People

Principal Investigator

Prof. Marco Marelli

Full Professor

Principal investigator of the project, unjustifiably proud of the “BraveNewWord” pun. Trying to put together psychology, linguistics, neuroscientific methods and computational approaches to better understand how we use language to structure meaning and make sense of the world around us.

Post-doctoral Researchers

Dr Rolando Bonandrini

Postdoctoral Researcher

My background is in Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience and Functional Neuroimaging. I am interested in how the brain and its two hemispheres “read” familiar and novel words. 

Fabio Marson, PhD

Postdoctoral Researcher

I have a background in Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience. I am interested in how linguistic experience guides the inference of word meanings using electrophysiological and behavioral techniques.

Iva Saban, PhD

Postdoctoral Researcher

I hold a PhD degree in cognitive psychology and am passionate about understanding how learning modulates our behaviour and shapes the way we process new information

Post-doctoral Researchers

Giulia Loca

PhD Student

I hold a Master’s degree in Language Sciences and I am interested in how new meanings can be induced through form-meaning associations in novel words

Research Assistants

Andrea Di Masi

Research Assistant

I have completed my degree in psychology focusing on Personality Theories, however other fields I am devoted to include; Psycholinguistics, Language processing, and cognition.