Dr Deborah Talmi PhD
Lecturer
- Email: deborah.talmi@manchester.ac.uk
- Telephone: +44 (0)161 275 1968
- Alternative Telephone: +44 (0)161 275 2567 (Research lab)
Room 1.28 Zochonis
Role
I am a lecturer in the division of Psychology and a member of the Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience (CCN) group.
My administrative role is in the Outreach team for the School. I am also the School's Sustainability Enthusiast.
Memberships of Committees and Professional Bodies
Experimental Psychology Society
Society for Neuroscience
Cognitive Neuroscience Society
Research
Deborah's research focuses on the interaction between emotion and cognition in two domains: memory and decision making.
Memory
Emotional events are remembered better than neutral ones. What is the underlying brain mechanism that allows for this important adaptive effect? Does this effect depend on the way we think about the event, and how much attention we pay to it? Or is emotional memory depend solely on how strongly aroused we are, and function in humans in a similar way to the way it functions in animals?
Decision making (Funded by ESRC)
A paradigmatic example for the interaction between emotion and cognition in decision-making is when we strongly desire one of the two choice options we face, but know that the option we desire is not the optimal one given some other considerations. For example, a mountain climber would ignore her desire to rest in order to reach the peak. Or a dieter may quench his desire for chocolate cake. In my research I ask how the brain decide between two courses of action.
Research Opportunities
Deborah is still building up her research group. If you are interested in a PhD or a postdoc opportunity please contact her directly.
For a list of publications please see my lab web page.
Methodological Knowledge
Experimental psychology
fMRI
MEG
Pharmacological studies
Work with brain-lesioned patients
Teaching
Psychology undergraduate:
1st year: Introduction to brain and behaviour
2nd year: Cognitive Neuroscience
3rd year: Emotion and Motivation
Psychology postgraduate
Mres: Advanced research methods (Psychophysiological measures)
Cognitive Brain Imaging Mres: Cognitive and social neuroscience (Leader)
Biography
I have completed an M.A. in cognitive psychology at Tel Aviv University, Israel, where I focused on memory mechanisms and specifically the distinction between short- and long-term memory. My Ph.D. work with Morris Moscovitch at the University of Toronto focused on emotional memory, specifically on cognitive mediators for enhanced memory for emotional material. I have taken up further training with Ray Dolan as a post-doctoral research fellow at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging (UCL), focusing on emotional decision making, before beginning my lectureship at the University of Manchester.
Qualifications
M.A. in Psychology (Tel Aviv University)
Ph.D. in Psychology (University of Toronto)
Collaborators and affiliated staff
Patrick Davidson (Ottawa, Canada)
Publications
2011
- Bach DR, Talmi D, Hurlemann R, Patin A, Dolan RJ. (2011). Automatic relevance detection in the absence of a functional amygdala. Neuropsychologia, 49(5), 1302-1305. eScholarID:131384 | DOI:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.02.032
- Talmi D, Fuentemilla L, Litvak V, Duzel E, Dolan RJ. (2011). An MEG signature corresponding to an axiomatic model of reward prediction error. Neuroimage, eScholarID:131380
- Talmi, D. & McGarry, L.M. (2011). Accounting for immediate emotional memory enhancement. Journal of Memory and Language, eScholarID:91107 | DOI:10.1016/j.jml.2011.07.009
2010
- Deborah Talmi, Rene Hurlemann, Alexandra Patin, Raymond J. Dolan. (2010). Framing effect following bilateral amygdala lesion. Neuropsychologia, eScholarID:79082 | DOI:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.03.005
- Guitart-Masip M, Talmi D, Dolan R. (2010). Conditioned associations and economic decision biases. Neuroimage, 53(1), 206-214. eScholarID:87266 | DOI:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.06.021
- Kurniawan IT, Seymour B, Talmi D, Yoshida W, Chater N, Dolan RJ. (2010). Choosing to make an effort: the role of striatum in signaling physical effort of a chosen action. Journal of Neurophysiology, 04(1), 313-321. eScholarID:87267
2009
- Talmi, D., Dayan, P., Kiebel, S.J, Frith C.D & Dolan, R.J. (In-press). How humans integrate the prospects of pain and reward during choice. Journal of Neuroscience, 29(46), 14617-14626. eScholarID:74791 | DOI:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2026-09.2009
2008
- Talmi, D., Riggs, L., Anderson, A. K. & Moscovitch, M. (2008). Memory consequences of emotionally-modulated picture processing. Learning & Memory, 15(3), 172-182. eScholarID:74793 | DOI:10.1101/lm.722908
- Talmi, D., Seymour, B., Dayan, P. & Dolan, R. (2008). Human Pavlovian-Instrumental transfer. Journal of Neuroscience. Journal of Neuroscience, 28(2), 360-368. eScholarID:74792 | DOI:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4028-07.2008
2007
- Talmi, D., Luk, T. C. B., McGarry, L. & Moscovitch, M. (2007). The contribution of relatedness and distinctiveness to emotionally-enhanced memory. Journal of Memory and Language, 56, 555-574. eScholarID:74894
- Talmi, D., Schimmack, U., Paterson, T. & Moscovitch, M. (2007). The role of attention in emotional memory enhancement. Emotion, 7(1), 89-102. eScholarID:75158
- Talmi, D., & Frith, C. (2007). Feeling right about doing right. Nature, 446(7138), 865-865. eScholarID:74794
2006
- Talmi, D. & Goshen-Gottstein, Y. (2006). The long-term recency effect in recognition memory. Memory, 14(4), 424-436. eScholarID:75159
2005
- Talmi, D., Grady, C. L., Goshen-Gottstein, Y., & Moscovitch, M. (2005). Neuroimaging the serial position curve: An fMRI test of the single-process vs. the dual process (STM-LTM) model of the primacy and recency effects. Psychological Science, 16(9), 716-723. eScholarID:75160 | DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9280.2005.01601.x
2004
- Talmi, D. & Moscovitch, M. (2004). Can semantic relatedness explain the enhanced memory for emotional words? Memory & Cognition, 32(5), 742-751. eScholarID:75161