2013 - Ph.D. in Medicine - Brain and Mind Research Institute, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia - Supervisor: Professor Bernard Balleine - Thesis: The role of the amygdala central nucleus in habitual behavior
2006 - B.A. in Psychology - University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
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I am a researcher in the School of Psychology studying the neural mechanisms of Learning and Memory. My main research interest is in understanding the neural and behavioural characteristics of inhibitory predictive learning using a combination of different in vivo techniques in animal models. I am particularly interested in the role of the infralimbic cortex in aversive (fear) extinction, appetitive extinction, latent inhibition, conditioned inhibition, as well as other forms of inhibitory learning.
Lingawi NW; Dezfouli A; Balleine BW, 2016, 'The Psychological and Physiological Mechanisms of Habit Formation', in The Wiley Handbook on the Cognitive Neuroscience of Learning, Wiley, pp. 409 - 441, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118650813.ch16
Book Chapters | 2015
Lingawi NW; Dezfouli A; Balleine BW, 2015, 'The Psychological and Physiological Mechanisms of Habit Formation', in Wiley Handbook on the Cognitive Neuroscience of Learning, pp. 411 - 441, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118650813.ch16
Journal articles | 2024
Burton TJ; Kumar AR; Lingawi NW; Gladding JM; Balleine BW; Laurent V, 2024, 'Response-independent outcome presentations dissociate stimulus and value based choice', Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 215, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nlm.2024.107989
Journal articles | 2024
Park J; Lingawi NW; Crimmins BE; Gladding JM; Nolan CR; Burton TJ; Laurent V, 2024, 'Stimulus–Outcome Associations Are Required for the Expression of Specific Pavlovian-Instrumental Transfer', Journal of Experimental Psychology Animal Learning and Cognition, 50, pp. 25 - 38, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xan0000371
Journal articles | 2023
Gladding JM; Lingawi NW; Leung BK; Kendig MD; Chieng BC; Laurent V, 2023, 'High fat diet allows food-predictive stimuli to energize action performance in the absence of hunger, without distorting insulin signaling on accumbal cholinergic interneurons', Appetite, 188, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2023.106769
Journal articles | 2022
Crimmins BE; Lingawi NW; Chieng BC; Leung BK; Maren S; Laurent V, 2022, 'Basal forebrain cholinergic signaling in the basolateral amygdala promotes strength and durability of fear memories', Neuropsychopharmacology, 48, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41386-022-01427-w
Journal articles | 2022
Lingawi NW; Berman T; Bounds J; Laurent V, 2022, 'Sensory-Specific Satiety Dissociates General and Specific Pavlovian-Instrumental Transfer', Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 16, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2022.877720
Journal articles | 2021
Lingawi NW; Laurent V; Westbrook RF; Holmes NM, 2021, 'Acquisition and extinction of second-order context conditioned fear: Role of the amygdala', Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 183, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nlm.2021.107485
Journal articles | 2019
Lingawi NW; Laurent V; Westbrook RF; Holmes NM, 2019, 'The role of the basolateral amygdala and infralimbic cortex in (re)learning extinction', Psychopharmacology, 236, pp. 303 - 312, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00213-018-4957-x
Journal articles | 2018
Goarin EHF; Lingawi NW; Laurent V, 2018, 'Role played by the passage of time in reversal learning', Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2018.00075
Journal articles | 2018
Lingawi NW; Andrew E; Laurent V; Killcross S; Westbrook RF; Holmes NM, 2018, 'The conditions that regulate formation of a false fear memory in rats', Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 156, pp. 53 - 59, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nlm.2018.10.009
Journal articles | 2018
Lingawi NW; Holmes NM; Westbrook RF; Laurent V, 2018, 'The infralimbic cortex encodes inhibition irrespective of motivational significance', Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 150, pp. 64 - 74, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nlm.2018.03.001
Journal articles | 2017
Lingawi NW; Westbrook RF; Laurent V, 2017, 'Extinction and Latent Inhibition Involve a Similar Form of Inhibitory Learning that is Stored in and Retrieved from the Infralimbic Cortex', Cerebral Cortex, 27, pp. 5547 - 5556, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhw322
Journal articles | 2017
Lingawi NW; Westbrook RF; Laurent V, 2017, 'Extinction of relapsed fear does not require the basolateral amygdala', Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 139, pp. 149 - 156, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nlm.2017.01.005
Journal articles | 2015
Campbell-Smith EJ; Holmes NM; Lingawi NW; Panayi MC; Westbrook RF, 2015, 'Oxytocin signaling in basolateral and central amygdala nuclei differentially regulates the acquisition, expression, and extinction of context-conditioned fear in rats', Learning and Memory, 22, pp. 247 - 257, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/lm.036962.114
Journal articles | 2014
Dezfouli A; Lingawi NW; Balleine BW, 2014, 'Habits as action sequences: Hierarchical action control and changes in outcome value', Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, 369, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2013.0482
Journal articles | 2014
Dezfouli A; Lingawi NW; Balleine BW, 2014, 'Habits as action sequences: hierarchical action control and changes in outcome value', Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 369, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2013.0482
Journal articles | 2012
Lingawi NW; Balleine BW, 2012, 'Amygdala central nucleus interacts with dorsolateral striatum to regulate the acquisition of habits', Journal of Neuroscience, 32, pp. 1073 - 1081, http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4806-11.2012
Preprints | 2023
Gladding J; Lingawi N; Leung B; Kendig M; Chieng B; Laurent V, 2023, High fat diet allows food-predictive stimuli to energize action performance in the absence of hunger, without distorting insulin signaling on accumbal cholinergic interneurons, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2023.03.29.534845
2020 – NHMRC Ideas Grant – APP2003686 – Dr Vincent Laurent, Dr Beatrice Leung, Dr Nura Lingawi, Dr Billy Chieng – Examining the metabolic and cognitive deficits caused by insulin resistance in the ventral striatum – 400,372 AUD – Duration: 3 years
2020 – UNSW Science Early Career Academic Network Small Seed Grant – Dr Beatrice Leung, Dr Nura Lingawi - Examining the metabolic and cognitive deficits caused by insulin resistance in the ventral striatum – 500AUD
My Teaching
Currently teaching Graduate Diploma in Psychology courses 5001 and 5002 (Intro to Psychology I & II) and 5003 (Data Analysis and Methods of Psych Inquiry), as well as undergrad in Psychology courses 2081 (Learning & Physiological Psychology) and 1111 (Measuring Mind & Behaviour).
