Nestor A Schmajuk, Professor

Research Summary:
Dr. Schmajuk graduated from the University of Buenos Aires and became an Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering in Argentina. In 1986, he obtained a doctorate in Psychology from the University of Massachusetts and became a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Adaptive Systems at Boston University. From 1988 until 1993, he was an assistant professor of psychology at Northwestern University. In 1992 he obtained a fellowship from the Royal Society to develop models of latent inhibition and the hip pocampus. In 1993 he moved to Duke University where he is a Professor. Dr. Schmajuk has developed neural network models of classical conditioning, operant conditioning, animal communication, spatial learning, cognitive mapping, and prepulse inhibition. Using these neural networks he has described the effects of hippocampal, cortical, and cerebellar lesions, as well as the results of the administration of dopaminergic and cholinergic drugs, in different sensory, learning and cognitive paradigms.

Representative Publications:   (More Publications)

1. N.A. Schmajuk (2002). Latent Inhibition and Its Neural Substrates: From Animal Experiments to Schizophrenia.. Norwell, MA: Kluwer Academic.
2. N.A. Schmajuk (1997). Animal Learning and Cognition: A neural network approach.. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.

Typical Courses Taught::

• Psy 101, Res meth psycholog sci Synopsis