معرفی
Stefano Palminteri is a researcher at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, leading the Human Reinforcement Learning team at the Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory (LNC2) since 2017. He holds a PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience from Université Pierre et Marie Curie (2012) and completed postdoctoral work at LNC2, University of Trento, and University College London.
- Education: Master in Pharmaceutical Biotechnology (University of Bologna, 2006); Master in Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, 2007); PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience (UPMC, 2012).
His research focuses on computational and neurobiological mechanisms of reinforcement learning, decision-making under uncertainty, and behavioral biases. He investigates how contextual factors (e.g., social influence, neurochemical states) shape learning processes in healthy and clinical populations (e.g., addiction, depression, Tourette syndrome). Recent work explores value normalization, metacognitive biases, and cross-cultural comparisons of reinforcement learning.
Key trends in his publications include (1) computational modeling of reward/punishment sensitivity in psychiatric conditions, (2) neuroeconomic frameworks for decision-making under risk and ambiguity, (3) multi-agent reinforcement learning in financial market simulations, and (4) cross-domain comparisons of description vs. experience-based learning.
He employs functional neuroimaging, pharmacological interventions, and behavioral experiments to uncover how brain circuits (e.g., striatum, prefrontal cortex) encode value signals. His lab offers internships in epistemic biases and reinforcement learning.
