WHO WE ARE

Viola Macchi Cassia, PhD

Professor

My studies involve populations of various age groups, from birth to childhood and older adulthood, and utilize a variety of behavioral (eye-tracking recording, reaction times) and electrophysiological (EEG, ERPs, fNIRS, skin conductance) methodologies.

The interplay between biological constraints and perceptual experience in the development of neurocognitive specialization, with particular reference to the face processing and spatial-numerical domains
Development and plasticity of face processing biases (race bias, age bias) across the lifespan
Social attributions based on facial information across development
Interactions between biological and cultural factors in driving spatial biases across development
Spatial representation of serial order processing in infancy

Chiara Turati, PhD

Professor

My research interests focus on early child development, with specific reference to the domain of action understanding and face processing.

As Principal Investigator, I coordinated a European Research Council Starting Grant. I am also part of a H2020-MSCA Innovative Training Network. My contribution to a better understanding of early development has been recognized internationally through more than 50 publications.

I coordinate a lab for the study of children’s development through behavioral (visual preference and habituation paradigms) and neuropsychological measures (electroencephalography, EEG; event-related potentials, ERP; electromyography, EMG; skin conductance response, SCR). I now serve as President of the Master Course “Psicologia dello Sviluppo e dei Processi Educativi”.

Hermann Bulf, PhD

Associate Professor

Ermanno Quadrelli, PhD

Assistant Professor

Elena Nava, PhD

Assistant Professor

Research areas:

The development of the body schema

Multisensory interactions in typical and atypical development

Unconscious processing of emotions in early infancy

Teaching:

Research methods and tools to study lifespan development (B.A. students)

Margaret Addabbo, PhD

Postdoctoral Researcher

Martina Arioli, PhD student

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My research interests focus on rhythm perception and attentional abilities in infancy. In particular, I'm interested in how rhythm modulates some attentional components, such as disengagement, and orients the focus of the attention in infancy

Roberta Bettoni, PhD

Postdoctoral Researcher

Melissa Savoldi, Lab Manager

Lab Manager

Victoria Licht, PhD student

PhD Student, MOTION project.

My research interests are how infants process complex social interactions and their affective value and the understanding of prosocial and antisocial interactions in infancy

Julia Mermier, PhD student

PhD Student, MOTION project.

My research focuses on the development of emotion processing in infants through the use of electroencephalograms (EEG), electromyogram (EMG) and behavioural technics.

More specifically, I am interested in the influence of the social context, and more particularly of exclusion, on the neural and visual processing of emotional faces.

Valentina Silvestri, PhD student