A new theme issue of #PhilTransB examines the mechanisms of learning from social interaction. Read articles for free: buff.ly/K8v43YM
Sara De Felice
@saradefelice.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Research Associate at Cambridge University | forthcoming MSCA Fellow | PhD in Social and Educational Neuroscience | Interested in how people learn from and with others in real-world interactions | URL: sites.google.com/view/saradefelice/home
This is now out in Cerebral Cortex. Open Access: academic.oup.com/cercor/artic... @antoniahamilton.bsky.social @gabriellavigliocco.bsky.social Uzair Hakim @paola182.bsky.social Danny Thompkings @fdi55.bsky.social
Learning with others: teacher–learner brain synchrony depends on mutual gaze and joint attention
Abstract. Successful learning often emerges through social interaction: what are the neural and behavioral systems that support this process? This ecologic
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Sara De Felice@saradefelice.bsky.social · last yr.How do our brains and bodies support social learning in real time? We take an ecological and multimodal neuroscience approach to study mutual prediction and social coordination when learning with others. It took 5 full years for this one! Full open-access pre-print: osf.io/preprints/ps...
In 2021 we reported that live learning outperformed recorded learning. In a new preregistered analysis, my first senior-author paper led by Stan de Visser (pre-print), we find that this benefit does not increase with interactivity. The potential to interact may be enough to boost learning. A thread:
What happens in the brain as people become less lonely? Intergenerational community programs can reduce loneliness, the underlying mechanisms remain unknown. We collected and analysed 732 🧠-scans to find out! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @introspection.bsky.social + @escross.bsky.social
Longitudinal intergenerational hyperscanning reveals indices of relationship formation and loneliness
Loneliness is globally acknowledged as a severe and burgeoning health risk, fuelling interest in helping people of all ages form meaningful social connections. One promising approach consists of inter...
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Had the opportunity to present our #fNIRS hyperscanning study @gabriellavigliocco.bsky.social @antoniahamilton.bsky.social @saradefelice.bsky.social at #ICON2025 in the Social And Embodied Language Learning Symposium. Felt small in the huge auditorium but the room was filled w/ inspiring questions!
Had a great time presenting our #fNIRS study w/ @gabriellavigliocco.bsky.social @antoniahamilton.bsky.social @saradefelice.bsky.social @ #ESCOP2025!🧠 Grateful for the thought-provoking discussions that keep inspiring our work. A fantastic conference ending on a high note in beautiful Peak District ⛰️
This is such a nice welcome at flux! Thank you for this award at my first Flux Conference Meeting #flux2025 @fluxsociety.bsky.social
Looking forward to what it seems will be an excellent and thought-provoking symposium at #flux2025 @fluxsociety.bsky.social
Ellen Roche@ellroche.bsky.social · 11mo agoLooking fwd to our neural synchrony symposium today - & especially learning more from @pvrticka.bsky.social on synchrony in #fNIRS. For a preview check out an excellent 2025 review led by @saradefelice.bsky.social - join us 3pm in Hyde 1. 🧠 ⚡️ 🧠 #flux2025 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
🎓 FLUX is proud to spotlight Dr. Sara De Felice. Her research studies the role of naturalistic social interaction in human learning and model the behavioural and neural dynamics that support this process. Read the full interview at the link below: 👉 buff.ly/yzDQLA6
The British Science Festival - one of Europe’s longest-running science festivals - is happening 10-14 September 2025 in Liverpool! Lots of FREE events for all: britishsciencefestival.org?_gl=1%2Axaa2...
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How do our brains and bodies support social learning in real time in the real-world? Check out the preprint by @saradefelice.bsky.social et al. Honoured to have been part of the team!
Sara De Felice@saradefelice.bsky.social · last yr.How do our brains and bodies support social learning in real time? We take an ecological and multimodal neuroscience approach to study mutual prediction and social coordination when learning with others. It took 5 full years for this one! Full open-access pre-print: osf.io/preprints/ps...
A Friday afternoon post to share our new paper (pre-print)! We modelled brain & behaviour & physiology from 27 unconstrained social learning interactions. Learning emerged from non-linear brain-gaze coupling and asymmetric neural dependencies suggesting mutual prediction. Full thread below ⬇️
Sara De Felice@saradefelice.bsky.social · last yr.How do our brains and bodies support social learning in real time? We take an ecological and multimodal neuroscience approach to study mutual prediction and social coordination when learning with others. It took 5 full years for this one! Full open-access pre-print: osf.io/preprints/ps...
How do our brains and bodies support social learning in real time? We take an ecological and multimodal neuroscience approach to study mutual prediction and social coordination when learning with others. It took 5 full years for this one! Full open-access pre-print: osf.io/preprints/ps...
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If you are in the process of designing a #fNIRS study to investigate cognition and want a list of dos and don'ts, have a look at our primer. Pre-print available here: osf.io/preprints/ps... @islalj.bsky.social @chiarabulgarelli.bsky.social @paola182.bsky.social @antoniahamilton.bsky.social
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Antonia Hamilton @antoniahamilton.bsky.social · last yr.new preprint - do you use #fnirs to study cognition? do you want to learn how to design better studies? our primer aims to get you started on using #fnirs for real-world #cognitive #neuroscience osf.io/preprints/ps...
Last chance to apply for a fully-funded 2-year #PostDoc in my @soneatlab.bsky.social @universityofessex.bsky.social using #fNIRS #hyperscanning & behavioural assessment in #children. 👉🏻 SWITCH: pvrticka.com/switch-proje... Deadline: 01.06.25 Start: 01.10.25 vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...
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Join us in London! The Language and Cognition Lab (with @fourtassi.bsky.social, Yan Gu) is looking for a Research Fellow for 4-years to work on how children and adults from different cultures learn in social interaction. Ad is here (www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMN891/r...). DM if you have any question!
Research Fellow in Social Learning at UCL
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Honoured and grateful to have received a MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship to carry out my LEARNINSYNC project! Together wih @giacomonovembre.bsky.social at the IIT (Rome) we will look at LEARNing IN social interaction and the role of inter-brain SYNChrony. #MSCA #EuropeanCommission #Horizon
European Commission@ec.europa.eu · last yr.The 2024 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowship call results are in. With a budget of €417 million, we are funding nearly 1,700 researchers from 🇪🇺 and beyond. They will strengthen EU research in key areas such as social inclusion, AI, and cancer research ↓ europa.eu/!BmWRkh
