Neuropsychologist and researcher, his work focuses on various methods, such as brain imagery, non-invasive neurostimulation and virtual reality to study the physiological and neurophysiological markers of social cognition as well as factors potentially modulating human empathy. The most recent developments from his laboratory are from research on neurophysiological markers during human-machine interaction, specifically on virtual agents expressing emotions.

Keywords

empathy, pain, neuroscience, technological environment, emotions

Recent publications

• Objective Social Isolation Predicts Perspective-Taking and Empathic Concern
• Reproducing age and sex biases in perceived pain intensity and prosocial behaviors using digital characters
• Physical characteristics of digital characters influence group categorization and recognition of affective states

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