J., Russell, D., & Stevens, M. (2006). Hippocampus function predicts severity of post-traumatic stress disorder. CyberPsychology & Behavior, 9(2), 234-240.
Calhoun, V., Carvalho, K., Astur, R., & Pearlson, G. (2005). Using Virtual Reality to Study Alcohol Intoxication Effects on the Neural Correlates of Simulated Driving. Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback, 30(3), 285-306.
Astur, R.S., St. Germain, SA, Baker, EK, Calhoun, VD, Pearlson, GD, Constable, RT. (2005). fMRI Hippocampal Activity during a Virtual Radial Arm Maze. Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback, 30(3), 307-17.
Levy, LA, Astur, R.S., Frick, KM. (2005) Men and women differ in object memory but not performance of a virtual radial maze. Behavioral Neuroscience, 119(4), 853-62.
Germain, S., Kurtz, M., Pearlson, G., & Astur, R.S. (2005). Driving Simulator Performance in Schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research, 74(1), 121-22.
Astur, R.S., Constable, R.T. (2004). Hippocampal dampening during a relational memory task. Behavioral Neuroscience, 118(4), 667-75.
Astur, R.S., Tropp, J., Sava, S., Constable, R.T., & Markus, E.T. (2004). Sex differences in a virtual Morris water task and a virtual eight-arm maze. Behavioural Brain Research. 151(1-2):103-15
Germain, S.A., Kurtz, M.M., Pearlson, G.D., Astur, R.S. (2004) Virtual Driving in Individuals with Schizophrenia. Annual Review of CyberTherapy and Telemedicine: Interactive Media in Training and Therapeutic Interventions, 2, 153-160.
Astur, R.S., Mathalon, DH, D’Souza, DC, Krystal, JH, St. Germain, S, Constable, RT, & Pearlson, GD. (2003). Using Virtual Reality to Examine Hippocampus Functioning in Schizophrenia. International Workshop on Virtual Rehabilitation.
Washburn, D.A. & Astur, R.S. (2003). Exploration of virtual mazes by Rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta). Animal Cognition, 6, 161-168.
Astur, R.S., Taylor, L.B., Mamelak, A.N., Philpott, L. & Sutherland, R.J. (2002). Humans with hippocampus damage display severe spatial memory impairments in a virtual Morris water task. Behavioural Brain Research, 132, 77-84.
Astur, R.S., Klein, R.K., Mumby, D.G., Protz, D., Sutherland, R.J. & Martin, G. (2002). A role for olfaction in object recognition by normal and hippocampus-damaged rats. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 78, 186-191.
Sutherland, R.J., Weisend, M., Mumby, D., Astur, R.S., Hanlon, F.M., Koerner, A., Thomas, M.J., Wu, Y., Moses, S., Cole, C., Hamilton, D.A., & Hoesing, J.M. (2001). Retrograde amnesia after hippocampal damage: Recent vs. remote memories in three tasks. Hippocampus, 11, 27.
Astur, R.S., Mamelak, A.N., Philpott, L.M., Schuman, E.M., & Sutherland, R.J. (1999). Patients with unilateral hippocampus damage are impaired on a virtual Morris water task. Epilepsia, 40, 75.
Hanlon, F.M., Astur, R.S., & Sutherland, R.J. (1999). Changes in adult brain and behavior caused by neonatal limbic damage: A rat model with implication for understanding cognitive symptoms in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research, 36, 64.
Mumby, D.G., Astur, R.S., Weisend, M.P., & Sutherland, R. J. (1999). Retrograde amnesia and selective damage to the hippocampal formation: memory for places and object discriminations. Behavioural Brain Research, 106, 97-107.
Astur, R.S., Ortiz, M.L., & Sutherland, R.J. (1998). A characterization of performance by men and women in a virtual Morris water task: A large and reliable sex difference. Behavioural Brain Research, 93, 185-190.
Astur, R.S., & Sutherland, R.J. (1998). Configural learning in humans: The transverse patterning problem. Psychobiology, 26, 176-182.
Washburn, D. A., & Astur, R.S. (1998). Comparative investigations of visuospatial memory: Rehearsal in the sketchpad? Memory and Cognition, 26(2), 277-286.
Abdulabiz, T., Astur, R.S.,….Nadel, L. (1995). Hippocampus. Behavioural Brain Research in Naturalistic and Semi-naturalistic Settings. Eds. E. Alleva, A. Fasolo, H. Lipp, L. Nadel, & L. Ricceri. Kluwer Academic Publishers. MA.
Lewine, J.D., Edgar, J.C., Repa, K., Paulson, K., Astur, R.S., & Orrison, W.W.,Jr. (1994). A physical phantom for simulating the impact of pathology on magnetic source imaging. Advances in Biomagnetism. Plenum Press.
Ciesielski, K. T., Yanofsky, R., Hill, D. E., Ludwig, R. N., Hart, B. L., Astur, R.S., & Snyder, T. (1994). Hypoplasia of the cerebellar vermis and cognitive deficits in survivors of childhood leukemia. Archives of Neurology, 51(10), 985-993.
Lewine, J. D., Doty, R. W., Astur, R.S., & Provencal, S. L. (1994). Role of the forebrain commissures in bihemispheric mnemonic integration in macaques. Journal of Neuroscience, 14(5), 2515-2530.
Lewine, J. D., Astur, R.S., Davis, L. E., Knight, J. E., Maclin, E. L., & Orrison, W. W, Jr. (1994). Cortical organization in adulthood is modified by neonatal infarct: A case study. Radiology, 190(1), 93-96