Benedetto De Martino
Current Address: Department of Cognitive, Perceptual and Brain Sciences, University College of London, 26 Bedford Way, London WC1ZH OAP
Previous Addresses : Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, Institute of Neurology, University College of London, 12 Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology, MC 228-77 Pasadena, CA 91125
Email: [email protected] [email protected]
Date of birth: 13 September 1978 Nationality: Italian Personal Website: http://www.benedettodemartino.org
EDUCATION
2008 University College of London PhD in Neuroscience. Dissertation : ‘The Impact of Emotions on Attention and Decision-Making’
2004 University College of London MPhil in Neuroscience.
2003 University Federico II, Naples 5-years Italian Laurea in Biotechnology and Pharmacology. Awarded with Honours.
AWARDS AND RESEARCH GRANTS
2012 UCL Early Career Fellowship (18 months) £75K, Department of Psychology UCL.
2008 Sir Henry Wellcome post-doctoral fellowship (4 years) £250K, Wellcome Trust on project ‘Integrating economics model and cognitive neuroscience: the neurobiology of human decision- making’, based at Caltech and UCL.
2006 Fellowship for the Summer School in Neuroeconomics, Stanford University
2003 PhD scholarship, full funding Wellcome Trust (4 years)
2001 Fellowship for the 14th IIGB Meeting “Generating Cell Diversity in the Nervous System”
2001 Fellowship for the 14th IIGB Meeting “Generating Cell Diversity in the Nervous System”the Summer School of History and Philosophy of Biology, Universisty of Nettuno
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AFFILIATIONS
Research fellow of Department of Psychology (University College of London), London.
Visiting Associate in Economics and Neuroscience (Caltech), Pasadena
Fellow of Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, London.
RESEARCH AND TEACHING EXPERIENCE
RESEARCH
2012 - 2013 Early Career Fellowship Hosting Institutions: University College of London
2008 - 2012 Sir Henry Wellcome Posdoctoral Fellowship Hosting Institutions: California Institute of Technology / University College of London Research Sponsor: Prof. Colin Camerer (Caltech) Sponsor: Prof. Raymond J. Dolan (UCL) Mentor: Prof. Daniel Kahneman (Princeton, Nobel Prize winner in Economics 2002)
2003- 2007 PhD Research Fellowship in Neuroscience (Dolan’s Lab) Hosting Institution: University College of London 1st Supervisor: Prof. Raymond J. Dolan (UCL) 2nd Supervisor: Prof. Geraint Rees (UCL)
2002- 2003 1st Year of PhD programme ( 3 months lab rotations) Hosting Institution: University College of London 1st Rotation Supervisor: Prof. Eleanor Maguire (UCL) 2nd Rotation Supervisor: Prof. Caludio Stern (UCL) 3rd Rotation Supervisor: Prof. Ray Dolan (UCL)
2001- 2003 Undergraduate experimental thesis work Hosting Institution: Institute of Genetics and Biophysics, CNR Naples Supervisor: Dr. Umberto di Porzio (CNR)
1999- 2000 Undergraduate experimental training Hosting Institution: Faculty of Medicine, University Federico II, Naples Supervisor: Prof. Vincenzo De Simone (University of Naples)
LECTURING
2010-2012 Department of Psychology, UCL, London Lectures for the BA and one for the Master courses in Psychology 2
2010 Caltech, Pasadena Lectures for a mini course in Pharmacology for Cognitive Neuroscientist
2006 Institute of Neurology, UCL, London Lecture for the MSc course in Clinical Neuroscience ‘Reward, Learning and Motivation”.
SUPERVISIONS
2012-2013 I am currently supervising 3 MSc students from CoDeS MSc programme, MSc in Social Cognition, and IoN MSc program
2011-2012 Supervision of MSc student: Marco Pompilii from IoN MSc programme
2010-2011 Supervision of 2 MSc students: Neil Garrett from CoDeS MSc program and Carla Ammons MSco in Social Cognition worked on a VBM project on the social cost of rationality.
2009-2010 Supervision of MSc student: Hans Melo in the CoDeS MSc program at UCL . Hans is now a PhD student in Anderson Lab at University of Toronto
2008-2009 Co-supervision of PhD student Deb Ray at Caltech.
COURSES ATTENDED
2008 Summer school in Computational Neuroscience. OCNC, Okinawa, Japan
2006 Summer school in Neuroeconomics, Stanford University, US
2005 SPM Course, Wellcome Trust Centre, London, UK
2004 Cogent Course, Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience, London, UK
2001 Summer school of History and Philosophy of Biology, Universisty of Nettuno, Italy
CONFERENCES ATTENDED
2010 Society for Neuroscience annual meeting, Chicago, USA (Poster presented)
2009 Human Brain Mapping, San Francisco, USA (Poster presented)
2007 Society for Neuroscience annual meeting, San Diego, USA (Poster presented)
2006 Human Brain Mapping, Florence, Italy (Poster presented)
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2005 Society for Neuroscience annual meeting, Washington, USA (Poster presented)
2001 IGB Meeting, Capri, Italy (Poster presented)
INVITED TALKS
2012 European Accounting Association (EAA) symposium, Ljubljana
2012 Slovenian Neuroscience Association (SINAPSA), Ljubljana http://www.sinapsa.org/pro/seminarji/Neuroeconomics:__The_Neurobiology_of_Loss_Ave rsion
2012 Workshop of Neuropsychopharmacology Annual Conference on Neuroeconomics: Decision Making and the Brain, Miami, Florida
2012 The 3rd International Conference on Neuroeconomics and Neuromanagement, Zhejiang University, China
2011 CISEPS (Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Economics, Psychology and Social Sciences) Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Milan
2011 Paris School of Economics
2011 Cornell University, Ithaca
2011 Caltech, Pasadena
2010 COSYNE 2010 Workshop titled “Has optimality reached a dead-end? http://cosyne.org/wiki/Has_optimality_reached_a_dead-end%3F 2010 University of Zurich
2010 CPB and LJDM UCL, London
2010 University of Heidelberg
2009 UCLA, Los Angeles
2009 New York University
2009 University of Oxford
2008 Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience, London
2008 Wellcome Dept. for Neuroimaging, London
2008 Caltech
2007 Stanford University, Palo Alto
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PUBLICATIONS
REFEREED ARTICLES
Major publications: First Author or equal contribution
B De Martino*, S Fleming*, N Garrett, RJ Dolan (2013) “Confidence in value-based choice” Nature Neuroscience 16, 105-U147 http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nn.3279.html
A.Soltani*, B De Martino*, C Camerer, 2012 'A Range-Normalization Model of Context-Dependent Choice: A New Model and Evidence', Plos Computational Biology Volume: 8 Issue: 7 Article Number: e1002607 http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pcbi.1002607
B De Martino,C Camerer, R Adolphs 2010 “Amygdala lesion eliminates loss aversion” Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, Volume: 107 Issue: 8 Pages: 3788-3792 http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2010/02/02/0910230107.full.pdf+html
B De Martino, D Kumaran, B Holt, RJ Dolan, 2009 “Neural Representation of Reference-Dependent Value during Market Transactions” Journal of Neuroscience Volume: 29 Issue: 12 Pages: 3833- 3842 http://www.jneurosci.org/cgi/reprint/29/12/3833
B De Martino*, N Harrison*, S Knafo, G Bird, RJ Dolan 2008 “Explaining enhanced logical consistency during decision making in autism Journal of Neuroscience Volume: 28 Issue: 42 Pages: 10746-10750
B. De Martino, R.Kalisch, G. Rees, R.J. Dolan 2008. "Enhanced Processing of Threat Stimuli under Limited Attentional Resources ". Cerebral Cortex Volume: 19 Issue: 1 Pages: 127-133 http://cercor.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/bhn062v2
B. De Martino, B.Strange, R.J. Dolan 2008. "Noradrenergic modulation of Human Attention for emotional and neutral stimuli". Psychopharmacology. 197 Issue: 1 Pages: 127-136 http://www.springerlink.com/content/j73013231746q078/fulltext.pdf
B. De Martino, D. Kumaran, B. Seymour, R.J. Dolan 2006. "Frames, Biases, and Rational Decision- Making in the Human Brain". Science 313: 684-687. http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/313/5787/684 ** note peer commentary on this paper below
K Louie* & B De Martino* “Reference Dependent Values and Normalization” Forthcoming 2013 in Neuroeconomics: Decision-Making and the Brain edited by P Glimcher and E Fehr Academic Press Elsevier
B De Martino “The Effect of Context on Choice and Value” 2012 in Neuroscience of Preference and Choice edited by T. Sharot and R.J. Dolan (pp 94-115) Academic Press Elsevier
(* indicates shared first authorship)
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(** Commentary by D. Kahneman & S. Frederick, Frames and brains: elicitation and control of response tendencies. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 11, 45–46 (2007). “In this paper they explicitly prize our approach to study DM: "this study ...confirms that serious theorizing in the domains of judgment and decision making can be informed by imaging results and that the integration of concepts from both lines of research is necessary and feasible")
Subsidiary publications: Contributing author
V. S Chib, B De Martino, S. Shimojo & J. P. O'Doherty, 2012 “Neural Mechanisms Underlying Paradoxical Performance for Monetary Incentives Are Driven by Loss Aversion” Neuron Volume: 74 Issue: 3 Pages: 582-594
T Sharot, B De Martino, RJ Dolan 2009 “How choice reveals and shapes expected hedonic outcome” Journal of Neuroscience Volume: 29 Issue: 12 Pages: 3760-3765
R Kalisch, B Holt, P Petrovic, B De Martino, S Kloppel, C Buchel, RJ Dolan 2009 The NMDA Agonist D-Cycloserine Facilitates Fear Memory Consolidation in Humans. Cerebral Cortex Volume: 19 Issue: 1 Pages: 187-196.
J Roiser, B De Martino, G Tan, D Kumaran, B Seymour, N Wood, and R Dolan 2009 "A Genetically Mediated Bias in Decision-making Driven by Failure of Amygdala Control" Journal of Neuroscience Volume: 29 Issue: 18 Pages: 5985-5991
P Petrovic, B Pleger, B Seymour, S Kloppel, B De Martino, H Critchley, RJ Dolan, 2008 “Blocking central opiate function modulates hedonic impact and anterior cingulate response to rewards and losses” Journal of Neuroscience Volume: 28 Issue: 42 Pages: 10509-10516 http://www.jneurosci.org/cgi/reprint/28/42/10746
Submitted manuscripts B. De Martino, J. O’Doherty, D. Ray, P. Bossaerts & C. Camerer “In the mind of the market:theory of mind biases value computation during financial bubbles”submitted to Neuron
B. De Martino, R. Moran, H. Melo, M.Pompili & R.J. Dolan "Temporal dynamic of Loss Aversion"
PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT (selection)
Television:
BBC - Horizon “How to make better decisions” Links: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/horizon/broadband/tx/decisions/highlights/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGQLO_iXKlU&feature=player_embedded
Newspaper and magazines :
BBC News (2006) - “Emotions fuel irrational acts” http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/5243146.stm 6
BBC News (2010) - “Patients with amygdala injury 'unafraid' to gamble” http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8504605.stm
USA Today (2006) - “Study: Emotion rules the brain's decisions” http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/discoveries/2006-08-06-brain-study_x.htm
Daily Mail (2008) - “Autistic people rely less on their gut instincts, say researchers” http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1078274/Autistic-people-rely-gut-instincts-say- researchers.html
Daily Mail (2010) - “Brain defect can turn the cautious into high-risk gamblers” http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1249611/Brain-defect-turn-cautious-high-risk- gamblers.html
The Guardian (2006) - “Research considers link between gambling and emotion” http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2006/aug/04/highereducation.uk
The Guardian (2012) - “The Optimism Bias” http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/jan/01/tali-sharot-the-optimism-bias-extract
The Telegraph (2012) - “Reason why most people don't take large gambling risks uncovered by scientists” http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/7189358/Reason-why-most-people-dont-take- large-gambling-risks-uncovered-by-scientists.html
Wall Street Journal (2012) - “Big Incentives Can Hinder, Rather Than Help” http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304371504577406413713371208.html
Scientific America (2010) - “What Happens in the Amygdala... Damage to Brain's Decision-Making Area May Encourage Dicey Gambles” http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=amygdala-loss-aversion
NewScientis (2008) - “Never gamble with an autistic opponent” http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14946-never-gamble-with-an-autistic-opponent.html
Reuters (2010) - “Study shows why it is so scary to lose money” http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/02/09/us-fear-brain-idUSN0823962020100209
The Independent (2010) - “Genetic disorder turns risk-averse into gamblers” http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/genetic-disorder-turns-riskaverse-into-gamblers- 1893316.html
La Repubblica (2010) - “Cervello, quella ‘valvola’ difettosa che ci asciuga il portafoglio” http://www.repubblica.it/salute/medicina/2010/02/09/news/cervello_quella_valvola_difettosa_che_ ci_asciuga_il_portafoglio-5584579/
Corriere Della Sera (2011) - “La mandorla (amara) dei mercati” http://archiviostorico.corriere.it/2011/gennaio/31/mandorla_amara_dei_mercati_ce_0_110131238.sh tml
Corriere Della Sera (2011) - “Per investire bene ci vuole il gene giusto”
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Il Sole 24 ore (2011) - “La paura? Spinge ai titoli di Stato” http://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/commenti-e-idee/2011-09-02/paura-spinge-titoli-stato- 064100.shtml?uuid=Aa0uMt0D
Delo (2012) - “Nevroekonomisti bi bili lahko milni mehurček, toda nismo” http://www.delo.si/zgodbe/sobotnapriloga/nevroekonomisti-bi-bili-lahko-milni-mehurcek-toda- nismo_2.html
Public Talks :
Bergamo Science Festival 2011 video (in italian) : http://www.bergamoscienza.it/ITA/Default.aspx?SEZ=6&PAG=58&NOT=225
Science London 2011 http://science-london.com/home/?p=133
Bright Club (funny ;-) video (standup comedy in english) : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Mzx_opuDOg podcast -audio (in english) : http://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-bright-club-podcast/id368949295
Cheltenham Jazz Festival 2012 http://www.cheltenhamfestivals.com/find-events/jazz/jf03-a-nice-touch
For references please contact:
- Prof. Raymond Dolan Wellcome Trust Center for Neuroimaging: [email protected]
- Prof. Daniel Kahneman Princeton University: [email protected]
- Prof. Colin Camerer Caltech: [email protected]
- Prof. Peter Bossaerts Caltech: [email protected]
- Prof. John O'Doherty Caltech: [email protected]
- Prof. Peter Dayan UCL: [email protected]
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