MICHAEL PEREIRA

Researcher (INSERM)

Team M.Pereira

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Building : Bât. Michel Dubois

Office : C 103

Office: 1/076

michael.pereira@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr

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Research topics

We combine psychophysics, computational modeling and invasive electrophysiology to study the mechanisms that lead neurons in our brain to give rise to our perceptual experience of the world and the associated confidence or lack thereof. We are also interested in explaining how this mechanism dysfunctions, leading to hallucinations and doubt in psychiatric and neurological pathologies.

Methodologies: microelectrode recordings, local field potentials, EEG, fMRI, behavior, transcranial electrical stimulation (tES), computational modelling, machine learning.

Scientific disciplines

Cognitive neuroscience; Psychiatry

Curriculum vitae

From 10/2023 Researcher (CR) at the GIN / INSERM, Grenoble, FR
Studying subjective states, funded by an ERC Starting Grant https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/10107787
11/2019 – 09/2023 Postdoc at the LPNC / CNRS, Grenoble, FR Studying perceptual consciousness in the group of Dr. Nathan Faivre, funded by two postdoc grants http://p3.snf.ch/project-199251 and http://p3.snf.ch/project-187974.
3/2018 – 10/2019 Postdoc at LNCO / EPFL, Geneva CH; WVU, Morgantown, US
Coordinating DBS intraoperative recordings with Prof. Ali Rezai to study the neural correlates of perceptual consciousness in the laboratory of Pr. Olaf Blanke.
11/2012-01/2018 PhD in Brain-computer interfaces at EPFL, Lausanne, CH
Studying action monitoring in continuous motor tasks in the laboratory of Prof. José del R. Millàn. Research internships at UC Berkeley with Prof. Robert T. Knight
4/2010-4/2012 Research engineer at Sony Deutschland GmbH, DE
Machine learning and signal processing for speech and music.
9/2007 – 3/2010 Master in Communication Systems, EPFL, CH

Publications

Selected experimental work:

Pereira*, M., Faivre*, N., Bernasconi*, F., Brandmeir, N., Suffridge, J. E., Tran, K., Wang, S., Finomore, V., Konrad, P., Rezai, A., & Blanke, O. (2025). Subcortical correlates of consciousness with human single neuron recordings. eLife, 13, RP95272. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.95272

Goueytes, D., Stockart, F., Robin, A., Gyger, L., Rouy, M., Hoffmann, D., Minotti, L., Kahane, P., Pereira*, M., & Faivre*, N. (2025). Evidence accumulation in the pre-supplementary motor area and insula drives confidence and changes of mind. Nature Communications, 16(1), 6998. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-61744-8

Stockart, F., Msheik, R., Robin, A., Jurkovičová, L., Goueytes, D., Rouy, M., Mareček, R., Hoffmann, D., Mudrik, L., Roman, R., Brázdil, M., Minotti, L., Kahane, P., Pereira*, M., & Faivre*, N. (2024). Cortical evidence accumulation for perceptual experience occurs irrespective of reports. In press at Nature Communications https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.03.20.585198

Pereira, M., Megevand, P., Tan, M. X., Chang, W., Wang, S., Rezai, A., Seeck, M., Corniola, M., Momjian, S., Bernasconi, F., Blanke, O., & Faivre, N. (2021). Evidence accumulation relates to perceptual consciousness and monitoring. Nature Communications, 12(1), 3261. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23540-y

Pereira*, M., Faivre*, N., Iturrate*, I., Wirthlin, M., Serafini, L., Martin, S., Desvachez, A., Blanke, O., Van De Ville, D., & Millán, J. del R. (2020). Disentangling the origins of confidence in speeded perceptual judgments through multimodal imaging. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(15), 8382‑8390. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1918335117

Selected opinion and reviews:

Mazancieux*, A., Pereira*, M., Faivre, N., Mamassian, P., Moulin, C. J. A., & Souchay, C. (2023). Towards a common conceptual space for metacognition in perception and memory. Nature Reviews Psychology, 2(12), 751‑766. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44159-023-00245-1

Pereira, M., Perrin, D., & Faivre, N. (2022). A leaky evidence accumulation process for perceptual experience. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, S1364661322000614. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2022.03.003