Phd in SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY AND EDUCATIONAL
RESEARCH

email: allegra.cattani@uniroma1.it
phone:
building: Psicologa
room: 306

Allegra Cattani’s research expertise sits largely in early communication and language and its links to cognitive processes and perceptual and motor actions. She has always had enthusiasm in the developmental psychology of young children growing up in different languages and cultures, in particular how language experience (e.g. bimodal/bilingual languages) affects motor, cognitive and emotional abilities. She also has developed vocabulary test to screen the early word learning of English monolingual and bilingual toddlers. A recent research interest is in the developing relation between own’s and other emotional styles and language. Allegra Cattani graduated at the University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’ and completed her Ph.D. at the University of Genova. She worked at the National Research Council of Rome and at the Institute of Developmental Neurology, Psychiatry and Educational Psychology in Pisa. Then Allegra Cattani moved to England to work at the University of Plymouth UK. Allegra is now Associate Professor at the University La Sapienza in Rome, and a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the University of Plymouth, UK.