Chiara Fini
Biografia
Chiara Fini received her master’s degree in Neuropsychology from the University of Bologna. She got her PhD in Neuroimaging at the University of Chieti-Pescara. Her line of research focuses on the Embodied perception of the extrapersonal space. She has been working as Post Doc to a project about the action tendencies as function of low or high control, at the Department of Experimental Psychology, Gent and KU Leuven, Belgium. She gathers advanced skills in the use of brain stimulation, and specifically Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) and Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS). Overall, her theoretical interests concentrate within the Field of the Embodied Cognition, ranging from the perceptual processing of space/objects to the language acquisition, with a particular attention to the philosophical perspective of the Theory of the Words as Social Tools WAT (Borghi et al., 2018). Such theory sustains that abstract concepts would need to be processed through the inner language. Inner language could namely help participants to re-explain to themselves the meaning of the word, to keep information active in working memory, and to prepare themselves to ask information to more competent people.
In her free time Chiara runs, reads novels, travels.
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