Senior Researchers

Barbara Arfé
Associate Professor of Developmental and Educational Psychology
Delegate of the rector for inclusion and disabilities.
Research interests: learning to write and writing disabilities; classroom noise and cognitive performance; deafness, learning and literacy acquisition; computational thinking and executive functioning.

Lucia Mason
Professor of Developmental and Educational Psychology
President-elect of the European association for Research on learning and Instruction (EARLI)
Research interests: conceptual development and change; learning from texts and multimedia materials; evaluation and comprehension of online information; school physical environment and cognitive performance.

Sara Scrimin
Associate Professor of Developmental and Educational Psychology
Research interests: effects of stress on child development; individual differences in child physiological self-regulation.
Junior Researchers

Flavia Gheller
Assistant Professor of Applied Medical Sciences
Research interests: auditory plasticity; classroom acoustics; noise effects on children’s cognitive performance.

Tania Cerni
Postdoctoral Researcher
Research interests: Linguistic and sensorimotor aspects of writing; Writing difficulties in learning disabilities; Cognitive, emotional, and motivational factors in literacy and numeracy competencies.

Chiara Montuori
PhD student in Brain, Mind and Computer Science
Research interests: computational thinking and executive functioning; gender differences in computational thinking and computer science

Angelica Ronconi
PhD student in Psychological Sciences
Research interests: reading comprehension on paper and screen; learning from videos; metacognition.

Gaia Spicciarelli
PhD student in Brain, Mind and Computer Science
Research interests: classroom acoustics; noise and learning; deafness and learning.