Alice Massera

@alimassera.bsky.social

Postdoctoral researcher interested in early neurocognitive development, effects of early social experience, and social cognition.

I am happy to bring your attention to an upcoming workshop I am co-organising on early social experience, neuropsychological development, and mental health. This will be held in Sicily on September 2nd-5th 2026: centromajorana.it/earlydevelop...

Early Neuropsychological Development and Plasticity: linking early social experience to mental health outcomes

'Ettore Majorana' Foundation and International Centre for Scientific Culture Schools

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How early do executive function begin? Our new paper in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience links fetal resting-state connectivity to executive function at age 5, highlighting cerebellar and salience systems as early scaffolds for cognitive control. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Prenatal neural network organization and later executive function development

Executive function (EF), which includes inhibitory control, working memory, and cognitive flexibility, supports adaptive behavior and predicts long-te…

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How early can we detect neural pathways linked to anxiety risk? In our new review, we discuss behavioral inhibition, maternal anxiety/stress, and infant brain systems involved in attention and control across early development. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Early-life neural correlates of behavioral inhibition and anxiety risk - Neuropsychopharmacology

Neuropsychopharmacology - Early-life neural correlates of behavioral inhibition and anxiety risk

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Excited to share our new paper www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Using longitudinal rsfMRI data from 180 infants, we show that developmental changes in attention-related brain networks during the first 2 years of life are associated with fearful temperament, an early risk marker for anxiety.

Longitudinal Changes in Infant Attention-Related Brain Networks and Fearful Temperament

Anxiety disorders may partly stem from altered neurodevelopment of attention-related networks. Neonatal alterations in resting-state functional connec…

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