Invited Speakers

Johanna Kissler

Johanna Kissler is a Professor of Psychology at Bielefeld University in Bielefeld, Germany. She studies various aspects of social cognitive and affective processing in humans, often using neuropsychology and neuroscience methods. One particular focus of her work is the role of emotion in language and word processing. In this context, her group has shown that emotional words are processed relatively automatically, outside of the focus of voluntary attention and that they are accessed faster and remembered better than neutral words. Ongoing work concerns the communicative role of emotional language, the internal structure of emotion concepts and the question whether emotional words are represented in a distinct manner in mind and brain. 

Erik C. Nook

Erik Nook is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Princeton University, USA, and an Associated Faculty Member in the Princeton Neuroscience Institute. Erik directs the Logic of Emotion Laboratory, which seeks to advance understanding of human emotion using developmental, neuroscientific, and translational tools. 

Nicola Del Maschio

Nicola Del Maschio is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Psychology at the Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele of Milan (Italy). His main research focus is the study of language organization in the bilingual brain. He currently combines behavioural and neuroimaging methods to decode how language context shapes our response to emotions.