Self-expression is shaped by self-experience
Our bodies are teeming with valuable social information with which we strive to better understand the thoughts and feelings of ourselves and those around us; perceiving subtle external shifts in faces, voices, and gesture, and sensing internal changes such as breathing or heartbeats. I study the role of expertise in the ability to synthesise and regulate these signals using psychophysiological and data-driven methods, to understand how sensorimotor and interoceptive experience form 'affective repertoires' to shape social intelligence in the real world.
About Natalie
Natalie Christie Peluso is an emerging researcher in socio-affective neuroscience currently undertaking a PhD at The University of Queensland. With over 20 years of international acclaim as an opera singer and voice teacher, Natalie channels this expertise by investigating how individual differences in affective repertoires (both sensing & perceiving) shape social intelligence, with a particular focus on facial movements, respiration as behaviour, and emotion.
What I'm Working On
How Do We Judge the Meaning of Real-World Facial Movements?
Faces move in dynamic patterns to communicate complex and often contradictory information. I use unbiased, data-driven methods to study naturalistic, non-posed expressions to uncover how these movements facilitate communication and self-expression 'in the wild'.
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