Melissa J. Sharpe, Ph.D.

Melissa Sharpe, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Psychology Member, Neuroscience GPB Home Area



Publications

A selected list of publications:

Maes Etienne J P, Sharpe Melissa J, Usypchuk Alexandra A, Lozzi Megan, Chang Chun Yun, Gardner Matthew P H, Schoenbaum Geoffrey, Iordanova Mihaela D   Causal evidence supporting the proposal that dopamine transients function as temporal difference prediction errors Nature neuroscience, 2020; .
Sharpe Melissa J, Batchelor Hannah M, Mueller Lauren E, Yun Chang Chun, Maes Etienne J P, Niv Yael, Schoenbaum Geoffrey   Dopamine transients do not act as model-free prediction errors during associative learning Nature communications, 2020; 11(1): 106.
Sharpe Melissa J, Stalnaker Thomas, Schuck Nicolas W, Killcross Simon, Schoenbaum Geoffrey, Niv Yael   An Integrated Model of Action Selection: Distinct Modes of Cortical Control of Striatal Decision Making Annual review of psychology, 2019; 70(1): 53-76.
Sharpe Melissa J, Killcross Simon   Modulation of attention and action in the medial prefrontal cortex of rats Psychological review, 2018; 125(5): 822-843.
Sharpe Melissa J   What a relief! A role for dopamine in positive (but not negative) valence Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology, 2018; 43(8): 1-2.
Langdon Angela J, Sharpe Melissa J, Schoenbaum Geoffrey, Niv Yael   Model-based predictions for dopamine Current opinion in neurobiology, 2018; 49(8): 1-7.
Sharpe Melissa J, Schoenbaum Geoffrey   Evaluation of the hypothesis that phasic dopamine constitutes a cached-value signal Neurobiology of learning and memory, 2017; 49(8): 1-7.
Sharpe Melissa J, Batchelor Hannah M, Schoenbaum Geoffrey   Preconditioned cues have no value eLife, 2017; 6(8): 1-7.
Sharpe Melissa J, Marchant Nathan J, Whitaker Leslie R, Richie Christopher T, Zhang Yajun J, Campbell Erin J, Koivula Pyry P, Necarsulmer Julie C, Mejias-Aponte Carlos, Morales Marisela, Pickel James, Smith Jeffrey C, Niv Yael, Shaham Yavin, Harvey Brandon K, Schoenbaum Geoffrey   Lateral Hypothalamic GABAergic Neurons Encode Reward Predictions that Are Relayed to the Ventral Tegmental Area to Regulate Learning Current biology : CB, 2017; 27(14): 2089-2100.e5.
Sharpe Melissa J, Chang Chun Yun, Liu Melissa A, Batchelor Hannah M, Mueller Lauren E, Jones Joshua L, Niv Yael, Schoenbaum Geoffrey   Dopamine transients are sufficient and necessary for acquisition of model-based associations Nature neuroscience, 2017; 20(5): 735-742.
Nasser Helen M, Calu Donna J, Schoenbaum Geoffrey, Sharpe Melissa J   The Dopamine Prediction Error: Contributions to Associative Models of Reward Learning Frontiers in psychology, 2017; 8(5): 244.
Sharpe Melissa J, Schoenbaum Geoffrey   Back to basics: Making predictions in the orbitofrontal-amygdala circuit Neurobiology of learning and memory, 2016; 131(5): 201-6.
Sharpe M J, Clemens K J, Morris M J, Westbrook R F   Daily Exposure to Sucrose Impairs Subsequent Learning About Food Cues: A Role for Alterations in Ghrelin Signaling and Dopamine D2 Receptors Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology, 2016; 41(5): 1357-65.
Sharpe Melissa J, Wikenheiser Andrew M, Niv Yael, Schoenbaum Geoffrey   The State of the Orbitofrontal Cortex Neuron, 2015; 88(6): 1075-1077.
Sharpe Melissa J, Killcross Simon   The prelimbic cortex directs attention toward predictive cues during fear learning Learning & memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.), 2015; 22(6): 289-93.
Sharpe Melissa, Killcross Simon   The prelimbic cortex uses contextual cues to modulate responding towards predictive stimuli during fear renewal Neurobiology of learning and memory, 2015; 118(6): 20-9.
Sharpe Melissa J, Killcross Simon   The prelimbic cortex contributes to the down-regulation of attention toward redundant cues Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991), 2014; 24(4): 1066-74.
Sharpe Melissa J, Killcross Simon   The prelimbic cortex uses higher-order cues to modulate both the acquisition and expression of conditioned fear Frontiers in systems neuroscience, 2014; 8(6): 235.
Sharpe Melissa J, Fardell Joanna E, Vardy Janette, Johnston Ian N   The chemotherapy agent oxaliplatin impairs the renewal of fear to an extinguished conditioned stimulus in rats Behavioural brain research, 2012; 227(1): 295-9.