Alessia Tessari, PhD, MSc
Associate Professor at the University of Bologna, Italy. Department of
Psychology. Professor of “Cognitive Psychology”, "Experimental
Psychology", "Sport, psychological and cognitive wellbeing".
Research interest
- Body representations
- Action imitation
- Apraxia
- Object use
- Physical exerice and cognitive abilities in children and old adults
Education
2004 PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience cum laude at S.I.S.S.A.
(International School for Advanced Studies), Trieste, Italy.
2000 Master in Forensic Psychology, University of Padova, Italy.
1998 Laurea in Experimental Psychology (Master degree), University of
Padova, Italy.
Research experiences
2014-presente: Associate Professor at the University of Bologna
2005-2014: Assistant Professor at the University of Bologna
Sep 2007–Feb 2008: Visiting researcher at the Centre de Neurosciences
Cognitives, CNRS, Lyon, France.
2004: Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience: CONCEPTS, ACTIONS and
INTENTIONS. Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA.
2002: Visiting scholar at the Institute of Medicine (IME),
Forschungszentrum, Jülich, Germany.
2001: Marie Curie PhD student at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience
(ICN), University College London, UK.
2000: Research Assistant at S.I.S.S.A., Trieste, Italy.
