Pedro Pinheiro-Chagas, PhD

Assistant Professor
[email protected]
Fields of Interest: 
Language

Pedro Pinheiro-Chagas, PhD, studies the neural architecture and dynamics of human intelligence, focusing on symbolic cognitive systems, such as mathematics and language. His research program aims at understanding how these systems develop and decline and how we can help.
 
He combines machine learning, computational modeling, electrophysiological recordings (intracranial EEG, MEG), neuroimaging (fMRI), continuous behavioral measures (trajectory-tracking) and neuropsychology to study the processing stages and representational codes underlying cognitive operations. Complementarily, he uses intracranial electrical stimulation to modulate brain activity and behavior.
 
Previously, he did a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University in the Human Intracranial Cognitive Electrophysiology Program. He completed his PhD degree at the Sorbonne University/CEA-NeuroSpin in Paris, France. He did his undergraduate work in Psychology/Cognitive Science and a master's degree in Neuroscience at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil.

Publications: 

Cross-regional coordination of activity in the human brain during autobiographical self-referential processing.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Stieger JR, Pinheiro-Chagas P, Fang Y, Li J, Lusk Z, Perry CM, Girn M, Contreras D, Chen Q, Huguenard JR, Spreng RN, Edlow BL, Wagner AD, Buch V, Parvizi J

Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Successive Activations across the Human Brain during Simple Arithmetic Processing.

The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience

Pinheiro-Chagas P, Sava-Segal C, Akkol S, Daitch A, Parvizi J

Profiles of mathematical deficits in children with dyslexia.

NPJ science of learning

Pedemonte B, Pereira CW, Borghesani V, Ebbert M, Allen IE, Pinheiro-Chagas P, De Leon J, Miller Z, Tee BL, Gorno-Tempini ML

Distinct Contributions of the Cerebellum and Basal Ganglia to Arithmetic Procedures.

The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience

Saban W, Pinheiro-Chagas P, Borra S, Ivry RB

Spatiotemporal dynamics of successive activations across the human brain during simple arithmetic processing.

bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology

Pinheiro-Chagas P, Sava-Segal C, Akkol S, Daitch A, Parvizi J

Direct intracranial recordings in the human angular gyrus during arithmetic processing.

Brain structure & function

Pinheiro-Chagas P, Chen F, Sabetfakhri N, Perry C, Parvizi J

Electrocorticographic evidence of a common neurocognitive sequence for mentalizing about the self and others.

Nature communications

Tan KM, Daitch AL, Pinheiro-Chagas P, Fox KCR, Parvizi J, Lieberman MD

Overlapping Neuronal Population Responses in the Human Parietal Cortex during Visuospatial Attention and Arithmetic Processing.

Journal of cognitive neuroscience

Liu N, Pinheiro-Chagas P, Sava-Segal C, Kastner S, Chen Q, Parvizi J

Altered sense of self during seizures in the posteromedial cortex.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Parvizi J, Braga RM, Kucyi A, Veit MJ, Pinheiro-Chagas P, Perry C, Sava-Segal C, Zeineh M, van Staalduinen EK, Henderson JM, Markert M

Gender bias in academia: A lifetime problem that needs solutions.

Neuron

Llorens A, Tzovara A, Bellier L, Bhaya-Grossman I, Bidet-Caulet A, Chang WK, Cross ZR, Dominguez-Faus R, Flinker A, Fonken Y, Gorenstein MA, Holdgraf C, Hoy CW, Ivanova MV, Jimenez RT, Jun S, Kam JWY, Kidd C, Marcelle E, Marciano D, Martin S, Myers NE, Ojala K, Perry A, Pinheiro-Chagas P, Riès SK, Saez I, Skelin I, Slama K, Staveland B, Bassett DS, Buffalo EA, Fairhall AL, Kopell NJ, Kray LJ, Lin JJ, Nobre AC, Riley D, Solbakk AK, Wallis JD, Wang XJ, Yuval-Greenberg S, Kastner S, Knight RT, Dronkers NF

Track It to Crack It: Dissecting Processing Stages with Finger Tracking.

Trends in cognitive sciences

Dotan D, Pinheiro-Chagas P, Al Roumi F, Dehaene S

Response: Commentary: The Developmental Trajectory of the Operational Momentum Effect.

Frontiers in psychology

Didino D, Pinheiro-Chagas P, Wood G, Knops A

Brain Mechanisms of Arithmetic: A Crucial Role for Ventral Temporal Cortex.

Journal of cognitive neuroscience

Pinheiro-Chagas P, Daitch A, Parvizi J, Dehaene S

Decoding the processing stages of mental arithmetic with magnetoencephalography.

Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior

Pinheiro-Chagas P, Piazza M, Dehaene S

Processing number and length in the parietal cortex: Sharing resources, not a common code.

Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior

Borghesani V, de Hevia MD, Viarouge A, Pinheiro-Chagas P, Eger E, Piazza M

The Developmental Trajectory of the Operational Momentum Effect.

Frontiers in psychology

Pinheiro-Chagas P, Didino D, Haase VG, Wood G, Knops A

A Translational Framework of Educational Neuroscience in Learning Disorders.

Frontiers in integrative neuroscience

Dresler T, Bugden S, Gouet C, Lallier M, Oliveira DG, Pinheiro-Chagas P, Pires AC, Wang Y, Zugarramurdi C, Weissheimer J

Finger Tracking Reveals the Covert Stages of Mental Arithmetic.

Open mind : discoveries in cognitive science

Pinheiro-Chagas P, Dotan D, Piazza M, Dehaene S

In how many ways is the approximate number system associated with exact calculation?

PloS one

Pinheiro-Chagas P, Wood G, Knops A, Krinzinger H, Lonnemann J, Starling-Alves I, Willmes K, Haase VG

Are 22q11.2 distal deletions associated with math difficulties?

American journal of medical genetics. Part A

Carvalho MR, Vianna G, Oliveira Lde F, Costa AJ, Pinheiro-Chagas P, Sturzenecker R, Zen PR, Rosa RF, de Aguiar MJ, Haase VG

Contributions from specific and general factors to unique deficits: two cases of mathematics learning difficulties.

Frontiers in psychology

Haase VG, Júlio-Costa A, Lopes-Silva JB, Starling-Alves I, Antunes AM, Pinheiro-Chagas P, Wood G

Transcoding abilities in typical and atypical mathematics achievers: the role of working memory and procedural and lexical competencies.

Journal of experimental child psychology

Moura R, Wood G, Pinheiro-Chagas P, Lonnemann J, Krinzinger H, Willmes K, Haase VG