Dr. Guillem Esber

Biography

Guillem Esber received his 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. A significant outcome of his graduate work was the development of an attentional theory of associative learning that reconciled 30 years of conflicting data. He pursued postdoctoral training in behavioral neuroscience laboratories with Peter C. Holland at Johns Hopkins University and Geoffrey Schoenbaum at the National Institute on Drug Abuse. 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 as an Associate Professor. His research investigates the neural substrates of associative learning at the systems neuroscience level, using rats as a model system and collaborating with human studies. His focus is on the processes of associative learning as foundational building blocks of cognition, leading to understanding the neural circuits that encode information during learning and how that information guides decision-making.

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