Position: PhD Candidate
Home University: University of Nova Gorica
Home Supervisor: Arthur Stepanov
Host Supervisor: Francesco Vespignani
Project Title: The neurocorrelates of the processing of cataphora in pro-drop languages
Project Description: The project examines the real-time processing of cataphoric dependencies in pro-drop languages, focusing on predictive mechanisms and on how these mechanisms operate when the pronoun is a phonologically null and grammatically abstract category, using experimental neurocognitive (EEG) methods.
Period of stay: 01/10/2025 – 18/12/2025
Home university: university of Nova Gorica, Slovenia
Host professor: Francesco Vespignani
Interests: psycholinguistics; linguistics; processing of long-distance dependencies; EEG data in language processing studies
Period of stay: 01/10/2025 – 19/12/2025
Host Professor: Prof.ssa Paola Sessa
Home University: University of Parma
PhD student in Neuroscience at the University of Parma, visiting Padua. Studies the mirror neuron system, face-to-face interaction, empathy, and facial expression processing using behavioral methods and EEG, including research on early adversity and facial paralysis
Period of stay:
1st period (from 19/01/2023 to 31/10/2023);
2nd period (from 15/12/2023 to 30/09/2024);
3rd period (from 25/11/2025 to 18/02/2026).
Home university: Department of Psychology, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”
Host professor: Brigadoi Sabrina
Interests: I am a PhD student in “Mind Sciences.” My research focuses on two-dimensional and three-dimensional visual-constructive, graphomotor, and non-graphomotor skills in healthy individuals and those with neurodegenerative disorders. In studying these functions, I use brain activity recording techniques (fNIRS) and neurostimulation techniques (tDCS).
Period of stay: 02/03/2026 – 29/05/2026