Dr. Elena Gherri


Information:
Dr. Elena Gherri
Specialism:
Cognitive Psychology
Location:
Social Sciences Building, Room D433A
Tel:
0207 040 0267
Email:
Elena.Gherri.1@city.ac.uk

Research Interest

I use a combination of behavioural and psychophysiological measures (such as electroencephalography, EEG, and event-related potentials, ERP) to investigate several aspects of perception, attention and action. More specifically, my research interests focus on:
  • Perceptual consequences of action preparation;
  • Cross-modal links in spatial attention between vision, audition and touch;
  • Effects of spatial attention on somatosensory processing;
  •  Cognitive control mechanisms in conflict tasks.

Publications

Gherri, E. & Eimer, M. (accepted). Manual response preparation disrupts spatial attention:  an electrophysiological investigation of links between action and attention. Neuropsychologia.

Press, C., Gherri, E., Heyes, C., & Eimer, M. (accepted). Action preparation helps and hinders perception of action. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.
Gherri, E., Van Velzen, J., & Eimer, M., (2009). The instructed context of a motor task modulates covert response preparation and shifts of spatial attention. Psychophysiology. 46(3), 655-667.

Iani, C., Rubichi, S., Gherri, E., & Nicoletti, R. (2009) Co-occurrence of sequential and practice effects in the Simon task: Evidence for two independent mechanisms affecting response selection. Memory & Cognition, 37, 358-367.

Gherri, E., Driver, J., & Eimer, M., (2008). Eye movement preparation causes spatially-specific modulation of auditory processing: New evidence from event-related brain potentials. Brain Research, 1224, 88-101.

Gherri, E., & Eimer, M., (2008). Links between eye movement preparation and the attentional processing of tactile events: An event-related brain potential study. Clinical Neurophysiology, 119(11), 2587-97.

Riggio, L., Iani, C., Gherri, E., Benatti, F., Rubichi, S., & Nicoletti, R. (2008). The role of attention in the occurrence of the affordance effect. Acta Psychologica, 127, 449-458.

Eimer, M., Van Velzen, J., Gherri, E., & Press, C. (2007). ERP correlates of shared control mechanisms involved in saccade preparation and in covert attention. Brain Research, 1135, 154-166.

Gherri, E., Van Velzen, J., & Eimer, M. (2007). Dissociating effector and movement direction selection during the preparation of manual reaching movements: Evidence from lateralized ERP components. Clinical Neurophysiology, 118, 2031-2049.

Seiss, E., Gherri, E., Eardley, A.F., & Eimer, M. (2007). Do ERP components triggered during attentional orienting represent supramodal attentional control? Psychophysiology, 44(6), 987-990.

Van Velzen, J., Gherri, E., Eimer M. (2006). ERP effects of movement preparation on visual processing: attention shift to the hand, not the goal. Cogn. Process. S100-101.

Eimer, M., Van Velzen, J., Gherri, E., & Press, C. (2006). Manual response preparation and saccade programming are linked to attention shifts: ERP evidence for covert attentional orienting and spatially specific modulations of visual processing. Brain Research, 1105, 7-19.

Iani, C., Ricci, F., Gherri, E., & Rubichi, S. (2006). Hypnotic suggestion modulates cognitive conflict: The case of the flanker compatibility effect. Psychological Science, 17(8), 721-727.

Rubichi, S., Gherri, E., Nicoletti, R., & Umiltà, C. (2005). Modulation of the Simon effect in two-dimensional tasks: the effect of learning. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 17, 686-694.