Cognitive and Intermedial Semiotics (original) (raw)

, and a member of the research groups Studies on Intermediality and Intercultural Mediation (SIIM-UCM) and Biopoetics, Cognitive Semiotics and Neuroesthetics (IUIBS-ULPGC). Her academic interests revolve around the new cognitive studies in neuroesthetics, semiotics, and narratology. In particular, her research is based on investigating the importance of affective neuroscience in the invisible and visible mechanisms of human creativity. For information on her activities and publications, please visit https://www.ucm.es/ siim/marta-silvera-roig. Asunción López-Varela Azcárate is Professor at Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Her research interests are comparative literature, cultural and education studies, and cognitive and intermedial semiotics. In 2007 she established the Research Program Studies on Intermediality and Intercultural Mediation (SIIM), which has received funding from various sources for several projects. She is an external evaluator in various research programs of the European Commission and other national agencies (the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), etc.). She is also editor in several journals in her research areas. She has served as President of the European Society of Comparative Literature and Deputy Head of the English Department at Complutense. For information on her activities and publications, please visit https://www.ucm.es/siim/asun-lopez-varela.