Associate Chair & Professor
PhD, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1986
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Associate Chair & Professor
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Biography
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
hippocampus. In 1993 he moved to Duke University where he is a Professor
of Psychology and Neuroscience.
Research Description
Professor Schmajuk has developed and tested neural network models of classical
conditioning, operant conditioning, animal communication, creativity, 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. He has published numerous papers and his books include Animal
Learning and Cognition: A Neural Network Approach (Cambridge University Press 1997), Occasion Setting. Associative Learning and Cognition in Animals (with Holland, P.C. American Psychological Association, 1998), Latent Inhibition and its Neural Substrates (Kluwer Academic, 2002), Mechanisms in
Classical Conditioning: A Computational Approach (Cambridge University Press, 2010), and Computational Models of Conditioning (2010, Cambridge University Press).
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