Noemi Mazzoni

• Phd
• PostDoc Position at University of Trento

This study explores the conditional dependencies among items in Raven’s Colored Progressive Matrices (CPMs), a non-verbal measure of cognitive ability and fluid intelligence, within a sample of school-aged children. To this aim, we applied Bayesian networks (BNs) to data obtained from 255 participants, aged 4 to 11 years. We evaluated a variety of...

This study explores the conditional dependencies among items in Raven’s Colored Progressive Matrices (CPMs), a non-verbal measure of cognitive ability and fluid intelligence, within a sample of school-aged children. To this aim, we applied Bayesian networks (BNs) to data obtained from 255 participants, aged 4 to 11 years. We evaluated a variety of...

Introduction Understanding individual cognitive profiles is crucial for developing personalized educational interventions, as cognitive differences can significantly impact how students learn. While traditional methods like factor mixture modeling (FMM) have proven robust for identifying latent cognitive structures, recent advancements in deep lear...

This study explores the conditional dependencies among items in Raven's Colored Progressive Matrices (CPM), a non-verbal measure of cognitive ability and fluid intelligence, within a sample of school-aged children. To this aim, we applied Bayesian networks (BNs), to data obtained from 255 participants, aged 4 to 11 years. We evaluated a variety of...

This study explores the conditional dependencies among items in Raven’s Colored Progressive Matrices (CPMs), a non-verbal measure of cognitive ability and fluid intelligence, within a sample of school-aged children. To this aim, we applied Bayesian networks (BNs) to data obtained from 255 participants, aged 4 to 11 years. We evaluated a variety of...

Our study examined the complex relationships among reading performance (decoding, comprehension) and language, visuo-spatial, and attentional control abilities in 115 Italian-speaking children. Latent profile analysis was used to identify distinct clusters of participants showcasing quantitative differences in decoding skills, including word, pseud...

Cognitive profiling plays a crucial role in understanding learning dynamics, it contributes significantly to the development of students’ metacognitive skills and awareness of the learning process, thereby facilitating the adoption of tailored learning experiences. Clustering, proves effective in cognitive profiling. However, the challenge of the “...

Cognitive profiling plays a crucial role in understanding learning dynamics , it contributes significantly to the development of students' metacognitive skills and awareness of the learning process, thereby facilitating the adoption of tailored learning experiences. Clustering, proves effective in cognitive profiling. However, the challenge of the...

Assessing executive functions in individuals with disorders or clinical conditions can be challenging, as they may lack the abilities needed for conventional test formats. The use of more personalized test versions, such as adaptive assessments, might be helpful in evaluating individuals with specific needs. This paper introduces PsycAssist, a web-...

Although it is increasingly common to use digital games for the cognitive training, to date there is still a need for more studies of the effectiveness of neuropsychological treatments based on digital games, especially for populations with Specific Learning Disorders (SLDs). This study aims to present the effectiveness of Eye-Riders, a serious gam...

La didattica a distanza (DaD) attivata durante l'emergenza Covid-19 ha fatto emergere criticità per quanto riguarda la partecipazione di alunni/e con bisogni educativi speciali (BES). In risposta a questi nuovi bisogni, col progetto BESt-DaD è stata realizzata una piattaforma di facile fruizione, funzionale a diversi profili neurocognitivi, per pro...

Research during the COVID-19 pandemic has shown a strong relationship between child symptoms, parental stress, and mental health challenges. The pandemic has changed family routines, worsening child symptomatology and parental burden. The aim of this study was to investigate how the magnitude of the perceived changes in child externalizing behavior...

The present study aims to investigate cross-cultural differences and similarities in maternal and children’s adjustment to COVID-19 restrictions in Spain and Italy, with reference to determinants of maternal stress. A total of 950 mothers (45.4% from Spain, n = 432, Mage = 39.6, years old, SD = 5.2 and 54.5% from Italy, n = 518, Mage = 40.5, years,...

With the emergence of COVID-19 pandemic, parents of children with neurodevelopmental disorder (NDD) faced further challenges due to the drastic changes in family routines and the sudden abruption of regular professional support from school and healthcare services. Recent findings on this topic highlighted that perceived parental stress and child's...

Background. Autism Spectrum Disorder is often associated with deficits in executive functions (EFs), which is contributing significantly to individuals with ASD’s difficulties in conducting an independent life, particularly considering social skills. Technologies offer promising opportunities to structure EF intervention programs for children on th...

Evidence of psychological distress in families during COVID‐19 outbreak are arising. However, the perceived changes in psychological adjustment during home confinement with respect to the period before the pandemic have not been addressed yet. Moreover, little is known about the role of coparenting and specific COVID‐19 contextual variables on pare...

In this study, we investigated whether the difficulties in body motion (BM) perception may led to deficit in emotion recognition in Autism spectrum disorder (ASD). To this aim, individuals with high-functioning ASD were asked to recognise fearful, happy, and neutral BM depicted as static images or dynamic point-light and full-light displays. Result...

Research on the psychological impact of the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted negative effects on the general population and particularly on parents. However, little is known about families of children with Neurodevelopmental Disorder (NDD). The present study investigated parental stress, coparenting, and child adjustment in Italian families with child...

The recognition of emotional body movement (BM) is impaired in individuals with Autistic Spectrum Disorder ASD, yet it is not clear whether the difficulty is related to the encoding of body motion, emotions, or both. Besides, BM recognition has been traditionally studied using point-light displays stimuli (PLDs) and is still underexplored in indivi...

A defective attention to faces and eyes characterizes autism spectrum disorder (ASD), however, the role of contingent information – such as the task instructions – remains still unclear. Our study aimed to investigate the face-orienting response and the subsequent attentive selection in the presence of varying task instructions in individuals with...

Abstract: Given the protracted development of gaze-following (GF), research has focused on the visual cues promoting GF: studies on Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) showed that children with ASD respond differently to these cues. This study aims to investigate the effect of specific cues in typical and atypical development with a novel analytical ap...

Parents and children form a family: their characteristics balance personal and family well-being with healthy levels of stress. Research on parents of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) demonstrated that higher levels of parental stress are associated with communication impairment, a core symptom of ASD. The aim of this article is to disc...

Background: Humans present a strong face-orienting response and a visual preference for faces from birth. Consistent evidence indicates that defective attention to faces and other humans characterizes Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Objectives: In our eye-tracking study, we aimed to investigate the face-orienting response and the subsequent attenti...

In humans, recognition of others’ actions involves a cortical network that comprises, among other cortical regions, the posterior superior temporal sulcus (pSTS), where biological motion is coded and the anterior intraparietal sulcus (aIPS), where movement information is elaborated in terms of meaningful goal-directed actions. This action observati...

Attentional regulation and social cognition impairments have been reported in patients with Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Particularly, attention allocation becomes problematic when a social content is presented. Nonetheless, contrasting results suggest that individual and contextual factors, due to stimulus and experimental setting, could play...

Background: The moving human body is a nuance-rich cue of others’ attitude: patients with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) often fail to figure out its meaning and show anomalous pattern of brain activation during motion perception. Besides, their ability to recognize emotion is generally impaired, especially when conveyed by biological elements – mo...

Empathy is the tendency to experience other individuals’ emotions and a response focused on others’ situation (Albiero et al, 2009). Empathy is necessary to understand others’ feelings and establish successful relations. The Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI) measures four components of empathy (2 cognitive and 2 affective subscales), while the E...