Linda Ficco
Email: linda.ficco [at] uni-jena.de
Address: Room: 18-S06, Leutragraben 1 (JenTower)
Phone: +49 (0)3641 945 939
Education
- Master’s degree in “Sciences of the body and the Mind” summa cum laude, 2019, University of Turin (IT)
- Bachelor’s degree in Psychological Sciences and Techniques, 2017, University of Turin (IT)
Positions
- 15.03.2021 – today: Doctoral researcher, International Max Planck Research School for the Science of Human History (IMPRS-SHH), Max-Planck Institute of Geoanthropology, Jena, Germany
- 01.05.2020-15.03.2021: Research Assistant, Department of General Psychology, Friedrich-Schiller University of Jena, Germany
- 07.10.2019-07.01.2020: Research intern, Behavioural Neuroscience research group, Institute for neuroscience and Medicine – 7, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
- 15.10.2018-01.05.2020: Research trainee, Focuslab Research Group, Department of General Psychology, University of Turin
Research interests
- Use of meta-analyses of neuroimaging literature to answer questions about brain structure and function
- Face perception and learning, and individual differences in these skills
- Prototypicality effects in the visual processing of faces
Publications
- Schroeger, A., Ficco, L., Wuttke, S. J. , Kaufmann, J. M., and Schweinberger, S. R., (2023). Differences between high and low performers in face recognition in electrophysiological correlates of face familiarity and distance-to-norm. Biological Psychology, 182, 108654. 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2023.108654.
- Li, C., Ficco, L., Trapp, S., Rostalski, S. M., Korn, L., & Kovács, G. (2023). The effect of context congruency on fMRI repetition suppression for objects. Neuropsychologia, 188, 108603.
- , , , & (2022). Socio-cognitive, expertise-based and appearance-based accounts of the other-‘race’ effect in face perception: A label-based systematic review of neuroimaging results. British Journal of Psychology, 00, 1– 25. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12595
- Ficco, L., Li, C., Jahn, R., Kaufmann, J. M., Kovacs, Z. G., Schweinberger, S. R., (September 2022). Effects of visual prototypicality and predictability in face- and object-responsive brain regions: A pilot study, Accepted poster at the Minerva-Gentner Symposium for action representation (University of Regensburg)
- Ficco, L., Müller, V.M., Kaufmann, J. M., Schweinberger, S. R., (April 2022). Socio-cognitive, expertise-based and appearance-based accounts of the other -“race” effect in face perception a label-based systematic review of neuroimaging results, Accepted poster at TeaP Conference (64nd edition, University of Cologne)
- Ficco, L., Mancuso, L., Manuello, J., Teneggi, A., Liloia, D., Duca, S., … & Cauda, F. (2021). Disentangling predictive processing in the brain: a meta-analytic study in favour of a predictive network. Scientific Reports, 11(1), 1-14.
- Ficco, L. Mancuso, J. Manuello, D. Liloia, A. Nani, T. Costa, F. Cauda, G. Kovacs, (2019). Disentangling predictive processing in the brain: a study in favour of a predictive network across sensory modalities, Accepted poster at TeaP Conference (62nd edition, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena)
- L. Mancuso, A. Fornito, T. Costa, L. Ficco, D. Liloia, J. Manuello, S. Duca, F. Cauda, (2020) A meta-analytic approach to mapping co-occurent grey matter volume increases and decreases in psychiatric disorders, Neuroimage, 22210.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117220
- L. Mancuso, A. Nani, J. Manuello, D. Liloia, G. Gelmini, L. Ficco, S. Duca, T. Costa, F. Cauda, (2019) Degree Centrality of Co-alteration Networks: Meta-analytic Hubs of Pathological Spread, Accepted poster at the conference: Organization for Human Brain Mapping, 10.13140/RG.2.2.24083.53281
- Cauda, F., Mancuso, L., Nani, A., Ficco, L., Premi, E., Manuello, J., … & Costa, T. (2020). Hubs of long‐distance co‐alteration characterize brain pathology. Human brain mapping, 41(14), 3878-3899.
