The 42nd Annual Mildred Trotter Lecture

How Memory Shapes Value-Based Decision-Making

Daphna Shohamy, PhD
Kavli Professor of Brain Science
Director and CEO of the Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute at Columbia University
Co-director of Kavli Institute for Brain Science
at Columbia University

Shohamy studies learning and memory — whether it’s how we memorize facts or slowly learn habits. Recently, she found that there’s more “crosstalk” between these two forms of learning than previously thought, raising questions about what different parts of the brain are doing as we learn and how what we learn affects the decisions we make.

About the Trotter Lecture

The Washington University Medical Center Alumni Association honored Mildred Trotter, PhD, a faculty member for over 55 years, by endowing a lectureship in her name. Trotter, professor emeritus and lecturer in anatomy since 1967, was the first woman faculty member recognized in this way. The lectureship acknowledges Trotter’s deep concern for the role of women in academic life by bringing a distinguished woman scientist to WashU Medicine every year.

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