Jon Albert

Accomplished neuroscientist with extensive experience in research, including postdoctoral work at MIT. I used pharmacology techniques as well as electrophysiology in behaving rodents to study learning.

Experience in teaching Behavioral Statistics Lab sessions and assisted professors in Introduction to Psychology classes.

Expertise in designing and conducting experiments, contributing to impactful publications. Demonstrated analytical thinking and collaborative problem-solving skills.

Experience in studying the Bible in church. Currently looking for a publisher for a Christian novel.

I developed my own curriculum in the Statistics lab class using statistics to answer real-world behavioral questions to keep the students interested. Promoting engagement was important for the psychology students who found mathematics unintresting.

• Atallah, H.E., Frank, M.J. & O’Reilly, R.C. (2004). Hippocampus, cortex, and basal ganglia: Insights from computational models of complementary learning systems. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 82(3), 253-267.
• Atallah, H.E., Lopez-Paniagua, D., Rudy, J.W., & O’Reilly, R.C. (2007). Separate neural substrates for skill learning and performance in the ventral and dorsal striatum. Nature Neuroscience, 10(1), 126-131.
• Atallah, H.E., Rudy, J.W., & O’Reilly, R.C. (2008). The role of the dorsal striatum and dorsal hippocampus in probabilistic and deterministic odor discrimination tasks. Learning and Memory, 15(5), 294-298.
• Thorn, C.A., Atallah, H., Howe, M., & Graybiel, A.M. (2010). Differential dynamics of activity changes in dorsolateral and dorsomedial striatal loops during learning. Neuron, 66(5), 781-795.
• Pauli, W.M., Atallah, H.E., & O’Reilly, R.C. (2010). Integrating what & how/where with instrumental and Pavlovian learning: A biologically based computational model. Book chapter in Cognition and Neuropsychology: International Perspectives on Psychological Science. Psychology Press.
• Desai, M., Kahn, I., Knoblich, U., Bernstein, J., Atallah, H., Yang, A., Kopell, N., Buckner, R.L., Graybiel, A.M., Moore, C.I., & Boyden E.S. (2011). Mapping brain networks in awake mice using combined optical neural control and fMRI. Journal of Neurophysiology, 105(3),1393-405.
• Zhao S., Ting, J.T., Atallah, H.E., Qiu, L., Tan, J., Gloss, B., Augustine, G.J., Deisseroth, K., Luo, M., Graybiel, A.M., & Feng, G. (2011). Cell type-specific channelrhodopsin-2 transgenic mice for optogenetic dissection of neural circuitry function. Nature Methods, 8, 745-752.
• Howe, M.H., Atallah, H.E., McCool, A., Gibson, D.J., & Graybiel, A.M. (2011). Habit learning is associated with major shifts in frequencies of oscillatory activity and synchronized spike firing in striatum. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
• Atallah, H.E., McCool, A.D., Howe, M.W., Graybiel, A.M. (2014). Neurons in the ventral striatum exhibit cell-type-specific representations of outcome during learning. Neuron, 82(5), 1145-1156.
• Atallah, H.E., Rudy, J.W. & O’Reilly, R.C. (2004). Rats with a Hippocampal lesion are not impaired on a transitive inference task, but are they using logic? Poster presented at the 34th annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience conference.
• Atallah, H.E., Lopez-Paniagua, D., Rudy, J.W. & O’Reilly, R.C. (2005). A dissociation between the role of the dorsal and ventral striatum in the acquisition and performance of instrumental conditioning. Poster presented at the 35th annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience conference.
• O’Reilly, R.C., Atallah, H.E., Pauli, W.M., Hazy, T.E. & Rudy, J.W. (2007). An integrated computational model of instrumental conditioning. Poster presented at the 37th annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience.
• Thorn, C.A., Atallah, H., Howe, M., & Graybiel, A.M. (2008). Ensemble activity differs between lateral and medial striatal regions during T-maze task learning. Poster presented at the 38th annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience.
• Atallah, H.E., Howe, M.H., & Graybiel, A.M. (2009). Dynamic modulation of ensemble activity in the nucleus accumbens during T-maze learning. Poster presented at the 39th annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience.
• Desai, M., Bernstein, J., Atallah, H., Kahn, I., Moore, C.I., Kopell, N., Graybiel, A.M., & Boyden, E. (2009). Integration of optical neural control and high-field fMRI: Towards systematic exploration of functional dynamics with ‘Opto-fMRI’. Poster presented at the 39th annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience.
• Bernstein, J.G., Desai, M., Kahn, I., Atallah, H., Kopell, N., Buckner, R.L., Moore, C.I., Graybiel, A.M., & Boyden, E.S. (2010). Opto-fMRI: Ultra-high resolution causal circuit mapping, and application to analysis of network dynamics. Poster presented at the 40th annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience.
• Atallah, H.E., Howe, M.W., & Graybiel, A.M. (2010). Dynamic modulation of ensemble activity in the ventromedial striatum during T-maze learning and re-relearning. Poster presented at the 40th annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience.

Lab lecturer in an undergraduate Behavioral Statistics class (2000, 2004) and a teaching assistant in an Introductory to Psychology class (2002).