ESCAN 2026
3 - 6 June 2026 | Rome, Italy
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Location: Catering Areas Department of Economics, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy Castro Laurenziano 9 – 00161 |
| 1:30pm - 1:45pm |
Welcome Coffee Location: Catering Areas |
| 7:00pm - 9:30pm |
Welcome Cocktail Location: Catering Areas |
| 10:00am - 10:30am |
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| 12:00pm - 2:00pm |
Lunch Break Location: Catering Areas |
P1: Poster session Location: Catering Areas The Brain and Body in Polluted vs. Pleasant Landscapes Music Curiosity in Autism: the Role of the Opioidergic System Facial mimicry as a skill - from emotion recognition capacity to autistic symptoms How it feels vs how it works: Perceived and experienced effectiveness of 16 emotion regulation strategies in daily life Decoding and predicting cognition using a dynamical systems approach Context-dependent engagement with climate messaging does change brain network configurations The interplay of defensive actions and subjective feelings in naturalistic settings Interpretable hierarchical RNNs for rs-fMRI: promise and limits of individualized brain dynamics Eyes wide open, responses shut down: arousal modulation of reinforcement learning in anhedonia How affective states become actions: a kinematic study Collective motivation and emotions as drivers of pro-environmental behaviors Individual differences in attachment predict perceptual biases in the Uncanny Valley. Midfrontal theta dynamics supporting adaptive adjustments to frustration Moderation of evaluative conditioning by emotional processing indicators Frequency-specific coupling of cerebellar TBS and tACS shapes motor cortical plasticity and response variability Learning behaviors through verbal versus nonverbal instructions – The power of language in overcoming conflict. The Liege Mind-Blanking Self-Report Scale: A novel questionnaire to study the heterogeneity of blank experiences in everyday life Biofeedback and autonomic regulation under stress Neural, behavioral and physiological responses to pleasant touch Who likes whom? Gender and Dyad Composition in the Liking Gap The influence of dimensional affective representations on age-related positivity effects in memory Temporal dynamics of multimodal social communication in young autistic children during naturalistic parent–child interaction Structural and connectivity alterations of the premotor cortex in autistic children: implications for affective motor impairments Pain in athletes: understanding its neural mechanisms to prevent overuse injury Pavlovian conditioning of perceptual neural responses. An fMRI study. Alcohol reshapes physiological adaptation and predicts cardioceptive precision in heart rate discrimination Age-Related differences in functional brain connectivity during simulated microgravity: An EEG Study Implicit emotional context modulates early visual processing of fearful faces during change detection: an ERP study Neuroelectric signatures of social evaluative conditioning – Learning socio-affective preferences toward unfamiliar individuals Cortical noise and neural variability: How FOOOF and IRASA indicators of aperiodic activity relate to fMRI variability measures The role of social buffering in pain expectancy learning What can meditative experience tell us about affective valence? A computational perspective on the determinants of affect Negative emotions disrupt associative memory for environmental narratives in children and individuals with high trait anxiety Moral Desensitization in Digital Contexts: Instagram exposure alters moral perception and emotional reactivity Facing emotional avatars: the role of task relevance on inhibitory control in virtual reality From five points to emotion: facial expression recognition from minimal displays Affect-control interactions: Post-error slowing is modulated by emotional words Thermosensory modulation of the hand shapes its spatial location The affective cost of being wrong: how disagreement and confidence shape belief updating The Memory experience gap (MEG) after a nap Theta transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation modulates oculomotor interference induced by politically conflicting representations in conservative individuals Interpersonal brain coherence in joint attention Residual emotion processing without awareness: behavioral and EEG evidence from hemianopia The links between stress, testosterone, self-other distinction, and empathy Reduced Motivation for Perspective-taking in Autism-Spectrum Disorder Hot weather, shifting minds: A multi-method approach to heat and social cognition Neurovascular and endocrine dynamics of motor plasticity insights from laparoscopic training Task-evoked changes in heart rate variability predict utilitarian choices in trolley-type moral dilemmas The cognitive construction of moral scenes: how visual working memory and impulsivity shape perspective and vividness in mental simulation The Interplay of Emotion and Metacontrol: Roles of Valence and Arousal Explainable AI reveals distributed grey matter patterns underlying alexithymia severity: a multivariate machine learning On the role of ancillary body movements in interpersonal synchronization during joint music making Embodied robot gaze cues enhance visual working memory more than symbolic arrows Impact of empathy for pain on prosocial disobedience: a causal investigation using non-invasive brain stimulation in civilians and military cadets Authenticity recognition of facial displays of emotion: an fMRI study using dynamic stimuli What switch costs between joint and individual action reveal about the structure of task representations Improving Executive Functions: Assessing the Impact of a Three-Week At-Home Cognitive Training on Mediofrontal Negativities in OCD Patients Inter-personal synchrony and therapeutic alliance in psychotherapy: an electroencephalography hyperscanning study Underlying processes of social decision-making in severe alcohol use disorder: an eye-tracking exploration How smiling shapes what we see: cross-category effects of Facial Feedback on visual awareness Investigating non-invasive vagus nerve stimulation effects on memory retrieval under stress Temporal dynamics and perceptual bases of social relevance in affective scenes Neural signatures of moral erosion in markets Tactile intersubjectivity: how social touch shapes physiological regulation in visually impaired infants Flow of affective information, physiological synchrony, and interindividual attraction within sender–perceiver dyads in a storytelling paradigm Computational Principles of ASD: from Neural Computation to Social Cognition The Terra Cognita Toolset - reverse navigation tool Effects of social presence on motivational, physiological and neural measures of empathy in a story-telling paradigm Model-based mind perception Crossmodal correspondences in the absence of direct visual input: Additive integration and speed-dependent modulation during motion occlusion Trust in Social Robots: Neuroimaging Insights on the Role of Morality in Human-Agent Interactions Ambulatory gait training with mobile EEG, a novel everyday-task scenario for neurocognitive and neuromotor performance training during perturbed treadmill walking Do dynamic resting-state fMRI features reflect current depressive symptom severity in Major Depressive Disorder? The persistence of interbrain synchrony in group interactions Altered oscillatory dynamics during food-related inhibition in women with obesity: Preliminary EEG findings Embodied encounters with cultural heritage: A neuro-physiological study Relationship between response time and sustained attention in junior medical students, utilizing sensorimotor reaction time measurements within a virtual model. Neural synchrony during audiovisual stimuli viewing: associations with child social well-being and parenting stress Empathic immunity: inflammatory responses in therapists across psychotherapy for depression The combination of physical exercise and slow-paced breathing on psychophysiological indices of compassion and pro-social behavior Toward integration: a cognitive-motivational perspective on extremism The role of empathy and theory of mind in the development of symptoms after witnessed trauma: an fMRI study Measuring and interpreting neurophysiological responses to affective touch in different cultural contexts: Findings from South Africa and the United Kingdom Oxytocinergic and opioidergic action and interaction during social and non-social reward processing in humans Revisiting socio-emotional and cognitive flexibility in autism through a predictive coding lens: evidence from behavioral and neuroimaging data Dissociation and schizotypy in synesthesia Using an fMRI film-viewing paradigm with experience sampling to investigate individual differences in dynamic emotional experience Categorical representation of the hand across skin types: a comparison between young and older adults Cognitive–affective influences on pain–motor dynamics: evidence from descending pain inhibition and corticospinal excitability The impact of realistic background noises on neurophysiological responses to speech, in a Virtual-Reality classroom Effort-Based Decision-Making in Adolescents With and Without Depression The impact of emotion regulation strategies on experiential and physiological responses to negative emotional videos Temporal Dynamics of the neural Processes underlying Donation Intention Understanding psychophysiological outcome responses in human Pavlovian fear conditioning through prediction-error analysis Interpersonal neural synchrony reflects stimulus locking, not listening engagement Cardio-visual integration of body images: An investigation of visual and heartbeat evoked potentials Getting by with a little help from others: social support regulates threat vigilance during stress The impact of everyday social support on pain experience From Appraisal Theory to Algorithmic Advice: Rethinking the Role of the Appraisal of Certainty in Incidental Emotion Effects on Decision-Making A systematic review of human avoidance learning: Cognition, computation, and methods Was the fruit tree behind me or beyond the river? Biological relevance shapes spatial reference frame use Effects of Simulated Microgravity in Elderly Women: Mapping Cortical Inhibition through Gamma-Band EEG as a Model for Aging Astronauts’ Brains Cue reactivity predicts individual differences in lifestyle Individual goals shape the processing of facial emotions and guide behavioral responses: a meta-analysis When Values Evoke Mixed affect: ambivalence as a moderator of value importance and Rrsk behavior Why does your haircut indicate how you are treated by others? Experienced discrimination and stress in young LGBTQ adults Concept-based explainability of EEG foundation models in social neuroscience “Less is more”: repeated tokens outperform multiple voices in adult lexical learning Decoding the neural signatures of empathy and Theory of Mind: A multivariate fMRI approach Altered interoceptive sensibility alongside intact cardiac interoceptive accuracy and insight: a case-control study in functional seizures and functional motor symptoms Empathy in sync: How Family Empathy relates to Interbrain Synchrony Brain and body signatures of food and alcohol stimuli processing Does acute heat exposure influence risky decision-making? The human amygdala: an elusive target no more? A non-invasive neuromodulation experiment using temporal interference Anosmia as a possible modifiable biomarker of cognitive resilience in normal aging Cortical oscillations reflect adaptive updating of internal reach-to-grasp models: a hd-eeg study In the search for meaningful patterns of brain activity to classify comorbidity risk. Task Wandering and digital multitasking in ADHD Cognitive disorders in adult patients in Ruse region, Bulgaria Auricular vagus nerve stimulation modulates cortical excitation–inhibition balance in aging: an aperiodic EEG dynamics study Does empathy modulate neural responses to experimentally induced pain in women with fibromyalgia? Action discrimination modulates both proactive and reactive cognitive control: electroencephalographic evidence on university students Reallocation of Bodily Attention during Pregnancy When the skin turns green: decoding the psychophysiology of envy The independent and combined roles of attentional and interpretative biases in aggression under provocation From inter-brain synchrony to scalable interventions: A relational neuroscience approach to parenting stress Impact of facial ambiguity on prosocial behaviour and moderation effects of induced empathy When mood meets affective message: how emotions influences destination memory The universal smile is person-specific The study of multisensory perception and social interaction in children Effects of musical instrument training on fluid intelligence and executive functions in healthy older adults: A systematic review and meta-analysis Embodied dynamics of emotion: spontaneous bodily movement patterns during emotional experiences Beyond nationality: how personal cultural values shape anthropomorphism towards robots in middle schoolers. Cognitive and neural correlates of inhibitory control in subclinical disordered eating Touch reciprocity in daily life: A pay-it-forward effect in close relationships The petrified body: A novel computational psychiatry approach to body belief precision-weighted updating in Anorexia Nervosa Impact of emotions on learning and memory-related brain processes across development: an application to environmental educational issues When resting still doesn’t tell you how well you stop: challenges in linking resting-state connectivity to SST behaviour Childhood Adversity and Reward–Stress Neurobiology of Resilience and Vulnerability in Depression Beyond action control: a systematic review unravelling the sense of agency in autism spectrum disorder Mapping the link between social anxiety and alcohol use disorder: a network analysis of emotion regulation difficulties Causal evidence for the neural underpinnings of subjective happiness Autonomic and electrophysiological adaptation to approaching social threat Behavioral contagion in social games: how others’ attitude shape our actions Responses of the Neurobiological Craving Signature to smoking versus alternative social rewards predict craving and monthly smoking in adolescents Drawing morphology across ages: developmental convergence with palaeolithic dalmeri painted stones Short-term audio-visual sensory deprivation induces internal-focus strategy together with cortical inhibition indexed by alpha and gamma EEG bands Social context and alcohol cues dynamically modulate inhibitory control in risky drinking via cortical and subcortical networks Effects of 5-session 4x1 high-definition transcranial direct current stimulation on neural and clinical outcomes in severe alcohol use disorder Autistic traits in typically developed adults are associated with reduced motor adaptation skills in a social context Mind games: Neurophysiological responses to (e)sports gambling ads among adolescents and adults Does being pro-ecological equate to being pro-social? An EEG study in adults The effects of physical synchrony on inter-brain synchrony during large group interactions Age differences in the neural implementation of feedback information to guide future behavior The Effects of a Four-Week Slow-Paced Breathing Training on Stress Levels in Adolescents The impact of single versus repeated bottom up experiential versus top down cognitive reappraisal: a process continuum? Prenatal androgen exposure and affective behavior: neural and behavioral findings from females with Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia Control of movement vigor during dyadic interpersonal interaction Eliciting repeatable stress responses in humans: development and validation of the Repeatable Social Stress Test (ReSST) Who benefits? Personality and mindfulness in education. Anxiety impacts the efficiency of implicit emotional regulation A Causal Account of the Neural Origins of Fatigue Sequential modulations of conflict effects are reflected by aperiodic exponent The interplay between maternal distress and cortico-limbic connectivity topography predicts adolescent depressive symptoms during the pandemic Aperiodic EEG activity indexes interference control during language processing: Evidence from classifier congruency Mapping the appraising brain: probing the neural representations of appraisals and emotions Memories of a stressful episode with varying time intervals Exercise intensity shapes brain–heart coupling: baroreceptor and respiratory influences on the Heart-Evoked Potential Neural processing of affective vocal instructions: an EEG study Shifting the Balance: Effects of Anodal tDCS on Aperiodic Activity and Metacontrol in Working Memory Metacontrol, atVNS, and learning: evidence from the differential outcomes effect Learning to control one’s FOOOF exponent: Modulating aperiodic neural activity through neurofeedback My space or ours? Interpersonal Coordination within or outside peripersonal space: An EEG Study of Joint Action Planning How authenticity beliefs shape emotional face processing: ERP evidence from real and AI-generated faces Predictive responses in the Theory of Mind network: A comparison of autistic and non-autistic adults The role of emotions and age in virtual reality based cognitive testing Culture and anthropomorphism in Human-Robot Interaction: a mixed quantitative approach. Long-term effects of early life stress on social touch motivation and social learning. Social exclusion in a virtual world: How sensory cues shape adolescents’ subjective and physiological responses. The role of task relevance in modulating behavioral responses to emotional facial expressions: a systematic review Transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation inhibits amygdala-mediated indices of stimulus-specific fear and facilitates responding to repeated exposure in phobic individuals State of social cognition research: challenges, future directions, and efforts toward consensus building Modulatory effects of transcranial direct current stimulation of the medial prefrontal cortex on depressive self-referential processing and cognitive biases Sensorimotor timing stability and selective attentional sensitivity to auditory violations Effects of transcranial direct current stimulation targeting the right temporoparietal junction on self-other control in schizophrenia Cognitive complaints and prefrontal haemodynamics in symptomatic late perimenopause Stress response to the emotional self-related stressor of shame and the modulatory role of early life stress and attachment style What is artificial intelligence to us? – Defining generative artificial intelligence’s social roles, a thematic analysis |
| 3:30pm - 4:00pm |
Tea Break Location: Catering Areas |
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Coffee Break Location: Catering Areas |
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| 12:15pm - 2:00pm |
Lunch Break Location: Catering Areas |
P2: Poster session Location: Catering Areas Reduced affective touch sensitivity in depersonalisation and the influence of respiratory phase The Effects of Psychosocial Stress in the Intrinsic Reward Elicited by Word Learning and its Impact on Memory Formation From beliefs to brain: attitudes toward intimate partner violence against women modulate neural response to violence Does conversation timing influence social bond formation? A hyperscanning study Voluntary thermoregulation can only be achieved via skeletal muscle activation Balancing inner and outer rhythms: Interoceptive regulation of self–other boundaries Exploration-exploitation dilemma in joint value-based decisions is driven by resistance to erratic randomness Behavioral and neural signatures of the joint Simon effect: Are its mechanisms equivalent to the standard Simon effect? Emotion regulation as protection against misinformation biasing brain responses and social judgments Stress-prospective memory interactions: challenges and future directions Not all theta is real: removing illusory induced oscillations with Woody filtering and single-trial regression Evaluative conditioning shapes affective face perception and approach responses: A behavioral and eye movement study Topographical effects of emotional dominance on readiness potential One molecule, one thousand noses - a study investigating variability in smell perception How environmental temperature reshapes your interpersonal space Neural and behavioral correlates of self-recognition across unedited and edited self-images Involvement of physiological reactivity and interoception in emotional experience: evidence from a traumatic brain injury (TBI) population Emotion suppression and the Cardiovascular Conundrum: Hemodynamic responses to Minority Stress in LGB individuals When harm comes from those we love: Neural evidence of moral conflict in the evaluation of gender-based violence. Impact of emotional and cognitive load on the expression of intersectional social biases during first-impression formation Interoceptive Trait Prediction Error mediates the placebo effect on fatigue: evidence supporting the Bayesian framework Core executive functions and cognitive emotion regulation among temperament based types in community-dwelling older adults Time and ethics: The Effects of Temporal-Discounting on Moral Conflict Decision Making Effect of expectancy and pain conditioning on muscle synergy composition and timing in healthy adults The lives of others: bias in neural response and costly information seeking about risks to life Neural Responses to Maternal vs. Unfamiliar Affective Touch: an fNIRS study among 10-month-old Infants Shared physiological markers of vicarious pain in humans and rodents Exploring anxiety-dependent responses to vagus nerve stimulation in probabilistic learning Functional brain connectivity in patients with chronic back pain strengthened after interdisciplinary multimodal pain therapy Effect of acoustic variability on novel word learning in children AIRCA: A robot-mediated social gaze training protocol for children with autism spectrum disorder One Capacity, Multiple Profiles: A Functional Framework for mechanistically mapping inhibitory Control Preliminary findings from the Italian validation of the Behavioral Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (BERQ) Phantom limb sensation and gaze behavior in upper-limb amputation: Shunning or persistent phantom limb behavior in the presence of obstacles The lonely body: a cross species systematic review of neural, cardiac, gastrointestinal, respiratory and inflammatory correlates of social isolation Embodied dynamics of empathy through listening: A multimodal dataset Association between sleepiness, sleep quality, and resting-state electroencephalographic markers in Parkinson’s disease participants Social anxiety shapes psycho-physiological and visual exploratory responses in emotionally connoted virtual environments Interpersonal neural synchrony in mother–father–child triads during a problem-solving task: associations with family profile. EEG Signatures of Sense of Agency: a Systematic Review Vagal stimulation optimizes the dynamics of multisensory affective integration Performance of serious videogames of SMARTME&YOU home telemonitoring platform is associated with cognitive and electroencephalographic biomarkers in Parkinson’s disease participants Location- and affordance-related cues in interactive gestures and objects elicit distinct spatiotemporal EEG responses Inhibitory control as a transdiagnostic deficit in disorders of motivation: a multilevel meta-analytic account Assessing the roles of belief attribution and perceptual cues in social brain responses to a robotic agent When being in synch backfires:context-dependent effects of physiological synchrony on reciprocity Higher-order models for fNIRS hyperscanning in complex and ecological interactions. Neural correlates of adolescents' trust in police: developmental and socio-economic status influences Visual event-related connectivity is more affected in Parkinson’s disease MCI than in amnestic MCI due to Alzheimer’s disease Anticipatory and consummatory responses to touch and food rewards in anorexia nervosa Changes of neural activity in major depressive disorder associated with cognitive behavioral therapy – A meta-analysis of longitudinal fMRI studies Inter-brain synchrony explains how joint action differs from acting side-by-side Understanding the attractiveness of human body odors: the link between perception and chemical composition When touch shapes space: neural bases of social and instrumental peripersonal space Resting Aperiodic Exponent χ as a Stable Individual Marker and Its Relation to Contextual Emotional Decisions and FAA A cross-cultural approach to future thinking across adulthood Spatial but not temporal orienting of attention enhances the temporal resolution of human vision. Hormone replacement therapy and adaptive brain functioning in postmenopausal women Dissociating subjective and neural markers of joint agency: Robot’s expression of intentionality enhances sensory attenuation but reduces subjective joint agency Enhancing action with a supernumerary robotic digit alters Which psychological processes support emotion regulation? A mechanistic fMRI approach The internal–ecological validity trade-off in social neuroscience: Lessons from autism Investigating social touch and peripersonal space in autistic adults through participatory research and multimodal measures in immersive virtual reality Boosting nature’s regulatory effects on emotion: An fMRI investigation of guided nature exposure Empathy accelerates subjective time perception, independent of physiology but not of visual attention Fear related human odour modulates affective sentence processing: a naturalistic multisensory study Inter-Brain Plasticity as a Neural Mechanism of Interpersonal Change in Psychotherapy How action shapes emotion: Subjective and physiological evidence Strengthening cognitive control to improve emotion regulation When the eyes disappear: neural dynamics of emotion recognition under eye occlusion Alpha and beta event-related synchronization (ERS) as a marker of self and other processing during finger tapping Emotional modulation of temporal density in natural grasping: a vision-based kinematic study The INTERACT project: A protocol for assessing neural and physiological correlates of social interaction in naturalistic task settings. How does existing friendship affect synchrony and pro-sociality? Heart rate dynamics and EEG correlates in Parkinson’s disease cognitive decline using wearable monitoring Is neuroscience challenged by a gender bias? Networks of the social brain. Connecting dog to human social brain function using comparative neuroimaging Thin-ideal glorification versus criticism: Effects on body image and affective responses among young women Sensorimotor cortex causally modulates pain empathy through interactions with anterior insula: A TMS-fMRI study The aversive action control task (aACT): Emotional modulation of continuous whole-body tracking in virtual reality Reduced inhibitory performance during the systolic but not the diastolic cardiac phase Understanding quality of life in Parkinson’s disease: contributions of social cognition and interpersonal relationships Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) of neural-behavioural dynamics during maternal cognitive load in naturalistic work-from-home environments Hemodynamic cortical correlates of critical game phases in mind sports: First insights from Go and chess The role of mood and effort on shifts toward approach motivation following exertion of self-control Triangulating Physiological and Neural Signatures of Sustained Attention to Social and Non-Social Stimuli in Toddlers Emotional valence influences memory distortion: a signal detection approach Monitoring vagal dynamics: a biomarker for cognitive effort in language comprehension. Comparing P300 visual ERP responses between Logopenic PPA, Posterior Cortical Atrophy and healthy controls State and trait anxiety modulate hemodynamic amygdala responses to innocuous auditory stimulation How does soft power work? Neural mechanisms of attraction-based influence Emotion regulation flexibility: strategies effectiveness depends on emotional situation characteristic and baseline HRV Evaluating body structural representation under affective touch Multi-methodological characterization of sleep deprivation: from standard EEG power spectra to aperiodic dynamics in humans and mice. Emotion regulation as a proactive buffer: behavioral and neural effects on subsequent stress responses Implicit expectations: neural evidence for reward pavlovian conditioning in the absence of stimulus-outcome contingency awareness Investigating approach/avoidance tendencies through a gait initiation task: An exploratory posturography study in male AUD patients More normative event segmentation is associated with more future-oriented choice Context matters: controllability and reward richness modulate willingness to exert effort Association among serious videogames of the SmartMe&You-TELEMAIA home telemonitoring platform, cognitive status and resting-state electroencephalographic markers in Alzheimer’s disease participants The Em-Body study: exploring the link between interoception, emotion, and mental health Action prediction and mu rhythm suppression: differences associated with autistic traits Emotion-specific neural spillover affects memory for subsequent stimuli Investigating the relationship between mental and embodied experiences in trait depersonalization Sadness-specific facial emotion recognition deficits in mild cognitive impairment relate to cortical thickness in the superior parietal cortex Nose tip temperature: a thermal marker of public speaking anxiety – evidence from two studies in an organizational setting Gender-related effects of simulated microgravity in the somatomotor network during long-term head-down bed rest Blurred lines or clear boundaries? Synchrony and social dominance shape domain-specific self–other processing Emotional attention dysregulation in insecure attachment style Approach-avoidance conflict modulates frontal lpp amplitude and alpha asymmetry The impact of virtual nature on stress buffering and recovery The whole-body dynamics of social threat avoidance in virtual reality Cognitive and Neural Bases of Expectancy and Uncertainty in Assessing Others’ Pain Against the male average: hierarchical drift diffusion modelling of sex judgments The E2 Atlas: A large-scale normative database of self-transcendent emotions in nature imagery Low affect sharing impairs observational fear learning: different roles for sympathetic and parasympathetic systems Spatiotemporal dynamics of social perception along an occipitotemporal visual stream When do discrete emotions matter? Emotion specificity and attentional effects beyond valence Body-odor cues shape social perception in human–human and human–robot interaction Face identity memory and emotion recognition in autism: evidence for shared processing mechanisms Emotional priming effects on secondary hyperalgesia development: A multimodal psychophysiological approach Bodies that change with pain after spinal cord injury Do hypomanic traits affect emotional interference control in a non-clinical sample ? Microscopic sensorimotor alterations in psychosis and chronic cannabis use Resting state EEG eigenvector centrality negatively correlates with math anxiety Decreased delta-band functional connectivity in posterior cortical atrophy during a visual oddball paradigm Entropy-Based EEG Metrics and Psychological Flexibility/Inflexibility in Aging: Preliminary Evidence from High-Density Recordings Neural basis of attentional deployment in affective forecasting of hypothetical medication outcome trade-offs Top-Down modulation of Interoception and Moral Behavior: A TMS Study on the right Anterior Insula and right TPJ The environmental sculpting of phenomenal experience and agentic action: Hierarchical inference dynamics underlying environment-induced wellbeing Neural Correlates of Self-Control Conflicts in social Interactions Embodied dishonesty in competitive Online Interactions – the Roll & Tell mobile application Exploring the sensorimotor system's role in emotion authenticity discrimination: a ccPAS study Differential fatigability of cognitive flexibility and cognitive stability over time-on-task? Neural adaptation to socio-emotional auditory stimuli in autistic children Gravitational manipulation shapes task-load–dependent Ownership and Agency during virtual tool-use Validation of a French-speaking video set to measure empathic accuracy and physiological synchrony during emotional sharing Feasibility of PIANO-Cog for older adults: A randomised controlled pilot trial exploring changes in cognition and brain microstructure Leveraging esketamine to enhance cognitive recovery in treatment-resistant depression: A framework integrating neuroplasticity and cognitive remediation Ingroup–outgroup dynamics of interpersonal coordination: group EEG hyperscanning beyond dyads Social learning of abstract concepts in middle childhood: a multimodal hyperscanning study of behavioural and neural dynamics Sustained Looking and Face-Region Biases to Emotional Faces in Elevated likelihood of atypical development/neurodevelopmental conditions META-MUSEUM: EEG, physiological and psychometric assessment of visitors’ experiences across European museums How should phenomenology guide the neuroscientific study of mixed emotional affect? Feeling the heart: Dynamic coupling between emotion and cardiac interoception in blindness Augmenting enhanced cognitive behavioral therapy with transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation in eating disorders: preliminary evidence from the DIGEST study Clear enough? Neural signatures of prototypical and subtle emotional Ffaces The combined effects of prefrontal tDCS and slow-paced breathing on stress reactivity, emotional reactivity, and emotion regulation Attentional and behavioral signatures of emotional flexibility in emotional eating: an Eye-Tracking study Searching for belonging: social exclusion and selective enhancement of visuospatial working memory for affiliative stimuli Do affective symptoms predict cognitive performance during remote neuropsychological assessment? Alignment in touch behaviours among romantic couples Reaching Distance Estimation as a novel Paradigm to measure Peripersonal Space Plasticity in Physical and Virtual Reality Brain activation differences in emotional perspective-taking between adolescents and adults ; an fMRI study Cognitive foundations of problem gambling: Early markers of gambling disorder Structural vulnerability of social cognition networks in alcohol use disorder: A meta-analysis of grey matter alterations Respiration phase modulates aversive responding and varies with generalised anxiety - initial evidence for altered respiratory allostasis in anxiety The role of reality monitoring in clinical and non-clinical dissociation Modulating gastric acidity to probe the psychophysiological signatures of disgust and pathogen-avoidance: a study protocol Modulation of reward prediction errors by negative emotion Interoceptive contribution to time perception in a cue combination framework Non-rapid eye movement sleep oscillations and memory consolidation in children with self-limited focal epilepsies of childhood Reduced efficiency in thermal homeostasis is linked to decreased body ownership and out-of-body experiences. When context shapes social understanding: developmental patterns in predictive processing from early adolescence to adulthood Negatively biased feedback impairs confidence in social judgments Can heartbeat-evoked potentials be separated from Cardiac Field Artefact (CFA) using beamforming? Navigating Frustration: Neural insights into emotion regulation mechanisms High-cost emotion regulation in excessive social media users: inflexible strategy selection and compensatory neural recruitment. When AI acts social: Processing costs reveal tension in agent representation Less money now, or more later? A Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) study of the angular gyrus and delay discounting The breathing mind: Respiratory phase-dependent brain oscillations and states of consciousness during sustained interoceptive attention Setting the stage: the influence of real-time vocal masculinity transformations on group decision-making The emotional effects of heartbeat-like vibrotactile stimulation of the chest Face Identity Recognition as an Endophenotype in Autism: Linking to Oxytocin Mechanisms From persons to objects: cognitive mechanisms underlying sexual objectification of women Childhood Adversity and Reward–Stress Neurobiology of Resilience and Vulnerability in Depression A multilevel model of perspective-taking and the self Developing a predictive coding task for social cognition: A tool for investigating individual differences in prior-sensory integration Why does social cognition resist modeling? From conceptual limitations to computational opportunities in social neuroscience Post-Traumatic clinical need as a guide for translational neurobiology Neuromodulation and context in PTSD pathogenesis: Modelling, simulation studies, Expert by Lived Experience feedback Visual and auditory Predictive Processing in Autistic and Schizotypal traits: A preregistered ERP study Periodic and aperiodic rsEEG markers in healthy elderly subjects and patients with mild cognitive impairment due to Alzheimer’s disease EEG correlates of social grouping: The time-course of integrating interacting bodies into a new whole Sensorimotor engagement within architecture dynamically shapes multisensory space representation: behavioral evidence and corticospinal probes. The effects of interoceptive attention modulation on the neural correlates of emotional perspective-taking: an EEG study EEG Markers of Cognitive Flexibility in Response to Misinformation Feedback Social approach–avoidance conflict: behavioral, emotional and neural correlates across depression and social anxiety symptoms |
| 3:30pm - 4:00pm |
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Lunch Break Location: Catering Areas |
P3: Poster session Location: Catering Areas Do bilateral saccadic eye movements enhance memory retrieval of emotion-related words? FOCAL tDCS TO THE LEFT DLPFC IMPROVES SOCIAL BELIEF UPDATING IN INDIVIDUALS WITH SOCIAL ANXIETY Graded motor recruitment in literal and metaphorical Language: an fMRI representational similarity study The answer is blowin’ in the brain: early oscillatory dynamics of moral decision-making I see you! Performer gaze conveys levels of acting during live performances The music of the skin: An objective quantification of the sounds produced by skins’ hydration Altered affective–attentional coupling in social touch perception after amputation Rhythm drives early auditory processing: evidence from an event-related potential study Impact of incidental anxiety and inter-individual strategies on Visuo-Spatial Perspective-Taking Robust circular cluster-based statistics for respiration-brain coupling Magnetoencephalographic mapping of cross-modal fear conditioning and generalization Multisensory reciprocity: Dissociating visual and auditory pathways to interpersonal coordination Probing the relationship between midfrontal theta oscillations and autonomic responses to errors and conflict during the Flanker task Awareness of developmental prosopagnosia counters the negative effects of facenormativity Sentience-like processes are revealed in low arousal by employing interoceptive stimulation Periodic and aperiodic electroencephalographic markers in Lewy body and Alzheimer’s diseases with cognitive decline Interoceptive integration modulates body representations in anorexia nervosa Schizotypal traits are associated with affective sound evaluation and increased thalamo-amygdala structural connectivity Independent effects of cardiac phase and spatial attention on early visual processing in humans Enhancing imagery rescripting for pathological guilt and disgust through non-invasive neuromodulation: a transdiagnostic study protocol Encoding others’ attention as an implied motion signal: A novel mechanism underlying implicit and explicit theory of mind (ToM) Deep-body correlates of gut feelings: gastric activity during emotional experience Neuromodulation of visceral signals and interoceptive neural representations: a systematic review Inside and out: how tactile stimulation and Heart Rate Variability impact autobiographical memory retrieval The influence of cardiac changes on error awareness and decision confidence in a perceptual judgment task START project: temporal dynamics of cognitive–motor integration under dual-task conditions in neurological populations Effects of Zen meditation on inhibitory control: An Electroencephalography study with experienced meditators and non-meditators Confidence updating of visual information gathering in difficult and costly situations "Can we Prime Disobedience?" The role of arousal and attentional narrowing in emotional memory trade-offs: links with individual differences Perceptual audiovisual inference in interpersonal motor contexts The plasticity of interoceptive grounding: how pregnancy modulates conceptual knowledge Respect my space: investigating interpersonal space and multisensory integration with autistic and social anxiety traits using fNIRS. Socioeconomic influences on vicarious reward processing across adolescence Social touch as an observer: Somatosensory processing during vicarious social touch perception Co-developing a novel computational modelling peer-feedback task for adolescent using Patient and Public Involvement An investigation of the somatosensory engagement during autonomous sensory meridian response: An ERP study Altered modulation of body perception and affect through movement sonification in individuals with depressive symptoms Do gender stereotypes shape emotion? Evidence from self-report and autonomic measures Seeing emotions through social categories: ethnicity and legal status shape emotion recognition in the context of migration Dissociating multisensory binding from socio-affective appraisal in a virtual kissing paradigm When other minds reshape agency perception: selective social updating of chasing judgments Enhancing Performance Monitoring abilities in Parkinson’s Disease through transcranial alternating current stimulation Sleep electroencephalography biomarkers as trait indicators across psychiatric disorders: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Neural correlates of rule-following Enhancing motivational drive: effects of transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation on reward-based behavior Modulation of auditory-sensorimotor brain connectivity in Autism Spectrum Disorder through music-based intervention: A crossover RCT Dogs are not for Eating: Attributing Affective Abilities to Animals Embodied attunement: Affective touch and inter-brain synchrony in mother-infant dyads Do negative Expectations become biologically embedded? 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