Martina Montalti, who graduated in Psychology at the University of Milano-Bicocca, conducted research at the University of East London (London, UK) and IRCCS Istituto Centro San Giovanni di Dio Fatebenefratelli (Brescia, Italy). In 2022, she earned a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the University of Parma (Italy), supervised by Professor Vittorio Gallese. From February 2022 to February 2024, she was a post-doc fellow at the University of Brescia (Italy) working in Professor Giovanni Mirabella’s lab. Currently, she is post-doc fellow in the Experimental Philosophy Lab supervised by Professor Valentina Cuccio at the University of Messina.
Her main research interests include exploring the embodiment of abstract concepts, such as sentence negation and metaphors (Montalti et al., 2023/2024; Banks et al., 2023), and the processing of emotional expressions conveyed by faces and bodies (Calbi et al., 2021/2022; Montalti & Mirabella, 2023/2024). She has also contributed to studies on motor and inhibitory control across various clinical populations (Mirabella et al., 2024).
Riferimenti bibliografici
Banks, B., Borghi, A. M., Fargier, R., Fini, C., Jonauskaite, D., Mazzuca, C., Montalti, M., Villani, C. & Woodin, G. (2023). Consensus paper: Current perspectives on abstract concepts and future research directions. Journal of Cognition, 6(1).
Calbi M*, Montalti M*, Pederzani C, Arcuri E, Umiltà MA, Gallese V and Mirabella G (2022) Emotional body postures affect inhibitory control only when task-relevant. Front. Psychol. 13:1035328. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1035328 [*These authors have contributed equally to this work and share first authorship]
Calbi, M., Langiulli, N., Ferroni, F*., Montalti, M.*, Kolesnikov, A., Gallese, V. & Umiltà, M.A., (2021). The consequences of COVID-19 on social interactions: an online study on face covering. Sci Rep 11, 2601. [*These authors contributed equally]
Mirabella, G., Pilotto, A., Rizzardi, A., Montalti, M., Olivola, E., Zatti, C., ... & Padovani, A. (2024). Effects of dopaminergic treatment on inhibitory control differ across Hoehn and Yahr stages of Parkinson’s disease. Brain Communications, 6(1), fcad350.
Montalti, M., & Mirabella, G. (2023). Unveiling the influence of task-relevance of emotional faces on behavioral reactions in a multi-face context using a novel flanker-go/no-go task. Scientific Reports, 13(1), 20183.
Montalti, M., & Mirabella, G. (2024). Investigating the Impact of Surgical Masks on behavioral reactions to Facial Emotions in the COVID-19 Era. Frontiers in Psychology, 15, 1359075.
Montalti, M., Calbi, M., Cuccio, V., Umiltà, M. A., & Gallese, V. (2021). Is motor inhibition involved in the processing of sentential negation? An assessment via the Stop-Signal Task. Psychological Research, 1-14.
Montalti, M., Calbi, M., Umiltà, M. A., Gallese, V., & Cuccio, V. (2024). The role of motor inhibition in implicit negation processing: two Go/No-Go behavioral studies. Psychological Research, 1-13.