Jennifer Quinn
Associate Professor
100 Psychology Building
Oxford, OH 45056
513-529-3611
quinnjj@MiamiOH.edu
Teaching Interests
Biopsychology; Neurobiology of Learning & Memory; Principles of Learning; Neuropsychopharmacology; Writing & Research Methods; Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experiences; Team-Based Learning
Research Interests
I am interested in how both associative and non-associative emotional memories are formed, retrieved, and used to guide future behavior. Specifically, I investigate how the brain initially stores and subsequently stabilizes, updates, and forgets long-term memories. I explore parallel brain systems that often represent
Professional Recognition
- Miami University “Outstanding Professor Award” presented by Associated Student Government and Campus Activities Council (2011-12)
- Miami University Psychology Department Psi Chi “Professor of the Year” Award (2008-2009)
- Young Investigator Travel Award, Organization for the Study of Sex Differences (2007)
- New York Academy of Sciences, James McKeen Cattell Dissertation Award (2005)
- Joseph A. Gengerelli Distinguished Dissertation Award, UCLA (2004)
Representative Publications
- Claflin DI*, Gallimore DM U, Koraym A U, Costello A U, Hennessy MB, Quinn JJ. (2021). Social buffering of plasma corticosterone and amygdala responses of young rats following exposure to periorbital shock: Implications for eye-blink conditioning development. Behavioral Neuroscience.
- Campbell TL U, Kochli DEG, McDaniel MA U, Myers MK U, Dunn ME U, Diana VA U & Quinn JJ*. (2021). Using extinction-renewal to circumvent the memory strength boundary condition in fear memory reconsolidation. Brain Sciences, 11(8): 1023. doi: 10.3390/brainsci11081023.
- Sneddon EAG, Riddle CA U, Schuh KM U, Quinn JJ, Radke AK*. (2021). Selective enhancement of fear learning and resistance to extinction in a mouse model of acute early life trauma. Learning & Memory, 28(1):12-16. doi: 10.1101/lm.052373.120.
- Radke AK, Held IT U, Sneddon ES G, Riddle CA U & Quinn JJ*. (2019). Additive influences of acute early life stress and sex on vulnerability for aversion-resistant alcohol drinking. Addiction Biology, Addict Biol. 2019 Oct 27:e12829.
- Kochli DE G, Campbell TL U, Hollingsworth EW U, Lab RS U, Postle AF U, Perry MM U, Mordzinski VM U & Quinn JJ*. (2018). Combined administration of MK-801 and cycloheximide produces a delayed potentiation of fear discrimination memory extinction. Behavioral Neuroscience, 132:99-105.
- Pierson JL, Pullins SE & Quinn JJ*. (2015). Infusions of CNQX into the dentate gyrus of the dorsal hippocampus disrupt expression of trace fear conditioning. Hippocampus, 25(7):779-785. doi: 10.1002/hipo.22413..
- Kochli DE, Thompson EC, Fricke EA, Postle AF & Quinn JJ*. (2015). The amygdala is critical for trace, delay, and contextual fear conditioning. Learning & Memory, 22(2):92-100. doi: 10.1101/lm.034918.114.
- Quinn JJ*, Skipper RA & Claflin DI. (2014). Infant stress exposure produces persistent enhancement of fear learning across development. Developmental Psychobiology, 56(5):1008-1016. doi: 10.1002/dev.21181.
- Beeman CL, Bauer PS, Pierson JL & Quinn JJ*. (2013). Hippocampus and medial prefrontal cortex contributions to trace and contextual fear memory expression over time. Learning & Memory, 20:336-343.
- Quinn JJ, Pittenger C, Lee A, Pierson JL & Taylor JR. (2013). Striatum-dependent habits are insensitive to both increases and decreases in reinforcer value. European Journal of Neuroscience, 37:1012-1021.
- Sanchez H, Quinn JJ, Torregrossa MM & Taylor JR. (2010). Reconsolidation of a cocaine-associated stimulus requires amygdalar protein kinase A. Journal of Neuroscience, 30:4401-4407.
* denotes corresponding author
Grants
NIH 1R15MH100689-01 Prediction error in contextual fear memory reconsolidation, 06/15/2013–06/14/2017, $401,121