Studies and Education
1987 – Degree in Philosophy at the University of Bologna
– Degree Thesis: “The subject's inferences in text comprehension.
An experiment” (supervisor Prof. Stefania Stame).
1987-88/1988-89 – she is Laureato Frequentatore at the
Dept of Psychology, University of Bologna
1991 - Erasmus scholarship at he University of
Exeter (UK)
1994 – PhD in Psychology (experimental) with the
dissertation: “The role of scenarial information in anaphoric
resolution of pronouns and proper names”
1994-96 – post-PhD scholarship (two years) for the
research project: “Mental models and inferences in clinical
reasoning”
1998 — she is Researcher at Communication Sciences,
Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities, University of Bologna
2005 – she is Associate Professor at Communication
Sciences, Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities, University of
Bologna
2005-2208 – she completed the Master in Professional
Gestalt Counseling at ASPIC Bologna
Research Activity
1988-1992 : she develops research projects in the
following topics: pragmatic connectives, development of
comunicative competence, metaphor and conceptual and lexical
knowledge
1991 – research project about inferences and
syntactic deficits in agrammatic patients at the Dept of Psychology
, University of Exeter (UK), (coordinator Prf. Janice Kay)
1993-1996 : she develops research projects in
the following topics: anaphor resolution, inferences in text
comprehension, mental models in clinical reasoning
1993 - project about mental models and anaphor
resolution at the Dept of Psychology, University of Sussex -
Brighton (UK), (coordinator dr. Jane Oakhill, Alan Garnham)
1997-2001 : she develops research projects in
the following topics: strategies of cohesion in face to face
interaction, misunderstanding and communicative conflict,
qualitative and quantitative analysis of therapeutic relation
2002- 2005 : she develops research projects in
the following topics: narration as cognitive and communicative
strategy, listening in agreement construction, identity in
interaction
2006-2007 : main research interests:
narration and interaction, autobiographical memory, narration of
personal identity, language and communication
Other research projects: spatial attention for
relevant and not relevant stimuli; language, perception and motor
system; concepts of objects and interaction between perception and
action: the role of affordances
Teaching Activity
1987- 1999 : she gives seminars and lessons for
the following courses: Psychology, Psycholinguistics, Psychology of
development of language and communication, Psychology of
Communication at the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities and at
the Faculty of Psychology, University of Bologna
1998 – lessons for the Specialization Course in
Language and Learning Disorders – Dept of Psychology, University of
Bologna
1999 - lessons for the course ACPBO 00698
()(/0451) In Technologies of Communication within the Italian Sign
Language
2000- 2008: she is in charge of the following
courses: Psychology of Communication, Psychology of Situated
Communication, Interview Theory and Technique, Narrative Psychology
for Communication Sciences at the Faculty of Philosophy and
Humanities, University of Bologna
2009-2011 she is in charge of the following
courses: Psychology of Communication for Communication Sciences at
the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities, University of Bologna;
Psychology and Social Communication for Public and Social
Communication, University of Bologna
