PESSIGLIONE Mathias
Title: PhD
Function: Team Leader, PI
Affiliated entities INSERM
Biography
Mathias Pessiglione is co-leader of the Brain Institute’s Motivation, Brain and Behaviour team. He holds a Master's degree in Neurobiology from ENS Lyon (1999), a Master's degree in Clinical Psychology from the University of Paris - Descartes (2004) and a thesis in Cognitive Sciences from the University of Pierre and Marie Curie (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.