Fatima Felisberti

I am a cognitive neuroscientist working on affective and perceptual processing underlying behaviours, imagination, mentalising, and aesthetic experiences. At the clinical level, my research is linked to how emotions and aesthetic experiences can be affected by physical and mental impairments in muscular dystrophy and dementia. I have PhDs in Biological Cybernetics (MPI, Germany) and Visual Neuroscience (USP, Brazil). My postdoctoral work was carried out at Nottingham, City, and Royal Holloway Universities in the UK. My early research in vision uncovered a unique form of extraocular photoreception in ants and beetles (funding: CNPq, FAPESP). My postdoctoral research on volatile anaesthetics and long-range brain interactions in the thalamus was funded by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Wellcome Trust, BBSRC and Royal Society). My most recent work on visual perception, mental imagery, non-invasive brain stimulation, and face recognition was supported by EPSRC and Marie Sklodowska Currie grants. Editorial boards (present): - Empirical Studies of the Arts - Perception/i-Perception Associate editor (past): - Journal of Alzheimer's Disease - Psychology & Neuroscience