Sharon C Furtak

Sharon C Furtak, Ph.D.

  • Position:
    Research Fellow

    Psychiatry

    Behavioral Neuroscience

    Harvard Medical School & Massachusetts General Hospital

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  • Advisor:

    Mohammed Milad

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  • Degrees:
     
    Ph.D., Behavioral Neuroscience, Yale University (New Haven, CT)
     
    M.Phil., Behavioral Neuroscience, Yale University (New Haven, CT)
     
    M.S., Behavioral Neuroscience, Yale University (New Haven, CT)
     
    B.A., Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (Amherst, MA)
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  • Past Advisors:
     
    Rebecca D. Burwell (as Post Doctoral Fellow)
     
    Thomas H Brown (as Graduate Student - Ph.D.)
     
    Jerrold Meyer (as Undergraduate Student)
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  • Research:
    The role of the perirhinal and postrhinal cortices in learning and memory.

    My research interests focus on the neurobiology of learning and memory. In particular, my research examines the role of two parahippocampal structures, the perirhinal and postrhinal cortices, in episodic and emotional memory. To gain insight into the function of these regions, I use a multi-level approach. Principally, I apply neurophysiological and lesion techniques in combination with operant conditioning and Pavlovian conditioning paradigms to identify the contribution of these areas to object, context and spatial processing.

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  • Honors:

    2009-2011 NRSA, Individual Postdoctoral Fellowship

    2008 NRSA, Institutional Training Grant

    2005 Jane Olejarczyk Award

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Sharon Furtak's Publications (8)



Sharon Furtak's Posters and Presentations (4)

  • Neural correlates of objects and places in rodent postrhinal cortex during a visual object discrimination task. (poster)

    Sharon C Furtak and Rebecca D Burwell

    Pavlovian Society Annual Meeting, Burlington, VT; 10/2009
  • Neural correlates of objects and places in rodent postrhinal cortex during a visual object discrimination task. (poster)

    Sharon C Furtak and Rebecca D Burwell

    Society for Neuroscience; 10/2009
  • Neuronal correlates of visual discrimination learning in postrhinal cortex. (poster)

    Sharon C Furtak and Rebecca D Burwell

    33rd Annual Winter Conference on the Neurobiology of Learning & Memory, Park City, Utah; 01/2009
  • Neuronal activity in postrhinal cortex during performance on a novel visual discrimination task. (poster)

    Sharon C Furtak and Rebecca D Burwell

    Society for Neuroscience; 11/2008

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