Manuela Costa

Research Interest: neuronal oscillations related to emotional memory

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.es/citations?user=qtNV170AAAAJ&hl=es&oi=sra

“I am a postdoctoral researcher interested in how neuronal oscillations are related with emotional memory formation. In particular, at the Strange lab I’m focusing on how amygdala and hippocampal oscillations and their connectivity involved in emotional memory formation.

 I obtained my PhD at the Institute of Cognitive Science (CNRS) in Lyon where I studied animal and human social interactions with a special focus on normal and atypical mechanisms of trust. I employed eyetracking, behavioural and scalp EEg to study how social information are processed from faces.”

Education

PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience at Institut des Sciences Cognitives – Marc Jeannerod (CNRS), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 Lyon, France, Supervisors. Prof Angela Sirigu. September 2016.

  • PhD title: Social traits and facial information: Behavioral and neuronal evidence within the framework of phylogenetic and clinical studies

Master Degree in Philosophy (Mind and Cognition) at the University San Raffaele, Milan (Italy) Supervisors. Prof Claudia Bianchi and Dr. Nicola Canessa. Cum Laude. Jennuary 2013.

  • Dissertation: Forgiveness as an adaptive response: speech acts and neurological model.

Degree in Philosophy University of Palermo (Italy). Supervisor. Prof Francesco Lo Piparo. Cum Laude. December 2010.

  • Dissertation: “Consciousness and the body through Damasio’s theory of self”.

Publications

  1. Costa M, Lozano-Soldevilla D, Gil-Nagel A …, Strange BA (under review at Nature Communication). Aversive memory formation in humans is determined by an amygdala-hippocampus phase code. medRxiv, doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.09.06.21262859
  2. Gomez A, Lio G, Costa M, Sirigu A, Demily C. (2022). Dissociation of early and late face-related processes in Autism Spectrum Disorder and Williams syndrome . Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases, 17 (244). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13023-022-02395-6
  3. Costa M , Gomez A, Lio G; Demily C, Sirigu A (2020). Face first impression of trustworthiness in Williams Syndrome: Dissociating automatic vs decision based perception Cortex. 132, 99-112, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2020.07.015
  4. Costa, M., Barat, E., Gomez, A., Lio, G., Duhamel, JR., Sirigu, A. (2018) Implicit preference for human trustworthy faces in macaque monkeys. Nature communications 9(1),1-9
  5. Costa, M., Lio,G., Gomez, A., Sirigu, A. (2017). How components of facial width to height ratio differently contribute to the perception of social traits. PLoS ONE 12(2): e0172739. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0172739.
  6. Costa, M., (2016) Social traits and facial information: behavioral and neuronal evidence within the framework of phylogenetic and clinical studies. 2016. PhD Thesis. Université de Lyon. https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-01537794/document.
  7. Costa, M., Gomez, A., Lio, G., Demily, C., Sirigu, A. Face first impression of trustworthiness in Williams Syndrome: dissociating automatic vs decision based perception. Cortex. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2020.07.015
  8. Costa, M., Bianchi, C. Forgiveness as an adaptive response: Speech act theory and a neurological model. Under review at Phenomenology and the Cognitive Science.