Federico Frau
Federico Frau is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Laboratory of Neurolinguistics and Experimental Pragmatics (NEP) of the University School for Advanced Studies IUSS, Pavia (Italy). In 2024, he obtained a Ph.D. degree in Cognitive Neuroscience and Philosophy of Mind at the University School for Advanced Studies IUSS, defending a thesis on the role of multimodal experience during semantic and pragmatic processing in typical adults, as well as neurological and psychiatric conditions. His main research activities concern the involvement of multimodal semantic dimensions – including sensory-motor and bodily experience, also extending to aspects related to visual and motor imagery – in literal and figurative language processing, investigated via a combination of behavioral and neurophysiological (e.g., EEG recording) techniques in typical and atypical populations.