Dr Robert Schmidt
Department of Psychology
Lecturer
robert.schmidt@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 6501
+44 114 222 6501
Cathedral Court
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Dr Robert Schmidt
Department of Psychology
Cathedral Court
1 Vicar Lane
Sheffield
S1 2LT
Department of Psychology
Cathedral Court
1 Vicar Lane
Sheffield
S1 2LT
- Qualifications
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- BSc (University of Osnabrueck)
- MSc (University of Otago)
- PhD (Humboldt University Berlin)
- Research interests
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We study neural mechanisms underlying action control. This includes how animals select “good” actions and suppress “bad” ones.
Specifically, we study how different circuits in the basal ganglia contribute to the control of actions and how this can be modulated by e.g. dopamine or oscillations.
In my lab we develop computational models of neuronal activity and combine them with electrophysiological data in close collaboration with experimental labs.
- Publications
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Featured publications
Journal articles
- Basal ganglia and cortical control of thalamic rebound spikes. European Journal of Neuroscience. View this article in WRRO
- Globus pallidus dynamics reveal covert strategies for behavioral inhibition. eLife. View this article in WRRO
- Abundance compensates kinetics: similar effect of dopamine signals on D1 and D2 receptor populations. Journal of Neuroscience, 40(14), 2868-2881. View this article in WRRO
- Beta oscillations in working memory, executive control of movement and thought, and sensorimotor function. The Journal of Neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 39(42), 8231-8238. View this article in WRRO
- Sensorimotor Processing in the Basal Ganglia Leads to Transient Beta Oscillations during Behavior. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 37(46), 11220-11232. View this article in WRRO
- A Pause-then-Cancel model of stopping: evidence from basal ganglia neurophysiology. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 372. View this article in WRRO
- Arkypallidal Cells Send a Stop Signal to Striatum. Neuron, 89(2), 308-316.
- Canceling actions involves a race between basal ganglia pathways. Nature Neuroscience, 16(8), 1118-1124.
- Dopamine Cells Respond to Predicted Events during Classical Conditioning: Evidence for Eligibility Traces in the Reward-Learning Network. Journal of Neuroscience, 25(26), 6235-6242.
All publications
Journal articles
- Aberrant phase precession of lateral septal cells in a maternal immune activation model of schizophrenia risk may disrupt the integration of location with reward. Journal of Neuroscience.
- Transient beta modulates decision thresholds during human action-stopping. NeuroImage, 254.
- Basal ganglia and cortical control of thalamic rebound spikes. European Journal of Neuroscience. View this article in WRRO
- Occasion setters determine responses of putative DA neurons to discriminative stimuli. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory. View this article in WRRO
- Globus pallidus dynamics reveal covert strategies for behavioral inhibition. eLife. View this article in WRRO
- How can neuroscientists respond to the climate emergency?. Neuron, 106(1), 17-20. View this article in WRRO
- Abundance compensates kinetics: similar effect of dopamine signals on D1 and D2 receptor populations. Journal of Neuroscience, 40(14), 2868-2881. View this article in WRRO
- Beta oscillations in working memory, executive control of movement and thought, and sensorimotor function. The Journal of Neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 39(42), 8231-8238. View this article in WRRO
- Hippocampal place cell encoding of sloping terrain. Hippocampus, 28(11), 767-782. View this article in WRRO
- Sensorimotor Processing in the Basal Ganglia Leads to Transient Beta Oscillations during Behavior. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 37(46), 11220-11232. View this article in WRRO
- A Pause-then-Cancel model of stopping: evidence from basal ganglia neurophysiology. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 372. View this article in WRRO
- Arkypallidal Cells Send a Stop Signal to Striatum. Neuron, 89(2), 308-316.
- Mesolimbic dopamine signals the value of work. Nature Neuroscience, 19(1), 117-126.
- New Roles for the External Globus Pallidus in Basal Ganglia Circuits and Behavior. Journal of Neuroscience, 34(46), 15178-15183.
- Modeling Inheritance of Phase Precession in the Hippocampal Formation. Journal of Neuroscience, 34(22), 7715-7731.
- Canceling actions involves a race between basal ganglia pathways. Nature Neuroscience, 16(8), 1118-1124.
- Coordination of phase precession through feed-forward topologies in the hippocampus. BMC Neuroscience, 14(S1).
- Quantifying circular–linear associations: Hippocampal phase precession. Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 207(1), 113-124.
- Basal Ganglia Beta Oscillations Accompany Cue Utilization. Neuron, 73(3), 523-536.
- Cross-Frequency Phase-Phase Coupling between Theta and Gamma Oscillations in the Hippocampus. Journal of Neuroscience, 32(2), 423-435.
- Striatal action-learning based on dopamine concentration. Experimental Brain Research, 200(3-4), 307-317.
- Single-Trial Phase Precession in the Hippocampus. Journal of Neuroscience, 29(42), 13232-13241.
- The dopamine puzzle. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106(27), E75-E75.
- Ecology and neurobiology of toxin avoidance and the paradox of drug reward. Neuroscience, 160(1), 69-84.
- Theory meets pigeons: The influence of reward-magnitude on discrimination-learning. Behavioural Brain Research, 198(1), 125-129.
- Tripartite Mechanism of Extinction Suggested by Dopamine Neuron Activity and Temporal Difference Model. Journal of Neuroscience, 28(39), 9619-9631.
- Temporal compression mediated by short-term synaptic plasticity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105(11), 4417-4422.
- Dopamine Cells Respond to Predicted Events during Classical Conditioning: Evidence for Eligibility Traces in the Reward-Learning Network. Journal of Neuroscience, 25(26), 6235-6242.
- Dopamine modulation of learning and memory in the prefrontal cortex: insights from studies in primates, rodents, and birds. Frontiers in Neural Circuits, 8. View this article in WRRO
- Bilateral Intracranial Beta Activity during Forced and Spontaneous Movements in a Hemi-PD Rat Model. Frontiers in Neuroscience.
Chapters
- A Framework for Resolving Motivational Conflict via Attractor Dynamics, Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems (pp. 192-203). Springer International Publishing
Conference proceedings papers
- Stopping actions by suppressing striatal plateau potentials. 2019 Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience, 13 September 2019 - 16 September 2019.
- Die Rolle der Basalganglien beim Unterdrücken von Handlungsimpulsen. Planen und Handeln (pp 29-44) View this article in WRRO
- Basal ganglia and cortical control of thalamic rebound spikes. European Journal of Neuroscience. View this article in WRRO
- Research group
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PhD students
- Adriel Chua - Oscillations and ramping activity in the basal ganglia
- John Brooke (2nd supervisor) - Geometry and dynamics of cortical tessellation
- Giulia Corniani (2nd supervisor) - A spiking model of realistic human tactile interactions
- Teaching activities
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- PSY1002 Cognitive Psychology I
- PSY2002 Cognitive Psychology II
- PSY303 Neural Basis of Learning and Development
- PSY311 Extended Essay in Psychology
- PSY346 Research Project in Psychology
- PSY6307 Computational Neuroscience I
- PSY6309 Mathematical Modelling and Research Skills
- PSY6315 Current Issues in Systems Neuroscience
- PSY6431 Research Project in Cognitive Neuroscience
- ACE0349 Extended Project in Psychology
- MED624 Neuroimaging, Neurophysiology & Neuropsychiatry
- Professional activities
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- Co-chair of the Departmental Ethics Sub-Committee
- Chair of the Departmental Computing Committee
- Member of the Research Computing Advisory Group
- Member of the Research Governance Sub Committee