Elisa Scerrati is Adjunct Professor at the University of Bologna
Recent Affiliations:
Università degli Studi di Bologna
elisa.scerrati@unibo.it [mailto:elisa.scerrati@unimore.it]
elisa.scerrati@ [mailto:elisa.scerrati@gmail.com] unimore.it
Dipartimento di Filosofia e Comunicazione
Via A. Gardino, 23
Bologna, Italy
Research Interest
Primary: Cognitive Psychology (perception, attention and action), Psycholinguistics (word meanings and concepts), Cognitive ergonomics
Secondary: Logic, Philosophy of language
Research Experiences
Postdoc, Department of Biomedical, Metabolic and Neural Sciences
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, October 2020 – September 2022
Tutor activities: Supervision of research activities of students in the lab and remotely; Hold a tutor group discussion or question time debate
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, October 2019 – September 2022
Lab Manager (Human Cognition Lab): programming of lab- and web-based experiments by using E-Prime and Gorilla, respectively
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, October 2017 - September 2022
Postdoc, Department of Education and Human Sciences
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, October 2017 – September 2020
Visiting PhD student, School of Arts and Social Sciences, Department of Psychology. Worked in Prof. James Hampton's lab on categorization, concepts and conceptual combination
City, University of London, October 2014 - June 2015
PhD student in “Science Cognition and Technology”
University of Bologna, October 2013 – March 2017
Teaching Experiences
Adjunct Professor
University of Bologna, September 2022 -
Teaching Assistant:
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, September 2022 –
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, September 2022 –
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, September 2019 –
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, March 2020 – May 2020
- Co-Supervision of Undergraduate Theses:
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, 2018 – 2022
by Margherita Davoli, Supervisor Prof. Sandro Rubichi (2022)
by Sara Dragoni, Supervisor Prof. Sandro Rubichi (2022)
by Simone Tolino, Supervisor Prof.ssa Cristina Iani (2021)
by Melissa Crevacore, Supervisor Prof. Sandro Rubichi (2020)
by Sara Gambetta, Supervisor Prof. Sandro Rubichi (2018)
Education
PhD Science, Cognition and Technology (SCT), University of Bologna, 2017
Visiting PhD student, City, University of London, October 2014 - June 2015
M.A. Philosophical Sciences (Magna cum laude), University of Bologna, 2012
Master in Literature and Publishing for children, University of Roma Tre, 2005-2006
B.A. Philosophy (Magna cum laude), University of Bologna, 2005
Grants and Honours
Postdoc fellowship, University of Modena e Reggio Emilia, 2017 – 2022
Volkswagen Foundation Grant for attending the Summer School “Concepts in Action: Representation, Learning and Applications (CARLA)”, Osnabrück University, 2018
Doctoral fellowship, University of Bologna, 2013 – 2016
Scientific Reviewer
2017 -
Attention, Perception and Psychophysics
Cognition
Cognitive Science
Cortex
Frontiers in Psychology
Giornale Italiano di Psicologia
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance
Journal of Memory and Language
PlosOne (Academic Editor)
Psychological Research
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
Scientific Reports
Memberships
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American Psychological Association (APA)
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Associazione Italiana di Psicologia (AIP);
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European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP)
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Psychonomic Society
Conferences
2022, ISRE, International Society for Research on Emotion Conference, poster: The combined effect of gaze and face emotion on action. Los Angeles, California, USA 15-18 luglio.
2021, AIP, Associazione Italiana di Psicologia - XXVII Congresso Nazionale della sezione di Psicologia Sperimentale, mini-talk: Effetti di priming affettivo durante la pandemia: differenze individuali. Online Meeting, September 8-10
2020 Psychonomic Society – 61st Annual Meeting, poster: The effect of gaze-oriented attention on handle-response compatibility effects, Online Meeting, November 19-21.
2020 AIP, Associazione Italiana di Psicologia - XXVI Congresso Nazionale della sezione di Psicologia Sperimentale, mini-talk: Does action representation facilitate word processing? Online Meeting, September 2-4 settembre
2019 ESCoP 21st Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology, poster presentation: Unconfounding compatibility effects with graspable objects. Tenerife, Spain, September 25-28
2019 AIP, Associazione Italiana di Psicologia - XXV Congresso Nazionale della sezione di Psicologia Sperimentale, mini-talk: Il ruolo della valenza emotiva in compiti di compatibilità spaziale con oggetti afferrabili. Milan, Italy, September 18-20
2019 AIP, Associazione Italiana di Psicologia - XXV Congresso Nazionale della sezione di Psicologia Sperimentale, mini-talk: Effetti di corrispondenza con oggetti afferrabili: uno studio sulle caratteristiche degli stimoli. Milan, Italy, September 18-20
2019 International Convention of Psychological Science (ICPS), poster presentation: Do my hands prime your hands? Effects of (grasped) handles on keypress responses with two-handled objects. Paris, France, March 7-9
2018 Cognitive Structures (CoSt18) Linguistic, Philosophical, and Psychological Perspectives, oral presentation: The modifier effect with unknown subcategories. Düsseldorf, Germany, September 12-14
2018 CARLA workshop, Concepts in Action: Representation, Learning and Application, oral presentation: Does the activation of motor information affect semantic processing? Osnabrück, Germany, August 11-12
2018 AIP, Associazione Italiana di Psicologia - XXIV Congresso Nazionale della sezione di Psicologia Sperimentale, poster presentation: Effects of (grasped) handles alignment on keypress responses with two-handled objects. Madrid, Spain, July 3-6
2018 Cognitive Science Arena (CSA), poster: Is there an affordance effect with two-handled objects? Brixen (Bz), Italy, February 23-24
2016 Abstract Concepts Symposium, Structure, Processing and Modeling, poster: A study on abstract concepts with the extrinsic Simon task. Amsterdam, The Netherlands, November 18
2016 CogSci, Recognizing and Representing Events: Integrating Psychological, Philosophical, Linguistic, Computational and Neural Perspectives, poster: Seeing the Bees Buzz and Hearing the Diamonds Glisten: The Effect of the Mode of Presentation of Stimuli on the Modality-Switch Effect. Philadelphia, PA, USA, August 10-13
2016 Emergent Meaning workshop, Neural, Social, and Computational Perspectives, poster: Does the Mode of Presentation of Stimuli Affect Modality-Switching Costs? A Study with the Lexical Decision Task. Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA, August 10
2016 ICT conference, International Conference on Thinking, poster: Is the color of “Culture” visual or auditory? A study on abstract concepts with the Extrinsic Simon task. Brown University, Providence, RI, USA, August 4-6
2016 ModelAct conference, Action, Language and Cognition, poster: Is the acoustic modality relevant for abstract concepts? An investigation with implicit measures. Rome, Italy, June 6-7
2015 ESCoP, 19th Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology, poster: Visually and aurally presented prime sentences automatically activate our senses. Paphos, Cyprus, September 17-20
2015 AIP, Associazione Italiana di Psicologia - XXI Congresso Nazionale della sezione di Psicologia Sperimentale, oral presentation: Il ruolo della modalità del contenuto e del modo di presentazione dello stimolo nella determinazione del modality-switch effect. Rovereto, Italy, September 10-12
2015 EPS workshop, Language in context: An ecological turn to embodied language, poster: The modality-switch effect: New insights from language processing. London, United Kingdom, January 10-11
2014 AIP, Associazione Italiana di Psicologia - XX Congresso Nazionale della Sezione di Psicologia Sperimentale, oral presentation: Il Modality-switch Effect in uno studio sui concetti: evidenze a favore di un priming percettivo di tipo linguistico. Pavia, Italy, September 15-17
2014 ESLP conference, Embodied and Situated Language Processing, poster: The Modality-switch effect: New insights from language processing. Rotterdam, The Netherlands, August 19-21
International Summer Schools
online, August 2021
Osnabrück University; Osnabrück - Germany, August 2018
New Bulgarian University; NBU, Sofia - Bulgaria, July 2013
University of Milan; Gargnano - August 2012
University of Milan; Gargnano - August 2011
