Francesco Pupillo

Assistant professor at the Tilburg School of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Tilburg University

I am a psychologist interested in the mechanisms that underlie cognitive processes, in particular learning and memory, and how these processes are implemented in the brain. I am also interested in the subjective experience of affective states and mood, and how it interacts with cognitive functions and age.

I teach an introductory course on Forensic Psychology and recently began investigating the cognitive and computational mechanisms underlying antisocial and psychopathic traits.

Github: https://github.com/FPupillo

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/francesco-pupillo-ba2a01155/

Open Science Framework: https://osf.io/6d2xn/

email: f.pupillo@tilburguniversity.edu

Areas of interest

Emotion-cognition interactions and mechanisms underlying emotions

I have investigated the influence of affective states on prospective memory, in young and older adults using behavioral techniques, Experience-sampling Methods (ESM), and neurophysiological techniques, uncovering the role of intrusive thoughts.
I am currently examining the properties of the computational formulations of affective states and the affective characteristics of statistical learning

Reinforcement learning mechanisms, general cognitive functions, and psychopathological traits

I used reinforcement learning models to formalize learning in individuals and link prediction error to episodic memory encoding. I am currently investigating its links to choice-confirmation bias in young and older adults.
I am examining the computationally based effects of uncertain environments on the neural correlates of episodic encoding.
I am investigating whether reinforcement learning parameters differ in individuals with depressive or anhedonic symptoms, and antisocial/psychopathic traits.

Neurological and physiological differences in development

I am interested in how age-related changes in structural brain profiles support memory in young and older adults,
and the role of physiological activation in parenting

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