Itamar Lerner
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I am a cognitive and computational neuroscientist, currently a postdoctoral fellow and Research Associate at Dr. Mark Gluck's lab at the Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience at Rutgers University. My research focuses on how the brain encodes, stores, and organizes information in memory. I approach these questions by studying unique learning states (e.g., during sleep, or in patients with psychiatric disorders) to elucidate the general underlying mechanisms involved.

My research interests include: The effects of sleep on learning; hippocampal-dependent memory and its involvement in Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD); the brain mechanisms behind creativity and insight; associative processes in semantic memory in healthy and schizophrenic individuals;  language acquisition; and reinforcement learning in young and elderly adults.

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Education

​Ph.D., Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2013. Computational Neuroscience. ​  Advisors: Dr. Shlomo Bentin, Dr. Oren Shriki.
​B.A., Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2002. Psychobiology. Magna Cum Laude​

Research Grants

​2019 – 2020  NIH/NIMH 1R21MH119020-01A1 (Lerner, Co-PI) $140,302    
 Enhancing the Efficiency of Non-REM Sleep Temporal Dynamics to Improve Insight Learning

2015 – 2019  NSF/BCS 1461009 (Lerner, Co-PI) $586,326                        
 Neurocognitive Studies of Sleep and the Generalization of Emotional Learning and Threat Detection.      
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2016 – 2018  DoD W911NF-16-C-0018 (Lerner, Co-PI)  $465,435
 IMPACTS: Improving Memory Performance by Augmenting Consolidation with Transcranial Stimulation

2012 – 2016  NSF/SHB:EXP 1231515 (as effective co-PI)  $552,307             ​            
 Long-Term Mobile Monitoring and Analysis of Sleep-Cognition Relationship.      

Contact Me

itamar.lerner@gmail.com         
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itamar.lerner@rutgers.edu
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