Curriculum Vitae
Orsola Rosa Salva
Personal:
Date of Birth: 18 June 1982, Venice, Italy
Affiliation: Centro Interdipartimentale Mente e Cervello - Center for Mind/Brain Sciences
Corso Bettini 31, 38068, Rovereto, Italy
E-Mail: [email protected]
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Professional position:
June 2010 - present: 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.
Education:
March 2010:
On the 30th March 2010 discuss her PhD thesis titled: “Early
predispositions for social stimuli: the case of face perception. Perceptual
properties underling face preferences in domestic chicks (Gallus gallus
domesticus)”.
March 2008-May 2008: Spend three months at the Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development,
Birkbeck College, University of London, studying and conducting research
under the supervision of Prof. Mark Johnson. Research conducted involves
investigation of the neural basis of early social competences in human
infants.
Jan 2007- Dec 2009:
PhD program in perception and psychophysics (under the supervision of
Prof. Lucia Regolin) at the General Psychology Department, University of
Padova.
Sep 2004- June 2006: Advanced degree in Neuroscience and Experimental Psychology (110 cum
laude / 110) Faculty of Psychology, Padova University, Italy. Thesis: "Lateralisation in the response to gaze direction in chicks".
Sep 2001-Sep 2004:
First degree in Psychobiology and Cognitive Psychology (110 cum laude /
110) Faculty of Psychology, Padova University, Italy.
Thesis: Neural Basis of orienting processes in the delayed response task
in the domestic chick: Use of spatial and local cues (Original title: "Basi
psicobiologiche dei processi di orientamento nel compito di risposta
ritardata in Gallus Gallus: Uso di indizi spaziali ed oggettuali").
Teaching experiences:
Taking part in “Animal Cognition” lessons (topic of the lesson: “Lateralization in gaze perception”)
at University of Trieste, Dept. of Psychology (2007).
Taking 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).
Giving 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).
Giving 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).
Giving 15 hours of lessons (2 cfu) for the course of “Animal Compared Psychology”, University of
Padova, Faculty of Psychology (2012).
Giving 20 hours of lesson for the course of “Fundaments of Neuroscience”, University of Trento,
Department of Psychology and Cognitive Sciences (2013).
Pubblications:
Vallortigara G., and Rosa Salva, O. (2014) Toolkits for cognition: From core-knowledge to
genes. In Tucci, V. (Ed.) Neurophenome: Cutting-edge Approaches and Technologies in
Neurobehavioral Genetics, Wiley-Blackwell.
Rosa Salva, O., Mayer, U. and Vallortigara, G. (2014). Roots of a social brain: Developmental
models of emerging animacy-detection mechanisms. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews,
50C, 150-168.
Rosa Salva, O., Sovrano, V.A. and Vallortigara, G. (2014). What can fish brains tell us about
visual perception? Frontiers in Neural Circuits 8, 119.
Sovrano, V.A, Albertazzi, L. and Rosa Salva, O. (2014). The Ebbinghaus illusion in a fish. Animal
Cognition 18, 533-42.
Rugani, R., Rosa Salva, O. and Regolin, L. (2014). Lateralized mechanisms for encoding of
object. Behavioral evidence from an animal model: the domestic chick (Gallus gallus). Frontiers
in Psychology 5, 150.
Rosa Salva, O., Normando, S., Mollo, A., Regolin, L. (2014). Novelty preference in face
perception by week-old lambs (Ovis aries). Interaction Studies 15:113-128.
Rosa Salva, O., Rugani, R., Cavazzana, A., Regolin, L. and Vallortigara G. (2013). Perception of
the Ebbinghaus illusion in four-day-old domestic chicks (Gallus gallus). Animal Cognition 16,
895–906.
Elliott M., Rosa Salva O., Mulchay P. and Regolin L. (2012). Structural imbalance promotes
behavior analogous to aesthetic preference in domestic chicks. PLoS-ONE, 7(8), e43029.
Rosa Salva O., Regolin L. and Vallortigara G. (2012). Lateralized social learning in chicks. In L.
Regolin and D. Csermely (Eds.) Behavioural lateralization in vertebrates: two sides of the same
coin Springer - Verlag: Berlin Heildelgerg, pp. 39-54.
Regolin L., Dailsey J.N, Rosa Salva O. and Vallortigara G. (2012). Advantages of a lateralized
brain for reasoning about the social world in chicks. In L. Regolin and D. Csermely (Eds.)
Behavioural lateralization in vertebrates: two sides of the same coin Springer - Verlag: Berlin
Heildelgerg, pp. 39-54.
Rosa Salva O., Regolin L., Mascalzoni E. and Vallortigara G. (2012). Cerebral and behavioural
asymmetries in animal social recognition. Comparative Cognition and Behavior Reviews, 7,
110-138.
Rosa Salva O., Regolin L. and Vallortigara G. (2012). Inversion of contrast polarity abolishes
spontaneous preferences for face-like stimuli in newborn chicks. Behavioural Brain Resarch, 228,
113-143.
Daisley J.N., Rosa Salva O., Regolin L. and Vallortigara G. (2011). Social cognition and learning
mechanisms: experimental evidence in domestic chicks. Intreaction Studies, 12, 208-232.
Rosa Salva O., Farroni T., Regolin L., Vallortigara G. and Johnson M.H. (2011). The Evolution of
Social Orienting: Evidence from Chicks (Gallus gallus) and Human Newborns. PLoS-ONE, 6(4)
e18802.
Rosa Salva O., Regolin L. and Vallortigara G. (2010). Faces are special for newborn chicks:
Evidence for inborn domain-specific mechanisms underlying spontaneous preferences for facelike stimuli. Developmental Science, 13, 565-77.
Rosa Salva O., Daysley J.N., Regolin L. and Vallortigara G. (2010). Time dependent
lateralization of social learning in the domestic chick (Gallus gallus domesticus): effects of
retention delays in the observed lateralization pattern. Behavioural Brain Research, 212,
152-158.
Rosa Salva O., Daysley J.N., Regolin L. and Vallortigara G. (2009). Lateralization of social
learning in the domestic chick (Gallus gallus): learning to avoid. Animal Behaviour, 78, 847-856.
Daisley J .N., Mascalzoni E., Rosa-Salva O., Rugani R. and Regolin L. (2009). Lateralization of
social cognition in the domestic chicken (Gallus gallus). Philosophical Transactions of the Royal
Society: Biological Sciences, 364, 965-81.
Rosa Salva O., Regolin L., and Vallortigara G. (2007). Chicks discriminate human gaze with
their right hemisphere. Behavioral Brain Research, 177: 15-21.
Participation to conferences and workshops and short publications:
Di Giorgio, E., Frasnelli, E., Rosa Salva, O., Vallortigara, G. (2014). Discovering the social world:
insights from chicks, typical newborns and newborns at high-risk for autism. Talk given at the
International Conferece Non Invasive Tools for early Detection of Autistic Spectrum Disorders
16-17 October, Rome.
Rosa Salva O. (2014). The domestic chick as an animal model of early social predisposition.
Talk given at International Congress of Neuroethology, Sapporo 28 July -1 August 2014.
Regolin L., Rugani R., Rosa Salva O. (2014). The larger shall be on the right side. Domestic
chicks are better at identifying larger sets when these are located to the right side. International
Conference of Infant Studies, Berlin, 3-5 July 2014.
Rosa Salva, O., Lorenzi E., Grassi M., Regolin L., Vallortigara G. (2014). Unlearned Social
Preferences in Visually Naïve Chicks. International Conferente of Infant Studies, Berlino
(Germania), 3-5 luglio 2014.
Mayer U., Rosa Salva O., Vallortigara G (2014). Unlearned social predisposition in chicks and
their neural correlates as revealed by immediate early gene expression. International Conference
of Infant Studies, Berlin, 3-5 July 2014.
Rosa Salva O., Lorenzi E., Grassi M., Regolin L., Vallortigara G. (2014). Unlearned Social
Preferences in Visually Naïve Chicks. International Conference of Infant Studies, Berlin, 3-5 July
2014.
Rosa Salva O. (2013). Biological predispositions in social cognition (talk). Von Menschen und
Tieren. Implikatione und Konsequenze eines Verhältnisses. Erste internationale biophilosophische
Schule Kassel im Rahmen des DAAD Programms “Hochschuldialog mit Südeuropa 2013”, Kassel
(Germany) 12-14 November 2013.
Santolin C., Rosa Salva O., Regolin L. & Vallortigara G. (2013) “ABA vs AAB”: do chicks extract
the rule? 3rd ToK Conference of CompCog, Wien (Austria) 3-5 July 2013.
Rosa Salva O., Lorenzi E., Grassi M., Regolin L. & Vallortigara G. (2013) A comparative study of
the motion cues to animacy. 3rd ToK Conference of CompCog, Wien (Austria) 3-5 July 2013.
Santolin C, Sartori D, Rosa Salva O, Regolin L. & Vallortigara G (2013) Abilities of sequence
learning and rule learning: experimental evidence in newborn chicks (Gallus gallus). Workshop
on Infant Language Development, Donostia San Sebastian (Spain), 20-22 June 2013.
S a r t o r i D , S a n t o l i n C , R o s a S a l v a O , R e g o l i n L . & Va l l o r t i g a r a G ( 2 0 1 3 )
Learning abstract rules in an animal model (Gallus gallus): experimental evidence in social and
non‐social contexts. Workshop on Concepts Actions and Objects, Functional and Neural
Perspectives, Rovereto, 23-26 May 2013.
O. Rosa Salva, C. Santolin, L. Regolin, G. Vallortigara (2013) Rule learning in domestic chicks
(Gallus gallus). Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development, Budapest, 10-12 January
2013.
Santolin C., Rosa Salva O., Regolin L. & Vallortigara G. (2012). Rule learning in an animal
model (Gallus gallus). 3nd Workshop on Cognition and Evolution, Rovereto (Italy) 28 June – 1
July 2012.
Corazza F., Rosa Salva O., Regolin L. & Vallortigara G. (2012). Investigation of Navon effect in
domestic chicks based on an imprinting procedure. 3nd Workshop on Cognition and Evolution,
Rovereto (Italy) 28 June – 1 July 2012.
Rosa Salva O., Regolin L. & Vallortigara G. (2012). The study of early face preferences in an
animal model, the domestic chick (Gallus gallus). XVIII Biennial International Conference on
Infant Studies, Minneapolis (Minnesota), 7-9 June 2012.
Rosa Salva O., Regolin L. & Vallortigara G. (2012). Processing of hierarchical visual stimuli in
young domestic chicks. XVIII Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies, Minneapolis
(Minnesota), 7-9 June 2012.
Santolin C., Rosa Salva O., Regoli L. & Vallortigara G. (2012). Sequence learning in domestic
chicks (Gallus gallus). ASAB Easter Conference 2012 “Animal Behaviour”, Aberystwyth University
(United Kingdom) 11-13 April 2012.
Rosa Salva O. & Vallortigara G. (2011). Predisposizioni per il riconoscimento degli oggetti
animati ed il loro ruolo nello sviluppo della personificazione. Persona Ficta, Seminario
Internazionale della Scuola di Dottorato in Studi Letterari, Linguistici e Filologici, Trento (Italy)
1-2 December 2011.
Rosa Salva O., Regolin L. & Vallortigara G. (2011). A comparative perspective for the study of
early face preferences: Domestic chicks as an animal model (talk). European Social Cognition
Network 2, Sligo (Ireland), 24-28 August 2011. Abstract book page 34.
Cavazzana A., Rosa Salva O., Rugani R. & Regolin L. (2011). Holistic perception of visual
configurations in young domestic chicks. Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour Summer
Conference, St. Andrews (Scotland), 18-19 August 2011.
Rosa Salva O., Regolin L. & Vallortigara G. (2011). Perceptual properties influencing the
preference for face-like stimuli in domestic chicks: role of contrast polarity. 2nd ToK Conference of
CompCog, Prague (Czech Republic), 25-28 May 2011. Abstract book page 19, poster 5.
Cavazzana A., Rugani R., Rosa Salva O. & Regolin L. (2011). Global Processing of visual
configurations in domestic chicks. 2nd ToK Conference of CompCog, Prague (Czech Republic),
25-28 May 2011. Abstract book page 18, poster 2.
Rosa Salva O., Lanzoni L., Cavazzana A., Regolin L. & Vallortigara G. (2011). Tests of globallocal processing styles in young domestic chicks. Workshop on Concepts Actions and Objects,
Functional and Neural Perspectives, Rovereto (Italy), 19 – 22 May 2011.
Vallortigara G. & Rosa Salva O. (2011). I volti sono speciali. Solo per noi? (talk). I lati del
volto, Venezia 17-18 January, 2011.
Rosa Salva O. & Regolin L (2010). The controversial nature of logic: issues in transitive
inference studies (talk). 3rd DAAD Autumn School, Delmenhorst (Germany) 20 – 24 September
2010.
Rosa Salva O. (2010). Effects of contrast polarity reversal in newborn chicks' face preferences.
3rd DAAD Autumn School, Delmenhorst (Germany) 20 – 24 September 2010.
Normando S., Mollo A., Rosa Salva O. & Regolin L. (2010). A face preference study in lambs
(Ovis aries). V European Conference on Behavioural Biology, Ferrara (Italy) 16 – 18 July 2010,
Conference Abstracts, p. 133.
Rosa Salva O. Daisley JN., Regolin L. & Vallortigara G. (2010). Lateralization and time corse of
social learning in chicks. V European Conference on Behavioural Biology, Ferrara (Italy) 16 – 18
July 2010, Conference Abstracts, p. 143.
Cavazzana A., Rosa Salva O., Rugani R., Regolin L. & Vallortigara G. (2010). Are chicks
sensitive to the Ebbinghaus illusion? 2nd Workshop on Cognition and Evolution, Rovereto (Italy)
17-20 June 2010.
Rosa Salva O., Orso V., Scardellato G., Regolin L. & Vallortigara G. (2010). Effects of contrast
polarity reversal in newborn chicks’ face preferences. 2nd Workshop on Cognition and Evolution,
Rovereto (Italy) 17-20 June 2010.
Regolin L., Rosa Salva O. & Vallortigara G. (2010). Preference for faces in domestic chicks: role
of contrast polarity. XVII International Conference on Infant Studies, Baltimore (USA) 10-14
March 2010.
Rosa Salva O. (2009). Of chickens and faces: A comparative study on spontaneous face
preferences (talk). DAAD Autumn School, Neurocognition: Foundations and Clinical Processes,
Izmir (Turkey) 12-14 October 2009.
Rosa-Salva O., Farroni T., Regolin L.,Vallortigara G. & Johnson M.H. (2009). A comparative
study on spontaneous face preferences (talk). British Psychological Scociety 2009 Annual
Developmental Psychology Conference, Nottingham (United Kingdom), 9–11 September 2009.
British Psychological Scociety 2009 Annual Developmental Psychology Conference Abstracts, p.
70.
Rosa-Salva O., Matterello T., Xodo E., Regolin L., Farroni T. e Vallortigara G. (2009). Chickens,
babies and faces. 31st International Ethological Conference, Rennes (France), 19–24 August
2009. 31st International Ethological Conference Abstracts, p 391.
Regolin L., Daisley J.N., Raveane S., Rosa-Salva O. & Vallortigara G. (2009). Time dependent
lateralization of social learning in the domestic chick. 31st International Ethological Conference,
Rennes (France), 19–24 August 2009. 31st International Ethological Conference Abstracts, p.
381.
Raveane S., Daisley J.N., Rosa-Salva O., Vallortigara G. & Regolin L. (2009). Time related
lateralization of social learning in the domestic chick (Gallus gallus). Workshop on Cognition and
Evolution, Rovereto (Italy), 11-13 June 2009.
Xodo E., Mattarello T., Rosa Salva O., Regolin L., Farroni T, Johnson M.H. & Vallortigara G.
(2009). Converging evidence of face preferences in newborn babies and visually deprived
domestic chicks. Workshop on Cognition and Evolution, Rovereto (Italy), 11-13 June 2009.
Rosa Salva O., Xodo E., Regolin L. & Vallortigara G. (2009). Of chickens and faces. Workshop on
Concepts Actions and Objects, Functional and Neural Perspectives, Rovereto (Italy), 22-25 April
2009.
Rosa Salva O., Regolin L. e Vallortigara G. (2009). Innate preferences for face like stimuli in
chicks. Talk presented at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Germany), 19 March 2009.
Rosa Salva O. & Matterello T. (2008). Predispositions for the analysis of biological objects
(conducts round table). DAAD Autumn School, Montegrotto, Padova (Italy), 18-20 October
2008.
Rosa Salva O. (2008). Facing a face. DAAD Autumn School, Neurocognition: Foundations and
Clinical Processes, Montegrotto, Padova (Italy), 18-20 October 2008.
Rosa Salva O., Regolin L. & Vallortigara G. (2008). Newborn chicks’ preference for face-like
configurations: Underlying mechanisms and lateralization effects. 37th European Conference on
Visual Perception, Utrecht (Netherlands), 24-28 August 2008. Perception, 37 ECVP Abstract
Supplement, p. 34.
Attendance to the congress Le Neuroscienze cognitive in Italia, Padova (Italy), 31st January
2008.
Attendance to the congress La Coscienza nelle Scienze Cognitive, Roma (Italy), 6-7 December
2007.
Rosa Salva O., Regolin L. & Vallortigara G. (2007). Naïve domestic chicks prefer schematic facelike configurations. Graduate Workshop “Cockroaches to culture: current controversies in
cognition”, Trieste (Italy), 24-25 November 2007.
Rosa Salva O., Regolin, L. & Vallortigara G. (2007). Innate preference for face-like stimuli
(talk). 15th Trieste Symposium on Perception and Cognition: Kanizsa Memorial Lecture. Trieste
(Italy), 22-23 November 2007.
Rosa Salva O., Romor C. & Regolin L (2007). Preference for face-like stimuli in an animal
model. 39th European Brain and Behaviuor Society, Trieste (Italy), 15-19 September 2007.
Neuronal Plasticity, 2007, 39th Annual European Brain and Behaviour Society Abstracts, p. 12
Daisley JN., Rosa Salva O., Vallortigara G. & Regolin L. (2007). Lateralization of social learning
in the domesti chick (Gallus gallus): learning to avoid. 39th European Brain and Behaviuor
Society, Trieste (Italy), 15-19 September 2007. Neuronal Plasticity, 2007, 39th Annual European
Brain and Behaviour Society Abstracts, p. 10.
Rosa Salva O. & Regolin L. (2007). Spontaneous preference for face-like displays in newborn
chicks. 30th European Conference on Visual Perception, Arezzo (Italy), 27-31 August 2007.
Perception, 36 ECVP Abstract Supplement, p. 153.
Daisley J.N., Rosa Salva O., Regolin L. & Vallortigara G. (2007). Lateralization of social learning
in the domesti chick (Gallus gallus). 30th European Conference on Visual Perception, Arezzo
(Italy), 27-31 August 2007. Perception, 36 ECVP Abstract Supplement, p. 185.
Rosa Salva O. (2007). Il pulcino di pollo domestico come modello animale per lo studio della
cognizione sociale (talk). 1° Convegno Nazionale dei Dottorati in Scienze Cognitive, MessinaNoto (Italy), 6-8 June 2007. Congress pre-prints, p. 20.
Daisley J.N., Rosa Salva O. & Regolin L. (2007). Lateralization of social cognition in the
domestic chick. 1st ECDBNL (Evolution and Development of Cognitive, Behavioural and Neural
Lateralization) Project Meeting, Chieti (Italy), 31 May–1 June 2007.
Rosa Salva O. & Regolin L. (2007). Right hemispheric dominance for responding to a predator’s
gaze in the young domestic chick. 5th European conference of Comparative Neurobiology, Parigi
(France), 25-28 April 2007. ECCN Abstracts P 58, p. 123.
Rosa Salva O., Fracasso A., & Regolin L. (2006). Uso preferenziale dell’emisfero destro nella
risposta allo sguardo in pulcini di pollo domestico. 22° National Congress of the Società Italiana
di Etologia, Erice (Italy), 18-22 September 2006. SIE Abstracts, Abstr. PO6-CAN, p. 88.
Rosa Salva O., Fracasso A., & Regolin L. (2006). Brain lateralisation in chicks’ ability to
discriminate gaze direction of a potential predator while performing in a pebble-floor feeding
task. 5th Forum of European Neuroscience, Vienna (Austria), 8-12 July 2006. FENS Forum
Abstracts, vol. 3, Abstr. A055.34.
Rugani R., Rosa Salva O., Regolin L. & Vallortigara G. (2006). Visibility and response delay
selectively affect search behaviour of social vs non-social goal objects in the young domestic
chick. 12th Trieste Symposium on Perception and Cognition, Kanizsa Lecture, Trieste (Italy),
17-18 November 2005.
Attendance to the II World Conference, The Future of Science - Evolution, Venice (Italy), 20-23
September 2006.
Rosa Salva O., Rugani R., Regolin L. & Vallortigara G. (2005). Looking for food vs looking for
social companion: Visibility and response delay selectively affect behaviour in the young
domestic chick (Gallus gallus). 29th International Ethological Conference, Budapest (Hungary),
20-27 August 2005. IEC Abstracts, Abstr. p. 187.
Attendance to the Italian Society of Ethology Annual Meeting (SIE), Padova (Italy), 15-17
September 2004