Jacqueline Gottlieb

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Jacqueline Gottlieb
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Gottlieb in 2016
Alma mater Yale University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Scientific career
Institutions National Institutes of Health
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
Columbia University
Thesis Contributions of the frontal eye field to smooth pursuit eye movements  (1993)

Jacqueline Gottlieb is an American neuroscientist who is a professor of neuroscience and the Principal Investigator at the Columbia University Zuckerman Institute. Her research considers the mechanisms that underlie cognitive function.

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Early life and education

Gottileb was born in Romania and moved to Israel as a child. [1] She moved to the United States for undergraduate studies [1] at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she studied cognitive neuroscience. She moved to Yale University for doctoral research in neurobiology, and became fascinated by the frontal cortex.[ citation needed ] Gottileb used neural recordings to investigate frontal eye fields and smooth pursuit eye movements. Such movements are slow movements that are design to keep eyes fixed on an object that moves. After earning her doctorate, Gottileb moved to Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Maryland, where she worked on in vitro slice recordings in the barrel cortex. She spent two years at the University of Health Sciences before joining the National Institutes of Health.[ citation needed ]

Research and career

In 2001, Gottileb joined the faculty at Columbia University. [2] [3] She studies the fundamental mechanisms that underpin cognitive function, such as decision making and memory. [4] She is interested in how the brain gathers evidence during everyday tasks and when people are curious, [5] as well as disorders that reduce attention, such as depression and drug addiction. [6] In 2019, she was made Director of the Research Cluster on Curiosity, which looks to examine the mechanisms and impacts of curiosity. [7]

Awards and honors

Selected publications

References

  1. 1 2 "Ada Lovelace Day 2021: Navigating a career in STEM. An interview with Jacqueline Gottlieb, Kirsty Bannister and Natasha Pushkin". Communications Biology. 4 (1): 1187. October 12, 2021. doi:10.1038/s42003-021-02698-7. ISSN   2399-3642. PMC   8511030 . PMID   34642462.
  2. 1 2 "Jacqueline Gottlieb | Science and Society". scienceandsociety.columbia.edu. Retrieved March 11, 2023.
  3. ↑ Jones, Dan (October 12, 2022). "How curiosity can supercharge your brain and boost your success". New Scientist. Retrieved March 11, 2023.
  4. ↑ Gottlieb, Jacqueline (February 21, 2023). "Emerging Principles of Attention and Information Demand" . Current Directions in Psychological Science. 32 (2): 152–159. doi:10.1177/09637214221142778. ISSN   0963-7214. S2CID   257144044.
  5. ↑ Gottlieb, Jacqueline; Oudeyer, Pierre-Yves; Lopes, Manuel; Baranes, Adrien (November 2013). "Information-seeking, curiosity, and attention: computational and neural mechanisms". Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 17 (11): 585–593. doi:10.1016/j.tics.2013.09.001. PMC   4193662 . PMID   24126129.
  6. ↑ "Jacqueline Gottlieb". zuckermaninstitute.columbia.edu. March 6, 2017. Retrieved March 11, 2023.
  7. ↑ "Research Cluster: Curiosity | Science and Society". scienceandsociety.columbia.edu. Retrieved March 11, 2023.
  8. ↑ "Awardees". McKnight Foundation. Retrieved March 11, 2023.
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