Role
Full Professor of Neurology at the University of Trento.
Bio
A graduate of Medicine and Surgery and a specialist in Neurology from the University of Milan, she earned a PhD in Psychobiology and conducted research abroad at the Universities of Fribourg and Cambridge. She is a full professor of Neurology at the University of Trento, where she directs the Center for Neurocognitive Rehabilitation (CeRiN). Previously, she was a full professor of Psychobiology at the University of Milan-Bicocca, where she headed the Department of Psychology and coordinated the Doctoral School in Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, while also serving as president of the Italian Society of Neuropsychology.
His scientific work focuses on the neural correlates of short- and long-term memory and the role of the latter in language learning. He has conducted pioneering studies on auditory perception and language development in profoundly deaf individuals treated with cochlear implants, as well as on the effects of transcranial electrical stimulation (tDCS).
Her major contributions include the characterization of the functions of the uncinate fasciculus in proper name retrieval and the assessment of cognitive deficits in cerebral gliomas in neurosurgery. Author of numerous international publications in journals such as Brain, Cortex, and Neuropsychologia, she serves on the scientific committees of leading neuropsychology journals and is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Neuropsychology. She chaired the group that published the first Italian guidelines on the treatment of aphasia.