Annahita Sarré

“Seeing speech: Differential contribution of the Extrastriate Body Areas during Cued Speech perception" 

Annahita Sarré is a PhD candidate working with Pr. Laurent Cohen at the Paris Brain Institute. She holds Bachelor's degrees in Biology and in Linguistics, as well as a Master of Research in Cognitive Neuroscience. Her project focuses on cued speech, a system that complements lip-reading when talking to deaf people through hand gestures, allowing for an unambiguous and fully visual access to spoken language. Despite its proven efficiency for improving linguistic and communicative abilities, the mechanisms of cued speech perception remain largely unknown. Her studies thus aim at exploring the neural correlates of this system in cued speech proficient and naive participants using MRI, EEG and eye-tracking.

Silvana Lozito

“Functional anatomy of conscious perception: a comparison of intracerebral and surface EEG”

Silvana Lozito is a PhD student in Behavioral Neuroscience at Sapienza University of Rome, under the supervision of Professor Fabrizio

Doricchi. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics and a Master’s degree in Mathematics for Life and Data Sciences. After her Master’s degree, she completed a research fellowship on the neural bases of numerical and spatial coding using EEG and fMRI. During her PhD, she investigated confirmation bias and fake news perception through computational models and eye-tracking. In her second year, at the Paris Brain Institute under the supervision of Professor Paolo Bartolomeo, she studied the neural correlates of consciousness by comparing intracerebral and surface EEG to understand their functional relationship.