Dr Eric Bowman

Lecturer

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 462093

Email

emb@st-andrews.ac.uk

Research areas

My research focuses on the bursts of electrical signals that nerve cells exhibit while animals perform behavioural tasks. This is called ?behavioural neurophysiology? and relies on single-neuron extracellular recording. The goal of this research is to correlate the neural signals with behavioural events so that the functional role of the neurons being studied can be inferred. To date most of my research has focused on the mesolimbic dopamine system and its role in adaptive behaviour. However, I have also studied other psychological functions of dopamine (such as reward, motivation, response selection and response initiation) in a variety of species (rodents, carnivores, nonhuman primates and neurological patients). I have additional experience in the study of the neurophysiology and functional neuroanatomy of sensory systems, particularly in regard to selective attention.

PhD supervision

• Tegan Knott
• Yunkai Li

Selected publications and performances

• 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

• 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

• Wearable organic optoelectronic sensors for medicine

  Bansal, A. K., Hou, S., Kulyk, O., Bowman, E. M. & Samuel, I. D. W., 4 Dec 2015, In : Advanced Materials. 27, 46, p. 7638?7644

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Psychopharmacology of Reward and Appetite in Rats

  Bowman, E. M., 2009, Encyclopedia of Neuroscience. Squire, L. (ed.). Academic Press Inc., p. 1205-1210

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

• Development of a behavioral task measuring reward ?wanting? and ?liking? in rats

  Wilson, D. I. G., Laidlaw, A. H., Butler, E., Hoffman, D. & Bowman, E. M., 30 Jan 2006, In : Physiology & Behavior. 87, 1, p. 154 - 161 8 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Neurons in dopamine-rich areas of the rat medial midbrain predominantly encode the outcome-related rather than behavioural switching properties of conditioned stimuli

  Wilson, D. I. G. & Bowman, E. M., Jan 2006, In : European Journal of Neuroscience. 23, 1, p. 205-218 14 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Excitotoxic lesions of the pedunculopontine tegmental nucleus in rats impair performance on a test of sustained attention

  Kozak, R., Bowman, E. M., Latimer, M. P., Rostron, C. L. & Winn, P., Apr 2005, In : Experimental Brain Research. 162, 2, p. 257-264 8 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Rat nucleus accumbens neurons predominantly respond to the outcome-related properties of conditioned stimuli rather than their behavioral-switching properties

  Wilson, D. I. G. & Bowman, E. M., Jul 2005, In : Journal of Neurophysiology. 94, 1, p. 49-61 13 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Recordings from the rat locus coeruleus during acute vagal nerve stimulation in the anaesthetised rat

  Groves, DA., Bowman, E. M. & Brown, V. J., 13 May 2005, In : Neuroscience Letters. 379, 3, p. 174-179 6 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Nucleus accumbens neurons in the rat exhibit differential activity to conditioned reinforcers and primary reinforcers within a second-order schedule of saccharin reinforcement

  Wilson, D. I. G. & Bowman, E. M., Nov 2004, In : European Journal of Neuroscience. 20, 10, p. 2777-2788 12 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

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