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14672
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4856
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2188

Overview

Daphna Shohamy is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Neuroscience and Psychology, with a strong focus on Cognitive Neuroscience as well as Clinical Psychology and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Their work engages with subfields including Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and General Decision Sciences.

The scientist's published work frequently appears in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Biological Psychiatry, Nature Communications, eLife, and Journal of Vision.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Shohamy include Akram Bakkour, Karin Foerde, Joanna Steinglass, Nathaniel D. Daw, and B. Timothy Walsh.

Research topics covered in Shohamy's work include:

  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Eating Disorders and Behaviors
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
  • Memory Processes and Influences
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research

Some of their recent papers are:

  • "Racial and ethnic imbalance in neuroscience reference lists and intersections with gender" (2020), published in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • "What Are Memories For? The Hippocampus Bridges Past Experience with Future Decisions" (2020), published in Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  • "Curiosity as the impulse to know: common behavioral and neural mechanisms underlying curiosity and impulsivity" (2020), published in Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences
  • "Restrictive eating across a spectrum from healthy to unhealthy: behavioral and neural mechanisms" (2020), published in Psychological Medicine
  • "Deficient Goal-Directed Control in a Population Characterized by Extreme Goal Pursuit" (2020), published in Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Best Publications

  • Interactive memory systems in the human brain.

    R. A. Poldrack;J. Clark;E. J. Paré-Blagoev;D. Shohamy

  • Ventromedial prefrontal-subcortical systems and the generation of affective meaning

    Mathieu Roy;Daphna Shohamy;Tor D. Wager

  • Dopamine and adaptive memory

    Daphna Shohamy;R. Alison Adcock

  • Integrating Memories in the Human Brain: Hippocampal–Midbrain Encoding of Overlapping Events

    Daphna Shohamy;Daphna Shohamy;Anthony D. Wagner

  • Preference by association: how memory mechanisms in the hippocampus bias decisions.

    G. Elliott Wimmer;Daphna Shohamy

  • Decision Making and Sequential Sampling from Memory.

    Michael N. Shadlen;Michael N. Shadlen;Daphna Shohamy

  • Cortico‐striatal contributions to feedback‐based learning: converging data from neuroimaging and neuropsychology

    Daphna Shohamy;C. E. Myers;S. Grossman;J. Sage

  • Model-based choices involve prospective neural activity

    Bradley B Doll;Katherine D Duncan;Dylan A Simon;Daphna Shohamy

  • Human midbrain sensitivity to cognitive feedback and uncertainty during classification learning.

    Adam R. Aron;Daphna Shohamy;Jill Clark;Catherine Myers

  • How do people solve the "weather prediction" task?: individual variability in strategies for probabilistic category learning.

    Mark A. Gluck;Daphna Shohamy;Catherine Myers

  • Curiosity and reward: Valence predicts choice and information prediction errors enhance learning.

    Caroline B. Marvin;Daphna Shohamy

  • An Upside to Reward Sensitivity: The Hippocampus Supports Enhanced Reinforcement Learning in Adolescence

    Juliet Y. Davidow;Juliet Y. Davidow;Karin Foerde;Adriana Galván;Daphna Shohamy

  • Representation of aversive prediction errors in the human periaqueductal gray

    Mathieu Roy;Daphna Shohamy;Nathaniel Daw;Marieke Jepma

  • Basal ganglia and dopamine contributions to probabilistic category learning

    D. Shohamy;C.E. Myers;J. Kalanithi;M.A. Gluck

  • Reminders of past choices bias decisions for reward in humans

    Aaron M. Bornstein;Mel W. Khaw;Daphna Shohamy;Nathaniel Douglass Daw

  • Dissociating Hippocampal versus Basal Ganglia Contributions to Learning and Transfer

    Catherine E. Myers;Daphna Shohamy;Mark A. Gluck;Steven Grossman

  • The role of the basal ganglia in learning and memory: Insight from Parkinson's disease

    Karin Foerde;Daphna Shohamy

  • Feedback Timing Modulates Brain Systems for Learning in Humans

    Karin Foerde;Daphna Shohamy

  • Role of the Basal Ganglia in Category Learning: How Do Patients With Parkinson's Disease Learn?

    D. Shohamy;C. E. Myers;S. Onlaor;M. A. Gluck

  • Neural mechanisms supporting maladaptive food choices in anorexia nervosa

    Karin Foerde;Joanna E Steinglass;Daphna Shohamy;B Timothy Walsh

  • Mind matters: placebo enhances reward learning in Parkinson's disease

    Liane Schmidt;Erin Kendall Braun;Tor D Wager;Daphna Shohamy

Frequent Co-Authors

Nathaniel D. Daw
Nathaniel D. Daw Princeton University
Mark A. Gluck
Mark A. Gluck Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Catherine E. Myers
Catherine E. Myers United States Department of Veterans Affairs
Michael N. Shadlen
Michael N. Shadlen Columbia University
Danielle S. Bassett
Danielle S. Bassett University of Pennsylvania
Tor D. Wager
Tor D. Wager Dartmouth College
Edward E. Smith
Edward E. Smith Columbia University
Russell A. Poldrack
Russell A. Poldrack Stanford University
Mieke Verfaellie
Mieke Verfaellie Boston University
Ramona O. Hopkins
Ramona O. Hopkins Brigham Young University

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