Research Areas:
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Prevention and diagnosis of Learning
Disabilities:
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Speed of processing and cognitive
functioning:
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Eye-movements and cognitive-emotional
integration:
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Learning disabilities, adolescence and
emotional modulation:
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Bilingualism
Research Areas:
Prevention and diagnosis of Learning
Disabilities: development of assessment tools for early
diagnosis and prevention of Specific Learning
Disabilities.
Speed of processing and cognitive
functioning: Speed of processing is considered and index of neural
efficiency; SIP tasks are used both in case of specific and
non-specific learning disabilities.
Eye-movements and cognitive-emotional
integration: Eye movement patterns and SCR responses are
considered indexes of cognitive and affective processing.
Experimental paradigms are developed to assess cognitive-emotional
interaction through the integration of EM and SCR
indexes.
Learning disabilities, adolescence and emotional
modulation: the research is mainly focused on the interaction
among cognitive and
emotional dimensions both in typical and atypical development, with
a particular emphasis on comorbidity issues.
Bilingualism: research
on the “bilingual advantage”, development of verbal and non-verbal
tasks to assess anticipation, inhibition and cognitive control in
bilinguals
