Dr Federica Biotti

Profile

I am a Lecturer in Mental Health at the Unit of Psychological Medicine in the Centre for Psychiatry and Mental Health. I completed my PhD in Psychology at City, University of London with a thesis on the cognitive mechanisms of Developmental Prosopagnosia. After my doctoral studies, I obtained a position as postdoctoral researcher at Royal Holloway, University of London to investigate the recognition of non-emotional bodily states in others in both clinical and non-clinical populations. Alongside my research activity, I am also Associate Lecturer at the Department of Psychological Sciences at Birkbeck, University of London.

Teaching

I currently teach and supervise students on the MSc Mental Health: Psychological Therapies, and I am also the module convenor of Psychopathology for the BSc Psychology.

Research

Research Interests:

My research interests include the mechanisms of interoception and how atypical interoception contributes to the development and maintenance of psychopathology. 

Publications

Outstanding publications

Biotti, F., & Cook, R. (2016). Impaired perception of facial emotion in Developmental Cortex. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2016.04.008

Biotti, F., Wu, E., Yang, H., Jiahui, G., Duchaine, B., & Cook, R. (2017). Normal composite face effects in developmental prosopagnosia. Cortex. DOI:1016/j.cortex.2017.07.018

Brewer, R., Biotti, F., Catmur, C., Press, C., Happe, F., Cook, R., & Bird, G. A. (2015). Can neurotypical individuals read autistic facial expressions? Atypical production of emotional facial expressions in Autism Spectrum Disorders. Autism Research. DOI: 1002/aur.1508

Cook, R., & Biotti, F. (2016). Developmental Prosopagnosia. Current Biology. DOI: 1016/j.cub.2016.01.008

Biotti, F., Ahmad, S., Quinn, R., & Brewer, R. (2021). Development and validation of the Interoceptive States Static Images (ISSI) database. Behavior Research Methods. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-021-01706-2