MACCHI CASSIA VIOLA MARINA

Position:
Vice Direttore di Dipartimento (DIPARTIMENTO DI PSICOLOGIA)
Role
Full Professor  
Academic disciplines
Developmental and Educational Psychology (PSIC-02/A)
Scientific-Disciplinary Group:
DEVELOPMENTAL AND EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY (11/PSIC-02)
Email
[email protected]
Office phone
0264483708
Room:
  • U06, Floor: 3, Room: 3026B
Reception hours

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Reception hours: Mondays at 11:00 a.m. (room # 3026b, U6, 3° floor), or drop me an e-mail to schedule a meeting.

Please always write to me before attending. 

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Research

RESEARCH INTERESTS

- Development and plasticity of face processing biases (race bias, age bias) across the lifespan 

- Social attributions based on facial information across development

- Interactions between biological and cultural factors in driving spatial biases across development 

- Magnitude representation in infants

- Serial order processing in infancy

- Implicit learning in infancy (rule learning)

 

RESEARCH METHODS

- Looking time measures (visual habituation/familiarization, prefential looking)

- Eye-tracking 

- Event-Related Potentials (ERPs)

- Mental chronometry (Accuracy and Reaction Times measures)

Publications

  • Bettoni, R., Conte, S., Macchi Cassia, V. (In corso di stampa). A multi-lab approach to infant studies: examples from the Bicocca Child&BabyLab.. Intervento presentato a: Congresso Annuale Italian Reproducibility Network 2023 (ITRN)., ROMA. 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

  • Bettoni, R., Riva, V., Molteni, M., Macchi Cassia, V., Bulf, H., Cantiani, C. (2024). Rules generalization in children with dyslexia. RESEARCH IN DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES, 146(March 2024) [10.1016/j.ridd.2024.104673]. Detail

  • Silvestri, V., Giraud, M., Macchi Cassia, V., Nava, E. (2024). Touch Me or Touch Me Not: Emotion Regulation by Affective Touch in Human Adults. EMOTION, 24(4), 913-922 [10.1037/emo0001320]. Detail

  • Silvestri, V., Macchi Cassia, V. (2024). Perception of Facial Cues to Trustworthiness in Infancy: Insights from the Spatial Frequency Filtering Approach. JAPANESE PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH, 66(4), 386-402 [10.1111/jpr.12531]. Detail

Full list

Research projects

PNRR per la Missione 4, componente 2 Investimento 1.1- Avviso 104/2022 | The impact of rhythmic and predictable patterns on neuro-cognitive development
Year: 2022
Call: Bando PRIN 2022
Grantors: MINISTERO DELL'UNIVERSITA' E DELLA RICERCA (MUR)
Early markers of Language-Learning Impairment
Year: 2017
Call: PRIN 2017
Grantors: M.I.U.R. - MINISTERO DELL'ISTRUZIONE, DELL'UNIVERSITA' E DELLA RICERCA
Il ruolo dell'informazione spaziale nell'ontogenesi della rappresentazione di quantità
Year: 2007
Call: 2007-027 - Prin 2007

Awards

Scientific fellowships

  • Fellow - Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 2015

Editorial boards

  • Membro del Comitato Editoriale - INFANCY, 2018 - 2100
  • Associate Editor di rivista o collana editoriale - BRITISH JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY, 2012 - 2100

Research and teaching assignments

  • Visiting Researcher - Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Invitation Fellowship - Chuo University, 2015

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