Barbara Cassone

cassoneBarbara Cassone è una dottoranda di ricerca in Psicologia, Linguistica e Neuroscienze Cognitive presso l’Università di Milano-Bicocca sotto la supervisione del Prof. Marco Tettamanti.

Si è laureata in Neuroscienze Cognitive presso il CIMeC, Università degli Studi di Trento, con una tesi sperimentale sui substrati neurali del processamento subliminale di concetti astratti e concreti. Ha poi lavorato come assegnista di ricerca per due anni al CIMeC, sotto la supervisione del Prof. Jorge Jovicich, concentrandosi sull’analisi di dati di risonanza magnetica funzionale in soggetti sani e pazienti con glioma.

Il suo progetto di dottorato mira ad indagare, usando tecniche di neuroimaging, la natura delle rappresentazioni semantiche e i meccanismi neurali che sottendono l’elaborazione di frasi con significato concreto e figurato.

News

Prossimi Appuntamenti

febbraio 3, 2025
febbraio 10, 2025
  • BIL Seminar "What does atypicality really mean? Language acquisition in autism" - Mikhail Kissine febbraio 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."

    See more details

Contatti