Dr. Sophia Liang

Biography

Sophia Liang is a Casual Academic at the University of New South Wales, specializing in decision neuroscience. Her research focuses on the acquisition and consolidation of associative learning and its impact on goal-directed behavior. Using viral techniques, her work aims to map the role of corticohippocampal circuitry in learning new associations and how these processes influence both short-term and long-term memory. She has collaborated on publications such as 'Goal-directed actions transiently depend on dorsal hippocampus' in Nature Neuroscience, exploring how effective decision-making is linked to the ability to learn relationships between actions and consequences. Sophia's PhD research further investigates how expectations are encoded and retrieved, which is crucial for performing efficient and purposeful behaviors.

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