Professor

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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

• 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

Professor

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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”.

Associate Professor

Researcher

Assistant Professor

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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)

Postdoctoral Researcher