Social and Affective Neuroscience

I am interested in empathy and simulative processes, and on their neural underpinnings. My research mostly focuses on using ERP to study how social cues conveyed by human faces, such as emotional expressions shapes empathy towards others’ emotional states. I am also interested in exploring, by using MEG/EEG hyperscanning, simulative processes of two interacting individuals in a context of vis-à-vis interactions. Preferential methods to study these aspects of empathy and simulative processes are techniques, such as the EEG and ERP as our main interest is to unravel the time-course of these processes and EEG/ERP method in the context of hyperscanning (e.g. recording EEG from two "interacting" subjects) to study social interaction during "real" interaction.