Daphna Shohamy

12.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
100 papers, 8.3k citations indexed

About

Daphna Shohamy is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Clinical Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Daphna Shohamy has authored 100 papers receiving a total of 8.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 80 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 29 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 11 papers in Clinical Psychology. Recurrent topics in Daphna Shohamy's work include Memory and Neural Mechanisms (43 papers), Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (31 papers) and Neural dynamics and brain function (24 papers). Daphna Shohamy is often cited by papers focused on Memory and Neural Mechanisms (43 papers), Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (31 papers) and Neural dynamics and brain function (24 papers). Daphna Shohamy collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Netherlands. Daphna Shohamy's co-authors include Mark A. Gluck, Catherine E. Myers, Karin Foerde, Nathaniel D. Daw, G. Elliott Wimmer, Tor D. Wager, Mathieu Roy, R. Alison Adcock, Anthony D. Wagner and Russell A. Poldrack and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Daphna Shohamy

98 papers receiving 8.1k citations

Hit Papers

Interactive memory systems in the human brain 2001 2026 2009 2017 2001 2012 250 500 750
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Interactive memory systems in the human brain
    2001 830 citations Daphna Shohamy, Catherine E. Myers et al. profile →
  2. Ventromedial prefrontal-subcortical systems and the generation of affective meaning
    2012 635 citations Mathieu Roy, Daphna Shohamy et al. Trends in Cognitive Sciences profile →

Peers

Daphna Shohamy
Mark A. Gluck United States
Mathias Pessiglione France
Markus Ullsperger Germany
Irene Daum Germany
Emrah Düzel Germany
Julie A. Fiez United States
Michael Falkenstein Germany
Wery P. M. van den Wildenberg Netherlands
E. Szabadi United Kingdom
Tobias Sommer Germany
Mark A. Gluck United States
Daphna Shohamy
Citations per year, relative to Daphna Shohamy Daphna Shohamy (= 1×) peers Mark A. Gluck

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Daphna Shohamy

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Daphna Shohamy. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Daphna Shohamy based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Daphna Shohamy. Daphna Shohamy is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Nicholas, Jonathan, Nathaniel D. Daw, & Daphna Shohamy. (2025). Proactive and reactive construction of memory-based preferences. Nature Communications. 16(1). 1618–1618. 1 indexed citations
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Gershman, Samuel J., et al.. (2023). The role of memory in counterfactual valuation.. Journal of Experimental Psychology General. 152(6). 1754–1767. 2 indexed citations
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Hassin, Ran R., et al.. (2022). An energizing role for motivation in information-seeking during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. Nature Communications. 13(1). 2310–2310. 13 indexed citations
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Foerde, Karin, et al.. (2021). Neural Representations of Food-Related Attributes in the Human Orbitofrontal Cortex during Choice Deliberation in Anorexia Nervosa. Journal of Neuroscience. 42(1). 109–120. 11 indexed citations
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Botvinik‐Nezer, Rotem, et al.. (2021). Memory for individual items is related to nonreinforced preference change. Learning & Memory. 28(10). 348–360. 6 indexed citations
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Foerde, Karin, et al.. (2020). Deficient Goal-Directed Control in a Population Characterized by Extreme Goal Pursuit. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 33(3). 463–481. 33 indexed citations
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Braun, Erin Kendall, G. Elliott Wimmer, & Daphna Shohamy. (2018). Retroactive and graded prioritization of memory by reward. Nature Communications. 9(1). 4886–4886. 50 indexed citations
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Shadlen, Michael N. & Daphna Shohamy. (2016). Decision Making and Sequential Sampling from Memory. Neuron. 90(5). 927–939. 230 indexed citations
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Snellenberg, Jared X. Van, Ragy R. Girgis, Guillermo Horga, et al.. (2016). Mechanisms of Working Memory Impairment in Schizophrenia. Biological Psychiatry. 80(8). 617–626. 83 indexed citations
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Wimmer, G. Elliott, Erin Kendall Braun, Nathaniel D. Daw, & Daphna Shohamy. (2014). Episodic Memory Encoding Interferes with Reward Learning and Decreases Striatal Prediction Errors. Journal of Neuroscience. 34(45). 14901–14912. 89 indexed citations
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Roy, Mathieu, Daphna Shohamy, Nathaniel D. Daw, et al.. (2014). Representation of aversive prediction errors in the human periaqueductal gray. Nature Neuroscience. 17(11). 1607–1612. 182 indexed citations
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Gerraty, Raphael T., Juliet Y. Davidow, G. Elliott Wimmer, Itamar Kahn, & Daphna Shohamy. (2014). Transfer of Learning Relates to Intrinsic Connectivity between Hippocampus, Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex, and Large-Scale Networks. Journal of Neuroscience. 34(34). 11297–11303. 60 indexed citations
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Foerde, Karin, Elizabeth Race, Mieke Verfaellie, & Daphna Shohamy. (2013). A Role for the Medial Temporal Lobe in Feedback-Driven Learning: Evidence from Amnesia. Journal of Neuroscience. 33(13). 5698–5704. 88 indexed citations
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Foerde, Karin, Erin Kendall Braun, & Daphna Shohamy. (2012). A Trade-Off between Feedback-Based Learning and Episodic Memory for Feedback Events: Evidence from Parkinson’s Disease. Neurodegenerative Diseases. 11(2). 93–101. 35 indexed citations
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Foerde, Karin & Daphna Shohamy. (2011). Feedback Timing Modulates Brain Systems for Learning in Humans. Journal of Neuroscience. 31(37). 13157–13167. 142 indexed citations
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Shohamy, Daphna & R. Alison Adcock. (2010). Dopamine and adaptive memory. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 14(10). 464–472. 466 indexed citations
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Nagy, Orsolya, Ogúz Kelemen, G. Benedek, et al.. (2007). Dopaminergic contribution to cognitive sequence learning. Journal of Neural Transmission. 114(5). 607–612. 17 indexed citations
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Preston, Alison R., Daphna Shohamy, Carol A. Tamminga, & Anthony D. Wagner. (2005). Hippocampal function, declarative memory, and schizophrenia: Anatomic and functional neuroimaging considerations. Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports. 5(4). 249–256. 38 indexed citations
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Shohamy, Daphna, et al.. (2004). Role of the Basal Ganglia in Category Learning: How Do Patients With Parkinson's Disease Learn?. Behavioral Neuroscience. 118(4). 676–686. 147 indexed citations
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Myers, Catherine E., et al.. (2003). Dissociating medial temporal and basal ganglia memory systems with a latent learning task. Neuropsychologia. 41(14). 1919–1928. 28 indexed citations

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