Our studies focus on the questions of how we perceive and represent our own body and the body of other persons, how this representation is implemented in the brain, and how we use bodily information in social interactions. Experimental methods include behavioural measurements and neuroscientific techniques (e.g. fMRI, eye-tracking).

Ongoing projects

• Development of self and other distinction with respect to actions and body parts via bodily illusion (rubber hand illusion, enfacement illusion)

• Relationship between sensorimotor integration and cognitive process (executive functions) in childhood with respect to typical and atypical development

• Emotional body language in social context

• Multisensory perception

Behavioral approach and avoidance: personality traits from affective neuroscience.

Ongoing projects

The spread of digital technologies transformed our life in information acquisition, lifestyle, education in recent decades. Social interactions are more and more mediated by online presence which have important implications on how people make sense of themselves, others and the world. The key scopes of our research are cybersafety and toxic behavior (harassment, cyberbullying), the emotional costs of overuse (stress, anxiety), identity formation and skills gap (digital literacy).

Ongoing projects

• Psychological approach of cyberbullying and sexting in adolescence and young adulthood

• The online activity and development of moral and social-emotional skills

• Problematic use of the Internet and social media

• Early screenmedia activity and coginitive development in preschool years

Ongoing projects

• Social cognition in children with corpus callosum agenesia (AgCC)

• Development of cognitive abilities in preterm children