Matteo Sequestro

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: #calendar--topical-outline" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">github.com/rmcelreath/sta…

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 nature.com/articles/s4427…

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! nature.com/articles/s4427…

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.

👋 New paper on "Prioritized neural processing of social threats during perceptual decision-making", with @MarwaElZein7, @valentinwyart, @MSequestro, @MeauxEmilie, and Rocco Mennella: cell.com/action/showPdf…