Daphna Shohamy
Biography
Dr. Shohamy's research combines brain imaging in healthy humans with studies of patients with brain disorders to understand how our expectations and experiences change the way memories are formed and the consequences for health and disease. She is the recipient of Young Investigator Awards from the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, the Society for Neuroeconomics, and the Association for Psychology Science.
Sample Works
- Dopamine and adaptive memory (2010) Paper
- Mechanisms for widespread hippocampal involvement in cognition (2013) Paper
- Preference by association: How memory mechanisms in the hippocampus bias decisions (2012) Paper
- The striatum and beyond: Contributions of the hippocampus to decision making (2014) Paper
Roundtable Appearances
October 14, 2017 · ▶ Video
"Fake" Knowledge: Knowing and the Illusion of Knowing
The event explores how humans have always relied on distributed knowledge through social contracts. It examines mass delusions and our collective intuition, questioning what we...
Paul Boghossian, Daniel Kahneman, Eric Kandel, Mark Mitton, Daphna Shohamy, Steven Sloman