Location: Bowdoin / Matthew M. Campolattaro

Psychology

Matthew Campolattaro

Visiting Assistant Professor of Neuroscience and Psychology

Contact Information

mcampola@bowdoin.edu
Telephone: 207-798-4204
Neuroscience
PSYCHOLOGY
220 Kanbar Hall


Spring 2013

  • Intermediate Independent Study (NEURO 292)
  • Data Analysis (PSYC 252)
  • Data Analysis (PSYC 252L1)
  • Clinical Neuroscience: From Lab to Clinic to Public (PSYC 322)
  • Advanced Independent Study and Honors in Psychology (PSYC 401)


Matthew Campolattaro

Education

  • Ph.D., Psychology, University of Iowa
  • B.S., Biological Psychology, The College of William & Mary

Research Interests

Matthew is a neuroscientist who studies learning and memory in rats at the behavioral and neurobiological levels. His research uses a variety of experimental procedures (e.g., stereotaxic surgery, reversible brain lesions, and neural recordings) to address questions related to the acquisition, flexibility and expression of associative memories. He is particularly interested in understanding how previously learned behavioral strategies and associative relationships influence ongoing and future behaviors. One goal of his research is to identify the brain mechanisms that are engaged during these situations. Matthew’s research also overlaps with his broader interests in the fields of comparative psychology and developmental neuroscience.



Campolattaro, M. M., Buss, E. W., & Freeman, J. H. Cross-modal savings in the contralateral eyelid during eyeblink conditioning. In Preparation

Campolattaro, M. M., Kashef, A., Lee, I., & Freeman, J. H. (2011). Neuronal correlates of cross-modal transfer in the cerebellum and pontine nuclei, Journal of Neuroscience, 31, 4051-4062.

Campolattaro, M. M., & Freeman, J. H. (2009). An examination of bilateral eyeblink conditioning in rats. Behavioral Neuroscience, 123, 1346-1352.

Campolattaro, M. M., & Freeman, J. H. (2009). Cerebellar inactivation impairs cross- modal savings of eyeblink conditioning. Behavioral Neuroscience, 123, 292-302.

Freeman, J. H., & Campolattaro, M. M. (2008). Ontogenetic change in the auditory conditioned stimulus pathway for eyeblink conditioning. Learning & Memory, 15, 823-828.

Campolattaro, M. M., & Freeman, J. H. (2008). Eyeblink conditioning in 12-day-old rats using pontine stimulation as the conditioned stimulus. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105, 8120-8123.

Campolattaro, M. M., Schnitker, K. M., & Freeman, J. H. (2008). Changes in inhibition during differential eyeblink conditioning with increased training. Learning & Behavior, 36, 159-165.

Campolattaro, M. M., Halverson, H. E., & Freeman, J. H. (2007). Medial auditory thalamic stimulation as a conditioned stimulus for eyeblink conditioning in rats. Learning & Memory, 14, 152-159.

Campolattaro, M. M., & Freeman, J. H. (2006). Perirhinal cortex lesions impair simultaneous but not serial feature-positive discrimination learning. Behavioral Neuroscience, 120, 970-975.

Campolattaro, M. M., & Freeman, J. H. (2006). Perirhinal cortex lesions impair feature-negative discrimination. Neurobiology of Learning & Memory, 86, 205-213.

Freeman, J. H., Jr., Rabinak, C. A., & Campolattaro, M. M. (2005). Pontine stimulation overcomes developmental limitations in the neural mechanisms of eyeblink conditioning. Learning & Memory, 12, 255-259.

Bowdoin College

  • Laboratory in Behavioral Neuroscience: Learning and Memory (Fall 2012)
  • Freshman Seminar: Introduction to the Brain and Behavior (Fall 2012)
  • Data Analysis (Spring 2013)
  • Advanced Seminar: Clinical Neuroscience (Spring 2013)

The University of Vermont

  • Animal Behavior
  • Exploring Neuroscience
  • Neurobiology
  • Neurobiology of Learning & Memory
  • Senior Seminar: Diseases of the Nervous System