Laura Sparaci

Laura Sparaci is currently Associate Researcher at CNR’s Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies within the LaCAM Lab. After graduating in Philosophy cum laude at the University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’ she completed a MA in Philosophy of Cognitive Science with distinction at the University of Sussex and a PhD in Cognitive Sciences at the University of Siena. She has also obtained a Graduate Certificate in Cognitive Sciences at the University of Central Florida where she spent one year on a Fulbright Scholarship. She then worked for three years as Post-doc at the Department of Neuroscience of the University of Parma, one year as Research Assistant at the Children’s Hospital ‘Bambino Gesù’ in Rome and four years as Researcher fixed term within the LaCAM Lab acting as PI in the MIUR FIRB TOUM Project and as Experienced Researcher in the EC FP7 GEST_LAN_D Project coordinated by Dr Olga Capirci. She has recently completed a second Fulbright Scholarship to act as PI in the FRATER Project and has recently obtained a Marie Curie Individual Fellowship to conducte the FORGE Project at University College London (UCL).