Bastien Blain
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Bastien Blain

b.blain[at]ucl.ac.uk
PhD
Affective Brain Lab
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  I am  a research associate with a PhD in Economics at University College London in the Affective Brain Lab where I am working with Tali Sharot. 

  Before, I was working in the Rutledge lab with Robb Rutledge, on mood dynamics and their link with decision-making. I used computational models (e.g., mood models, reinforcement learning models), lab, smartphone and online data to study mood dynamics and their relation to decison-making. I notably showed that understanding the world may be more important for well-being than reward. 

 I prepared my PhD at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University under the co-supervision of Mathias Pessiglione and Guillaume Hollard. The topic of my research was the link between cognitive fatigue and decision-making: How does cognitive fatigue, occuring after several hours of cognitive work (e.g., a workday) alters economical decision making (e.g., the consumption-saving trade-off).

 Between 2013 and 2018, I was teaching a Master degree Neuroeconomics class (Eco&Psycho, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) since 2013. 

 I also worked as an associate consultant for Influence at Work. I am currently also a freelance consultant (for example, I worked with a global firm to tackle fare evasion in public transportation using behavioural and data science, I wrote reports about decision-making or cognitive fatigue for various companies). 



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​About Cognitive Fatigue

Cognitive fatigue has been studied for decades. It refers to the evolution of accuracy with time while one performs cognitive tasks (like when one uses working memory to recall a piece of information or when one switches between two tasks, e.g., between social media and the document one is working on).  
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Tools I have used​​


​To study Cognitive Fatigue, we are using different tools
  • ​Behavioural & data science
  • ​Neuroimagery: fMRI
  • Physiology: indirect calorimetry, ECG, Pupil dilation, etc. 
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