Papers

Preprints

Zhang, Z., Janak, P.H., & *Garr, E. (2025). Modeling hidden cognitive states reveals acute and chronic effects of fentanyl on decision-making. bioRxiv. * = corresponding author (PDF)

Publications

Garr, E., Cheng, Y., Dong, A., & Janak, P.H. (2026). Fentanyl reinforcement history has sex-specific effects on multi-step decision-making. Neuropharmacology, 288, 110860. (PDF)

Garr, E., Cheng, Y., Jeong, H., Brooke, S., Castell, L., Ball, A., Magnard, R., Namboodiri, V.M.K., & Janak, P.H. (2024). Mesostriatal dopamine is sensitive to changes in specific cue-reward contingencies. Science Advances. (PDF)

Garr, E., Padovan-Hernandez, Y., Janak, P.H., & Delamater, A.R. (2021). Maintained goal-directed control with overtraining on ratio schedules. Learning & Memory, 28, 435-439. (PDF)

Cheng, Y., Xie, X., Lu, J., Gangal, H., Wang, W., Melo, S., Wang, X., Jerger, J., Woodson, K., Garr, E., Huang, Y., Janak, P., & Wang, J. (2021). Optogenetic induction of orbitostriatal long-term potentiation in the dorsomedial striatum elicits a persistent reduction of alcohol-seeking behavior in rats. Psychopharmacology, 191, 108560. (PDF)

Garr, E. & Delamater, A.R. (2020). Chemogenetic inhibition in the dorsal striatum reveals regional specificity of direct and indirect pathway control of action sequencing. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 169, 107169. (PDF)

Garr, E., Bushra, B., Tu, N., & Delamater, A.R. (2020). Goal-directed control on interval schedules does not depend on the action-outcome correlation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, 46(1), 47—64. (PDF)

Garr, E. (2019). Contributions of the basal ganglia to action sequence learning and performance. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 107, 279—295. (PDF)

Garr, E. & Delamater, A.R. (2019). Exploring the relationship between actions, habits, and automaticity in an action sequence task. Learning & Memory, 26(4), 128—132. (PDF)

Garr, E. (2017). What can recordings in the striatum tell us about associative learning? The Journal of Neuroscience, 37(50), 12091—12093. (PDF)

Delamater, A.R., Garr, E., Lawrence, S., & Whitlow, J.W. (2016). Elemental, configural, and occasion setting mechanisms in biconditional and patterning discriminations. Behavioural Processes, 137, 40—52. (PDF)

Garr, E. (2016). Heterogeneous responses of tonically active interneurons in the dorsal striatum. The Journal of Neuroscience, 36(12), 3412—3413. (PDF)