Orsola Rosa Salva

Nov 2020 - present: Assistant Professor (RTDa)

June 2010 - 2020: Post-doc positions at the Center for Mind/Brain Sciences, Rovereto (University of Trento), under the supervision of Prof. Giorgio Vallortigara.

Jan 2007 – June 2010: PhD Research contract at the Department of General Psychology. Grant from the European research project Evolution and Development of Cognitive, Behavioural and Neural Lateralisation.

Sep 2006 – Nov 2006: Post-degree scolarship on comparative perception (title of the project “Percezione dei margini a partire da stimoli statici ed impoveriti nel pucino di pollo domestico, funded by PRIN Project 2005)”, Department of General Psychology, Padova University, Italy.

Teaching experiences:

Takes part in “Animal Cognition” lessons (topic of the lesson: “Lateralization in gaze perception”) at University of Trieste, Dept. of Psychology (2007).

Takes part in “Animal Compared Psychology” lessons (topic of the lessons: “Preferences for faces in human newborns and domestic chicks”; “Social learning in chicks”; “Test of spontaneous preferences in domestic chicks”; “Face perception a study on naïve subjects”; “Passive avoidance learning in the chick”; “The spontaneous preference test and the study of innate social competences”; “Social communication in animal species”) at University of Padova, Faculty of Psychology (2007; 2008; 2009). 

Gives 4 hours of supervised lessons on the psychobiology of attentional and memory functions, within the course of “Psychobiolgy”, University of Padova, Faculty of Psychology (2011). 

Gives 6 hours of supervised lesson on the use of animal model to investigate early social competences, within the course of Animal models, University of Trento (2011).

Gives 15 hours of lessons (2 cfu) for the course of “Animal Compared Psychology”, University of Padova, Faculty of Psychology (2012).

Gives 20 hours of lesson for the course of “Fundaments of Neuroscience”, University of Trento, Department of Psychology and Cognitive Sciences (2013).