Dr. Murty is interested in how the engagement of different neuromodulatory systems influences memory and memory-guided decision-making. His laboratory studies these processes in a variety of motivational and affective states including reward, threat, and novelty. While the majority of the laboratory’s research focuses on modeling these behaviors in normative populations, they also use these models to better understand clinical populations, including psychosis and stress-related disorders.
Selected Publications:
Elliott BL, O'Brien KJ, Fain M, Ellman LM, Murty VP (2026) Prior novelty invigorates future mesolimbic target detection. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 132(2)
Skalaban LJ, Neeson AL, Houser TM, DuBrow S, Davachi L, Murty VP (2025) Goal orientation shifts attentional focus and impairs reward-motivated memory. Learning and Memory. 32 (2)
Kliver KG, Gregory DF, Martinez SA, Mitchell WJ, Stasiak JE, Reisman SS, Helion C, Murty VP (2025) Temporal memory for threatening events encoded in a haunted house. Cognition and Emotion. 39(1):65-81
Ruiz NA, DuBrow S, Murty VP (2023) Agency as a bridge to form associative memories. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. 152(6): 1797-1813
Horwath EA, Rouhani N, DuBrow S, Murty VP (2023) Value restructures the organization of free recall. Cognition, 231: 105315.
Cowan ET, Schapiro AC, Dunsmoor JE, Murty VP (2021) Memory consolidation as an adaptive process. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review. 28(6): 1796-1810
Dr. Murty is not accepting new graduate students for Fall 2025
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