Biographical profile
Associate Professor in General Psychology (SSD M-PSI/01) at the Department of Communication and Economics of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. She graduated in General and Experimental Psychology at the University of Padua and obtained the PhD in Psychology of Cognitive Processes at the University of Bologna. She has been Visiting Researcher at the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences of the University of Texas, Dallas (United States), Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (United States), Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management of the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa (Israel). His research interests concern in particular lo study of the relationship between attention, perception and action, the influence of the social context on cognitive functioning and the mechanisms underlying shared action. She is the author of several articles published in international journals and has taken part in several national and international funded projects.