Tali Sharot

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