Recent Publications
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Selected Talks and Colloquia
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Davidson, T.L. (June 2019). A Role for Memory in the Explanation of Motivated Appetitive Behavior. Benjamin Franklin Lafayette Seminar Series, Frejus, France.
Davidson, T.L. (February 2019). Memory Mechanisms Linking Obesity to Cognitive Decline. Colloquium, Psychology and Behavioral Neuroscience Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
Davidson, T.L. (November 2018). H.M.’s other legacy: The hippocampus as a substrate for energy intake and body weight regulation. Psychology Departmental Colloquium, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Davidson, T.L. (November 2018). Diet, Obesity, and the Hippocampus. Colloquium, Medical Sciences Faculty. University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Davidson, T.L. (April 2018). Obesogenic diets and the hippocampal-dependent control of energy intake. Celebration of the 35th anniversary of the Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, University of California at Irvine, Huntington Beach, CA.
Davidson, T.L. Hippocampal-dependent cognitive function: A critical component of energy regulation. Swiss Winter Conference on Ingestive Behavior. St. Moritz, Switzerland, February 2017.
Davidson, T.L. Intersections of Metabolic and Neurocognitive Functioning. Plenary address: 22nd Annual Diabetes Fall Symposium for Primary Health Care Professionals, North Charleston, SC, September 2016.
Davidson, T.L. (June 2016). The Influence of Diet and Learning on the Internal versus External Controls of Intake. Invited colloquium, International Behavioral Neuroscience Society, Budapest, Hungary.
Davidson, T.L. (June 2016). A View of Obesity as a Learning and Memory Disorder. Invited Symposium: Cognitive Controls of Eating and Body Weight. Annual Meeting of the American Diabetes Association, New Orleans, LA.
Jones, S. & Davidson, T.L. (April 2016). The Integration of External and Internal Cues in Energy and Body Weight Regulation. Robyn Rafferty Mathias Student Research Conference, American University, Washington, DC.
Davidson, T. L. (March 2016) Links between Obesity and Cognitive Function across the lifespan. Presidential Address, Eastern Psychological Association Annual Meeting, New York, NY.
Jones, S., Sample, Olson, A., Hargrave, S.L., & Davidson, T.L. (March 2016). Interoceptive Cues on Learned Modulators in the Control of Energy Release. Eastern Psychological Association Annual Meeting, New York, NY.
Sample, C.H., Jones, S., Batra, S., Olson, A., Hargrave, S.L. & Davidson, T.L. (March 2016). Considering Sex in Extrernality: Appetitive Control by Energy States and External Cues. Eastern Psychological Association Annual Meeting, New York, NY.
Sample, C. H., Mak, J., MacIver, P., Jarrard, L., & Davidson, T. L. (November 15, 2014). Externalilty in obesity: A hippocampal-dependent phenomenon at Neuroscience 2014.
Hargrave,S. L., Davidson, T.L., Zheng, W., Kinzig, K.P. (November 15, 2014). Consumption of high-energy diets induces cognitive impairment, neuroinflammation, and neurovascular damage at Neuroscience 2014
Davidson, T. L. (November 11, 2014). Effects of a Western-style Diet on Cognition and the Animal Brain at The Nutrition and Exercise Science Seminar Series, George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
Davidson, T. L. (September 4, 2014). Dietary Threats to Brain Health and Cognitive Function. Invited colloquium as part of the International Nutribrain Summer School at the University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France.
Davidson, T. L. (August 3-6, 2014). Eat right and exercise: Why can't we follow this good advice? As chair -- Symposium at the annual Conference of the American Psychological Association, Washington, DC.
Davidson, T. L. (April 17, 2014). The Toxic Effects of the Western Diet on the Brain and Cognition. Psi Chi Honor Society McDaniel College Westminster, MD.
Davidson, T. L. (April 2014). Common Origins and Substrates for Obesity and Cognitive Dysfunction. Integrative Neuroscience Program Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY.
Davidson, T. L. (October 2013). Why do we Overeat and Become Obese? It Could be What We Think? Colloquium, Neuroscience Program, St. Mary's College, St. Mary's MD.
Davidson, T. L. (August 2013). What Makes the "Obesogenic" Environment "Obesogenic"? Invited Symposium presentation at the annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior, New Orleans, LA.
Davidson, T. L. (February, 2013). A Pavlovian Perspective on the Problem of Obesity. Keynote address at the annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, New York, NY.
Davidson, T. L., (August, 2012). A Vicious-Cycle of Obesity and Cognitive Decline. Invited Symposium presentation at the annual Conference of the American Psychological Association, Orlando, FL.
Davidson, T. L., (August, 2011). Conditioned modulation and Energy Regulation. Conference in Celebration of 50 Years of Research by Robert A. Rescorla, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
Davidson, T. L., (January, 2011). Bi-directional Links Between Obesity and Learning and Memory Dysfunction. Keynote address, Winter Conference on Animal Learning and Behavior, Winter Park, CO.
Davidson, T. L. (October, 2010). A "Vicious-cycle" Model of Obesity and Cognitive Decline. Hispanic Health Research Seminar series, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Texas, Brownsville TX, and Regional Campus of the School of Public Health, UTHSC, Houston TX.
Davidson, T. L. (April, 2010). To Eat or not to Eat: A Case of Predictable Ambiguity. Festscrift in honor of Stephen C. Woods, Neuroscience Program, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati OH.
Davidson, T. L. (November, 2009). Learning and Energy Regulation: "Outwitting" the Wisdom of the Body. The John B. Pierce Laboratory Seminar Series, Yale University, New Haven CT.