Senior researcher at the Istc-CNR Unit of Cognitive Primatology & Primate Center and associate researcher of the EthoCebus Project

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Address: Unit of Cognitive Primatology and Primate Center
Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies
National Research Council
Via Aldrovandi 16 b - 00197 Roma

Short bio

I am currently a senior researcher at CNR, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, Rome. I got a degree in Experimental Psychology at Sapienza University of Rome, studying the factors affecting manual laterality in monkeys. Then I got a PhD in Psychobiology at the University of Padua, working on visual perceptual grouping processes in monkeys and fish. During my PhD I was a visiting student at the University of Leicester (UK), University of Georgia (USA), University College Dublin (IR). Then, I was a visiting scientist at the Universidade Federal do Parà, Belém (Brazil). In the past I was in charge as responsible for the management of the Primate Center.

Research interests

I study behaviour and cognition in humans and other animal species, with a particular focus on non-human primates. I conduct my research both in the laboratory and in the field and I mainly focus on perception and motor responses as highly interconnected processes that underlie how organisms collect information from the environment (attention, perception, and multisensory integration), use prior knowledge to interpret that information (categorization and use of rules/concepts), and produce goal-directed response behaviours (e.g., through manual actions).

Keywords: Perceptual grouping, Categorization, Hemispheric specialization, Manual dexterity, Object manipulation, Action planning, Multisensory integration.

Personal page

http://www.istc.cnr.it/it/people/valentina-truppa

Google Scholar profile https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=B37vOlwAAAAJ&hl=it