2016

• Hosey, C.**, Miller, M. E.*, Sharp, J. L.*, & Fountain, S. B. (2016, April).  Rat sequential learning for impoverished serial patterns favors multiple-item learning.  Poster presented at the Undergraduate Symposium on Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity, Kent State University.

• Thalluri, R.**, Renaud, S. M.*, Miller, M. E.*, Sharp, J. L.*, & Fountain, S. B. (2016, April).  Assessment of cognitive deficits and sex differences in adult rats after adolescent methylphenidate exposure. Paper presented at the Undergraduate Symposium on Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity, Kent State University.

• Doyle, K. E., & Fountain, S. B. (2016, April).  Rats employ both associative and chunking strategies to produce an interleaved pattern II.  Talk presented at the annual meeting of the International Conference on Comparative Cognition, Melbourne, FL.

• Sharp, J. L.*, Renaud, S. M.*, Miller, M. E.*, & Fountain, S. B.  (2016, April).  Sex differences in massed vs. spaced serial pattern acquisition in adult rats.  Poster presented at the annual meeting of the International Conference on Comparative Cognition, Melbourne, FL.

• Miller, M. E.*, Sharp, J. L.*, & Fountain, S. B.  (2016, April).  Rat sequential learning for impoverished serial patterns favors multiple-item learning. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the International Conference on Comparative Cognition, Melbourne, FL.

• Fountain, S. B., Miller, M. E.*, & Sharp, J. L.* (2016, April).  Sequential learning theory fails to predict rats’ interpretation of rule-exceptions in impoverished serial patterns: Chunk-boundary versus violation elements. Effects of environmental enrichment during adolescence on a memory precision deficit observed in middle-aged female rats.  Talk presented at the Tri-State+ Conference on Animal Learning & Behavior, Albion, MI.

2015

• Renaud, S. M.*, Miller, M. E.*, Logan, C. N.**, & Fountain, S. B. (2015, April).  How to impair rat serial pattern learning in one ‘easy’ transfer.  Poster presented at the annual meeting of the International Conference on Comparative Cognition, Melbourne, FL.

• Sharp, J. L.*, Renaud, S. M.*, Miller, M. E.*, Fountain, S. B., & Riccio, D. C. (2015, April).  Effects of environmental enrichment during adolescence on a memory precision deficit observed in middle-aged female rats.  Poster presented at the annual meeting of the International Conference on Comparative Cognition, Melbourne, FL.

• Miller, M. E.*, Renaud, S. M.*, & Fountain, S. B.  (2015, April).  Environmental enrichment during adolescence impairs learning in a serial multiple choice task in adult female rats. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the International Conference on Comparative Cognition, Melbourne, FL.

• Miller, M. E.*, Renaud, S. M.*, Sharp, J. L.*, & Fountain, S. B. (2015, May).  How to impair rat serial pattern learning in one ‘easy’ transfer.  Paper presented at the Tri-State+ Conference on Animal Learning & Behavior, Lexington, KY. 

• Sharp, J. L.*, Renaud, S. M.*, Miller, M. E.*, Fountain, S. B., & Riccio, D. C. (2015, May).  Effects of environmental enrichment during adolescence on a memory precision deficit observed in middle-aged female rats.  Paper presented at the Tri-State+ Conference on Animal Learning & Behavior, Lexington, KY.

• Sharp, J. L.*, Renaud, S. M.*, Miller, M. E.* Fountain, S. B., & Riccio, D. C. (2015, June). Effects of adolescent nicotine exposure on memory precision in middle-aged female rats.  .  Poster presented at the 39^th Annual Meeting of the Neurobehavioral Teratology Society, Montreal, Québec, Canada.

• Renaud, S. M.*, Miller, M. E.*, Pickens, L. R. G., & Fountain, S. B. (2015, June). Sex-specific differences in the persistence of cognitive impairments caused by adolescent nicotine exposure.  Poster presented at the 39^th Annual Meeting of the Neurobehavioral Teratology Society, Montreal, Québec, Canada.

• Fountain, S.B., Pickens, L.R.G., Renaud, S.M.*, Doyle, K.E., Miller, M.E.*, Sharp, J.L.*, Rowan, J.D., Bevins, R.A., Garlick, D., & Blaisdell, A.P. (2015, August). Serial pattern learning: Comparative cognition and neurobehavioral assessment. Invited symposium presentation in Session 1118, “Collaboration between Animal Cognition and Biomedical Investigations – The Value of Combining Basic and Applied Research,” at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

• Doyle, K. E., & Fountain, S.B. (2015, October). Rats employ both association and chunking strategies to produce an interleaved pattern. Rats employ both association and chunking strategies to produce an interleaved pattern.  Talk presented at the Fall Meeting of the Comparative Cognition Society, Chicago, IL.

• Rowan, J. D., Harris, E.**, Benyamine, K.**, Goodson, R.**, Momin, M.**, & Fountain, S.B. (2015, October). The serial multiple choice (smc) task as a neurocognitive screen of the effects of drugs and toxins. Talk presented at the Fall Meeting of the Comparative Cognition Society, Chicago, IL.

2014

• Miller, M. E.**, Williams, A. M.**, Orenstein, N. V.**, Doyle, K. E.*, Renaud, S. M.*, & Fountain, S. B.  (2014, March).  A test for sex differences in touchscreen 2-choice visual discrimination learning in rats. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the International Conference on Comparative Cognition, Melbourne, FL.

• Renaud, S. M.*, Logan, C. N.**, & Fountain, S. B. (2014, March).  Brief massed training causes persistent retardation of rat serial pattern learning.  Poster presented at the annual meeting of the International Conference on Comparative Cognition, Melbourne, FL.

• Stirbens, B.**, Porter, G. A.**, Renaud, S. M.**, & Fountain, S. B. (2014, March).  Fast massed rats: Speeding up the slow pokes.  Poster presented at the annual meeting of the International Conference on Comparative Cognition, Melbourne, FL.

• Logan, Carly**, & Fountain, S. B. (2014, April).  Brief massed training causes persistent retardation of rat serial pattern learning.  Paper presented at the Undergraduate Symposium on Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity, Kent State University.

• Miller, M. E.**, Orenstein, N. V.**, Doyle, K. E.*, Renaud, S. M.*, & Fountain, S. B.  (2014, April).  A test for sex differences in touchscreen 2-choice visual discrimination learning in rats. Paper presented at the Undergraduate Symposium on Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity, Kent State University. (Category winner.)

• Porter, G. A.**, Stirbens, B.**, Renaud, S. M.**, & Fountain, S. B. (2014, April).  Fast massed rats: Speeding up the slow pokes.  Paper presented at the Undergraduate Symposium on Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity, Kent State University.

• Stirbens, B.**, Porter, G. A.**, Renaud, S. M.*, & Fountain, S. B. (2014, May).  Brief massed training causes persistent retardation of rat serial pattern learning.  Paper presented at the Tri-State+ Conference on Animal Learning & Behavior, Windsor, Ontario.

• Renaud, S. M.*, Miller, M. E.**, Stirbens, B.**, & Fountain, S. B. (2014, May). Brief massed training reveals epigenetic effects of adolescent nicotine exposure on female rat serial pattern learning.  Paper presented at the Tri-State+ Conference on Animal Learning & Behavior, Windsor, Ontario.

• Porter, G. A.**, Stirbens, B.**, Renaud, S. M.**, & Fountain, S. B. (2014, May).  Fast massed rats: Speeding up the slow pokes.  Paper presented at the Tri-State+ Conference on Animal Learning & Behavior, Windsor, Ontario.

• Williams, A. M.**, Miller, M. E.**, Orenstein, N. V.**, Doyle, K. E.*, Renaud, S. M.*, & Fountain, S. B.  (2014, May).  Further tests for sex differences in touchscreen 2-choice visual discrimination learning in rats.  Paper presented at the Tri-State+ Conference on Animal Learning & Behavior, Windsor, Ontario.

• Miller, M. E.**, Renaud, S. M.*, & Fountain, S. B. (2014, May).  Development of a serial reaction time (SRT) task for rats in an octagonal chamber.  Paper presented at the Tri-State+ Conference on Animal Learning & Behavior, Windsor, Ontario. 

• Renaud, S. M.*, Miller, M. E.**, Stirbens, B.**, & Fountain, S. B. (2014, June). Brief massed training reveals epigenetic effects of adolescent nicotine exposure on female rat serial pattern learning.  Poster presented at the 38^th Annual Meeting of the Neurobehavioral Teratology Society, Bellevue, Washington.  (NBTS Conference Award Recipient for Best Poster)

• Renaud, S. M.*, Miller, M. E.*, & Fountain, S. B.  (2014, November). Can environmental enrichment alleviate adult learning impairments caused by adolescent nicotine exposure in rats? Neuroscience Meeting Planner (Program No. 265.04). Washington, DC: Society for Neuroscience. Online.

• Miller, M. E.*, Renaud, S. M.*, & Fountain, S. B.  (2014, November). Environmental enrichment during development impairs learning in a serial multiple choice task in adult female rats. Neuroscience Meeting Planner (Program No. 843.04). Washington, DC: Society for Neuroscience. Online.

2013 26th Annual Tri-State+ Conference on Animal Learning & Behavior

• Renaud, S. M.*, Orenstein, N.**, Karanouh-Schuler, E.**, & Fountain, S. B. (2013, March). Epigenetic effects of adolescent nicotine exposure on rat serial pattern learning. Paper presented at the Tri-State+ Conference on Animal Learning & Behavior, Columbus, OH.

• Miller, M. E.**, Williams, A. M.**, Doyle, K. E.*, & Fountain, S. B. (2013, March). Rats are sensitive to violations in serial patterns in a touchscreen SMC task. Paper presented at the Tri-State+ Conference on Animal Learning & Behavior, Columbus, OH.

2013 Comparative Cognition Conference

• Doyle, K. E.*, Renaud, S. M.*, Garlick, D., Blaisdell, A. P., & Fountain, S. B. (2013, March). Serial pattern acquisition in a touchscreen task for rats. II. Element acquisition as a function of memory load and pattern structure. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the International Conference on Comparative Cognition, Melbourne, FL.

2012 Society for Neuroscience Meeting + Comparative Cognition Satellite Conference

• Renaud, S. M.*, Pickens, L. R. G.*, & Fountain, S. B. (2012, October). Effects of stress and nicotine experienced during adolescence on learning in a serial multiple choice (SMC) task in adult female rats. Neuroscience Meeting Planner (Program No. 204-12). Washington, DC: Society for Neuroscience. Online.

• Blaisdell, A. P., Garlick, D., & Fountain, S. B. (2012, October). Sequence learning in pigeons: Control by rote memory and an abstract rule. Neuroscience Meeting Planner (Program No. 104.02). Washington, DC: Society for Neuroscience. Online.

• Doyle, K. E.*, Renaud, S. M.*, Martin, C.**, Garlick, D., Blaisdell, A. P., & Fountain, S. B. (2012, October). Serial pattern acquisition a touchscreen task for rats. Poster presented at the annual fall meeting of the International Conference on Comparative Cognition, New Orleans, LA.

2012 25th Annual Tri-State+ Conference on Animal Learning & Behavior

• Renaud, S. M.*, & Fountain, S. B. (2012, April). Effects of stress and nicotine in adolescence on adult rat sequence learning. Paper presented at the Tri-State+ Conference on Animal Learning & Behavior, Kent, OH. 

  • Hosted by Kent State.

2012 Comparative Cognition Conference

• Garlick, D., Fountain, S. B., & Blaisdell, A. P. (2012, March). Sequence learning in pigeons: Behavior can reflect an abstract rule. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Conference on Comparative Cognition, Melbourne, FL.

• Doyle, K. E.*, Smith, A. M.**, Garlick, D., Blaisdell, A. P., & Fountain, S. B. (2012, March). Towards a touchscreen serial multiple choice (SMC) task for rats. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the International Conference on Comparative Cognition, Melbourne, FL.

• Renaud, S. M.*, Pickens, L. R. G.*, & Fountain, S. B. (2012, March). Effects of injection stress on rat serial pattern learning. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the International Conference on Comparative Cognition, Melbourne, FL.

2012 Society for Neuroscience Meeting

• Pickens, L. R. G.*, Rowan, J. D., Bevins, R. A., & Fountain, S. B. (2011, November). Dose-dependent effects of adolescent nicotine exposure on cognition in the adult female rat. Poster presented at the first annual poster day of the Society for Neuroscience for Neuroscience Northeast Ohio Chapter, Rootstown, OH.

• Pickens, L. R. G.*, Rowan, J. D., Bevins, R. A., & Fountain, S. B. (2011, November). Nicotine exposure during adulthood does not produce the same pattern of cognitive impairments in rats as seen following adolescent exposure. Neuroscience Meeting Planner (Program No. 935.17). Washington, DC: Society for Neuroscience. Online.

2011 Neurobehavioral Teratology Society Meeting

• Pickens, L. R. G., Rowan, J. D., Bevins, R. A., & Fountain, S. B. (2011, June). Dose-dependent effects of adolescent nicotine exposure on cognition in the adult female rat.  Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Neurobehavioral Teratology Society, San Diego, CA. 

  • Best Poster Presentation Award.

2011 Midwestern Psychological Association Meeting

• Trask, S.**, Cullen, P. K., Gos, K. K.**, Pickens, L. R. G., Fountain, S. B., & Riccio, D. C. (2011, May). Adolescent nicotine affects memory for stimulus attributes but not extinction. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.

2011 24th Annual Tri-State+ Conference on Animal Learning & Behavior

• Meduri, J. D.**, Pickens, L. R. G., & Fountain, S. B. (2011, April). What error analysis tells us about age-related differences in serial pattern acquisition. Paper presented at the Tri-State+ Conference on Animal Learning & Behavior, West Lafayette, IN.

• Doyle, K. E., & Fountain, S. B. (2011, May). Target pattern acquisition is affected by interleaved element structure and cueing in rat serial pattern learning: A transfer experiment. Paper presented at the Tri-State+ Conference on Animal Learning & Behavior, West Lafayette, IN.

2011 Comparative Cognition Conference

• Meduri, J. D.**, Burkholder, T. J.**, Pickens, L. R. G., & Fountain, S. B. (2011, March). Age-related differences in rat serial pattern learning. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the International Conference on Comparative Cognition, Melbourne, FL.

• Doyle, Karen E., & Fountain, S. B. (2011, March). Target pattern acquisition is affected by interleaved element structure and cueing in rat serial pattern learning. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the International Conference on Comparative Cognition, Melbourne, FL.

2010 Pavlovian Society Meeting

• Meduri, J. D.**, Pickens, L. R. G., Rowan, J. D., Bevins, R. A., & Fountain, S. B. (2010, October). Sex differences in adult sequential learning impairments caused by adolescent nicotine exposure. Poster to be presented at the annual meeting of the Pavlovian Society, Baltimore, MD.

• Chenoweth, A. M. & Fountain, S. B. (2010, October). Scopolamine retards acquisition of rat serial pattern and reversal learning. Poster to be presented at the annual meeting of the Pavlovian Society, Baltimore, MD.

• Cullen, P. K., Stewart, L.**, Gos, K. K.**, Pickens, L. R. G., Fountain, S. B., & Riccio, D. C. (2010, October). Exposure to adolescent nicotine results in an increase in the forgetting of contextual cues in adult rats. Poster to be presented at the annual meeting of the Pavlovian Society, Baltimore, MD.

2010 Midwestern Psychological Association Meeting

• Cullen, P. K., Pickens, L. R. G., Rexroad, S.**, Fountain, S. B., & Riccio, D. C. (2010, May). The effects of adolescent nicotine exposure on adult memory for stimulus attributes. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.

2010 23rd Annual Tri-State+ Conference on Animal Learning & Behavior

• Chenoweth, A. M. & Fountain, S .B. (2010, April). Scopolamine dissociates cognitive processes responsible for phrasing effects versus violation element performance in rats: A deeper look. Paper presented at the Tri-State+ Conference on Animal Learning & Behavior, Bloomington, IN.
• Kolar, K. L.**, Soehngen, E. P.**, Trhlik, C.**, Pickens, L. R. G., Rowan, J. D., Bevins, R. A. & Fountain, S. B. (2010, April). Effects of adolescent nicotine exposure on serial pattern learning in adult male and female rats. Paper presented at the Tri-State+ Conference on Animal Learning & Behavior, Bloomington, IN.
• Doyle, K. E., & Fountain, S .B. (2010, April). Serial pattern learning in rats: Rule induction and pattern tracking in patterns containing predictable or random interleaved elements. Paper presented at the Tri-State+ Conference on Animal Learning & Behavior, Bloomington, IN.
• Trhlik, C.**, Doyle, K. E., & Fountain, S .B. (2010, April). Serial pattern learning: Interleaved pattern transfer. Paper presented at the Tri-State+ Conference on Animal Learning & Behavior, Bloomington, IN.

2010 Comparative Cognition Conference

• Chenoweth, A. M., & Fountain, S. B. (2010, March). Scopolamine dissociates cognitive processes responsible for phrasing effects versus violation element performance in rats. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the International Conference on Comparative Cognition, Melbourne, FL.
• Doyle, K. E, & Fountain, S. B. (2010, March). Serial pattern learning in rats: Rule induction and pattern tracking in patterns containing 2, 4, or 8 interleaved random elements. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the International Conference on Comparative Cognition, Melbourne, FL.
• Kundey, S. M. A. & Fountain, S. B. (2010, March). Reducing irrelevant relations facilitates learning rules from a response series lacking a consistent motor sequence in rats. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the International Conference on Comparative Cognition, Melbourne, FL.
• Pickens, L. R. G., Kolar, K. L.**, & Fountain, S. B. (2010, March). Sex differences in adult rat serial pattern learning. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the International Conference on Comparative Cognition, Melbourne, FL.

2009 Society for Neuroscience Meeting

• Chenoweth, A.M., & Fountain, S.B.  (2009, October).  The effects of scopolamine on rat serial pattern learning with water reward.  Neuroscience Meeting Planner (Program No. 887.13). Chicago, IL: Society for Neuroscience.  Online.

2009 Comparative Cognition Conference

• Doyle, K. E., & Fountain, S. B. (2009, March). Two new methods for studying serial pattern learning in rats. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the International Conference on Comparative Cognition, Melbourne, FL.

• Kundey, S. M. A. & Fountain, S. B. (2009, March). Rats abstract rules from a response sequence lacking a consistent motor sequence. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Conference on Comparative Cognition, Melbourne, FL.

• Pickens, L. R. G., & Fountain, S. B. (2009, March). Adolescent nicotine exposure procedures and adult rat serial pattern learning. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the International Conference on Comparative Cognition, Melbourne, FL.

2008 Comparative Cognition Conference

• Fountain, S. B., Kundey, S. M. A., & Rowan, J. D. (2008, March). Instrumental blocking and rule learning in rat serial pattern learning. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the International Conference on Comparative Cognition, Melbourne, FL.

• Kundey, S. M. A., Polack, C.**, Taylor, C. L.**, & Fountain, S. B. (2008, March). Irrelevant relations and beginning-to-end serial pattern learning in rats. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the International Conference on Comparative Cognition, Melbourne, FL.

• Pickens, L. R. G., & Fountain, S. B. (2008, March). Pattern structure and scopolamine effects in a serial reaction time task for rats. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the International Conference on Comparative Cognition, Melbourne, FL.

• Smith, D. P. A., & Fountain, S. B. (2008, March). The role of medial caudate putamen in rat serial pattern learning. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the International Conference on Comparative Cognition, Melbourne, FL.

2007 Comparative Cognition Conference

• Chenoweth, A.M., & Fountain, S.B. (2007, March). Acute nicotine exposure produces only mild impairments of adult rat serial pattern performance. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the International Conference on Comparative Cognition, Melbourne, FL.

• Fountain, S. B., Smith, D. P. A., Chenoweth, A. M., Rowan, J. D., Muller, M. D., Glass, L. R., & Kundey, S. M. A. (2007, March). Distinct behavioral and brain processes subserving serial pattern learning. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Conference on Comparative Cognition, Melbourne, FL.

• Kundey, S. M. A., Rowan, J. D., & Fountain, S. B. (2007, March). Some limitations of the Sequential Pairwise Associative Memory (SPAM) model of rat serial pattern learning. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the International Conference on Comparative Cognition, Melbourne, FL.

2006 Society for Neuroscience Meeting

• Smith, D.P.A., & Fountain, S.B. (2006, October). Effects of MK-801 on encoding versus performance in rat serial pattern learning. Abstract Viewer/Itinerary Planner (Program No. 462.2). Atlanta, GA: Society for Neuroscience.

• Chenoweth, A.M., & Fountain, S.B. (2006, October). Differential effects of nicotine, mecamylamine, and scopolamine on rat serial pattern retention. Abstract Viewer/Itinerary Planner (Program No. 462.3). Atlanta, GA: Society for Neuroscience.

2006 Comparative Cognition Conference

• Chenoweth, A.M., & Fountain, S.B. (2006, March). Central cholinergic systems are necessary for learning and retaining “exceptions-to-the-rule” in rat serial pattern learning. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the International Conference on Comparative Cognition, Melbourne, FL.

• Chenoweth, A.M., Wolfe, S.A.**, & Fountain, S.B. (2006, March). “Extreme” serial pattern learning: Rats learn 60-element interleaved serial patterns. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the International Conference on Comparative Cognition, Melbourne, FL.

• Fountain, S.B., & Chenoweth, A.M. (2006, March). Central cholinergic systems are necessary for organized responses to cue changes in rat serial pattern learning. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Conference on Comparative Cognition, Melbourne, FL.

• Fountain, S.B., & Chenoweth, A.M. (2006, March). A serial reaction time task for rats: Individual differences in sequence encoding. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the International Conference on Comparative Cognition, Melbourne, FL.

• Rowan, J.D., Willey, A.R.**, Nolley, E.P.**, Kelley, B.M., & Fountain, S.B. (2006, March). Adolescence exposure to nicotine impairs adult serial-pattern learning in rats. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the International Conference on Comparative Cognition, Melbourne, FL.

• Smith, D.P.A., & Fountain, S.B. (2006, March). Medial caudate putamen lesions and rat serial pattern learning. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the International Conference on Comparative Cognition, Melbourne, FL.

2005 Society for Neuroscience Meeting

• Chenoweth, A.M., Smith, D.P.A., & Fountain, S.B. (2005, November). Central cholinergic systems are necessary for learning “exceptions-to-the-rule” in rat serial pattern learning. Abstract Viewer/Itinerary Planner (Program No. 653.3). Washington, DC: Society for Neuroscience.

• Willey, A.R.**, Nolley, E.P.**, Rowan, J.D., Kelley, B.M., & Fountain, S.B. (2005, November). Adolescent exposure to methylphenidate (Ritalin) impairs learning of perfect serial patterns in adult rats. Abstract Viewer/Itinerary Planner (Program No. 884.2). Washington, DC: Society for Neuroscience.

~ See Dr. Fountain's CV for a Complete List of Presentations at Scientific Conferences Since 1979 ~