Giovanni Federico

The Influence of Spatial Frequencies, Orientation and Familiarity on Face Stimuli Integration

This paper investigates how spatial frequency and orientation affect face recognition, finding that holistic processing depends on task and familiarity, challenging the foundational role of low spatial frequency information.

The visual encoding of familiar and unfamiliar tools

This study shows that familiarity with tools affects how people visually explore them, with familiar tools leading to earlier and sustained attention on manipulative features.

The technical-reasoning network is recruited when people observe others make or teach how to make tools: An fMRI study

This study uses fMRI to show that the technical-reasoning network is activated when observing others make or teach tools, highlighting its role in social learning of technical content.

Shaping the physical world to our ends: The left PF technical-cognition area

The paper identifies a specific brain region, PF in the left parietal lobe, as central to technical-reasoning processes in physical problem-solving and its integration with social cognition.