PESSIGLIONE Mathias
Title: PhD
Function: Team Leader, PI
Affiliated entities INSERM
Biography
Mathias Pessiglione is co-leader of Paris Brain Institute’s Motivation, Brain and Behaviour team. He is co-head of the CogMaster programme (École normale supérieure, Paris) and a clinical psychologist at the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital. He holds a Master of Science degree in neuroscience and a Master of Science degree in cognitive science, a thesis in cognitive science from the Pierre and Marie Curie University (2003) and a clinical psychologist qualification (2004).
Research
Neuroimaging and Human Neuropsychology The team of Mathias Pessiglione, Sébastien Bouret and Jean Daunizeau is working to understand the brain mechanisms that underlie motivational processes: why we pin our hopes on certain opportunities, why we prefer certain options to others, or why we spend so much effort on certain activities. It combines three complementary approaches: human cognitive neuroscience, neurophysiology in experimental models, and computational modelling, which is essential for quantitatively linking different levels of description.