A few months into the COVID-19 pandemic, we now know that smell and taste loss are the predominant neurological manifestations of COVID-19. They appear in otherwise asymptomatic individuals, they characterize the acute phase of the disease and we are only starting to understand how smell and taste recover and in which time frame.
Social, sensory and motor aspects of ASD.
Humans communicate through body odors much more than what they think possible.
The Cinderella sense and what it can tell about how we understand and navigate the world.
We use our hands and arms countless times every day – skillfully, yet effortlessly. By using the upper limbs as a model system and combining behavioral, perceptual, and cognitive tasks I have been able to uncover how the senses influence motor control in both healthy participants and special populations (see my work on autism, multiple sclerosis, head trauma, and Parkinson’s Disease).
Sociality has a crucial adaptive value. My research uses behavioral, perceptual, psychophysiological, neurophysiological techniques as tools to uncover the functions and mechanisms of human social function.
Starting from perceptual illusions (see my work on the numbness illusion) and multisensory integration (see my work on the visuo-olfactory affective matching) to analyzing the olfactory impact of female intra-sexual competition, spanning from moral decisions to the development of political attitudes political attitudes my work focuses on understanding how we process social information and regulate dyadic behavior through sensory, cognitive, affective and motor information.