Who we are
Scientific supervisor:Ferrari Vera; Associate Professor, MPSI-01
Info and contacts: mail: vera.ferrari@unipr.it; tel. 0521-034946; cell. 3406664648
Affiliated Personnel:
- Ferrari Vera; Associate Professor, MPSI-01; vera.ferrari@unipr.it; tel. 0521-034946
- Canturi Francesca, PhD student in Neuroscience; francesca.canturi@studenti.unipr.it; tel. 0521-034946
Where we are
At the Neuroscience Unit, Basement Floor of the Integrated Bio-tech complex, Via Volturno 39, 43100 Parma
What we do
Main lines of research:
1) The role of experience and learning in regulating the interference of emotional distractors during specific cognitive tasks (goal-directed tasks)
2) Emotional memory: qualitative and quantitative aspects of memories with pleasant and unpleasant content.
3) Emotions across the life span: mechanisms of emotional regulation in old age.
Techniques in use:
The behavioral component (measures of cognitive performance such as reaction time and accuracy) is always accompanied by measurement of surface cortical activity (EEG) in order to detect event-related potentials (ERPs) and oscillatory bands (theta, alpha, beta, gamma) in response to sensory stimulation (visual and auditory) used to study the nature of cognitive and emotional processes. In addition to EEG activity, eye movements (voluntary and reflex saccades, fixations) are also studied during visual stimulus exploration as a probe of attentional and motivational processes.
Main instrumentation provided:
Electroencephalographic activity (64-channel recording system); eye activity (TOBII Eye Tracker 4C)
