Dr Andrea Pisauro

Lecturer in Psychology

PhD in Neuroscience

MSc in Computational Statistics and Machine Learning

MSc in Physics

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.