MACCHI CASSIA VIOLA MARINA

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

  • Valenza, E., Bettoni, R., Macchi Cassia, V. (2026). The analysis of attentive components of Responding Joint Attention in infancy. GIORNALE ITALIANO DI PSICOLOGIA, 53(2), 473-489 [10.1421/120868]. Detail

  • Bettoni, R., Rinaldi, L., Macchi Cassia, V. (2026). Serial-order and rule-learning abilities in children with musical training. MUSICAE SCIENTIAE, 30(2 (June 2026)), 239-260 [10.1177/10298649251385669]. Detail

  • Bettoni, R., Bulf, H., Silvestri, V., Peykarjou, S., Macchi Cassia, V. (2026). Neural entrainment to visual rules in infant and adult brain. SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, 16(1), 1-13 [10.1038/s41598-025-31294-6]. Detail

  • Consales, A., Arioli, M., Addabbo, M., Bulf, H., Silvestri, V., Turati, C., et al. (2026). Oxytocin and early life stress in late preterm newborns: an exploratory study. PSYCHONEUROENDOCRINOLOGY, 188(June 2026), 1-11 [10.1016/j.psyneuen.2026.107851]. Detail

Full list

Research projects

ManyBabies Grant Application
Year: 2026
Grantors: THE TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
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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