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QUADRELLI ERMANNO

Role
Assistant Professor  
Academic disciplines
Developmental and Educational Psychology (PSIC-02/A)
Scientific-Disciplinary Group:
DEVELOPMENTAL AND EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY (11/PSIC-02)
Office phone
Room:
  • U06, Floor: 3, Room: 3137
Reception hours

Tuesday, from 11.00 am to 12.00 pm (Room 3137)

Please, write me an email at [email protected] if you wish to arrange a meeting.

Research

My research activity focuses on the development of human social cognition, with a particular interest in the abilities that allow infants to understand others’ behaviours. I use behavioural (eye-tracking, reaction and fixation times) and electrophysiological measures (EEG, sEMG, ECG) to investigate the impact of social context characteristics (e.g., ostracism and intergroup relations) on the cognitive mechanisms and neural correlates involved in understanding others’ actions and emotions, as well as imitative behaviours in the early years of life.

Publications

  • Testa, A., Basset, G., Turati, C., Bulf, H., Quadrelli, E. (2025). The effects of ostracism on preschoolers’ over-imitation behaviors. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL CHILD PSYCHOLOGY, 249(January 2025) [10.1016/j.jecp.2024.106110]. Detail

  • Putnam, S., Sehic, E., French, B., Gartstein, M., Lira Luttges, B., Macchi Cassia, V., et al. (2024). The Global Temperament Project: Parent-reported temperament in infants, toddlers, and children from 59 nations. DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY, 1-26 [10.1037/dev0001732]. Detail

  • Testa, A., Basset, G., Turati, C., Bulf, H., Quadrelli, E. (2024). Exploring ostracism influence on behavioral reactivity and over-imitation in preschool-aged children. Intervento presentato a: Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development, Budapest. Detail

  • Linnunsalo, S., Yrttiaho, S., Turati, C., Quadrelli, E., Peltola, M., Hietanen, J. (2024). Infants’ psychophysiological responses to eye contact with a human and with a humanoid robot. BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY, 192(October 2024) [10.1016/j.biopsycho.2024.108858]. Detail

  • Basset, G., Quadrelli, E., Mermier, J., Bulf, H., Turati, C. (2023). Effects of social exclusion on infants’ behavior and neural processing of emotional faces. Intervento presentato a: Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development, Budapest. Detail

Research projects

PNRR per la Missione 4, componente 2 Investimento 1.1- Avviso 104/2022 | Intergroup dehumanization: the social, neural, and physiological roots of mind attribution in infants and adults
Year: 2022
Call: Bando PRIN 2022
Grantors: MINISTERO DELL'UNIVERSITA' E DELLA RICERCA (MUR)