Silvia Corbera Lopez

Silvia Corbera Lopez is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychological Science at Central Connecticut State University. She leads the Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (SCAN-LAB), focused on understanding social cognitive processes like empathy, theory of mind, and facial affect recognition in healthy individuals and clinical populations (e.g., schizophrenia, autism).

• Research Focus: Behavioral and neural responses to emotionally loaded stimuli, developmental trajectories of social cognition, and cross-cultural validation of cognitive assessment tools.
• Publications: 15+ peer-reviewed articles (2025-2006) in journals like Schizophrenia Research, Translational Psychiatry, and BMC Psychology, with recent work on AI applications in psychosis assessment and excitation/inhibition ratio analysis.
• Lab: Director of SCAN-LAB, mentoring undergraduate/graduate researchers in clinical, experimental, and neuroscientific methods.