Daphna Shohamy

Associate Professor of Psychology, Columbia University

Daphna Shohamy is an Associate Professor at Columbia University’s Mind, Brain Behavior Institute and Department of Psychology and a member of the Kavli Institute for Brain Science. Dr. Shohamy’s research combines brain imaging in healthy humans with studies of patients with brain disorders to understand how our expectations and experiences change the way memories are formed and the consequences for health and disease. She is the recipient of Young Investigator Awards from the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, the Society for Neuroeconomics, and the Association for Psychology Science.

Participant In These Roundtable Discussions

Sat
Oct 14th
2017
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“Fake” Knowledge: Knowing and the Illusion of Knowing

This roundtable examines the nature of knowledge as a distributed and socially mediated phenomenon, from historical practices of shared memory to the contemporary influence of digital information systems. It explores how access to vast, externalized sources of knowledge—such as the internet—affects individual cognition, our sense of self, and our ability to distinguish between fact, speculation, and belief. The discussion also considers the relationship between collective intelligence and individual reasoning, and reflects on whether increased information necessarily leads to greater wisdom, as well as the broader implications of emerging human–machine knowledge systems.