Research Areas
I have a strong background in cognitive sciences and neuroscience and in particular I have dealt with attention in the temporal dimension and visual working memory.
Currently, my “scientific” goal is to understand the role of the observer’s sensorimotor representations during the processing of facial expressions of others, an open question in the literature, which finds great supporters and equally great detractors.
I am also interested in the neural correlates of conscious processing of faces and facial expressions.
Selected Publications
Publications
2014
In: Sci Rep, vol. 4, pp. 7424, 2014.
Individual differences in anxiety predict neural measures of visual working memory for untrustworthy faces Journal Article
In: Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci, vol. 9, no. 12, pp. 1872–1879, 2014.
Taking one's time in feeling other-race pain: An event-related potential investigation on the time-course of cross-racial empathy Journal Article
In: Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 454–463, 2014.
"Reality" of near-death-experience memories: Evidence from a psychodynamic and electrophysiological integrated study. Journal Article
In: Front Hum Neurosci, vol. 8, pp. 429, 2014.
2013
N1pc reversal following repeated eccentric visual stimulation Journal Article
In: Psychophysiology, vol. 50, no. 4, pp. 351–364, 2013.
2012
In: Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 314–321, 2012.
2011
In: Psychophysiology, vol. 48, no. 2, pp. 187–197, 2011.
Le tecniche di "neuroimaging" Book Chapter
In: Zennaro, A. (Ed.): Lo sviluppo della psicopatologia, pp. 86–108, Bologna: il Mulino, 2011.
2010
Visual short-term memory capacity for simple and complex objects Journal Article
In: J Cogn Neurosci, vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 496–512, 2010.
ERP evidence for ultra-fast semantic processing in the picture-word interference paradigm Journal Article
In: Front Psychol, vol. 1, pp. 177, 2010.