Experimental Psychologist | PhD student in the Experimental Clinical Psychology Group at Julius-Maximilians-University, Würzburg | Part of the RTG 2660 on Approach-Avoidance | Interested in Fear Learning and Memory
Francesco Tortora
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What a great experience!
Glad to have taken part in this amazing symposium
#PUG2025
Had a great time at #PuG2026 in Heidelberg.
Honored to receive the Poster Prize from @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social , recognizing the work developed during my PhD within @rtg2660.bsky.social
Thanks to my supervisors @gamerlab.bsky.social and @martandreatta.bsky.social for the continous support.
Only a few days left until @pug2025.bsky.social – our symposium, organized together with @gamerlab.bsky.social 🧠⚡
🎤 Join us for exciting talks by: @ondrejzika.bsky.social @francescotortora.bsky.social @ldeserno.bsky.social @florianschlagenhauf
#PUG2025 #psychophysiology #reinforcementlearning
If you would like to learn more about the poster and my research, it will soon be available here:
www.dgps.de/fachgruppen/...
Stay tuned for more to come!
Francesco Tortora
Francesco Tortora
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Evidence for item-in-context cells in humans from
@humansingleneuron.bsky.social:
Distinct neuronal populations in the human brain combine content and context
Link: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@francescotortora.bsky.social focusses on dissecting contextual representations in human threat learning and memory in an immersive virtual reality setup (Poster Session 2, #573)
Die Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie e.V. (DGPs) ist eine Vereinigung der in Forschung und Lehre tätigen Psychologen und Psychologinnen. Die DGPs erstrebt die Förderung und Verbreitung der wissen...
…and @francescotortora.bsky.social showing his work on conjunctive and elemental processing during threat confrontation 👇
Ecem Tavacioglu
Francesco Tortora
Understanding how the brain represents experienced time and how representations of space and time are integrated to form episodic memories has been a goal of much neuroscientific research. In this Per...
Huge applause to @francescotortora.bsky.social for presenting our study “Gradual Extinction via US Intensity Reduction: a Translational Test of Fear Memory Updating in Humans” at #EMHFC2026 👏 Great teamwork, exciting study and results!
I had pleasure of co-organizing my very first symposium together with my supervisor @gamerlab.bsky.social.
A heartfelt thank you to all the amazing speakers @ondrejzika.bsky.social, @francescotortora.bsky.social, @ldeserno.bsky.social, @floriansch and participants for their contributions.
#PUG2025
On the left is a rabbit. On the right is an elephant. But guess what: They’re the *same image*, rotated 90°!
In @currentbiology.bsky.social, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I show how these images—known as “visual anagrams”—can help solve a longstanding problem in cognitive science. bit.ly/45BVnCZ
