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Dr. Ryssa Moffat is a Lecturer in the Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences at ETH Zürich. Her research focuses on social neuroscience, cognitive science, and behavioral psychology, with an emphasis on interpersonal alignment, movement synchrony, and embodied cognition. She employs advanced neuroimaging techniques like functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) to study neural mechanisms underlying social interactions, including dance coordination, peer influence, and human-robot interactions.
Her recent work explores how mutual gaze and movement synchrony enhance social perception and enjoyment, as well as the cortical responses to vocal emotions. She also investigates how children perceive and interact with robotic companions, emphasizing the role of sentience attribution in educational settings.
- Key Research Areas: Interpersonal synchrony, embodied cognition, social perception, fNIRS neuroimaging, human-robot interaction.
- Techniques: Mobile neuroimaging, behavioral experiments, mixed-methods analysis.
Ryssa's publications highlight trends in understanding implicit social coordination mechanisms and their neural underpinnings. She has contributed to studies on self-monitoring under peer observation, intergenerational synchrony, and the cognitive processing of vocal cues in emotion recognition.
