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.

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Publications

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2014

Sessa, P.; Meconi, F.; Han, S.

Double dissociation of neural responses supporting perceptual and cognitive components of social cognition: evidence from processing of others' pain Journal Article

In: Sci Rep, vol. 4, pp. 7424, 2014.

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Meconi, F.; Luria, R.; Sessa, P.

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.

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Sessa, P.; Meconi, F.; Castelli, L.; Dell'Acqua, R.

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.

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Palmieri, A.; Calvo, V.; Kleinbub, J. R.; Meconi, F.; Marangoni, M.; Barilaro, P.; Broggio, A.; Sambin, M.; Sessa, P.

"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.

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2013

Casiraghi, M.; Fortier-Gauthier, U.; Sessa, P.; Dell'Acqua, R.; Jolicœur, P.

N1pc reversal following repeated eccentric visual stimulation Journal Article

In: Psychophysiology, vol. 50, no. 4, pp. 351–364, 2013.

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2012

Sessa, P.; Tomelleri, S.; Luria, R.; Castelli, L.; Reynolds, M.; Dell'Acqua, R.

Look out for strangers! Sustained neural activity during visual working memory maintenance of other-race faces is modulated by implicit racial prejudice Journal Article

In: Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 314–321, 2012.

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2011

Sessa, P.; Luria, R.; Gotler, A.; Jolicœur, P.; Dell'Acqua, R.

Interhemispheric ERP asymmetries over inferior parietal cortex reveal differential visual working memory maintenance for fearful versus neutral facial identities Journal Article

In: Psychophysiology, vol. 48, no. 2, pp. 187–197, 2011.

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Cutini, S.; Scarpa, F.; Sessa, P.; Dell'Acqua, R.

Le tecniche di "neuroimaging" Book Chapter

In: Zennaro, A. (Ed.): Lo sviluppo della psicopatologia, pp. 86–108, Bologna: il Mulino, 2011.

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2010

Luria, R.; Sessa, P.; Gotler, A.; Jolicœur, P.; Dell'Acqua, R.

Visual short-term memory capacity for simple and complex objects Journal Article

In: J Cogn Neurosci, vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 496–512, 2010.

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Dell'Acqua, R.; Sessa, P.; Peressotti, F.; Mulatti, C.; Navarrete, E.; Grainger, J.

ERP evidence for ultra-fast semantic processing in the picture-word interference paradigm Journal Article

In: Front Psychol, vol. 1, pp. 177, 2010.

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