Marco Tettamanti

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Marco Tettamanti, Ph.D., Associate Professor in Psychobiology and Psychophysiology. In 1996, he got an M.Sc. in neurobiology and molecular biology at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel, Switzerland. In 2004, he got a Ph.D. in Neuroscience at the University of Zürich, Switzerland. From 2004 to 2018, he has been a tenured full-time IRCCS research fellow at the San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milano, Italy. From 2018 to 2022, he was Associate Professor at the Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMeC), University of Trento, Italy. In 2022, he moved to the University of Milano-Bicocca.

His research is mainly focused on the neurobiology of language, combining psycholinguistics, psychophysics, neuropsychological, and cognitive-computational methods with multimodal neuroimaging techniques (MRI, MEG, EEG, TMS) to understand the neural mechanisms underlying normal and pathological language functions and language development.

Upcoming Events

February 3, 2025
February 10, 2025
  • BIL Seminar "What does atypicality really mean? Language acquisition in autism" - Mikhail Kissine February 10, 2025 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm U6, Sala Lauree, Terzo piano

    Abstract: 
    "Research on language in autism mostly explores delayed acquisition or atypical use, the reference point being language in non-autistic individuals. Such approaches focus on language disability, but somewhat downplay the acquisition routes that may be specific to autism. More specifically, typical language development is known to be intimately linked to socio-pragmatic, joint communicative experiences. Early-onset and life-long atypicality in the socio-communicative domain are core characteristics of autism, and likely explain why language onset is often significantly delayed in autistic children. However, it is also usually assumed that language trajectories in autism should be correlated with an increase of socio-communicative skills, such as joint attention. In this talk, I will review evidence that some autistic individuals may, in fact, acquire language in spite of persisting strong socio-communicative disabilities. I will also present new results that show that some autistic children are interested in language in and of itself, independently of its communicative function, and display enhanced sensitivity to the acoustic and structural properties of the linguistic input."

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