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.
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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
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Development and plasticity of face processing biases (race bias, age bias) across the lifespan
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Social attributions based on facial information across development
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Interactions between biological and cultural factors in driving spatial biases across development
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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
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
PhD Student in Experimental Psychology, Linguistics and Cognitive Neuroscience
My research interests focus on emotion processing in infants. In particular, I’m interested in understanding what could be the developmental trajectory in emotion perception. Moreover, attention and perception in developmental disorders, and especially Autism Spectrum Disorder, have always interested me.
Alessia Testa, PhD student
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PhD Student in Experimental Psychology, Linguistics and Cognitive Neuroscience
My research interests lie in investigating the contribution of social factors that modulate imitative behavior during the development. Particularly, I am interested in investigating which factors are able to modify imitative behavior in pre-school aged children, especially considering the characteristics of a model (e.g. their reliability and/or group membership).
Giada Basset, PhD student
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PhD Student in Experimental Psychology, Linguistics and Cognitive Neuroscience
My research interests focus on the relationship between social interactions and cognitive development in the first years of life. Specifically, I am interested in investigating how previous social interactions influence the infant and child attention towards social stimuli, with a focus on both typical and atypical development.
Greta Chiodi, PhD student
PhD Student in Experimental Psychology, Linguistics and Cognitive Neuroscience
My research activity focuses on the relationship between specific social stimuli and self-regulation skills in infants, children and adolescents, in both typical and atypical populations with emotional regulation difficulties. I am particularly interested in investigating how affective touch and early family interactions can modulate behavioral and physiological responses (heart rate response, skin conductance, blood glucose levels).
Elisa Roberti, PhD
PhD Student in Experimental Psychology, Linguistics and Cognitive Neuroscience
My research interests focus on the understanding of others’ actions and emotions in infancy. In particular, I am interested in how an emotional context influences the perception of a subsequent action and whether infants can use a person’s emotional state to create expectations about his/her behaviour.
I use both behavioural measures (visual preference, accuracy and reaction times) and electrophysiological measures (electroencephalography).
Silvia Polver, PhD student
PhD Student in Experimental Psychology, Linguistics and Cognitive Neuroscience
My research interests concern the brain processing of audiovisual social stimuli. In particular, I am interested in the elaboration of audiovisual and human voice synchronies and how they can differentiate in autism spectrum disorders.
COLLABS
Lucia Maria Sacheli, PhD
Post-doc presso l'Università di Milano - Bicocca
Nadia Bolognini, PhD
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Viola Brenna, PhD
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Lucia Maria Sacheli, PhD
Postdoctoral fellow at the University of Milano - Bicocca
Nadia Bolognini, PhD
Associate Professor
Research areas:
Multisensory integration: investigation of neural mechanisms of sensory interactions between vision, touch, proprioception, audition in healthy subjects and brain-damaged patients with unisensory and multimodal disorders by means of behavioural paradigms and non-invasive brain stimulation techniques.
Body and space representations in healthy subjects and brain-damaged patients.
Mechanisms of motor and sensory ‘mirror’ simulation.
Post-stroke neurorehabilitation of cognitive, sensory and motor disorders
Luca Rinaldi, PhD
Stefania Conte, PhD
Postdoctoral fellow at the University of South Carolina
Francesco Marangoni, PhD
Ricercatore Università di Trento
Silvia Serino, PhD
Catholic University of Milan
Luigi Tamè, PhD
Lecturer presso University of Kent, Inghilterra
Domna Banakou, PhD
University of Barcelona
Francesca Lionetti
Ricercatore, University of Chieti
Stefania Conte
University of South Carolina, USA
ManyBabies (MB) Consortium
A collaborative project for replication and best practices in developmental psychology research
Maria Dolores de Hevia
Laboratoire Psychologie de la Perception - Université Paris Descartes & CNRS, Parigi.
Masami Yamaguchi
Yamaguchi Lab, Department of Psychology, Chuo University, Tokyo.
Nobu Shirai
Department of Psychology, Niigata University, Giappone
Stefanie Peykarjou
Department of Developmental and Biological Psychology, University of Heidelberg, Germania
Massimo Molteni, Chiara Cantiani, Valentina Riva
IRCCS Eugenio Medea, Bosisio Parini, Italia
Eloisa Valenza
Dipartimento di Psicologia, Università di Padova