Formazione

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

  • 2017 –Present  Member of the Psychologists Association of Lombardy, Section A–registration number 19503, Milan – Italy
  • 2016 – Diploma for passing the government regulated professional licensure examination; University of MilanoBicocca, Milan – Italy
  • Oct. 2013 – Jul. 2015; University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan – Italy

MS in Clinical Psychology, Developmental and Neuropsychology

Thesis titled: The nature of sensorimotor facilitation by subliminal words.

under the supervision of Prof. Claudio Luzzatti and Dr. Roberto Bottini

Final mark: 108/110

  • Oct. 2007 – Jul. 2009; National School of Political and Administrative Studies (SNSPA), Bucharest, Romania

Master’s Degree in Managerial Communication & Human Resources

Thesis titled: The personality traits and the effects of emotional labor on employee work

Final mark: 9/10

  • Oct. 2003 – Jul. 2007; Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Iasi, Romania

Psychology Degree

Thesis titled: Teenagers - repressive coping style, alcohol and smoking

Final mark: 9.80/10

Carriera accademica ed attività didattica

RESEARCH AND CLINICAL EXPERIENCE

  • Nov. 2017 – present: Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMeC), University of Trento, Trento – Italy

PhD Student – Cognitive and Brain Sciences

under Prof. Costanza Papagno supervision

  • Apr. 2017 – Jul. 2017: International School for Advanced Studies(SISSA), Trieste – Italy

Research Training Fellowship for Postgraduate Students

Cognitive Neuroscience: "Word meaning within and outside awareness…”

  • Apr. 2017 – Jul. 2017 University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan – Italy

Research internship: under Dr. Nadia Bolognini supervision:

Collaborating for a Clinical Psychology and Neuroscience research project:

TMS stimulation and Paired Associative Stimulation (PAS) protocol

  • Mar. 2016 – Apr. 2017 University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan – Italy

Research internship

Collaboration for a meta-analysis project in Clinical Psychology and Neuroscience:

under Dr. Laura Danelli supervision

• Lip-reading literature review and neuro-imaging studies (PET and fMRI)

  • Sept. 2015 – Mar. 2016 San Giacomo Hospital, Ponte dell'Olio (PC) – Italy

Post graduate clinically focused internship

- psychodiagnostic evaluation, psychological counselling and motivational support

- clinical interviews, psychometric tests administration, scoring, and interpretation

  • Nov. 2014 – Jul. 2015 University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan – Italy

Undergraduate student at the MoMo Lab - Head: Prof. Davide Crepaldi

Interessi di ricerca

My research focus regards the neuro-rehabilitation field; specifically, I am interested in understanding and exploring the clinical applications of transcranial non-invasive brain stimulation (TMS, tDCS) in cognitive (language) and emotional (depression) rehabilitation of stroke patients.

Attività di ricerca

Published papers:

  • Bucur, M., & Papagno, C. (2019). Are transcranial brain stimulation effects long-lasting in post-stroke aphasia? A comparative systematic review and meta-analysis on naming performance. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews.
  • Bucur, M., & Papagno, C. (2018). A systematic review of noninvasive brain stimulation for post-stroke depression. Journal of affective disorders.
  •  Bottini, R., Bucur, M., & Crepaldi, D. (2016). The nature of semantic priming by subliminal spatial words: Embodied or disembodied?. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 145(9), 1160.

Talks and Posters:
• Bottini, R., Bucur, M., and Crepaldi, D. (2016). The nature of semantic priming by subliminal spatial words.
Embodied or disembodied? International Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Granada, Spain, 5-8 May.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:huO8ow2EoeoJ:www.ps2016.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Programa-28.4.pdf+&cd=1&hl=ro&ct=clnk&gl=ro
• Bucur, M., Bottini, R., and Crepaldi, D. (2016). Masked semantic priming is disembodied.
European Workshop on Cognitive Neuropsychology, Bressanone, Italy, 25-29 January (speaker Roberto Bottini).
https://sites.google.com/site/ewcn2016/abstract-submission/accepted-abstracts
• Bottini, R., Bucur, M., and Crepaldi, D. (2015).The nature of sensorimotor facilitation by subliminal words.
Embodied or disembodied? Embodied and Situated Language Processing, Lyon, France, 29-30 July (speaker Roberto
Bottini) http://eslp2015.sciencesconf.org/conference/eslp2015/pages/Booklet_ESLP_2015_.pdf

Appartenenza a società e comitati scientifici

2017 – present Member of the Psychologists Association of Lombardy, Section A–registration number 19503, Milan – Italy
 

Convegni e conferenze
  • October 19-21 - 10 Years of Mind/Brain Sciences at the University of Trento, CIMeC, University of Trento, Rovereto TN (ITA)
  • July 9-14 - ESOF (EuroScience Open Forum) 2018, Toulouse. France
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