Nicco Reggente

Lecturer
Primary Area: Cognitive Psychology
Phone: (856)-332-6358
Email: nicco@ucla.edu

Biography:

Nicco Reggente, Ph.D., is a cognitive neuroscientist and entrepreneur. He currently serves as the Research Director at the Institute for Advanced Consciousness Studies, a non-profit dedicated to democratizing non-ordinary states of consciousness. His work integrates meditation, aesthetic chills, and “technodelics” with neuroimaging, neurofeedback, and machine learning techniques to cultivate personalized experiences that promote well-being and facilitate adaptive belief updating. His past work includes enriching human memory with virtual reality as well as predicting treatment trajectories with prognostic neuroimaging. Nicco is also a lecturer in functional neuroimaging at his alma mater, UCLA.

Representative Publications:

Reggente, N., Kothe, C., Brandmeyer, T., Hanada, G., Simonian, N., Mullen, S, Mullen, T. (2024; In Press). Decoding Depth of Meditation: EEG Insights from Expert Vipassana Practitioners. Biological Psychiatry: Global Open Science

Schoeller, F., Christov-Moore, L., Lynch, C., Diot, T., & Reggente, N. (2024). Predicting individual differences in peak emotional response. PNAS nexus, 3(3), pgae066.

Schoeller, F., Jain, A., Pizzagalli, D. A., & Reggente, N. (2024). The neurobiology of aesthetic chills: How bodily sensations shape emotional experiences. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 1-14.

Schoeller, F., Jain, A., Adrien, V., Maes, P., & Reggente, N. (2024). Aesthetic chills mitigate maladaptive cognition in depression. BMC psychiatry, 24(1), 40.

Reggente, N., Moody, T. D., Morfini, F., Sheen, C., Rissman, J., O’Neill, J., & Feusner, J. D. (2018). Multivariate resting-state functional connectivity predicts response to cognitive behavioral therapy in obsessive–compulsive disorder. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 201716686.

Reggente, N., Essoe, J. K., Baek, H. Y., & Rissman, J. (2020). The method of loci in virtual reality: explicit binding of objects to spatial contexts enhances subsequent memory recall. Journal of Cognitive Enhancement, 4(1), 12-30.

Reggente, N., Essoe, J. K. Y., Aghajan, Z. M., Tavakoli, A. V., McGuire, J. F., Suthana, N. A., & Rissman, J. (2018). Enhancing the ecological validity of fMRI memory research using virtual reality. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 12, 408.

Reggente, N. (2023). Virtual Reality for Cognition and Memory; Chapter 8: Virtual Reality in Behavioral Neuroscience: New Insights and Methods. In: Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/7854_2023_425

Zheng, Z. S., Reggente, N., Lutkenhoff, E., Owen, A. M., & Monti, M. M. (2017). Disentangling disorders of consciousness: Insights from diffusion tensor imaging and machine learning. Human brain mapping, 38(1), 431-443.

Christov-Moore, L., Reggente, N., Vaccaro, A., Schoeller, F., Pluimer, B., Douglas, P. K., … & Kaplan, J. T. (2023). Preventing antisocial robots: A pathway to artificial empathy. Science Robotics, 8(80), eabq3658.