Behavioral Neuroscience

RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS

Baizer, J., Sherwood, C., Noonan, M. & Hof, P. Comparative organization of the claustrum: What does structure tell us about function?  Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 2014, 8, 1-10, DOI: 10.3389/fnsys.2014.00117. 

Noonan, M., Smith, M.A., Kelleher, K. and Sanfilippo, M.A.  Sex differences in anterior commissure size in the rat.  Brain Research Bulletin, 1998, 45, 101-104. 

Putnam, S., Noonan, M., Bellia, C. & Previc, F.H.  Direction and reliability of head tilt in humans.  Laterality, 1996, 1, 153-160. 

Noonan, M., Penque, M.  & Axelrod, S.  Septal lesions impair rats’ Morris-test performance but facilitate left-right response differentiation.  Physiology & Behavior, 1996, 60, 895-900. 

Noonan, M. & Axelrod, S.  Partial callosotomy and left-right response differentiation in the rat:  Separate anterior and posterior facilitatory effects.  Behavioral Neuroscience, 1992, 106, 433-436. 

Noonan, M. & Axelrod, S.  Improved acquisition of left-right response differentiation in the rat following section of corpus callosum.  Behavioural Brain Research, 1991, 46, 135-142.

Noonan, M. & Axelrod, S.  Failure of induced asymmetries to improve left-right response differentiation in the rat.  Journal of General Psychology, 1990, 117, 197-202.

Noonan, M. & Axelrod, S.  Behavioral bias and left-right response differentiation in the rat.  Behavioral and Neural Biology, 1989, 52, 406-410.

Noonan, M. & Axelrod, S.  The stability and intertest consonance of lateral postural-motor biases in rats:  Results and implications.  Behavioral and Neural Biology, 1989, 52, 386-405.

Noonan, M. & Axelrod, S.   Visuospatial orientational shifts:  Evidence for three independent mechanisms.  Educational Resources Information Center Document ED284104, 1987, 1-5.

Noonan, M. & Axelrod, S.  Earedness (Ear choice in monaural tasks):  Its measurement and relationship to other lateral preferences.  Journal of Auditory Research, 1981, 21, 263-277.

Axelrod, S., Noonan, M. & Atanacio, B.  On the laterality of psychogenic somatic symptoms.  Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 1980, 168, 517-525.

Noonan, M. & Kristal, M. B.  The effects of medial preoptic lesions on placentophagia and on the onset of maternal behavior in the rat.  Physiology & Behavior, 1979, 22, 1197-1202.

Kristal, M. B., Axelrod, S., & Noonan, M.  Learning in escape/avoidance tasks in female rats does not vary with reproductive condition.  Physiology & Behavior, 1978, 21, 251-256.

Noonan, M. & Kristal, M. B.  Non-parturitional exposure to donor placenta and placentophagia after lateral hypothalamic lesions in rats.  Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society, 1978, 12, 140-142.

Axelrod, S., Leiber, L. & Noonan, M.  Classification of random forms and distortions presented to the left or right visual field.  Perceptual & Motor Skills, 1978, 47, 615-621.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Noonan, M., Sion, K., Viksjo, M. & Wescott, K.  Anterior commissure and corpus callosum size increase disproportionately with advancing age in rats.  Society for Neuroscience, Los Angeles, November 1998.

Smith, M.A., Sanfilippo, M.A. & Noonan, M.  Sex differences in the anterior commissure components in the rat. Society for Neuroscience, New Orleans, October 1997.

Noonan, M., Sanfilippo, M.A., Chmiel, D.J. & Smith, M.A.  Mapping the midsagittal corpus callosum in the rat:  Topographical correspondence of callosal regions with cortical subdivisions.  Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC, November 1996.

Noonan, M., Smith, M., Sanfillipo, M.A., Kelleher, K. & Axelrod, S.  Sexual dimorphism in the anterior commissure of the rat.  American Psychological Association, Toronto, Ontario, August 1996.

Smith, M., Kelleher, K., Harrington-Donnelly, C., Lipczynski, D., Renda, J., Axelrod, S. & Noonan, M.  Subcortical neural asymmetry, turning bias and left right response differentiation in the rat.  Eastern Psychological Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 1996.

Noonan, M. & Axelrod, S.  Hemidecortication and reversal learning in the rat:  Hemispheric asymmetry for tendency to perseverate.  Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, California, November 1995.

Noonan, M., Chmiel, D. & Axelrod, S.  Asymmetrical effects of lesions in Fr2 on left-right response differentiation in the rat.  Society for Neuroscience, Miami Beach, Florida, November 1994.

Noonan, M. & Axelrod, S.  Visuospatial orientational shifts:  Evidence for three independent mechanisms.  American Psychological Association, Washington DC, August 1986.