• Early Stage Researcher 10 (ESR 10) name:  Leyla Elyasizad

Email address: leyla.elyasizad@uniroma1.it

Personal Information:

I have a master's degree in Physics. I have worked on Self-organized criticality in Sandpile Model and Structural balance theory in social networks.

• Host Institution: Sapienza University of Rome 

• Secondments:

(1) Aix-Marseille University / Strasbourg University, from 20/11/2023 to 08/12/2023

(2) Blackrock Microsystems LLC

• Supervisors: Dr A Genovesio, Dr E Brunamonti, Dr M Mattia  

• Project title: Role of the frontal cortex in high level cognitive and social functions for mentalizing

• Project description:

We study the role of multiple frontal cortex areas in social interaction using a human-monkey interactive task in which monkeys interact with other agents performing different interactive and observation learning tasks. The tasks used aim to study the importance of separate representations for self and others predicted choices and actions. Our approach is based on methods, typical of Behavioral Neuroscience, requiring the strong control of behavior and the ‘in vivo’ recording of neuronal activities from multiple electrode arrays and the study of their collective activity

Contact: email Dr Genovesio

More information: 

• Dr Genovesio profile