Irene Sperandio

The paper investigates whether physiological responses to emotional faces require conscious recognition, finding subconscious responses to fearful and happy faces and links to social traits.

The paper investigates how empathy for physical pain is influenced by autobiographical memory reactivation and perspective taking, finding that AM reactivation supports empathy when direct experience is lacking.

The paper investigates how size constancy emerges in human visual cortex by manipulating real viewing distance and using EEG, finding it takes about 150 ms to develop after visual signals reach V1.