| G. Elliott Wimmer
gew2105 at columbia dot edu |
|---|
Research:
Hamburg-Eppendorf in Hamburg, Germany, working with Prof. Christian Buechel.
My doctoral research was conducted in the Psychology Department of Columbia University with
Prof. Daphna Shohamy.
I am particularly interested in the cognitive and neural systems underlying learning and decision making.
Links: Shohamy Learning Lab,
Columbia Psychology
Wimmer, G.E., Shohamy, D. (2012). Preference by association: How memory mechanisms in the
hippocampus bias decisions. Science.
Wimmer, G.E., Shohamy, D., Daw, N.D. (2012). Generalization of value in reinforcement
learning by humans. European Journal of Neuroscience.
(Knutson publications here). As an undergraduate at Berkeley, I assistanted research in several labs:
Roshan Cools (Nijmegen),
D'Esposito Lab (Berkeley),
Professor Terrence Deacon (Berkeley).