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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
| Insegnamento | Codice | Anno | Corso - Frequentare | Bacheca |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSICOLOGIA DEI PROCESSI EMOZIONALI - CORSO AVANZATO | 1052370 | 2023/2024 | ||
| AFFECTIVE NEUROSCIENCE ACROSS THE LIFESPAN | 1055053 | 2023/2024 | ||
| MEMORY - EYEWITNESS TESTIMONY AND EMOTION PSYCHOLOGY | 10605993 | 2023/2024 | ||
| AFFECTIVE NEUROSCIENCE ACROSS THE LIFESPAN | 1055053 | 2022/2023 | ||
| PSICOLOGIA DEI PROCESSI EMOZIONALI - CORSO AVANZATO | 1052370 | 2022/2023 | ||
| MEMORY - EYEWITNESS TESTIMONY AND EMOTION PSYCHOLOGY | 10605993 | 2022/2023 | ||
| PSICOLOGIA DEI PROCESSI EMOZIONALI - CORSO AVANZATO | 1052370 | 2021/2022 | ||
| AFFECTIVE NEUROSCIENCE ACROSS THE LIFESPAN | 1055053 | 2021/2022 | ||
| AFFECTIVE NEUROSCIENCE ACROSS THE LIFESPAN | 1055053 | 2020/2021 | ||
| PSICOLOGIA DEI PROCESSI EMOZIONALI - CORSO AVANZATO | 1052370 | 2020/2021 | ||
| AFFECTIVE NEUROSCIENCE ACROSS THE LIFESPAN | 1055053 | 2019/2020 | ||
| PSICOLOGIA DEI PROCESSI EMOZIONALI - CORSO AVANZATO | 1052370 | 2019/2020 | ||
| AFFECTIVE NEUROSCIENCE ACROSS THE LIFESPAN | 1055053 | 2017/2018 | ||
| PSICOLOGIA DEI PROCESSI EMOZIONALI - CORSO AVANZATO | 1052370 | 2017/2018 | ||
| PSICOLOGIA DEI PROCESSI EMOTIVI - CORSO AVANZATO | 1048034 | 2016/2017 | ||
| PSICOLOGIA GENERALE | 1023709 | 2016/2017 |
a fine lezione o previo appuntamento via email
https://corsidilaurea.uniroma1.it/it/users/annapecchinendauniroma1it
Posizioni accademiche:
2009-oggi: Professore associato, Dipartimento di Psicologia, Sapienza Università di Roma
2000-2009: Lecturer B (top of scale) at Department of Psychology, The University of Hull, Hull, U.K.
Pubblicazioni:
Salera C, Vallebella C, Iosa M, PECCHINENDA A. Implicit and Explicit Preferences for Golden Ratio. Symmetry. 2024; 16(3):333. https://doi.org/10.3390/sym16030333
PECCHINENDA, A., Yankouskaya, A., Boccia, M., Piccardi, L., Guariglia, C., & Giannini, A.M. (2024) Exploring the relationship between perceived loneliness and subjective cognitive decline in older individuals, Aging & Mental Health, 28:1, 73-82, DOI: 10.1080/13607863.2023.2242291
Chirico, I., Casagrande, M., Castelnuovo, G., Cammisuli, D.M., Della Vedova, A.M., Chattat, R. (2023). Clinical Psychology of Aging: the Italian Manifesto. Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology 11(2). https://doi.org/10.13129/2282-1619/mjcp-3730
Piccardi, L., PECCHINENDA, A., Palmiero, M., Giancola, M., Boccia, M., Giannini, A.M., Guariglia C. (2023) The contribution of being physically active to successful aging. Front Hum Neurosci. Nov 14;17:1274151. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2023.1274151.
Mirino P, Mercuri S, PECCHINENDA A, Boccia M, Piero AD, Soldani M and Guariglia C (2023). The Time Squares Sequences: a new task for assess visuospatial working memory. Front. Behav. Neurosci. 17:103. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2023.1165906
Strappini, F., Ben-Nun, A., & PECCHINENDA, A. (2023). A Comparative Study on Line Bisection and Landmark Task Performance Using a Hybrid Online Setting. Symmetry 15, 729. https://doi.org/10.3390/sym15030729
Salera, C., Boccia, M. & PECCHINENDA, A. (2023) Segregation of neural circuits involved in social gaze and non-social arrow cues: evidence from an activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis Neuropsychological Review, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11065-023-09593-4
PECCHINENDA, A. Pizzio, A.P.G., Salera, C. & Pazzaglia, M. (2022) The role of arousal and motivation in emotional conflict resolution: Implications for spinal cord injury. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 16, https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2022.927622
Pizzio, A.P.G., Yankouskaya, A., Alessandri, G. Loreto S. & PECCHINENDA, A. (2022). Social contacts and loneliness affect the own age bias for emotional faces. Scientific Reports 12, 16134 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-20220-9
PECCHINENDA, A. (2022). " Symmetry in Cognition and Emotion: Special Issue" Symmetry 14, no. 12: 2573. https://doi.org/10.3390/sym14122573
Sulpizio, V., Strappini, F., Fattori, P., Galati, G., Galletti, C., PECCHINENDA, A., & Pitzalis, S. (2022) The human middle temporal cortex responds to both active leg movements and egomotion-compatible visual motion. Brain Structure & Function. doi.org/10.1007/s00429-022-02549-z
Monachesi, B. & PECCHINENDA, A. (2022) Weaker inhibition after happy faces: Evidence from an attentional blink task with emotional and neutral faces, Motivation and Emotion 46, 535 545 doi.org/10.1007/s11031-022-09950-5
Leemhuis E, Giuffrida V, De Martino ML, Forte G, PECCHINENDA A, De Gennaro L, Giannini AM, Pazzaglia M. (2022) Rethinking the Body in the Brain after Spinal Cord Injury. Journal of Clinical Medicine, 11(2):388. doi.org/10.3390/jcm11020388
Mirino, P.; Pecchinenda, A.; Boccia, M.; Capirchio, A.; D Antonio, F.; Guariglia, C. (2022) Cerebellum-Cortical Interaction in Spatial Navigation and Its Alteration in Dementias. Brain Sci., 12, 523. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci12050523
Viviani, G., De Luca, F, Antonucci, A., Yankouskaya, A. & PECCHINENDA, A. (2021) It Is Not Always Positive: Emotional Bias in Young and Older Adults, Psychological Research. Oct 26. doi: 10.1007/s00426-021-01614-2. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34704157.
Strappini, F., Galati, G, & PECCHINENDA, A. (2021) A Systematic Review on the Interaction between Emotion and Pseudoneglect, Symmetry 13(8), 1531; doi.org/10.3390/sym13081531
PECCHINENDA, A., De Luca, F., Monachesi, B., Petrucci, M.; Pazzaglia, M., Doricchi, F., Lavidor, M. (2021) Contributions of the Right Prefrontal and Parietal Cortices to the Attentional Blink: A tDCS Study. Symmetry, 13(7), 1208; doi.org/10.3390/sym13071208
De Luca, F., Petrucci, M., Monachesi, B., Lavidor, M. & PECCHINENDA, A. (2020) Asymmetric Contributions of the Fronto-Parietal Network to Emotional Conflict in the Word Face Interference Task. Symmetry, 12(10), 1701; doi.org/10.3390/sym12101701
PECCHINENDA, A., Monachesi, B, & Laeng, B. (2020). Fearful expressions of rapidly presented hybrid-faces modulate the lag 1sparing in the attentional blink. Acta Psychologica, 209 (103124) doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2020.103124, current IF 2.031.
PECCHINENDA, A. & Petrucci, M. (2021). Emotion First: Children Prioritize Emotional Faces in Gaze-Cued Attentional Orienting. Psychological Research 85, 101 111. doi.org/10.1007/s00426-019-01237-8
Sdoia, S., Conversi, D. PECCHINENDA, A., & Ferlazzo, F. (2019) Access to consciousness of briefly presented visual events is modulated by transcranial direct current stimulation of left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, Scientific Reports. (SREP-18-22667) www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-47527-4
Tipples, J. & PECCHINENDA, A. (2018) A closer look at the size of the gaze-liking effect : A preregistered replication. Cognition and Emotion. doi: 10.1080/02699931.2018.1468732
Petrucci, M. & PECCHINENDA, A. (2018). Sparing and impairing: Emotion-induced modulation of the attentional blink and the extended sparing in a 3-targets RSVP task. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics. 80: 439-452, doi.org/10.3758/s13414-017-1470-y
Petrucci, M. & PECCHINENDA, A. (2017). The role of cognitive control mechanisms in selective attention towards emotional stimuli. Cognition and Emotion 31, 1480-1492, doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2016.1233861
PECCHINENDA, A. & Petrucci, M. (2016). Emotion unchained: facial expression modulates gaze cueing under cognitive load. PLoS ONE. 11(12): e0168111. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0168111
PECCHINENDA, A., Ferlazzo, F., & Lavidor, M. (2015). Modulation of selective attention by polarity-specific tDCS effects. Neuropsychologia, 68, p.1-7, doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2014.12.023
PECCHINENDA, A, Bertamini M, Makin A, & Ruta N (2014). The pleasantness of visual symmetry: Always, never or sometimes PLoS ONE 9(3): e92685, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0092685
Bertamini M, Makin A, & PECCHINENDA, A, (2013). Testing whether and when abstract symmetric patterns produce affective responses. PLoS ONE 8(7) e68403 doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0068403, JCR 2013 IF 3.534; 5 years IF 4.015; number of citations Scopus 13
Makin A, Rampone G, PECCHINENDA, A, & Bertamini M (2013) Electrophysiological responses to visual regularity. Psychophysiology, 50, 1045-1055. doi 10.1111/psyp.12082