Faculty research lines: Neuroscience curriculum

ALESSANDRO ANGRILLI
- Psychophysiological effects of spatial environment and countermeasures: role of sensory deprivation, isolation and muscle deconditioning
- Study of alterations induced by simulated microgravity on the human brain and cognition
- Psychophysiology of emotions with ecological stimulation (E-MOVIE database validation)
- Spontaneous blink rate as an ecological index of emotion, attention and fatigue
- Emotion and empathy alterations in personality disorders (Narcissism, Psychopathy, BPD, Stalking)

BARBARA ARFÈ
- Addressing the cognitive and language learning needs of children with hearing loss. 
-Text simplification for readers with special needs.
-Learning and rehabilitative tools for children with frontal brain deficits.

BERTONI SARA (WILL JOIN THE BOARD IN THE XLII SERIES)
- Attentional and perceptual mechanisms in typical and atypical neurodevelopment
Cognitive and neural plasticity induced by experience-dependent interventions (e.g., action video games, physical activity)
-Translational approaches to neurodevelopmental disorders, integrating environmental and biological influences (e.g., stress, gut–brain axis).

GIANLUCA CAMPANA
- Serial effects in perception: priming and adaptation
- Improving sensory/perceptual functions with practice
- Modulation of cortical excitability with non-invasive brain stimulation techniques: tES and TMS
- Visual motion perception (and neural bases)
- Improvement of perceptual and cognitive functions with training coupled with transcranial electrical stimulation (tES) in different types of patients

SABRINA CIPOLLETTA
- Health Psychology with a focus on illness experience, caregiving, interactions, healthcare system, and eHealth
- Psycho-social perspective on experiences (e.g. birth, death, and illness) that motivate the use of medical treatment or lead to hospitalization
- Use of electronic communication and information technologies in the health sector. 

ELISA DI GIORGIO
- Developmental cognitive neuroscience: application of an integrated approach, including behavioral (Eye-tracking) and neuroimaging measures (EEG, ERPs) to investigate cognitive functions (e.g., attention, memory and social cognition) in infancy and childhood.
- The origin of the social brain in children with typical development, high risk for neurodevelopmental disorders (e.g., preterm and autism), and atypical development (rare syndromes).
- Clinical developmental neuropsychology with a particular focus on rare diseases (e.g., Fragile X Syndrome) and rare diseases.

ANDREA FACOETTI
- Sensory,  perceptual and attentional functioning and their disorders in specific  learning disabilities (e.g., developmental dyslexia and dyscalculia), language impairment, autism spectrum disorder, Down syndrome and ADHD
- Neuropsychological rehabilitation by using perceptual learning, action video games and transcranial electrical  stimulation
- Genetic bases of specific learning disabilities.

SILVIA GABRIELLI (FBK)
- Digital Therapeutics for mental health and well-being
- Behavioral Intervention Technologies for disease prevention and care
- Pre-clinical validation of behavioral interventions for health

LUCIANO GAMBERINI
- Human-computer interaction, interaction design, ergonomics
- Work psychology, distributed cognition and user studies
- Smart city and communities
- Symbiotic systems
- Persuasive technology

MASSIMO GRASSI
- Auditory and audiovisual perception
- Improving sensory performance and ensuing improvements in cognitive performance
- Benefits of the musical training to people with poor auditory performance (e.g., hearing-impaired listeners, cochlear implantees) or specific cognitive impairments.

IRENE LEO
- Infant perceptual and motor behaviors as predictors of subsequent cognitive and language development;
- Emotional intelligence, proprioception and awareness in the development of motor skills in daily life activities and sports;
- Sport psychology and Psychological wellbeing

DANIELA MAPELLI
- Neuropsychology
- Neuropsychological rehabilitation
- Cognitive neuroscience, aging, executive functions, decision-making,
- Non-invasive brain stimulation (TMS, tdcs)

MARINA MISCIOSCIA
- Transition to parenthood in traditional and non-traditional families;
- Developmental Psychopathology (ex. Self-harm and NSSI in Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Inpatients, pediatric psychiatric emergency) ;
- Parental Burnout and parenting stress;
- Gender dysphoria in children and adolescents;
- A multi-method and multi-informant approach in the study of neuropsychological, affective-relational, and psychophysiological functioning in children with pediatric conditions (preterms, IUGR, SGA, TSC, Epilepsy).

SARA MONDINI
- Cognitive processing issues in pathological populations (neurodegenerative disorders, oncologic patients,  vascular patients, patients in pre- and post-transplantation of organs, patients with respiratory disorders)
- Identifying neuropsychological tests predicting cognitive profile and detecting mild cognitive impairment
- How cognitive/brain reserve interacts with executive functions and how it could predict the outcomes of neuro-rehabilitation or neuro-surgery
- Computerized tools to measure different patterns of cognitive abilities, for example, those needed to drive competently and in safety

TATIANA MORO
- Exercise and nutrition in older adults
- Skeletal muscle adaptation to exercise
- Intermittent fasting on health and performance

CATERINA NOVARA (external expert)
- Emotional reactivity and Hoarding Disorder
- CBT interventions in anxiety disorders  and OCD spectrum
- Reinforcement contingencies and internet addiction

MASSIMO NUCCI
- Fake Data Analysis
- Standardized measure of Cognitive Reserve
- Bayesian modeling

PATRIK PLUCHINO
- Work & Organisational Psychology with a focus on human-centered design, development, and evaluation of technologies (hardware and software) in the context of Industry 4.0/5.0 with a focus on senior workers
- Human-Computer Interaction, interaction design, ergonomics
- Eye Tracking/Psychophysiology/Electroencephalography methodologies and wearable devices to assess mental and physical stress and cognitive workload
- Design, development, and assessment of IoT for smart technological solutions for accessible, inclusive, and safe living and working environments for All, with a focus on older individuals and people with disabilities

ANTONIO PAOLI
- Interaction between diet and exercise on metabolism and skeletal muscle
- Fasting, ketogenic diet and health
- Molecular basis of exercise training adaptation
- Biomechanics of physical exercise and sport

KONSTANTINOS PRIFTIS
- Relations between the mental representation of space and the representation of various types of quantities/magnitudes (number, time, pitch, etc.)
- Design and standardization of sensitive and specific neuropsychological tests for assessing spatial disorders (such as spatial neglect) following right-hemisphere brain damage
- Disorders of object, space, and numerical processing

PAOLA RIGO
- Biological and psychodynamic bases of parenting
- Maternal Emotion Regulation
- Environmental Factors that can modulate maternal responsiveness to infant signals  identified through an integrated approach, including psychological measures, behaviours and neuroimaging (fNIRS, fMRI)

VALERIA ORSO (WILL JOIN THE BOARD IN THE XLII SERIES)
- accessible smart city
- qualitative analysis of human-machine interaction in the workplace


SILVIA SALCUNI
- Aggression, Self Control, internalizing/externalizing symptoms in Adolescence
- Therapeutic alliance in the case of specific personality (e.g. depressive; narcissistic;  dependent…) disorders
- Efficacy of specific communicative patterns emerged during psychotherapeutic interventions
- Therapeutic process within a standard vs. on-line setting.

ALESSANDRA SIMONELLI
- Models and study methods of the parental function: biological and psychological aspects
- Psychopathology of the developmental age
- Evaluation methods

ANNA SPAGNOLLI
- Usable privacy and transparency design
- Conversation analysis applied to digital interaction

- Telepresence and virtual reality to enhance prosocial behavior
- Personalization and ethics in system design


FRANCA STABLUM
- Assessment and rehabilitation of executive functions in traumatic  brain injury patients
- Assessment and rehabilitation of prospective memory in the aging population
- Assessment tools to detect mild cognitive impairment in the aging  population
- Time perception in normal and clinical populations (traumatic brain  injury and Parkinson's disease patients)


ALBERTO TESTOLIN
- Cognitive modeling using neural networks, deep learning and neuro-symbolic systems
- Cognitive aspects of Artificial Intelligence and large language models
- Numerical cognition and mathematical reasoning in AI systems
- Behavioral analysis of AI systems
- Applications of AI to environmental monitoring

ELOISA VALENZA
- Units of attention in early infancy and their cascading effects on typical and atypical development 
- From action to cognition: how motor experience influences perceptual and cognitive abilities during the development 
- The early effect of individual and environmental vulnerabilities on language acquisition

STEFANIA ZOIA (WILL JOIN THE BOARD IN THE XLII SERIES)
- Models and methods for studying motor function across the lifespan
- Psychological and neurobiological aspects related to: - Foetal movements; - Manual actions and postural control in early and middle childhood in typical and atypical development (Developmental Coordination Disorder, prematurity, and Autism Spectrum Disorder); - Relationship between motor skills, anxiety disorder, and executive abilities in adolescents.
- Validity and reliability of measurement tools in the assessment of motor function. This topic also encompasses tools for measuring handwriting compared to digital writing.