Melissa J. Sharpe

Dopamine transients are sufficient and necessary for acquisition of model-based associations

Melissa J. Sharpe, Chun Yun Chang, Melissa Liu et al. · Nature Neuroscience · 2017 · 318 citations · Full text

Neurobiological Mechanism, Cognitive Science, Neuropsychology +11

Somatic hypermutation of immunoglobulin kappa may depend on sequences 3′ of C kappa and occurs on passenger transgenes.

Melissa J. Sharpe, C. Milstein, John M. Jarvis et al. · The EMBO Journal · 1991 · 132 citations · Full text

Immunogenetics, Somatic Variant, Somatic Hypermutation +11

Lateral Hypothalamic GABAergic Neurons Encode Reward Predictions that Are Relayed to the Ventral Tegmental Area to Regulate Learning

Melissa J. Sharpe, Nathan J. Marchant, Leslie R. Whitaker et al. · Current Biology · 2017 · 129 citations · Full text

Neurobiological Mechanism, Cognitive Science, Neural Mechanism +13

An Integrated Model of Action Selection: Distinct Modes of Cortical Control of Striatal Decision Making

Melissa J. Sharpe, Thomas A. Stalnaker, Nicolas W. Schuck et al. · Annual Review of Psychology · 2018 · 116 citations · Full text

Behavioral Decision Making, Distinct Modes, Cognition +22

Causal evidence supporting the proposal that dopamine transients function as temporal difference prediction errors

Etienne J. P. Maes, Melissa J. Sharpe, Alexandra A Usypchuk et al. · Nature Neuroscience · 2020 · 98 citations · Full text

Neurobiological Mechanism, Cognitive Science, Causal Evidence +11