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Senior Researcher in Cognitive Sciences at the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies of the Italian National Research Council (ISTC-CNR).
Coordinator of the Language, Cognition, Emotion and mental health (LaCE) lab @IST-CNR
Selected publications
Barca, L., Diana, S.M., Duarte, D.C. et al. (2026). Interoceptive grounding of conceptual knowledge: new insight from an interoceptive-exteroceptive categorization task of concepts. Psychological Research, 90, 13. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-025-02155-8
Barca, L., Maisto, D., Pezzulo, G. (2023). Modeling and controlling the body in maladaptive ways: an Active Inference perspective on non-suicidal self-injuries behaviors. Neuroscience of Consciousness, 2023 (1), https://doi.org/10.1093/nc/niad025
Tschantz, A., Barca, L., Maisto, D., Buckley, C.L., Seth, A.K., Pezzulo, G. (2022). Simulating homeostatic, allostatic and goal-directed forms of interoceptive control using Active Inference. Biological Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2022.108266
Barca, L., Pezzulo, G., (2020). Keep your interoceptive streams under control: an active inference perspective on Anorexia Nervosa. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 20, 427-440.
Iodice, P., Porciello, G., Barca, L., Bufalari, I., Pezzulo, G. (2019). An interoceptive illusion of effort. PNAS, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1821032116
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