Tommaso Ghilardi
Developmental Science PhD
About Me
I am a PhD candidate at the Donders Institute, currently working on the MOTION European project (MSCA): "Mobile Technology for Infant Social-Cognitive Neuroscience: Interdisciplinary Training Network for Innovative Infancy Research".
I am fascinated by social-cognitive development in early childhood and how this development shows in the brain and behaviour. My main interest understanding how infants are able to extract complex statistical information from the environment around them and use this knowledge to predict what will happen next. I use EEG and fNIRS to explore the neural correlates of action observation and prediction in infancy. I use eye-tracking (pupillometry) to study how infants can predict the value of upcoming information.
- Age 29
- Employer Donders Center for Cognition
- Group Baby Brain
- Residence Nethelands
- E-mail tommaso.ghilardi@donders.ru.nl
What I Do
Affiliations
Short Resume
Main experiences
2018 - Current
Donders Centre for CognitionPhD developemntal science
PhD at the Baby and Child Research Center.
2019 - Current
Donders Centre for CognitionEEG Lab support
EEG lab trainings
2022
Birkbeck UniversityVisiting PhD
Visit to the Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development
2015 - 2018
University of TrentoInternship
Intership at the Affiliative Behavior and Physiology Lab.
2016 - 2017
Nagasaki UniversityThesis Research Erasmus+
Thesis research projects conducted at the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior.
Education
2016-2018
University of TrentoM.Sc. Pychology-Neuroscience
First Class Honours.
Thesis title : Ethnicity and gender modulate the recognition of emotional facial expression.
2013-2016
University of TrentoB.Sc. Sciences and techniques of cognitive psychology
Coding Skills
Python
R
Matlab
Experiment design
Psychopy
Presentation
Media Creation Skills
Photoshop
Premiere Pro
Illustration
Techniques
- EEG
- fNIRS
- Eye-tracking
- Pupillometry
- Behavioural
- EMG
Awards
Travel grant
Travel Award
Merit Award Trento University
Blog
Sometimes I like to write short blogs about things that happen in my phd or in my life that I think are interesting. I hope that sharing my experiences might be of help/entertainment to someone.
If Coding == True: Research
Hobby
In my free time, I enjoy taking photographs of what is happening around me...
Research
Articles
Talks & Posters
Poster - 2022
Predicting the value of information: an infant study. The International Congress of Infant Studies (ICIS) / Lancaster Conference on Infant & Early Child Development (LCICD)
Poster - 2022
Statistics in motion: Does the infant motor system predict actions based on their transitional probability?. The International Congress of Infant Studies (ICIS)
Talk - 2022
Statistics in motion: predicting actions based on their transitional probability. Conference on Interdisciplinary Advances in Statistical Learning (StatLearnBCBL)
Poster - 2020
Building action expectations in infants: An fnirs study. Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development(BCCCD).
Poster - 2018
The influence of ethnicity in the recognition ability of emotional faces and voices, Cognitive Science Arena (CSA).
Poster - 2017
Genetic factors and adults’ expectations towards relationships interact in affecting physiological responsesto social distress, Workshop on Cognition Evolution (CogEvo)