
Profiles
Dr Elsa Fouragnan
Lecturer in Psychology
School of Psychology (Faculty of Health)
- Computational neuroscience
- Addiction
- Ultrasound Brain Stimulation
- Decision-making
- Depression
- fMRI
- EEG
- Reward-based learning
Email publicrelations@plymouth.ac.uk to enquire.
Qualifications
PhD in computational neuroscience - European fellowship & Visiting scholar at USC, Los Angeles, USA
Master in Biomedical Engineering (ENSC Bordeaux, France)
Roles on external bodies
Member of the Focused Ultrasound international working group on safety and ethics 2018-present
Board member of the Change Group, Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroscience, Oxford, 2017-2018
Treasurer, French federation of students and early researchers in Cognitive Sciences, 2006
Key publications
Teaching interests
- 412 - Psychological Science
- 415 - Topics in Psychology
- 406 - Applied psychology
- 404 - Current topics in Psychology
- 570 - Issues in Cognitive and Brain Science
Staff serving as external examiners
PhD examiner:
- Elodie Levy, ICM, CNRS, Paris, France
Research interests
I am fascinated by the brain's remarkable capacity to process our continually changing environment, allowing us to avoid repeated mistakes and make smart decisions. How is this normally achieved, and what are the consequences of brain damage? To address these questions, a large part of my work focuses on both value-based decision-making and reward-learning and involves various methods including multimodal neuroimaging (simultaneous EEG-fMRI), focal ultrasound neurostimulation and comparative neuroscience.
Other research
Award for best Neuroscientific contribution (~$20,000) by the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 2019
Best poster price, Foundation for Focused Ultrasound, Oxford University, September 2019
Best poster price, Neuroeconomics Summer School, Amsterdam University, June 2012
Award for exceptional performance in Mathematics, Atomic Energy Commissariat, Toulouse, 2006
Grants & contracts
UKRI FLF 2020-2024 (£1,032,516.11), Principal Investigator "Mapping the neural circuit of credit assignment for a new targeted brain intervention in addiction"
Leverhulme 2019-2022 (£462,995), Co-investigator “Social perception as Bayesian hypothesis testing and revision” with Prof. Patric Bach (PI)
Praxis Clinical Grant (£2,000), Small Research Grant - Developing psychiatric tasks in eating disorders with Dr Remi Neveu
Key publications
Key publications are highlighted
JournalsReports & invited lectures
Description of my UKRI project in images! https://vimeo.com/user2051960/review/409202167/d5d450272b
News article about our latest research at the Focused Ultrasound Federation: https://www.fusfoundation.org/news/focused-ultrasound-used-to-identify-behavior-specific-regions-of-the-brain
Science daily: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/04/190415113822.htm