Tali Sharot
Curriculum Vitae
Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Experimental Psychology, University College London, 2018-onwards
Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, The Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research, University College London, 2020-onwards
- B.A., Psychology and Economics, 1998, Tel Aviv University
- Ph.D., Cognitive Neuroscience, 2006, New York University
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychology, Harvard University 2005-2006
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychology, New York University 2006-2007
- British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, University College London 2007-2011
- Wellcome Trust Career Development Fellow, 2011-2017
- Associate Professor, Department of Experimental Psychology, University College London, 2014-2018
- Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow, 2019-2024
Research interests
- Information seeking and mental health
- Belief formation and mental health
- Mechanisms related to prediction and anticipation
- Neuroimaging and pharmacology
- Affective disorders
Selected publications
Bromberg-Martin E. S. & Sharot T. (2020). The value of beliefs. Neuron, 106(4), 561-565. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2020.05.001
Sharot, T. & Sunstein C.R., (2020). How people decide what they want to know. Nature Human Behaviour, 4, 14–19. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-019-0793-1
Kappes, A., Harvey, A. H., Lohrenz, T., Montague, R. & Sharot, T. (2020) Confirmation bias in the utilization of others’ opinion strength. Nature Neuroscience, 23(1), 130-137. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-019-0549-2
Gesiarz, F., Cahill, D. P. & Sharot, T. (2019). Evidence accumulation is biased by motivation: A computational account. PLOS Computational Biology, 15(6): e1007089. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007089