RICCIARDELLI PAOLA

Role
Associate professor  
Academic disciplines
General Psychology (PSIC-01/A)
Scientific-Disciplinary Group:
GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY, NEUROPSYCHOLOGY AND COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE, PSYCHOMETRICS (11/PSIC-01)
Email
[email protected]
Office phone
0264483734
Room:
  • U06, Floor: 3, Room: 3026C
Reception hours

Given the Corona Virus situation and to limit contagion the student meeting is cancelled till further notice.  However, the students can contact the lecturer via email ([email protected]) to arrange an appointment and a video call.

 

 

Biography

1990 – 1995 Laurea in Psychology (5-year degree): 110/110 cum laude, Faculty of Psychology, University of Padua, IT.

1995 – 1996 Postgraduate research training, Dept. of Biomedical Sciences, UNIMORE, IT (6 months) and Dept. of Psychology, Birkbeck College, London (6 months).

1996 -            Chartered Psychologist.

1996 –1998  Associate Research Fellow, Dept. of Psychology, Birkbeck College, UK.

1997 – 2001 PhD in Psychology (Supervisor: Prof. Jon Driver), University College London (UCL), Dept. of Psychology, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University of London, UK.

2001 – 2002 Research fellow, Dept. of Neurological and Vision Sciences, Section of Physiology, University of Verona, IT.

June 2017     Visiting Researcher, Autism Research Centre (ARC), University of Cambridge, UK.

July 2017      Visiting Researcher/Staff, Dept. of Psychology, University of Bath, UK.

CURRENT ACADEMIC POSITION

2002 –          Associate Professor, Dept. of Psychology, University of Milano – Bicocca, IT.

 

 

 

Research

Social Cognition and Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience with regard to the interactions between attention, perception, emotion, working memory updating, and action. In particular, I’m interested in how the perception of social information (e.g. gaze direction, emotion, identity, personality) from faces and from body postures and movement (biological motion) influence attention, memory and overt behaviour both in typically developed individuals and individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders.

Selective attention and attentional orienting, in particular what are the mechanisms that drive our attentional system allowing to select certain information at the expense of others and what affects cognitive control in filtering out task irrelevant information.

Publications

  • Serino, S., Actis-Grosso, R., Maisto, M., Ricciardelli, P., Steca, P. (2025). Emotion in action: A study on the enactment effect on emotional action sentences. COGNITION, 254(January 2025) [10.1016/j.cognition.2024.105974]. Detail

  • Chinello, A., Corlazzoli, G., Scuotto, R., Cadeo, S., Zappa, L., Ricciardelli, P. (2024). Comparison between SCOFF and EAT-26: an Italian Study on Young Female Adults. JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHOTHERAPY RESEARCH, 11, 34-38 [10.12974/2313-1047.2024.11.04]. Detail

  • Mohamed Aly, L., Masi, M., Montanaro, M., Ricciardelli, P. (2024). The Effect of Negative Emotion Processing on Spatial Navigation: An Experimental Study Using Virtual Reality. FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY, 14 [10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1301981]. Detail

  • Bossi, F., Ricciardelli, P., Rivolta, D. (2024). Stimulus Inversion and Emotional Expressions Independently Affect Face and Body Perception: An ERP Study. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NEURAL SYSTEMS AND REHABILITATION ENGINEERING, 32, 2914-2927 [10.1109/tnsre.2024.3439129]. Detail

  • Ricciardelli, P., Pintori, N. (2023). Effect of race on Gaze Cueing in adults with high and low autistic traits. BMC PSYCHOLOGY, 11(1) [10.1186/s40359-023-01307-y]. Detail

Full list

Research projects

PNRR per la Missione 4, componente 2 Investimento 1.1- Avviso 104/2022 | Action Interaction between Humanoid Robots and Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) within a social context (AIRCA)
Year: 2022
Call: Bando PRIN 2022
Grantors: MINISTERO DELL'UNIVERSITA' E DELLA RICERCA (MUR)
Il valore di un volto: uno studio tms/eeg per conoscere i meccanismi cerebrali dell’attenzione sociale
Year: 2016
Call: AVVISO CONGIUNTO per l’incremento dell’ attrattività del sistema ricerca lombardo e della competitività dei ricercatori candidati su strumenti ERC edizione 2016
Grantors: FONDAZIONE CARIPLO, REGIONE LOMBARDIA
Origine e natura dell'orientamento dell'attenzione in risposta allo sguardo altrui: effetti dei fattori contestuali e sociali sull'attenzione congiunta
Year: 2008
Call: 2008-029 - PRIN 2008

Awards

Awards

  • Best poster award, 1st World Congress on Facial Expression of Emotion/FEELab/UFP "The Science of Reading Human Faces". Hospital-School University Fernando Pessoa October 9-11, 2014., 2014

Scientific fellowships

  • Socio effettivo o corrispondente - International Society for Autism Research (INSAR), 2018
  • Socio effettivo o corrispondente - European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (ESCAN), 2017
  • Socio effettivo o corrispondente - European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP), 2017
  • Socio effettivo o corrispondente - Centro di Neuroscienze di Milano (NeuroMi), 2014
  • Socio effettivo o corrispondente - Associazione Italiana di Psicologia, Sezione di Psicologia Sperimentale:, 1997

Editorial boards

  • Editor di rivista, collana editoriale, enciclopedia - OPEN ACCESS SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, 2022 - 2023
  • Associate Editor di rivista o collana editoriale - Frontiers in Psychology - Perception Science, 2021
  • Associate Editor di rivista o collana editoriale - Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2021
  • Guest Editor di rivista o collana editoriale - FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY, 2017
  • Membro del Comitato Editoriale - SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, 2015
  • Guest Editor di rivista o collana editoriale - FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY, 2014 - 2016

Research and teaching assignments

  • Visiting Researcher - Visiting Researche at the Autism Research Center (ARC), Dept. of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge (UK). - University of Cambridge, 2017
  • Visiting Researcher - Visiting Researcher/Staff at the Dep. of Psychology, University of Bath (UK). - University of Bath, 2017