Valentina Romagnano, M.Sc. (she/her)
Postdoc
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University of Mannheim
School of Social Sciences
L 13, 15–17 – Room 211
68161 Mannheim
School of Social Sciences
L 13, 15–17 – Room 211
68161 Mannheim
Research Interests
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- Trauma-Related Dissociation
- Physiological and neuronal basis of mental disorders
- Physiological, neuronal, and behavioral correlates of acute dissociation
- Trauma-Related Sleep Disorders
- Chronic pain
Academic and Professional Career
Academic Career
Since 10/ 2023 Training as a psychological psychotherapist, ZPP Mannheim, Germany 2019–2023 Doctorate (Dr.rer.nat), Doctoral College “Imaging the Mind”, Paris Lodron University Salzburg, Austria; Topic:“Unraveling Acute Trauma-Related Dissociation in the Body, Brain, and Mind: Novel Evidence from Trauma-Analogue and Clinical Studies” 2016–2019 Studied M.Sc. Psychology: Clinical Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, LMU Munich, Germany 2013–2016 Studied B.Sc. Psychology: Clinical Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, LMU Munich, Germany 2013 Abitur, Gabelsberger Gymnasium Mainburg Publications and Conference Contributions
- Romagnano, V., Kubon, J., Sokolov, A. N., Fallgatter, A. J., Braun, C., & Pavlova, M. A. (2025). Dynamic brain communication underlying face pareidolia in male schizophrenia. Schizophrenia, 11(1), 112. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41537-025-00656-4
- Romagnano, V., Kubon, J., Sokolov, A. N., Fallgatter, A. J., Braun, C., & Pavlova, M. A. (2024). Dynamic brain communication underwriting face pareidolia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(16), e2401196121. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2401196121
- Romagnano, V., Sokolov, A. N., Fallgatter, A. J., & Pavlova, M. A. (2023). Do subtle cultural differences sculpt face pareidolia?. Schizophrenia, 9(1), 28. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41537-023-00355-y
- Romagnano, V., Sokolov, A. N., Steinwand, P., Fallgatter, A. J., & Pavlova, M. A. (2022). Face pareidolia in male schizophrenia. Schizophrenia, 8(1), 112. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41537-022-00315-y
- Pavlova, M. A., Romagnano, V., Kubon, J., Isernia, S., Fallgatter, A. J., & Sokolov, A. N. (2022). Ties between reading faces, bodies, eyes, and autistic traits. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 16, 997263. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2022.997263
- Kubon, J., Romagnano, V., Sokolov, A. N., Fallgatter, A. J., Braun, C., & Pavlova, M. A. (2023). Neural circuits underpinning face tuning in male depression. Cerebral Cortex, 33(7), 3827-3839. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhac310
- Pavlova, M. A., Romagnano, V., Fallgatter, A. J., & Sokolov, A. N. (2020). Face pareidolia in the brain: Impact of gender and orientation. PLoS One, 15(12), e0244516. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0244516