Dr Francesco Rigoli
Senior Lecturer
Department of Psychology
City University London
United Kingdom
Biography
Dr. Rigoli graduated in Psychology at the University of Florence (2005), followed by a master in Cognitive Psychology at the University of Bologna (2007). He finished his PhD in Cognitive Sciences at the University of Siena (2012). Part of the PhD was at the National Research Council of Italy (Rome) and at the Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge (UK). Before taking up a permanent faculty position at City University London, Dr. Rigoli was a post-doc at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at UCL (from 2012 to 2016).
Research Interest
Psychology
Publications
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Friston, K., FitzGerald, T., Rigoli, F., Schwartenbeck, P., O⿿Doherty, J. and Pezzulo, G. (2016). Active inference and learning. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 68, pp. 862–879.
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Rigoli, F., Chew, B., Dayan, P. and Dolan, R.J. (2016). The Dopaminergic Midbrain Mediates an Effect of Average Reward on Pavlovian Vigor. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 28(9), pp. 1303–1317.
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Rigoli, F., Rutledge, R.B., Chew, B., Ousdal, O.T., Dayan, P. and Dolan, R.J. (2016). Dopamine Increases a Value-Independent Gambling Propensity. Neuropsychopharmacology, 41(11), pp. 2658–2667.
