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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I am always available for a meeting or online consultation. To schedule an appointment, please email me at: [email protected]. My office is located in U6 building, 3rd floor, Room 3026b (via Pirelli side).

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Biography

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I have a few spots open for experimental theses. Interested? Contact me to learn more at: [email protected]!

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Research

RESEARCH INTERESTS

- The impact of rhythm on infants' attention, perception and information processing skills

- The impact of perinatal experience on infants' cognition

- 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 

- 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

  • Arioli, M., Silvestri, V., Gianni, M., Colombo, L., Macchi Cassia, V. (2025). The impact of rhythm on visual attention disengagement in newborns and 2-month-old infants. COGNITION, 257(April 2025) [10.1016/j.cognition.2025.106077]. Detail

  • Arioli, M., Silvestri, V., Petrelli, A., Morniroli, D., Giannì, M., Bulf, H., et al. (2025). Newborns' Asymmetrical Processing of Order From Sequentially Presented Magnitudes. CHILD DEVELOPMENT [10.1111/cdev.70025]. Detail

  • Valenza, E., Simion, F., Umiltà, C., Macchi Cassia, V. (2025). The enduring legacy of newborns’ face preference. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-HUMAN PERCEPTION AND PERFORMANCE, 51(5), 535-542 [10.1037/xhp0001263]. Detail

  • Silvestri, V., Arioli, M., Colombo, L., Porro, M., Macchi Cassia, V. (2025). The role of visual spatial frequencies in newborns’ processing of dynamic facial expressions of emotion. DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY, 61(5), 977-988 [10.1037/dev0001757]. 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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