Gretchen Hanson Gotthard
Education
- AA, General Studies
Northland Community College - BS, Psychology
University of North Dakota - MA, Behavioral Neuroscience
Kent State University - PhD, Behavioral Neuroscience
Kent State University
Teaching Interests
I enjoy teaching neuroscience and psychology because I’m convinced that students grow as scholars by “learning through doing” and these fields provide so many interesting way to learn through doing. Students in my classes are challenged to engage with neuroscience and psychology by critically analyzing scientific literature, creating and running experiments, writing and presenting, and most importantly, making connections between what they’re learning and the world around them.
Research and Scholarship
Our lab studies memory (re)consolidation – i.e., the creation, modification, and disruption of memory. Research in our lab has examined memory (re)consolidation through protein synthesis inhibition in rats and physarum polycephalum (slime mold), as well as visuospatial interference tasks in human participants. The goal of our work is to apply behavioral interventions for memory (re)consolidation to memory-based psychological disorders, like posttraumatic stress disorder and phobic disorder.
No courses available.
- Spira Award for Distinguished Teaching (2016)
- Mattei, G. and Gotthard, G.H. (in preparation). Effects of visuospatial interference and cognitive flexibility on emotional memory consolidation. Manuscript in preparation.
- Gura, H., Davidson, A., and Gotthard, G.H. (2020). Prediction error parameters for visuospatial interference: Minimal prediction errors leave positive declarative memory intact following visuospatial word search interference. Learning and Motivation, 72.
- Gotthard, G.H., Bashford, A., Bsales, D., Golbitz, J-A., and Shear, R. (2020). Effects of cycloheximide on recent and remote appetitive odor discrimination memory in rats. Learning and Motivation, 72.
- Gotthard, G.H. and Gura, H. (2018). Visuospatial word search task only effective at disrupting declarative memory when prediction error is present during retrieval. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 156, 80-85.
- Gotthard, G.H., Kenney, L., & Zucker, A. (2018). Reconsolidation of appetitive odor discrimination requires protein synthesis only when reactivation includes prediction error. Behavioral Neuroscience, 132 (3), 131-137.
- Gotthard, G.H., Block, J. N., Cohen, M., & Houck, C. (2011). Spatial and nonspatial foraging: Appetitively motivated paradigms for the study of learning and memory in rats. Journal of Behavioral and Neuroscience Research, 9, 69-74 [Special Issue: Laboratory Activities for Courses in Learning; Eds. R. Flint, Jr. & M. Anderson].
- Cohen, J. & Gotthard, G. H. (2011). Extinction of appetitive learning is disrupted by cycloheximide and propranolol in the sand maze in rats. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 95, 484-490.
- Gotthard, G. H. & Knöppel, A. B. (2010). Cycloheximide produces amnesia for extinction and reconsolidation in an appetitive odor discrimination task in rats. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 93, 127-131.