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Giovanni Novembre is a Principal Research Engineer at Linköping University, focusing on understanding the role of touch in regulating emotional and physiological responses during social interactions. He is part of the GRASP (Group Research Affective Somatosensation Pain) lab at the Center for Social and Affective Neuroscience (CSAN). His research plan involves performing experiments to investigate the behavioral, physiological, and neural correlates of social interactions that include affective touch. He primarily employs Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) to measure the neural correlates, along with advanced techniques to assess related changes throughout the body, such as cardiac activity, respiration, and hormone levels. Giovanni holds a Ph.D. in Cognitive Neuroscience from the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) in Italy, as well as a Master's in Neurobiology from the University of Rome 'La Sapienza' and a Bachelor's in Molecular and Cellular Biology from the University of Bari 'Aldo Moro'.
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