Objectives 

The aim of the LAI-ESTRA is twofold:

1. Understand how different social cues (gestures, interpersonal space, facial expression and gaze) are processed by individuals. This involves deciphering:

- How inner and instrumental gestures are processed according to the social context.

- How peripersonal space is represented, influences cognitive activity and modulates interpersonal distances depending on the social context.

- How facial expression and familiarity are processed and contribute to social interactions.

2.  Understand how individual’s emotional regulation abilities affect social interactive behaviours. This involves deciphering:

- How emotional regulation abilities relate to social abilities

- How stressful social situations lead to disruptions in emotional regulation processes

- How the physiological processes associated with emotional regulation develop across life in different social contexts. To understand whether these processes occur differently in individuals with high versus low emotional regulation capacity.

Some key outputs (in bold the LAI members):

Bartolo, A., Claisse, C., Gallo, F., Ott, L., Sampaio, A., & Nandrino, J. - L. (2019). Gestures convey different physiological responses when performed toward and away from the body. Scientific Reports, Sep. 6;9(1):12862.

Gallo, F., González-Villar, A., Ott, L., Sampaio, A., Nandrino, J. L., & Bartolo, A. (2024). Gender differences in the observation of gesture direction: a physiological study. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 23360.

Gigliotti, M-F, Coelho, P.S., Coutinho, J., & Coello, Y. (2021). Peripersonal space in social context is modulated by action reward, but differently in males and females. Psychological Research, 85, 181-194.

Gigliotti, M-F, Sampaio, A., Bartolo, A., Coello, Y. (2020). The combined effect of motor and social goals on the kinematics of object-directed motor action. Scientific Reports, 10, 6369.

Kluwe-Schiavon, B., De Zorzi, L., Meireles, J., Leite, J., Sequeira, H., & Carvalho, S. (2022). The psychological impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in Portugal: The role of personality traits and emotion regulation strategies. Plos one, 17(6), e0269496.

Lenglart, L., Cartaud, A., Quesque, F., Sampaio, A., & Coello, Y. (2023). Object coding in peripersonal space depends on object ownership. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 76(8), 1925-1939.

Lenglart, L., Roger, C., Sampaio, A., Coello, Y. (2025). Object ownership processing in peripersonal space: An EEG study. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 9, 1-13.  

Lenglart, L., Roger, C., Sampaio, A., Coello, Y. (2024). The role of object ownership on inhibition mechanisms in peripersonal space, Psychophysiology, 61(11), e14659.

Ramadas, L., Doba, K., Mesquita, A. R., Wawrziczny, É., & Nandrino, J. L. (2024). Role of emotion regulation and mentalizing in rejection sensitivity: The specific relationship to potentially psychologically traumatic events. Personality and Individual Differences, 218, 112461.

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Communications (poster or oral communications)

Bartolo, A., González-Villar, A., Sousa, A. I., Pereira, N., Tubío, M., Sampaio, S., Carracedo, A., Fernández-Prieto, M. (2019). Gestures Processing in Autism Spectrum Disorders. AETAPI congress, November 22nd, Valladolid (Spain).

Gallo, F., De Pellegrin, L., Gonzalez, A., Ott, L., Sampaio, A., Nandrino, J.-L., & Bartolo, A. (2024). The effect of the "mere presence" during gesture observation: a physiological study. 7th bi-annual Meeting of the European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (ESCAN) 22-25 May, Ghent (Belgium)

Gallo, F., Gonzalez, A., Ott, L., Sampaio, A., Nandrino, J.-L., & Bartolo, A. (2023). Physiological differences between men and women when observing gestures made towards and away from the body. 62ème congrès de la Société Française de Psychologie, 19-21 octobre - Université de Nîmes (France).

Gallo, F., Moreira, P., Gonzalez, A., Sampaio, A., & Bartolo, A. (2023). A neuroanatomical dissociation between Pantomime and Intransitive gestures is present when gesture direction is considered. European Workshop on Cognitive Neuropsychology, 22nd - 27th January (Bressanone, Italie).

Gallo, F., Moreira, P., Gonzalez, A., Sampaio, A., & Bartolo, A. (2023). fMRI study on Pantomime and Intransitive gestures performed Toward and Away from the body. Organization for Human Brain Mapping, July 22-26 (Montreal, Canada).

Gallo; F., Sousa, S. S., Moreira, P., Gonzalez, A., Sampaio, A., Bartolo, A. (2022). fMRI study on gestures toward and away from the body. 22nd meeting of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCOP), 29th August - 1st September, Lille (France).

Gigliotti, M.F., Soares Coelho, P., Coutinho, & Coello, Y. (2019, mars). The Social Dimension of Peripersonal Space: Action's reward and Gender effect on action space exploration and peripersonal space representation. ICPS, Paris, France.

Lenglart, L., Roger, C., Sampaio, A., & Coello, Y. (2023, Septembre). The interaction of object ownership and peripersonal space in inhibition control. 1rst Seing and Acting Workshop (SAW) , Coimbra, Portugal.

Lenglart, L., Roger, C., Sampaio, A., & Coello, Y. (2023, Juin). Object ownership interacts with peripersonal space in executive inhibition. 17th European Workshop on Imagery and Cognition (EWIC) , Cambridge, Royaume-Uni.

Lenglart, L., Cartaud, A., Quesque, F., Sampaio, A., & Coello, Y. (2022, Septembre). Objects coding in peripersonal space depends on object ownership. 22nd conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCOP) , Lille, France.

Lenglart, L. , Cartaud, A., Quesque, F., Sampaio, A., & Coello, Y. (2022, Juin). Peripersonal space representation and object's coding are influenced by objects ownership. International meeting of the Integrated Brain and Behavior Research Center (IBBRC) , Haïfa, Israël

Ramadas, L., Doba, K., Mesquita, A., Wawrziczny, E., and Nandrino, J-L. (2022). Psychological determinants of Rejection Sensitivity: the specific role of Emotion Regulation and Mentalizing. 17th European Congress of Psychology, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Ramadas, L., Doba, K., Mesquita, A., Wawrziczny, E., and Nandrino, J-L. (2023). Role of emotion regulation and mentalizing in rejection sensitivity: The specific relationship to potentially psychologically traumatic event. GREPACO, Louvain, Belgium.