Renzo Lanfranco

PhD Psychology

  • Psychology
  • School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences

Contact details

Address

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Room F25, Psychology Building

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7 George Square, Edinburgh
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EH8 9JZ
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Solnavägen 9, Stockholm 171 65, Sweden
Karolinska Institutet, Biomedicum D4

City
Stockholm
Post code
171 65

Biography

Background

RESEARCH INTERESTS

- I'm currently a research fellow at the department of neuroscience in Karolinska Institutet, Sweden: https://staff.ki.se/people/renzo-lanfranco 

PUBLICATIONS

Under review:

  • Lanfranco RC., Canales-Johnson A., Rabagliati H., Cleeremans A.*, Carmel D*. (Under Review) "Minimal exposures reveal visual processing priorities." Preprint: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.10.06.462913

Journal Articles:

  • Lanfranco RC., Martínez-Aguayo JC., Arancibia M. (2024) "Assessing malingering and personality styles in dissociative identity disorder: A case report and literature review." Neurocase (Accepted) - Preprint: https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/av62s
  • Lanfranco RC., Sousa F., Wesse P., Rivera-Rei A., Bekinschtein T., Lucero B., Canales-Johnson A., Huepe D. (2024) "Slow-wave brain connectivity predicts executive functioning and group belonging in socially vulnerable individuals." Cortex: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2024.03.004
  • Lanfranco RC., Chancel M., Ehrsson HH. (2024) "Texture congruence modulates perceptual bias but not sensitivity to visuotactile stimulation during the rubber hand illusion." Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience: https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-024-01155-2
  • Lanfranco RC., Chancel M., Ehrsson HH. (2023) "Quantifying body ownership information processing and perceptual bias in the rubber hand illusion." Cognition: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105491
  • Tsikandilakis M., Bali P., Lanfranco RC., Kausel L., Yu Z., Boncompte G., Alshammari A., Li R., Milbank A., Burdett M., Mevel P-A., Madan C., Derrfuss J. (2023) "Learning emotional dialects: A British population study of cross-cultural communication." Perception: https://doi.org/10.1177/03010066231204180
  • Lanfranco RC., Rabagliati H., Carmel D. (2023) "Assessing the influence of emotional expressions on perceptual sensitivity to faces overcoming interocular suppression." Emotion: https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001215 (Open Access Preprint: https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/6vh37)
  • Lanfranco RC., Rabagliati H., Carmel D. (2023) "The importance of awareness in face processing: a critical review of interocular suppression studies." Behavioural Brain Research: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2022.114116
  • Lanfranco RC., Stein T., Rabagliati H., Carmel D. (2022) "Gaze direction and face orientation modulate perceptual sensitivity to faces under interocular suppression." Scientific Reports: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-11717-4
  • Lanfranco RC., Canales-Johnson A., Lucero B., Vargas E., Noreika V. (2022) "Towards a view from within: The contribution of Francisco Varela to the study of consciousness." Adaptive Behavior: https://doi.org/10.1177%2F10597123221080193 
  • Tsikandilakis M., Kausel L.*, Boncompte G.*, Yu Z.*, Oxner M.*, Lanfranco RC.*, Bali P., Putasi U., Peirce J., López V., Mun Wai Tong E., William H., Carmel D., Chapman P. (2021) "There is no (where a) face like home: Recognition and appraisal responses to masked facial dialects of emotion in four different world cultures." Perception: https://doi.org/10.1177/03010066211055983
  • Lanfranco RC., Rivera-Rei A., Huepe D., Ibáñez A., Canales-Johnson A. (2021) "Beyond imagination: Hypnotic visual hallucination induces greater lateralised brain activity than visual imagery." NeuroImage: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118282
  • Canales-Johnson A.*, Lanfranco RC.*, Morales, JP., Martínez-Pernia D., Valdés J., Ezquerro-Nassar A., Rivera-Rei A., Ibáñez A., Chennu S., Bekinschtein T., Huepe D., Noreika V. (2021) "In Your Phase: Neural Phase Synchronisation underlies visual imagery of faces." Scientific Reports: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-81336-y
  • Tsikandilakis M., Kausel L.*, Boncompte G.*, Yu Z.*, Oxner M.*, Lanfranco RC.*, Bali P., Putasi U., Peirce J., López V., Mun Wai Tong E., William H., Carmel D., Chapman P. (2019) "There is no Face like home: Ratings for cultural familiarity to own and other facial dialects of emotion with and without conscious awareness in a British sample." Perception: https://doi.org/10.1177/0301006619867865
  • Martínez-Aguayo JC., Lanfranco RC., Arancibia M. Sepúlveda E., Madrid E. (2018) "Trypophobia: what do we know so far? A case report and comprehensive review of the literature." Frontiers in Psychiatry: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00015
  • Lanfranco RC., Canales-Johnson A., Huepe D. (2014) "Hypnoanalgesia and the study of pain experience: from Cajal to modern neuroscience." Frontiers in Psychology: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01126
  • Lanfranco RC., Canales-Johnson A. (2014) "Facial mimicry in borderline personality disorder: on empathy and beyond." Revista Médica de Chile: http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0034-98872014000900018
  • Lips W., Mascayano F., Lanfranco RC. (2014) "Diagnostic indicators of dissociative amnesia: a case report." Psychiatria Danubina: http://www.psychiatria-danubina.com/UserDocsImages/pdf/dnb_vol26_no1/dn…
  • Canales-Johnson A., Lanfranco R., Vargas E., Ibánez A. (2012) "Neurobiology of hypnosis and its contribution to the understanding of cognition and consciousness." Annals of Psychology: https://doi.org/10.6018/analesps.28.3.124931
  • Lanfranco R., Manríquez-Navarro P., Avello L., Canales-Johnson A. (2012) "Early evaluation of Alzheimer's disease: biomarkers and neuropsychological tests." Revista Médica de Chile: http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0034-98872012000900014

Book Chapters:

  • Lanfranco R. (2017) ["Neuropsychological assessment of psychiatric disorders."] In: Ivanovic-Zuvic F., Correa E., Florenzano R. (Eds.) Texto de Psiquiatría. Ediciones: Sociedad de Neurología, Psiquiatría y Neurocirugía. Santiago, Chile.

Responsibilities & affiliations

Research - Karolinska Institutet, Sweden

Research and Postgraduate Tutoring - The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.

Undergraduate teaching

Tutor and Lab demonstrator - Psychology 1

Tutor - Critical Analysis

PPLS Writing Centre Tutor - Psychology

Past project grants

- Four-year PhD Full Studentship
- British Psychological Society Research stays Grant
- Edinburgh University PPLS Research Support Grants
- Principal's Go Abroad Fund Grant

Conference details

Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC)

British Neuroscience Association

Australasian Society for Experimental Psychology

British Association for Cognitive Neuroscience

Dr David Carmel

Dr Hugh Rabagliati

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