Alexithymia
Alexithymia increases risk for many forms of psychopathology and is characterized by emotional deficits, including when processing emotional faces. This study examines face processing under various perceptual load conditions in low and high alexithymic people. We record participants’ reaction time (RT) and accuracy in cognitive tasks, psychophysiological measures of heart rate, skin conductance and baseline heart rate variability, and an index of emotion regulation and adaptability, in order to interpret differences in performance between the various groups of participants.
Georgia Panayiotou
Professor of Clinical Psychology
Current Appointment: Professor of Clinical Psychology at the Department of Psychology, University of Cyprus. She directs the Clinical Psychology and Psychophysiology Lab and she is a founding member of the Center for Applied Neuroscience. She is a licensed clinical psychologist in Cyprus. As of May 2016 she is the Chair of the Department of Psychology.
Nikos Konstantinou
Associate Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience
My research interests include attention, working memory, and perception.