Barbara Cassone is a PhD student in Psychology, Linguistics and Cognitive Neuroscience, under the supervision of Prof. Marco Tettamanti.
She graduated in Cognitive Neuroscience at CIMeC, University of Trento, discussing an experimental thesis about the neural substrates of the subliminal processing of concrete and abstract concepts. She then worked for two years as a research assistant at CIMeC, under the supervision of Prof. Jorge Jovicich, focusing on the analysis of functional magnetic resonance data in healthy subjects and patients with glioma.
Her PhD research aims at investigating the nature of semantic representations and the neural mechanisms devoted to the processing of concrete and figurative sentences, by using neuroimaging techniques.
