MACCHI CASSIA VIOLA MARINA
- U06, Floor: 3, Room: 3026B
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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
Silvestri, V., Mastroianni, I., Geniole, S., Proietti, V., Macchi Cassia, V. (2024). Children's Trust Learns to Adapt: Social Inconsistencies Shape First Impressions. In AIP Sperimentale 2024, 30° Congresso annuale Sunday, September 22, 2024 - Wednesday, September 25, 2024 Noto (SR) Book of Abstracts (pp.38-38). Detail
Mastroianni, I., Arioli, M., Geniole, S., Proietti, V., Silvestri, V., Macchi Cassia, V. (2024). Perinatal influences on threat-cues processing in decision-making.. In AIP Sperimentale 2024, 30° Congresso annuale Sunday, September 22, 2024 - Wednesday, September 25, 2024 Noto (SR) Book of Abstracts (pp.38-39). 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
Research projects
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