Research focuses on learning and memory processes in animals.
Areas of particular interest include behavioral aspects of anterograde and retrograde amnesias, ontogenetic changes in memory, memory for stimulus attributes, and extinction of fear. Click here for a listing of previous doctoral students from the Riccio lab. Anterograde amnesia induced by hyperthermia in rats. Increased generalization between drug related interoceptive-stimuli with delayed testing. Methodological implications for assessing associative phenomena.