The 42nd Annual Mildred Trotter Lecture has been canceled.

42nd Annual Mildred Trotter Lecture
How Memory Shapes Value-Based Decision-Making
Daphna Shohamy
Kavli Professor of Brain Science
Director and CEO of the Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute at Columbia University
Co-director of Kavli Institute for Brain Science at Columbia University

Shohamy studies learning and memory — whether it’s how we memorize facts or slowly learn habits. Recently, she found that there’s a lot more “crosstalk” between these two forms of learning than previously thought, raising questions about what different parts of the brain are doing as we learn and how what we learn affects the decisions we make.

About the Trotter Lecture
The Washington University Medical Center Alumni Association honored Mildred Trotter, a member of the faculty for more than 55 years, by endowing a lectureship in her name. Dr. Trotter, professor emeritus and lecturer in anatomy since 1967, was the first woman faculty member to be recognized in this way. To acknowledge her deep concern for the role of women in academic life, the lectureship is used to bring a distinguished woman scientist to the university every year.