Professor

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My research interests include:

Perceptual plasticity and the role of experience in the development of face recognition.
The recognition of faces of different ages in children and adults.
Origins and development of the spatial representation of quantities in infancy and preschool. 
The representation of number and continuous quantities in early childhood.
Processes of perceptual organisation in infancy and preschool.

viola.macchicassia@unimib.it

Associate Professor 

My research interests include:

The development of cognitive processes in early childhood.
Origin and development of attentional and perceptual processes involved in the cognition of social and non-social objects in early childhood.
Origin and development of face recognition skills.  

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hermann.bulf@unimib.it

Professor​

My research activity concerns the study of the development of human social cognition, with a particular interest in the abilities that enable children to understand the behaviour of others from the earliest months of life. I use behavioural (eye-tracking, reaction time and fixation) and electrophysiological (EEG, sEMG, ECG) measures to investigate the impact of certain features of the social context (e.g., ostracism, inter-group relations) on the cognitive mechanisms and neural correlates involved in understanding the emotions and actions of others as well as imitative behaviour in early life.

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ermanno.quadrelli@unimib.it

Lab Manager - Research Fellow  

I take care of all organisational aspects related to the Bicocca Child&BabyLab: from the recruitment of participants, through the management of the various studies, to the dissemination of research results. 

ilenia.mastroianni@unimib.it

Research Fellow - Post Doc

My research activity focuses on the relationship between children and their caregivers. In particular, I am interested in investigating how characteristics of the dyadic and triadic relationship can be expressed in relational patterns that are reflected at the behavioural, physiological and biological levels. In particular, I am interested in exploring how different communication modes (e.g., touch, voice) influence the child and how the child's characteristics influence adults. 

elena.guida@unimib.it

Research Fellow

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My research interests focus on rhythm perception and attentional skills in childhood. In particular, I am interested in understanding how rhythm modulates certain attentional components, such as disengagement, and directs the focus of attention in early childhood.
 

martina.arioli@unimib.it

PhD in Psychology, Linguistics and Cognitive Neuroscience

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My research activity concerns the study of the link between specific social stimuli and the self-regulation skills of children and adolescents in typical and atypical populations with emotional regulation difficulties.

In particular, I am interested in investigating how affective touch and relationships with primary caregivers can modulate behavioural and physiological responses (cardiac response, skin conductance, glycaemic response) in childhood.

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g.chiodi2@campus.unimib.it

PhD in Experimental Psychology, Linguistics and Cognitive Neuroscience

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My research interests focus on the relationship between social interactions and cognitive development in early life. In particular, I am interested in investigating how earlier social interactions influence attention to social stimuli surrounding the child, with a focus on both typical and atypical development.

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g.basset1@campus.unimib.it

Research fellow

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My research interests concern the relationship between social interactions and cognitive development in early childhood, with a specific focus on the role played by interactions with primary caregivers.

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o.fare@campus.unimib.it

Professor

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My research interests for many years concern the origins and development of the human mind and in particular the emergence of the ability to recognise and understand social stimuli: faces, emotions and actions. My research has received significant European funding (Starting Grant, European Research Council) including participation in a European network for the study of early childhood development (Innovative Training Network - H2020-MSCA). 

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chiara.turati@unimib.it

Associate Professor

My research interests include:
The relationship between emotions and the body: neurophysiological and behavioural correlates

Cooperation and altruism in the life cycle
Affective touch in typical and atypical development
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elena.nava@unimib.it

Research Fellow - Post Doc

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My research interests concern the link between learning and visual sequence recognition skills and communication and language skills throughout development, with the aim of identifying their role as early neuropsychological markers for the development of language, learning and communication difficulties. 

roberta.bettoni@unimib.it

Research Fellow - Post Doc  

My research interests lie in the processing of emotions in early childhood. In particular, I am interested in understanding how children perceive emotions throughout development and how this perception changes in atypical development, as in the case of autism spectrum disorder.     

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valentina.silvestri@unimib.it

Research Fellow - Post Doc

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My research interests lie in the development of the ability to recognise the emotions of others during infancy, and the development of understanding the actions of others in the first year of life​

elisa.roberti@unimib.it

Research Fellow - Post Doc

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My research interests focus on the relationship between emotions and the body. In particular, I am interested in the study of how the somatosensory system affects the perception and generation of emotions in a causal interaction relationship. 

michelle.giraud@unimib.it

PhD in Psychology, Linguistics and Cognitive Neuroscience

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My research interests lie in the investigation of the contribution of social factors that modulate imitative behaviour in the course of development. In particular, I am interested in investigating which factors are able to modify the imitative behaviour of pre-school children, considering in particular the characteristics of a model (e.g. its trustworthiness and/or group membership).

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a.testa22@campus.unimib.it

Research assistant

My research interests concern early forms of reasoning in early childhood. In particular, I am interested in understanding how children begin to apply logical reasoning processes in the world around them, and how this ability relates to the typical and atypical development of language and communication skills.

chiara.dondena@unimib.it