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Biografia/Biography
After obtaining the PhD at Sapienza University, I worked at the Université Laval (Canada), at Emory University (U.S.A.) and at Hull University (U.K.). At the end of 2009 I returned to Italy, at the Department of Psychology, Sapienza University, Rome.
Ricerca/Research
My research focuses on the interactions between attention and emotion. I study the mechanisms underlying selective attention under conditions of emotional conflict, that is when some emotional information is to be attended and other information is to be ignored. I use Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation to assess the contribution of brain areas involved in cognitive control and I am interested in changes that occur across the lifespan. Another line of research looks at how attention is oriented in space based on the observed direction of eye-gaze of another individual (e.g., gaze cueing). I am especially interested in disentangling the conditions under which gaze cueing is modulated by emotion and to what extent these effects rely on top-down mechanism. Recent work also looks at how attentional orienting based on eye-gaze changes across the lifespan from childhood to old age and to what extent it is affected by individual characteristics (i.e., loneliness). Finally, I study temporal selective attention to emotional faces and the effects of implicit contingencies on attention.
I am P.I. of the lab Affective Processes and Social Cognition/Processi Affettivi e Cognizione Sociale
Didattica/teaching sem 1 2024/2025
Courses
Psicologia Sperimentale delle Emozioni 6 CFU (3 +3)
Affective Neuroscience Across the Lifespan 6 CFU (3 +3)
Lezioni/Lectures: (attendance is "in person" only)
CdLM in Neuroscienze Cognitive e Riabilitazione Ppsicologica: Psicologia Sperimentale delle Emozioni
CdLM in Cognitive Neuroscience: Affective Neuroscience Across the Lifespan
Ricevimento/Office Hours:
Previo appuntamento da richiedere via email/ by requesting an appointment via email: anna.pecchinenda@uniroma1.it
By appointment only. Please email anna.pecchinenda@uniroma1.it