People

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.