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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2012 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2011 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Elisabeth A. Murray is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Neuroscience, with a particular emphasis on Cognitive Neuroscience. Additional areas of study include Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Social Psychology, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

Their work covers several main topics, notably Memory and Neural Mechanisms, Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies, Neural Dynamics and Brain Function, Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research, Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments, Memory Processes and Influences, as well as Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, and Cognitive Processes.

Elisabeth A. Murray has contributed extensively to scientific literature, with notable publications including:

  • The anterior cingulate cortex is necessary for forming prosocial preferences from vicarious reinforcement in monkeys, 2020, PLoS Biology
  • Hypothalamic Interactions with Large-Scale Neural Circuits Underlying Reinforcement Learning and Motivated Behavior, 2020, Trends in Neurosciences
  • Prefrontal cortex interactions with the amygdala in primates, 2021, Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Evolution, Emotion, and Episodic Engagement, 2021, American Journal of Psychiatry
  • Reevaluating the role of the hippocampus in memory: A meta-analysis of neurotoxic lesion studies in nonhuman primates, 2023, Hippocampus

Frequent collaborators in their research include Benjamin M. Basile, Bruno B. Averbeck, Maia S. Pujara, Chloe L. Karaskiewicz, and Steve W. C. Chang.

Their articles have appeared repeatedly in several prominent journals such as the Journal of Neuroscience, Behavioral Neuroscience, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Trends in Neurosciences, and Hippocampus.

Recognition of Elisabeth A. Murray's contributions to science includes being named a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) in 2011 and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2012.

Best Publications

  • The amygdala and reward

    Mark G. Baxter;Elisabeth A. Murray

  • Effects on visual recognition of combined and separate ablations of the entorhinal and perirhinal cortex in rhesus monkeys

    M Meunier;J Bachevalier;M Mishkin;EA Murray

  • The amygdala, reward and emotion

    Elisabeth A. Murray

  • Control of Response Selection by Reinforcer Value Requires Interaction of Amygdala and Orbital Prefrontal Cortex

    Mark G. Baxter;Amanda Parker;Caroline C. C. Lindner;Alicia D. Izquierdo

  • Bilateral Orbital Prefrontal Cortex Lesions in Rhesus Monkeys Disrupt Choices Guided by Both Reward Value and Reward Contingency

    Alicia Izquierdo;Robin K. Suda;Elisabeth A. Murray

  • Cortical connections of the somatosensory fields of the lateral sulcus of macaques: evidence for a corticolimbic pathway for touch.

    D P Friedman;E A Murray;J B O'Neill;M Mishkin

  • The Frontal Cortex-Basal Ganglia System in Primates

    Steven P. Wise;Elisabeth A. Murray;Charles R. Gerfen

  • A selective mnemonic role for the hippocampus in monkeys: memory for the location of objects.

    JK Parkinson;EA Murray;M Mishkin

  • Perceptual-mnemonic functions of the perirhinal cortex.

    Elisabeth A. Murray;Timothy J. Bussey

  • Object Recognition and Location Memory in Monkeys with Excitotoxic Lesions of the Amygdala and Hippocampus

    Elisabeth A. Murray;Mortimer Mishkin

  • Visual Perception and Memory: A New View of Medial Temporal Lobe Function in Primates and Rodents ∗

    Elisabeth A. Murray;Timothy J. Bussey;Lisa M. Saksida

  • The Orbitofrontal Oracle: Cortical Mechanisms for the Prediction and Evaluation of Specific Behavioral Outcomes

    Peter H. Rudebeck;Elisabeth A. Murray

  • Prefrontal mechanisms of behavioral flexibility, emotion regulation and value updating

    Peter H Rudebeck;Richard C Saunders;Anna T Prescott;Lily S Chau

  • Excitotoxic Lesions of the Amygdala Fail to Produce Impairment in Visual Learning for Auditory Secondary Reinforcement But Interfere with Reinforcer Devaluation Effects in Rhesus Monkeys

    Ludis̆e Málková;David Gaffan;Elisabeth A. Murray

  • Role of perirhinal cortex in object perception, memory, and associations.

    Elisabeth A Murray;Barry J Richmond

  • Neural substrates of visual stimulus-stimulus association in rhesus monkeys

    Elisabeth A. Murray;David Gaffan;Mortimer Mishkin

  • Perirhinal cortex resolves feature ambiguity in complex visual discriminations

    Timothy J. Bussey;Lisa M. Saksida;Elisabeth A. Murray

  • Organization of corticospinal neurons in the monkey.

    Elisabeth A. Murray;Joe Dan Coulter

  • Monkeys (Macaca fascicularis) with rhinal cortex ablations succeed in object discrimination learning despite 24-hr intertrial intervals and fail at matching to sample despite double sample presentations.

    David Gaffan;Elisabeth A. Murray

  • Preserved recognition memory for small sets, and impaired stimulus identification for large sets, following rhinal cortex ablations in monkeys.

    M. J. Eacott;D. Gaffan;E. A. Murray

Frequent Co-Authors

Steven P. Wise
Steven P. Wise National Institutes of Health
Peter H. Rudebeck
Peter H. Rudebeck Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Timothy J. Bussey
Timothy J. Bussey University of Western Ontario
Kim S. Graham
Kim S. Graham Cardiff University
David Gaffan
David Gaffan University of Oxford
Mortimer Mishkin
Mortimer Mishkin National Institutes of Health
Lisa M. Saksida
Lisa M. Saksida University of Western Ontario
Robert R. Hampton
Robert R. Hampton Emory University
Mark G. Baxter
Mark G. Baxter Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Bruno B. Averbeck
Bruno B. Averbeck National Institutes of Health

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