A5017053454- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
- Face Recognition and Perception
- Eating Disorders and Behaviors
- EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
- Neural dynamics and brain function
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Visual perception and processing mechanisms
- Stress Responses and Cortisol
- Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Infrared Thermography in Medicine
- Speech and Audio Processing
- Cognitive Abilities and Testing
- Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
- Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
- Bipolar Disorder and Treatment
- Cultural Differences and Values
- Aesthetic Perception and Analysis
- Resilience and Mental Health
- Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
- Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research
- Leadership, Courage, and Heroism Studies
- Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies
University of Trento
2021-2025
Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati
2024
Sapienza University of Rome
2018-2021
Fondazione Santa Lucia
2018
Istituti di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico
2018
Previous morphometric studies of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) reported inconsistent alterations in cortical and subcortical areas. However, these have investigated the brain at voxel level using mass univariate methods or region interest approaches, which are subject to several artifacts do not enable detection more complex patterns structural that may separate BPD from other clinical populations healthy controls (HC). Multiple Kernel Learning (MKL) is a whole-brain multivariate...
Abstract A converging body of behavioural findings supports the hypothesis that dispositional use emotion regulation (ER) strategies depends on trait emotional intelligence (trait EI) levels. Unfortunately, neuroscientific investigations such relationship are missing. To fill this gap, we analysed measures and resting state data from 79 healthy participants to investigate whether EI ER processes associated similar neural circuits. An unsupervised machine learning approach (independent...
Abstract The concept of emotional intelligence (EI) refers to the ability recognize and regulate emotions appropriately guide cognition behaviour. Unfortunately, studies on neural bases EI are scant, no study so far has exhaustively investigated grey matter (GM) white (WM) contributions it. To fill this gap, we analysed trait measure structural MRI data from 128 healthy participants shed new light where how is encoded in brain. In addition, explored relationship between substrates anxiety. A...
Processing eye-gaze and aligning one’s own attention with the gaze direction of others (gaze following) is a crucial ability it underpins several cognitive affective mechanisms. However, we know little about how this following operates in realistic scenarios adults. The present study addresses gap by presenting naturalistic scenes, which models were portrayed centrally or peripherally (7°), their eye directed straight ahead, averted towards an object (valid cue) away from (invalid cue),...
The N2pc is widely employed as an electrophysiological marker of attention allocation. This interpretation was largely driven by the observation elicited isolated relevant target object, which reported Experiment 2 in Eimer (1996). All subsequent refined interpretations had to take this crucial finding into account. Despite its central role for neurocognitive research, there have been no direct replications and only few conceptual seminal work. Within context #EEGManyLabs, international...
The N2pc is widely employed as an electrophysiological marker of attention allocation. This interpretation was largely driven by the observation elicited isolated relevant target object, which reported Experiment 2 in Eimer (1996). All subsequent refined interpretations had to take this crucial finding into account. Despite its central role for neurocognitive research, there have been no direct replications and only few conceptual seminal work. Within context #EEGManyLabs, international...
The N2pc is widely employed as an electrophysiological marker of attention allocation. This interpretation was largely driven by the observation elicited isolated relevant target object, which reported Experiment 2 in Eimer (1996). All subsequent refined interpretations had to take this crucial finding into account. Despite its central role for neurocognitive research, there have been no direct replications and only few conceptual seminal work. Within context #EEGManyLabs, international...
Recent studies have shown that sympathetic nervous system (SNS) activity can be heavily impacted not only by basic threats to survival but also social bonds. In this study we explored the behavioral and physiological consequences of exclusion/inclusion in patients with psoriasis, a disease frequently associated experience being ostracized deficient emotion regulation skills. We employed virtual ball-tossing game (Cyberball) induce exclusion/inclusion. then used Trust Game measure effects...
Female Sexual Objectification refers to perceiving and treating women based on their body appearance. This phenomenon may serve as a precursor for dysfunctional behaviors, particularly among females prone self-objectification experiencing shame emotions. Understanding this challenging trajectory by disclosing its neural consequences be crucial comprehending extreme psychopathological outcomes. However, investigations in sense are still scarce. The present study explores the correlates of...
Abstract Sexual objectification and the interiorized objectifying gaze (self-objectification) are dangerous phenomena for women’s psychological wellness. However, their specific effects on socio-affective reactions still poorly understood, neural activity has never been explored before. In present study, we investigated emotional electrophysiological responses during simulated computer-based social interactions, examined consequent punishing behaviours towards perpetrator using ultimatum...
The AB refers to the performance impairment that occurs when visual selective attention is overloaded through very rapid succession of two targets (T1 and T2) among distractors by using serial presentation task (RSVP). Under these conditions, typically impaired T2 presented within 200–500 ms from T1 (AB). Based on neuroimaging studies suggesting a role top-down working memory brain hubs in AB, here we potentiated via anodal or sham tDCS activity right DLPFC (F4) PPC (P4) during an task....
Sexually objectified women are perceived as dehumanized. This may affect the behavioral and neural responses underlying observer's empathic reactions for their physical pain, although this hypothesis still lacks empirical support. In present study, we measured electrophysiological activity of 30 participants (14 females 16 males), in an empathy pain paradigm which pictures sexualized non-sexualized were presented painful non-painful situations. The results revealed that evaluated...
The fronto-parietal network is involved in top-down and bottom-up processes necessary to achieve cognitive control. We investigated the role of asymmetric enhancement left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (lDLPFC) right posterior parietal (rPPC) control under conditions emotional conflict arising from distractors. effects anodal tDCS over lDLPFC/cathodal rPPC rPPC/cathodal lDLPFC were compared sham a double-blind design. findings showed that stimulation reduced interference distractors, but...
Sexual objectification - perceiving or treating a woman as sexual object is widespread phenomenon. Studies on and its consequences have grown dramatically over the last decades covering multiple diverse areas of research. However, research studying might limited internal external validity due to lack controlled standardized picture database. Moreover, there need extend this other fields including study emotions. Therefore, in paper we introduce SOBEM Database, free tool consisting 280...
In daily interactions, emotions are frequently conveyed and triggered through verbal exchanges. Sometimes, we must modulate our emotional reactions to align with societal norms. Among the words, taboo words represent a specific category that has been poorly studied. One intriguing question is whether these word categories can be predicted from EEG responses use of machine learning methods. To address this question, Support Vector Machine (SVM) was applied decode Event Related Potential (ERP)...
Abstract In two experiments using a Rapid Serial Visual Presentation (RSVP) we investigated how emotional and neutral faces (T1) modulate temporal attention for following face (T2). Typically, performance T2 is spared when immediately follows T1 (lag 1 sparing) but it impaired presented within 500 ms from (Attentional Blink). Experiment shows shorter attentional blink happy faces, relative to sad which did not differ. 2 lag sparing only after T1s, angry or greater T1-faces, compared...
In the emotion regulation literature, amount of neuroimaging studies on cognitive reappraisal led impression that same top-down, control-related neural mechanisms characterize all strategies. However, top-down processes may coexist with more bottom-up and emotion-focused partially bypass recruitment executive functions. A case in point is acceptance-based To better understand commonalities differences behind different strategies, present study we applied a meta-analytic method to fMRI...
Acceptance is an adaptive emotion regulation strategy characterized by open and non-judgmental attitude toward mental sensory experiences. While a few studies have investigated the neural correlates of acceptance in task-based fMRI studies, gap remains scientific literature dispositional use acceptance, how this sedimented at structural level. Therefore, aim present study to investigate psychological differences between infrequent users (i.e., low accepters) frequent high accepters). Another...