Dr David Tait

Senior Research Fellow

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 462088

Email

dst@st-andrews.ac.uk

PhD supervision

• Tegan Knott

Selected publications

• Exacerbation of the credit assignment problem in rats with lesions of the medial prefrontal cortex is revealed by Bayesian analysis of behavior in the pre-solution period of learning

  Wang, J., Tait, D. S., Brown, V. J. & Bowman, E. M., 17 Oct 2019, In : Behavioural Brain Research. 372, 112037.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• More rapid reversal learning following overtraining in the rat is evidence that behavioural and cognitive flexibility are dissociable

  Dhawan, S. S., Tait, D. S. & Brown, V. J., 2 May 2019, In : Behavioural Brain Research. 363, p. 45-52

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Precocial juvenile lizards show adult level learning and behavioural flexibility

  Szabo, B., Noble, D. W. A., Byrne, R. W., Tait, D. S. & Whiting, M. J., Aug 2019, In : Animal Behaviour. 154, p. 75-84 10 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Assessment of intradimensional/extradimensional attentional set-shifting in rats

  Tait, D. S., Bowman, E. M., Neuwirth, L. S. & Brown, V. J., Jun 2018, In : Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews. 89, p. 72-84 13 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Review article

• Oral dosing of rodents using a palatable tablet

  Dhawan, S. S., Xia, S., Tait, D. S., Bundgaard, C., Bowman, E. & Brown, V. J., May 2018, In : Psychopharmacology. 235, 5, p. 1527-1532 6 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Subproblem learning and reversal of a multidimensional visual cue in a lizard: evidence for behavioural flexibility?

  Szabo, B., Noble, D. W. A., Byrne, R. W., Tait, D. S. & Whiting, M. J., Oct 2018, In : Animal Behaviour. 144, p. 17-26 10 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Effects of lesions of the subthalamic nucleus/zona incerta area and dorsomedial striatum on attentional set-shifting in the rat

  Tait, D. S., Phillips, J. M., Blackwell, A. D. & Brown, V. J., 14 Mar 2017, In : Neuroscience. 345, p. 287-296 10 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Attentional set-shifting across species

  Brown, V. J. & Tait, D. S., 1 Jan 2016, Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences. Springer-Verlag, p. 363-395 33 p. (Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences; vol. 28).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding ? Chapter

• Attentional set-shifting in rodents: a review of behavioural methods and pharmacological results

  Tait, D. S., Chase, E. A. & Brown, V. J., 2014, In : Current Pharmaceutical Design. 20, 31, p. 5046-59

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Review article

• Lesions of the dorsomedial striatum impair formation of attentional set in rats

  Lindgren, H. S., Wickens, R., Tait, D. S., Brown, V. J. & Dunnett, S. B., 2013, In : Neuropharmacology. 71, p. 148-153

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

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