Matteo Sequestro

PhD student in cognitive and affective neuroscience at @Cognition_ENS | (he/him) - (neuro)computational mechanisms underlying socio-emotional behavior

[Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rlmcelreath]

Statistical Rethinking 2026 is done: 20 new lectures emphasizing logical & critical statistical workflow, from basics of probability to causal inference to reliable computation to sensitivity. It's all free, made just for you. Lecture list & links: https://t.co/jFpoiNC6oW

[Communications Psychology @CommsPsychol]

Individuals avoided angry avatars more often in predictable versus unpredictable situations suggesting that social threat avoidance is influenced by goal-directed processes and not only stimulus-response processes.@MSequestro
@JulieGrezes
@SerfatyJade
https://t.co/I8sRqhbYhA

[Matteo Sequestro @MSequestro]

Thrilled to share my first first-author paper of my PhD, "Social threat avoidance depends on action-outcome predictability", now published on @CommsPsychol ! Deeply grateful to my co-authors @SerfatyJade @JulieGrezes and Rocco Mennella!

https://t.co/knI0juQVoP

[Matteo Sequestro @MSequestro]

Our paper on handholding and threat learning is finally out in Behavior Research and Therapy!
I am happy to have been part of this study during my RA with @Yafeng_Pan and @EmotionLabKI . See the post below for a thread on our design and EDA and fNRIS results.

[Yafeng Pan @Yafeng_Pan]

🧑‍🤝‍🧑⚡️🧠New paper: "Handholding reduces the recovery of threat memories and magnifies prefrontal hemodynamic responses" now out in Behaviour Research and Therapy (https://t.co/TNhRLzPWRi). Enjoyable collaboration w/ @EmotionLabKI, Armita Golkar, and Matteo Sequestro. A thread:

[julie Grèzes @JulieGrezes]

👋 New paper on "Prioritized neural processing of social threats during perceptual decision-making", with @MarwaElZein7, @valentinwyart, @MSequestro, @MeauxEmilie, and Rocco Mennella: https://t.co/6cgNA3NKgb