Dr. Guillem Esber

Biography

Guillem Esber received graduate training in the laboratory of John M. Pearce at Cardiff University, UK, where his work focused on testing computational models of selective learning at the behavioral level using rats and pigeons. The culmination of his graduate work was the development of an attentional theory of associative learning that reconciles 30 years of conflicting data. He further elucidated the neural mechanisms underlying basic associative learning processes during his postdoctoral training in behavioral neuroscience laboratories at Johns Hopkins University. In 2015, he became an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Brooklyn College, City University of New York, where he established the Brooklyn Neurobiology Learning Lab. In Fall 2022, he joined the Department of Psychology at Concordia University at the rank of Associate Professor. His research investigates the neural substrates of associative learning systems at the neuroscience level using rats as a model system, in collaboration with human participants. His focus on associative learning processes serves as foundational building blocks of cognition, providing an analytically tractable tool to study key topics in psychology, including cravings and rule inference.

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