Assistant Professor
Email: dahamilt@unm.edu
Office: Logan 166
Phone: (505) 277-3060

Research Interests
Learning and memory, brain plasticity, and pharmacology.

I utilize basic behavioral, pharmacological, anatomical, physiological, and computational methods to investigate the psychological and neurobiological foundations of learning, memory, and behavior. My work includes investigations in humans and rats with an emphasis on spatial (place) learning/navigation and nonspatial associative learning. Recent work has utilized a variety of neuroimaging methods (in humans) and analysis of experience-dependent dendritic modification (in rats) as they relate to various forms of experience, learning, and brain damage. Two additional major components of my current research efforts are 1) developing biologically plausible computational models of processes involved in spatial and nonspatial associative learning and 2) investigating the effects of chronic drug exposure on learning, memory, behavior, and brain plasticity.

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