Giovanni Federico
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Giovanni Federico
@neurogiovanni.bsky.social
Cognitive Neuroscientist. Tenure-track Assistant Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at Suor Orsola Benincasa University (Naples, Italy). https://www.giovannifederico.net
Every day, our brains shift between different modes of reasoning when interacting with the physical world. We act alone, learn from tutorials or experts, or delegate tasks. Our new NeuroImage study reveals how the brain dynamically switches between them.

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How the brain shifts from doing to delegating
Our research shows how the brain transitions from performing to delegating technical tasks, activating both technical and social reasoning networks—a process we term transactive technical cognition.
www.giovannifederico.net
October 27, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Reposted by Giovanni Federico
🔬How is the human brain able to generate, utilise, and adapt to technology?

🧠 Here, we propose that a strict interplay of causal reasoning, semantic cognition, visuospatial skills,
sensorimotor knowledge, and social learning can shape our technological cognition.

Read below our new paper! 👇
An integrated account for technological cognition
Understanding how the human brain generates, utilizes, and adapts to technology is one of our most urgent scientific questions today. Recent advances in cognitive neuroscience reveal a complex neur...
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August 13, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Reposted by Giovanni Federico
👀🛠️ How do we look at tools? Familiarity reshapes visual attention: we search for meaning first, action later—unless prior knowledge shortcuts the process.

🥼 A new preprint from @luigivalio.bsky.social & @neurogiovanni.bsky.social

Check it out! 👇
The visual encoding of familiar and unfamiliar tools
How do we extract meaning and understand the action potential of everyday objects? In this eye-tracking study, we show that familiarity with tools modulates the temporal dynamics of their visual explo...
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May 29, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Reposted by Giovanni Federico
One way to pass on our own causal understanding about how a physical system works is to provide a verbal explanation about it. Read in American Journal of Psychology Vol. 137, Iss. 3. @neurogiovanni.bsky.social @blubludoesscience.bsky.social scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/ajp/arti...
April 30, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Reposted by Giovanni Federico
Hi Bluesky! 🦋 This is the CogSci Lab.

We are a laboratory of experimental psychology and cognitive neuroscience studying neural mechanisms and behavioral patterns using Eye-Tracking, EEG, fMRI. Based in Naples, the world’s most astonishing city 🌋☀️

For more information: www.cogsci.it
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December 20, 2024 at 2:40 PM
Reposted by Giovanni Federico
Visual stimuli near eye movements can appear closer in time or even reversed—a known effect also seen with visual masks. Our findings show that visual masks not covering the stimuli can also trigger this temporal inversion, suggesting that mask onset time anchors perceptual organization.
Contributions of temporal and spatial masking signals in perception of sequential visual events https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.20.629621v1
December 21, 2024 at 8:14 AM
We discovered and published in NeuroImage two distinct neural pathways for mechanical and digital technology, highlighting the different ways our brain processes tools and devices we use every day.

doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...
December 14, 2024 at 7:48 PM