MACCHI CASSIA VIOLA MARINA
- U06, Floor: 3, Room: 3026B
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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
Silvestri, V., Arioli, M., Colombo, L., Picciolini, O., Macchi Cassia, V. (In corso di stampa). The role of visual spatial frequencies in newborns’ processing of dynamic facial expressions of emotion. DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY. Detail
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
Bettoni, R., Riva, V., Molteni, M., Macchi Cassia, V., Bulf, H., Cantiani, C. (2024). Visual rule learning in children with dyslexia. RESEARCH IN DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES, 146(March 2024) [10.1016/j.ridd.2024.104673]. 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., Bulf, H., Silvestri, V., Peykarjou, S., Macchi Cassia, V. (2023). Visual rule learning in preverbal infants and adults: Evidence from neural entrainment.. Intervento presentato a: Crossing the Borders: The Interplay of Language, Cognition, and the Brain in Early Human Development, Potsdam, Germany. 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