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Vera Ferrari serves as an Associate Professor within the Department of Medicine and Surgery at the University of Parma's School of Medicine, where she has maintained continuous teaching appointments from the 2013/2014 through 2025/2026 academic years. Her instructional responsibilities span multiple degree programs including the Master's in Psychobiology and Cognitive Neuroscience, Bachelor's in Psychological Sciences and Techniques, and the integrated Medicine and Surgery program, with core courses covering Cognition, Psychology of Emotions, and General Psychology across undergraduate and graduate levels.
Her research program centers on the neural and behavioral mechanisms of emotional processing, with particular emphasis on attentional capture, affective habituation, and ERP correlates of emotional stimuli. Through controlled experiments involving visual distractors and emotional picture perception, she investigates how novelty, context, and repetition modulate cognitive interference and electrocortical responses. This work bridges cognitive psychology with neurophysiological measurement to elucidate fundamental emotion-cognition interactions.
Analysis of her 15 most recent publications (2017-2025) reveals a cohesive trajectory examining behavioral and neural markers of emotional processing, with growing focus on alpha-band oscillations and contextual modulation of attentional capture. Her review articles on repetition effects in emotional scene processing and alpha oscillations demonstrate scholarly synthesis capabilities alongside empirical contributions.
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As the designated reference teacher for the Master's program in Psychobiology and Cognitive Neuroscience, Dr. Ferrari maintains active mentorship responsibilities, though specific student names or grant funding details were not disclosed in the available texts. Her departmental affiliation within Medicine and Surgery reflects the integrated nature of cognitive neuroscience research in European medical academic structures.
