Chiara Saponaro is a PhD student in Psychology, Linguistics, and Cognitive Neuroscience under the supervision of Professor Maria Teresa Guasti.
She graduated in Cognitive Science at CIMeC – University of Trento with an experimental thesis on the types of conceptual representations accessible when linguistic stimuli are presented outside of conscious processing.
Her doctoral research, part of the ERC project “Realizing Leibniz’s Dream: Child Languages as a Mirror of the Mind”, aims to investigate interpretation preferences and production patterns of semantically ambiguous sentences in children attending preschool or primary school.