Daphna Shohamy PhD

Daphna Shohamy is an associate professor in the department of Psychology at Columbia University and a member of Columbia University’s Kavli Center for Brain Science. Work in Shohamy’s lab investigates the neural mechanisms of learning, memory and decision making in humans with an emphasis on how these processes interact. She received her PhD in Neuroscience from Rutgers followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University. Dr. Shohamy is the recipient of a National Science Foundation Career Development Award (2010), the Association for Psychological Science Janet Spence Award (2011), Columbia’s Distinguished Faculty Award (2012), and a Young Investigator Award from the Society for Neuroeconomics (2013) and the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (2014).

Her publications are as follows:
Shohamy, D., Myers, Kalanithi, J., & Gluck, M.A. 2007. Basal ganglia and dopamine contributions to probabilistic category learning. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews. In Press.
Shohamy, D., Myers, C.E., Geghman, K.D , Sage, J. & Gluck, M.A. 2006. L-Dopa impairs learning, but spares generalization, in Parkinson’s disease. Neuropsychologia, 44:774-84.
Preston, A.R., Shohamy, D., Tamminga, C.A., & Wagner, A.D. 2005. Hippocampal function, declarative memory, and schizophrenia: anatomic and functional neuroimaging considerations. Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports, 5(4):249-56.
Shohamy, D., Myers, C.E., Grossman, S , Sage, J. & Gluck, M.A. 2005. The role of dopamine in cognitive sequence learning: Evidence from Parkinson's disease. Behavioral Brain Research, 156:191-9.
Shohamy, D., Myers, C.E., Onlaor, S Grossman, S , Sage, J., Gluck, M.A. & Poldrack, R.A. 2004. Cortico-striatal contributions to feedback-based learning: Converging data from neuroimaging and neuropsychology. Brain, 127:851-859.
Shohamy, D., Myers, C.E., Onlaor, S., & Gluck, M.A. 2004. The role of the basal ganglia in category learning: How do patients with Parkinson’s disease learn? Behavioral Neuroscience, 118(4):676-686.
Aron, A.R, Shohamy, D, Clark, J, Myers, C, Gluck, M.A & Poldrack, R.A. 2004. Cognitive feedback during learning activates the brain’s “reward” system. Journal of Neurophysiology, 92(2):1144-1152.
Myers, C.E., Shohamy, D., Gluck, M.A., Grossman, S., Kluger,. A., Ferris, S. 2003. Dissociating hippocampal vs. basal ganglia contributions to memory using a two-phase test of learning and transfer. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 15(2), 185-193.