Faculty of the Department of Psychology and Social Sciences at John Cabot University, Rome, Italy

My research focuses on the psychological and neural mechanisms of Attention, Perception, and Mental Imagery.

At John Cabot University, I teach neuroscience courses ranging from introductory classes to advanced seminars. Before joining JCU, I spent eight years as a Lecturer in Discipline in the Department of Psychology at Columbia University in the City of New York, where I taught undergraduate and graduate courses and contributed to research and training in cognitive neuroscience.

How did I get here? After earning my Ph.D. in Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology from Sapienza University of Rome, I became interested in the neural basis of attention and cognitive control. During my postdoctoral training with Dr. Jin Fan at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Queens College (CUNY), I developed behavioral and neuroimaging paradigms to investigate attention as an integrated system supported by specialized brain networks.

What am I working on now? My current research investigates how the brain selects information from the external world and generates internal representations through mental imagery. Using behavioral and neuroimaging methods, I study the neural mechanisms that distinguish imagination from perception and examine how attentional processes operate across sensory modalities.