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Nov 2021-Present Junior Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, Italy
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Nov 2020-2021 Adjunct Professor, Department of Psychology, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, Italy
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Aug 2018-Aug 2020 Postdoctoral Researcher, Centre for Studies and Research in Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, Italy
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Oct 2016-Sep 2017 Visiting Research Scholar, Phelps Lab, Department of Psychology, New York University, USA
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Nov 2013-Sep 2014 Responsible for ICT & Innovation, Psychology Emotion & Research Laboratory (PER Lab), Italy
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Sep 2012-Aug 2013 Visiting Research Scholar, PMS & Perinatal Psychiatric Research Program, Yale University, USA
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Aug-Sep 2011 Undergraduate Fellow, Neuroscience and Society Lab (iNSuLa), International School of Advanced Studies (SISSA), Italy
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Jun-Aug 2010 Honorary Observer, Department of Neuropsychology, National Hospital for Neurology & Neurosurgery, University College London, UK
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Starita F., Pirazzini G., Ricci G., Garofalo S., Dalbagno D., Degni L.E.A., Magosso E., Ursino M., & di Pellegrino G. (2023) Theta and alpha power track the acquisition and reversal of threat learning and correlate with autonomic arousal. IOP23, Geneva, Switzerland (26-29 June 2023). [Invited talk]
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Starita F., Garofalo S., Dalbagno D., Degni L.E.A., & di Pellegrino G. (2023) Threat learning shapes action kinematics, The "Motor-way" to decision-making, Cesena, Italy (6 June 2023).
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Starita F., Pirazzini G., Ricci G., Garofalo S., Dalbagno D., Degni L.E.A., Magosso E., Ursino M., & di Pellegrino G. (2023) Changes in theta and alpha power mark the acquisition and reversal of threat predictions and correlate with autonomic response, European Meeting of Human Fear Conditioning, Salzburg, Austria (22-24 May 2023).
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Betti S., Badioli M., Garofalo S., di Pellegrino G., Starita F., (2022) Fear in action: Pavlovian threat learning shapes corticospinal excitability, Società Italiana di Psicofisiologia e Neuroscienze Cognitive, Udine (15-17 September 2022).
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Starita F., Garofalo S., di Pellegrino G., (2021), Fear in action: how Pavlovian fear learning shapes voluntary motor responses, European Meeting of Human Fear Conditioning, Virtual Platform (17-19 May 2021).
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Starita F., Battaglia S., Garofalo S., di Pellegrino,G., (2019), A lesion to vmPFC compromises the acquisition of fear learning, Congresso Annuale Società Italiana di Neuropsicologia 2019, Bologna, Italy (6 December 2019).
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Starita F., Kroes M.C.W., Davachi L., Phelps E.A., Dunsmoor J.E., (2019), Threat Learning Promotes Generalization of Episodic Memory, XXV Congresso AIP Sezione Sperimentale, Milan, Italy (18-20 September 2019).
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Starita F., Làdavas E., (2019), Alexithymia as impairment in constructing the internal representation of emotional stimuli, Festschrift in honor of Elisabetta Làdavas, Bologna, Italy (11-12 April 2019). [Invited talk]
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Starita F., Làdavas E., (2018), Alexithymia as impairment in constructing the internal representation of emotional stimuli, Una Giornata con AIP Sperimentale, Rome, Italy (21 September 2018). [Invited talk]
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Starita F., Bertini C., Pietrelli M., di Pellegrino G., (2017), Alexithymia as an impairment of emotional prediction, First Bologna workshop on Social, cognitive and affective neuroscience, Bologna, Italy (19 July 2017). [Invited talk]
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Starita F., Bertini C., Pietrelli M., di Pellegrino G., (2017), Alexithymia as an impairment of emotional prediction, 18th Annual Congress of the International Neuropsychoanalysis Society, London, England (13-15 July 2017).
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Starita F., Artusio L. Caruso D. Làdavas E., (2016), Alexithymia and Emotional Intelligence, Florentine Symposium on Emotional Intelligence - 2nd Edition, Florence, Italy (10-11 June 2016). [Invited talk]
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Starita F., Làdavas E., di Pellegrino G., (2016), Reduced anticipation of negative emotional events in alexithymia, XXXIV European Workshop on Cognitive Neuropsychology, Brixen, Italy (24-29 January 2016).
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Starita, F., Pirazzini, G., Ricci, G., Garofalo, S., (...) & Ursino, M., (2022). Theta and alpha
power track cognitive and sensory-motor aspects of threat predictions, Società Italiana di Psicofisiologia e Neuroscienze Cognitive, Udine (15-17 September 2022).
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Starita F., Garofalo S., Battaglia S., di Pellegrino G., (2020), Emotional learning in peripersonal space, European Meeting of Human Fear Conditioning 2020, Bochum, Germany [Poster accepted but meeting postponed due to COVID-19]
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Starita F., Garofalo S., Battaglia S., di Pellegrino G., (2019), The space of fear: emotional learning in peripersonal space, BMI Symposium: Fear learning, Lausanne, Switzerland (25-26 Nov 2019).
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Starita F., Bertini C., Pietrelli M., di Pellegrino G., (2017), Alexithymia as an impairment of emotional prediction, 18th Annual Congress of the International Neuropsychoanalysis Society, London, England (13-15 July 2017).
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Starita F., Làdavas E., di Pellegrino G., (2016), The anticipation of emotional events in alexithymia, 3rd International Conference of the European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (ESCAN), Porto, Portugal (23-26 June 2016).
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Starita F., Làdavas E., di Pellegrino G., (2016), Alexithymia and reduced anticipation of negative emotional events, 9th Annual Meeting of the Social & Affective Neuroscience Society, New York, USA (28-30 April 2016).
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Bliss C.M., Wanless S., Pieri J.W., Starita F., Artusio L., (2016), Cross-Cultural Studies, Social and Emotional Learning, American Educational Research Association, Washington, D.C., USA (8-12 April 2016).
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Starita F., Làdavas E., di Pellegrino G., (2016), Reduced anticipation of negative emotional events in alexithymia, XXXIV European Workshop on Cognitive Neuropsychology, Brixen, Italy (24-29 January 2016).
