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Joana Carvalheiro is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging at the University of Glasgow. Her research focuses on characterizing the cognitive neural mechanisms through which humans learn to seek rewards and avoid punishments, and how disruptions to these mechanisms can drive addictive behaviors. She has been awarded the Wellcome Early-Career Award to investigate how punishments affect reward learning, with a special focus on addiction. Joana employs a multimodal approach that combines behavioral paradigms, various forms of neuroimaging (including EEG and fMRI, utilizing both 3T and 7T systems), and computational modeling to probe relevant brain networks. She completed her Ph.D. studying the neurocomputational mechanisms by which acute stress affects reward and punishment learning, using reinforcement-learning paradigms and model-based fMRI. Joana is passionate about understanding how cognitive processes are influenced by emotional states and has supervised postgraduate students in related fields.
Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, University of Glasgow • Glasgow, GB
Conducting research on cognitive neural mechanisms, focusing on how rewards and punishments affect behaviors, including addiction.