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Tali Sharot, Ph.D

Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging 

Functional Imaging Lab, Institute of Neurology, University College London

Tali Sharot


 



12 Queen Square
London, WC1N 3BG
United Kingdom 
Email:
t.sharot at fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk


 





Contact

Funding

Publications

CV

Collaborators & Mentors (Past and Present)

Students (Past & Present)

Selected Press


Funded by the British Academy


Publications

Sharot, T. Shiner, T. Brown, A.C. Fan, J. Dolan, R. J. (in press). Dopamine Enhances Expectation of Pleasure in Humans. Current Biology

Sharot, T. De Martino, B. Dolan, R. J. (2009). How Choice Reveals and Shapes Expected Hedonic Reaction. Journal of Neuroscience. 29 (12), 3760-5
Phelps, E.A. Sharot, T. (2008) How (and Why) Emotion Enhances the Subjective Sense of Recollection. Current Directions in Psychological Science. 17 (2), 147-152. Sharot, T. Yonelinas A.P. (2008). Differential time-dependent effects of emotion on the recollective experience and memory for contextual information. Cognition. 106 (1), 538 - 547. Sharot, T. Matthew L. Davidson, Meredith M. Carson, Phelps, E.A. (2008). Eye movements predict recollective experience Public Library of Science, One. 3(8):e2884.
Sharot, T. Riccardi, M.A. Raio, C. M. Phelps, E.A. (2007) Neural Mechanisms Mediating Optimism Bias. Nature. 450 (7166), 102 - 105.  Sharot, T. Verfaellie, M. Yonelinas A.P. (2007). How Emotion Strengthens the Recollective Experience: A Time-Dependent Hippocampal. Process. Public Library of Science, One. 2 (10), e1068 Sharot, T. Martorella, E.A. Delgado, M.R. Phelps, E.A. (2007). How personal experience modulates the neural circuitry of memories of September 11. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: USA. 1 (104), 389-394. [Epub ahead of print 12/2006]  Sharot, T. Delgado, M.R. Phelps, E.A. (2004). How emotion enhances the feeling of remembering. Nature Neuroscience. 7 (12), 1376 – 1380. Sharot, T. Phelps, E.A. (2004). How Emotional Arousal Modulates Memory: Disentangling the Effects of Attention and Retention. Cognitive Affective Behavioral Neuroscience. 4 (3), 294-306 Vakil, E. Sharot, T. Markowitz, M. Aberbuch, S. Groswasser Z. (2003) Script memory for typical and atypical actions: controls versus patients with severe closed-head injury. Brain Injury. 17 (10), 825 - 833


Collaborators & Mentors (Past and Present)

Ray Dolan, UCL  Cognition & Emotion Group FIL
Ray Dolan

Liz Phelps, NYU   Phelps Lab
Liz Phelps

Andrew Yonelinas, UC Davis  Human Memory Lab
Andy Yonelinas

Yadin Dudai, Weizmann Institute of Science  Dudai Lab
Yadin Dudai

Mauricio Delgado, Rutgers University Delgado Lab for Social and Affective Neuroscience
Mauricio Delgado

Students (Past & Present)

Master Students

Christoph W Korn (UCL)

Candance Raio (NYU)

Elizabeth Martorella (NYU)

Sara Mulhern (NYU)

Daniel Roth (Tel Aviv University)

 
Undergraduate Students

Annemarie Brown (UCL)

Cristina Velasquez (Lake Forest College)

Alison Riccardi (Columbia University)

David Johnson  (Harvard University)


Katelyn  Gulbransen

Sara Magliulo (UC Davis)

Kim Nguyen 

Matthew Davidson (Columbia University)

Selected Press


On Decision Making


Scientist identify brain regions that help us make choices
The Telegraph
, March 27, 2009

On Optimism


How do you see this glass?
The Boston Globe, June 2, 2008

This is Your Brain on Optimism
Newsweek, Oct 24, 2007

Brain regions responsible for optimism located
Reuters, Oct 24, 2007

Source of 'optimism' found in the brain
NewScientist, Oct 24, 2007

On Emotional Memory

Report Links 9/11 Memories to Proximity
Washington Post, December 18, 2006 ( The Associated Press)

Study Shows Experiencing Highly Emotional Event Enhances Feeling of Remembering But Not Accuracy of the Memory
NYU Today, December 20, 2004

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