Alessandro LAUDANNA | Curriculum
Alessandro LAUDANNA Curriculum
Alessandro Laudanna is Full Professor of General Psychology at the University of Salerno.
Research interests: models of representations and cognitive functions, comprehension and production of language, lexical processes, numerical processing.
Member of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCOP), member of the Behavioral and Brain Society, full member of the Italian Association of Psychology (AIP), where he was a member of the Board from 1996 to 2002, Chairman of the Scientific Committee from 1996 to 1999; he is currently the National Coordinator of the Section of Experimental Psychology.
Occasional reviewer for the following journals: Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Brain and Cognition, Brain and Language, Cognitive Neuropsychology, Cortex, European Journal for Cognitive Psychology, Italian Journal of Linguistics, Journal of Cognitive Neurosciences, Journal of Memory and Language, Language and Cognitive Processes, Memory and Cognition, Psychological Research. He was a member of the Editorial Board of the Italian Journal of Linguistics, where in 2002 he edited a special issue on processing of nouns and verbs.
He is the author (or co-author) of about one hundred international and national publications .
Latest publications in peer-reviewed journals:
De Martino, M., Bracco, G.C. and Laudanna, A. (2011). The activation of grammatical gender information in processing Italian nouns. Language and Cognitive Processes, 26, 745-776.
Gazzellini, S. and Laudanna, A. (2011). Digit repetition effect in two-digit number comparison. Journal of Psychology, 219, 30-36.
From 2010 to 2012 he was the National Coordinator of the project PRIN "Names and verbs: interaction between grammatical, morphological and semantic factors in accessing the mental lexicon", funded by the Italian Ministry of University, Education and Research (MIUR).