{"id":3647,"date":"2019-02-25T12:10:29","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T12:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/affectivebrain.com\/?page_id=3647"},"modified":"2021-01-22T08:12:21","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T08:12:21","slug":"valentina-vellani-incoming-phd-student","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/affectivebrain.com\/?page_id=3647","title":{"rendered":"Valentina Vellani: PhD Student"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/affectivebrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Valentina_cropped.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3650\" width=\"268\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/affectivebrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Valentina_cropped.jpg 729w, https:\/\/affectivebrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Valentina_cropped-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/affectivebrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Valentina_cropped-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/affectivebrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Valentina_cropped-144x144.jpg 144w, https:\/\/affectivebrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Valentina_cropped-630x633.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 268px) 100vw, 268px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I am a second year PhD student in the Affective Brain Lab, supervised by Tali Sharot. I investigate how valence of information influences information processing using behavioral and pharmacological methods. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before starting the PhD, I obtained a Bachelor\u2019s degree in Psychology of Personality and a Master\u2019s degree in Cognitive Neuroscience at Padova University (Italy). I carried out my final project at Ulm University (Germany) where I investigated the neural substrates of anhedonia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Contacts<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Email: valentina.vellani.19[at]ucl.ac.uk<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Twitter:  @ValentinaVella9<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Pubblications<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Vellani, V<\/strong>., de Vries, L.P., Gaule, A., Sharot, T. (2020).&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/affectivebrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/elife-59152-v1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">A selective effect of dopamine on information-seeking.<\/a>&nbsp;<em>eLife,&nbsp;<\/em>9, e59152.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mattevi, A., Sorella, S., <strong>Vellani, V<\/strong>., Grecucci, A., (2019). Regulating Anger: which strategy? A preliminary study, <em>Italian Journal of Psychology<\/em>. <em>46<\/em>(4), 997-1010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a second year PhD student in the Affective Brain Lab, supervised by Tali Sharot. I investigate how valence of information influences information processing using behavioral and pharmacological methods. Before starting the PhD,&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/affectivebrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3647"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/affectivebrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/affectivebrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affectivebrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affectivebrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3647"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/affectivebrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6491,"href":"https:\/\/affectivebrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3647\/revisions\/6491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/affectivebrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}