Pedro Pinheiro-Chagas, PhD
Assistant Professor
Neurology
School of Medicine

His research program aims at understanding how these systems develop and decline and how we can help.

He combine machine learning, computational modelling, 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 use intracranial electrical stimulation to modulate brain activity and behavior.

Recently, his team has been advancing the development of sophisticated artificial intelligence (AI)-driven models designed to predict and characterize neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative conditions, ultimately aiding in their diagnosis.

• Preschool language and visuospatial skills respectively predict multiplication and addition/subtraction skills in middle school children.
  Developmental science 2022 Guez A, Piazza M, Pinheiro-Chagas P, Peyre H, Heude B, Ramus F
• Direct intracranial recordings in the human angular gyrus during arithmetic processing.
  Brain structure & function 2022 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 2022 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 2021 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 2021 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 2021 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,…
• Track It to Crack It: Dissecting Processing Stages with Finger Tracking.
  Trends in cognitive sciences 2019 Dotan D, Pinheiro-Chagas P, Al Roumi F, Dehaene S
• Response: Commentary: The Developmental Trajectory of the Operational Momentum Effect.
  Frontiers in psychology 2019 Didino D, Pinheiro-Chagas P, Wood G, Knops A
• Brain Mechanisms of Arithmetic: A Crucial Role for Ventral Temporal Cortex.
  Journal of cognitive neuroscience 2018 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 2018 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 2018 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 2018 Pinheiro-Chagas P, Didino D, Haase VG, Wood G, Knops A
• A Translational Framework of Educational Neuroscience in Learning Disorders.
  Frontiers in integrative neuroscience 2018 Dresler T, Bugden S, Gouet C, Lallier M, Oliveira DG, Pinheiro-Chagas P, Pires AC, Wang Y, Zugarramurdi C, Weissheimer J
• Neuronal Population Responses in the Human Ventral Temporal and Lateral Parietal Cortex during Arithmetic Processing with Digits and Number Words.
  Journal of cognitive neuroscience 2018 Baek S, Daitch AL, Pinheiro-Chagas P, Parvizi J
• Finger Tracking Reveals the Covert Stages of Mental Arithmetic.
  Open mind : discoveries in cognitive science 2017 Pinheiro-Chagas P, Dotan D, Piazza M, Dehaene S
• In how many ways is the approximate number system associated with exact calculation?
  PloS one 2014 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 2014 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 2014 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 2013 Moura R, Wood G, Pinheiro-Chagas P, Lonnemann J, Krinzinger H, Willmes K, Haase VG