معرفی
Dr. David Tait is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of St Andrews' School of Psychology and Neuroscience. His research focuses on understanding cognitive processes that enable behavioral adaptation to environmental changes, employing neuroscientific techniques like psychopharmacology and chemogenetics in experimental animals. He investigates attentional focus, learning mechanisms, and the neurological underpinnings of attentional shifting in the frontal cortex and basal ganglia.
Key research interests include attentional set-shifting, behavioral flexibility, and the role of specific brain regions such as the medial prefrontal cortex and orbital frontal cortex. His work spans rodent and reptile models to explore learning impairments, reversal learning, and neuropharmacological interventions.
Publications highlight contributions to understanding cognitive deficits in lesion models, drug effects on learning, and comparative neuroscience across species. His methodologies emphasize innovative behavioral tasks and Bayesian analysis to disentangle complex neural processes.
