Dr. Arianna Zuanazzi received her BA and MA in Linguistics at the University of Pavia and the School for Advanced Studies (Italy), where she studied syntax processing in second-language learners. She then received a MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience at the Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (Italy), where she investigated the involvement of the parietal cortex in syntax processing and allocation of visuospatial attention, using TMS and tDCS. Dr. Zuanazzi received her PhD in Computational Neuroscience at the University of Birmingham (UK), where she used psychophysics, fMRI and TMS to study the interplay of spatial attention and expectation and their influence on multisensory processes. Currently, Dr. Zuanazzi is a postdoc with Dr. David Poeppel at New York University. Her research lies at the interface between Theoretical Linguistics, Cognitive Neuroscience and Neurobiology. She is investigating how the brain processes incoming speech signals and generates representations at different levels of complexity, i.e., words, phrases and sentences. Her research capitalizes on the use of multiple neuroimaging methods (i.e., functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging – fMRI, Magnetoencephalography – MEG and non-invasive brain stimulation -TMS/tDCS).
