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Mathias Pessiglione

Mathias Pessiglione

Université Paris Cité
France

D-Index & Metrics

Neuroscience

D-Index
51
Citations
11933
World Ranking
5465
National Ranking
233

Mathias Pessiglione publication distribution in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Neuroscience in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Mathias Pessiglione sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 115 publications — 25th percentile

25% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 887 publications or more.

Mathias Pessiglione D-index placement in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Neuroscience scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Mathias Pessiglione sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 51 D-Index — 44th percentile

44% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 163 D-Index or more.

Overview

Mathias Pessiglione is affiliated with Université Paris Cité in France and has a research focus in the field of Neuroscience. Their work spans several subfields including Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, General Decision Sciences, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Clinical Psychology.

Their research interests encompass a range of main topics, including:

  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms

Pessiglione's recent publications reflect these interests and have appeared in various scientific journals. Notable papers include:

  • "A neuro-metabolic account of why daylong cognitive work alters the control of economic decisions," 2022, Current Biology
  • "Four core properties of the human brain valuation system demonstrated in intracranial signals," 2020, Nature Neuroscience
  • "Anatomical dissociation of intracerebral signals for reward and punishment prediction errors in humans," 2021, Nature Communications
  • "Effort avoidance as a core mechanism of apathy in frontotemporal dementia," 2022, Brain
  • "A shared brain system forming confidence judgment across cognitive domains," 2022, Cerebral Cortex

The venues where Pessiglione frequently publishes include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • International Journal of Psychophysiology
  • Journal of Neuroscience
  • Communications Psychology

Throughout their career, Pessiglione has collaborated extensively. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Antonius Wiehler
  • Fabien Vinckier
  • Julien Bastin
  • Philippe Kahane
  • Raphaël Le Bouc

Best Publications

  • Dopamine-dependent prediction errors underpin reward-seeking behaviour in humans

    Mathias Pessiglione;Ben Seymour;Guillaume Flandin;Raymond J. Dolan

  • How the Brain Translates Money into Force: A Neuroimaging Study of Subliminal Motivation

    Mathias Pessiglione;Liane Schmidt;Liane Schmidt;Bogdan Draganski;Bogdan Draganski;Raffael Kalisch;Raffael Kalisch

  • Substantia nigra/ventral tegmental reward prediction error disruption in psychosis

    G K Murray;P R Corlett;L Clark;M Pessiglione

  • Separate Valuation Subsystems for Delay and Effort Decision Costs

    Charlotte Prévost;Mathias Pessiglione;Elise Météreau;Marie-Laure Cléry-Melin

  • An automatic valuation system in the human brain: evidence from functional neuroimaging.

    Maël Lebreton;Maël Lebreton;Soledad Jorge;Soledad Jorge;Vincent Michel;Bertrand Thirion

  • Subliminal Instrumental Conditioning Demonstrated in the Human Brain

    Mathias Pessiglione;Mathias Pessiglione;Predrag Petrovic;Jean Daunizeau;Stefano Palminteri

  • Neural mechanisms underlying motivation of mental versus physical effort.

    Liane Schmidt;Maël Lebreton;Marie-Laure Cléry-Melin;Jean Daunizeau

  • Mechanisms underlying dopamine-mediated reward bias in compulsive behaviors.

    Valerie Voon;Mathias Pessiglione;Christina Brezing;Cecile Gallea

  • Automatic integration of confidence in the brain valuation signal

    Maël Lebreton;Maël Lebreton;Raphaëlle Abitbol;Raphaëlle Abitbol;Raphaëlle Abitbol;Jean Daunizeau;Jean Daunizeau;Mathias Pessiglione;Mathias Pessiglione

  • Stratified medicine for mental disorders

    Gunter Schumann;Elisabeth B. Binder;Arne Holte;E. Ronald de Kloet

  • Critical Roles for Anterior Insula and Dorsal Striatum in Punishment-Based Avoidance Learning

    Stefano Palminteri;Damian Justo;Céline Jauffret;Beth Pavlicek

  • Why don't you try harder? An investigation of effort production in major depression.

    Marie-Laure Cléry-Melin;Marie-Laure Cléry-Melin;Liane Schmidt;Liane Schmidt;Gilles Lafargue;Nicolas Baup

  • Why not try harder? Computational approach to motivation deficits in neuro-psychiatric diseases.

    Mathias Pessiglione;Mathias Pessiglione;Fabien Vinckier;Fabien Vinckier;Fabien Vinckier;Sébastien Bouret;Sébastien Bouret;Jean Daunizeau;Jean Daunizeau

  • Disconnecting force from money: effects of basal ganglia damage on incentive motivation.

    Liane Schmidt;Baudouin Forgeot d'Arc;Gilles Lafargue;Damien Galanaud

  • Learning To Minimize Efforts versus Maximizing Rewards: Computational Principles and Neural Correlates

    Vasilisa Skvortsova;Stefano Palminteri;Mathias Pessiglione

  • A Neurocomputational Account of How Inflammation Enhances Sensitivity to Punishments Versus Rewards.

    Neil A. Harrison;Neil A. Harrison;Neil A. Harrison;Valerie Voon;Valerie Voon;Mara Cercignani;Ella A. Cooper

  • A critical role for the hippocampus in the valuation of imagined outcomes

    Maël Lebreton;Maxime Bertoux;Claire Boutet;Stéphane Lehericy;Stéphane Lehericy

  • Thalamic Neuronal Activity in Dopamine-Depleted Primates: Evidence for a Loss of Functional Segregation within Basal Ganglia Circuits

    Mathias Pessiglione;Dominique Guehl;Anne-Sophie Rolland;Chantal François

  • A neuro-metabolic account of why daylong cognitive work alters the control of economic decisions

    Unknown

  • A new model to study compensatory mechanisms in MPTP-treated monkeys exhibiting recovery

    Stéphanie Mounayar;Sabrina Boulet;Dominique Tandé;Caroline Jan

  • Pharmacological modulation of subliminal learning in Parkinson's and Tourette's syndromes

    Stefano Palminteri;Maël Lebreton;Yulia Worbe;David Grabli

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean Daunizeau
Jean Daunizeau Grenoble Alpes University
Léon Tremblay
Léon Tremblay Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Jean Féger
Jean Féger Grenoble Alpes University
Etienne C. Hirsch
Etienne C. Hirsch Sorbonne University
Raymond J. Dolan
Raymond J. Dolan University College London
Bruno Dubois
Bruno Dubois Université Paris Cité
Chantal François
Chantal François Sorbonne University
Chris D. Frith
Chris D. Frith University College London
Sebastien G. Bouret
Sebastien G. Bouret Grenoble Alpes University
Andreas Hartmann
Andreas Hartmann Université Paris Cité

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