The Brain is a truly amazing organ and I feel blessed to be doing research on such a fascinating subject. I am interested in the role of the neurotransmitter dopamine on attention, motivation and learning.
Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that is involved in many important cognitive functions.
Currently, many researchers believe that the story behind dopamine may be much more complicated than that. I am investigating the role of dopamine in associative learning and how over-learning affects the dopaminergic pathway in learning with Dr. Jon Horvitz, Ph. D in the Neurochemical Basis of Motivation and Learning Laboratory and the role of dopamine in saliency detection with Dr. Jennifer Mangels, Ph.D in the Mangels Cognitive Neuroscience Lab at Columbia University .