World's Best Scientists 2026 revealed!
Award Badge
Psychology
France
2023

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
52
Citations
10703
World Ranking
4991
National Ranking
34

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Psychology in France Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Psychology in France Leader Award

Overview

Pascale Piolino is affiliated with Université Paris Cité in France. Their research primarily spans the fields of neuroscience and psychology, with a particular focus on cognitive neuroscience, experimental and cognitive psychology, clinical psychology, social psychology, and developmental and educational psychology.

Their work covers a range of topics including memory and neural mechanisms, memory processes and influences, psychedelics and drug studies, mind wandering and attention, EEG and brain-computer interfaces, chemical synthesis and alkaloids, and virtual reality applications and impacts.

Among their recent publications are:

  • "Awe and the Experience of the Sublime: A Complex Relationship," 2020, Frontiers in Psychology
  • "Bored, distracted, and forgetful: The impact of mind wandering and boredom on memory encoding," 2021, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
  • "A wandering mind is a forgetful mind: A systematic review on the influence of mind wandering on episodic memory encoding," 2021, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • "Validation of a French Version of the Mystical Experience Questionnaire with Retrospective Reports of the Most Significant Psychedelic Experience among French Users," 2022, Journal of Psychoactive Drugs
  • "Safety and risk assessment of psychedelic psychotherapy: A meta-analysis and systematic review," 2024, Psychiatry Research

Their frequent collaborators include:

  • Alexandre Gaston-Bellegarde
  • Marco Sperduti
  • Baptiste Fauvel
  • Valentina La Corte
  • Éric Orriols

Publications authored by Piolino are often found in the following venues:

  • Scientific Reports
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Journal of Psychoactive Drugs
  • Psychological Research
  • L'Année psychologique

Best Publications

  • Autobiographical memory and autonoetic consciousness: Triple dissociation in neurodegenerative diseases

    Pascale Piolino;Béatrice Desgranges;Serge Belliard;Vanessa Matuszewski

  • Episodic autobiographical memories over the course of time: Cognitive, neuropsychological and neuroimaging findings

    Pascale Piolino;Béatrice Desgranges;Francis Eustache

  • Episodic and semantic remote autobiographical memory in ageing.

    Pascale Piolino;Béatrice Desgranges;Karim Benali;Francis Eustache

  • Neural substrates of the self‐memory system: New insights from a meta‐analysis

    Pénélope Martinelli;Marco Sperduti;Pascale Piolino;Pascale Piolino

  • Autobiographical memory, autonoetic consciousness, and self-perspective in aging.

    Pascale Piolino;Béatrice Desgranges;David Clarys;Bérengère Guillery-Girard

  • Episodic autobiographical memory in depression: Specificity, autonoetic consciousness, and self-perspective.

    Cédric Lemogne;Pascale Piolino;Pascale Piolino;Stéphanie Friszer;Astrid Claret

  • Age effects on different components of theory of mind

    Céline Duval;Pascale Piolino;Alexandre Bejanin;Francis Eustache

  • Using virtual reality to characterize episodic memory profiles in amnestic mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease: influence of active and passive encoding.

    G. Plancher;A. Tirard;V. Gyselinck;S. Nicolas

  • Hippocampal Activation for Autobiographical Memories over the Entire Lifetime in Healthy Aged Subjects: An fMRI Study

    Armelle Viard;Pascale Piolino;Pascale Piolino;Béatrice Desgranges;Gaël Chételat

  • Reduced specificity of autobiographical memory and aging: Do the executive and feature binding functions of working memory have a role?

    Pascale Piolino;Cécile Coste;Pénélope Martinelli;Anne-Laure Macé

  • Re-experiencing old memories via hippocampus: a PET study of autobiographical memory.

    Pascale Piolino;Gaëlle Giffard-Quillon;Béatrice Desgranges;Gaël Chételat

  • Anatomical and functional alterations in semantic dementia: A voxel-based MRI and PET study

    Béatrice Desgranges;Vanessa Matuszewski;Pascale Piolino;Pascale Piolino;Gaël Chételat

  • Age effect on components of episodic memory and feature binding: A virtual reality study.

    Gaën Plancher;Valerie Gyselinck;Serge Nicolas;Pascale Piolino

  • Mental time travel into the past and the future in healthy aged adults: an fMRI study.

    Armelle Viard;Gaël Chételat;Karine Lebreton;Béatrice Desgranges

  • ‘In the course of time’: a PET study of the cerebral substrates of autobiographical amnesia in Alzheimer’s disease

    Francis Eustache;Pascale Piolino;Bénédicte Giffard;Fausto Viader

  • Theory of mind impairments in patients with semantic dementia.

    Céline Duval;Alexandre Bejanin;Pascale Piolino;Pascale Piolino;Pascale Piolino;Mickael Laisney

  • Conscious recollection in autobiographical memory: an investigation in schizophrenia.

    Jean-Marie Danion;Christine Cuervo;Pascale Piolino;Pascale Piolino;Caroline Huron

  • What happens to personal identity when semantic knowledge degrades? A study of the self and autobiographical memory in semantic dementia.

    Céline Duval;Béatrice Desgranges;Vincent de La Sayette;Serge Belliard

  • Impaired capacity for prospection in the dementias – Theoretical and clinical implications

    Muireann Irish;Muireann Irish;Muireann Irish;Pascale Piolino;Pascale Piolino

  • Do school-age children remember or know the personal past?

    P. Piolino;M. Hisland;I. Ruffeveille;V. Matuszewski

  • La mémoire autobiographique : théorie et pratique en

    Pascale Piolino

Frequent Co-Authors

Francis Eustache
Francis Eustache Université de Caen Normandie
Béatrice Desgranges
Béatrice Desgranges Université de Caen Normandie
Marie-Odile Krebs
Marie-Odile Krebs Université Paris Cité
Didier Hannequin
Didier Hannequin Grenoble Alpes University
Muireann Irish
Muireann Irish University of Sydney
Roland Jouvent
Roland Jouvent Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Philippe Azouvi
Philippe Azouvi Sorbonne University
Philippe Fossati
Philippe Fossati Sorbonne University
Aymeric Guillot
Aymeric Guillot Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Silvia Serino
Silvia Serino University of Milano-Bicocca

If you think any of the details on this page are incorrect, let us know.

Report an issue

We appreciate your kind effort to assist us to improve this page, it would be helpful providing us with as much detail as possible in the text box below:

Related Online Degrees & Career Pathways

Studying psychology in the USA can open numerous doors to meaningful careers in mental health, research, education, and applied behavioral analysis. Many students opt for online degrees to gain flexibility while pursuing their academic and career goals.

A popular pathway is becoming a Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA), which requires specialized coursework and supervised fieldwork. Requirements can vary based on location. For example, those interested in how to become a bcba in Minneapolis should be aware of the local supervision laws and licensing procedures. Similarly, becoming a bcba in Nashville may involve distinct fieldwork affiliations and university partnerships.

Students pursuing New Orleans bcba education requirements need to carefully check state guidelines for degree accreditation. Likewise, bcba certification requirements in New York City emphasize completing board-approved programs and passing the BCBA exam.

With online education, you can prepare for these professional tracks from virtually anywhere, combining online coursework with in-person internships to fulfill all requirements and advance your career in psychology.

Best Scientists Citing Pascale Piolino

Trending Scientists