Profiles
Dr Andrea Pisauro
Lecturer in Psychology
School of Psychology (Faculty of Health)
Biography
Biography
Lecturer in Psychology
Qualifications
PhD in Neuroscience
MSc in Computational Statistics and Machine Learning
MSc in Physics
Research
Research
Research interests
I am interested in the neural basis and the computational principles underlying human decision making. My research focuses on value-based decisions and aims at understanding how the values of available choices are computed from perceptual evidence, internal preferences and the subjective model of the choices context. My current work involves understanding the social context in which we live, how it shapes behavior and how it is encoded by the brain to inform valuation and decision making. I am also trying to understand how the motivation to act and exert the associated effort depends on the context and the pressure to reach a goal and how this depends on the social context in which we operate.
Other research
I am also interested in history, collective memory and the collective psychology which results from it and in the future I want to explore this direction to understand the relationship between history and psychology.
Publications
Publications
Journals
Matthews J, Pisauro MA, Jurgelis M, Müller T, Vassena E, Chong TTJ, Apps MAJ. Computational mechanisms underlying the dynamics of physical and cognitive fatigue. Cognition (2023). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105603
Pisauro MA, Fouragnan EF, Arabadzhiyska DH, Philiastides MG, Apps MAJ, Neural implementation of computational mechanisms underlying the continuous trade-off between cooperation and competition. Nature Communications (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34509-w
Contreras-Huerta LS, Pisauro MA, Apps MAJ, Effort shapes social cognition and behaviour: a neuro-cognitive framework. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews (2020). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2020.08.003
Pisauro MA, Fouragnan E, Retzler C, Philiastides MG. Neural correlates of evidence accumulation during value-based decisions revealed via simultaneous EEG-fMRI. Nature Communications (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15808
Pisauro MA, Benucci A, Carandini M. Local and global contributions to hemodynamic activity in mouse cortex. Journal of neurophysiology (2016). https://doi.org/10.1152/jn.00125.2016
Pisauro MA, Dhruv NT, Carandini M, Benucci A. Fast hemodynamic responses in the visual cortex of the awake mouse. Journal of Neuroscience (2013). https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2130-13.2013
Internet Publications
The Science of Choosing Between Cooperation and Competition - Psychology Today (2023)
The murder of Giacomo Matteotti – reinvestigating Italy’s most infamous cold case - The Conversation (2024)
Personal
Personal
Links
www.andreapisauro.com