Education

2007

Master’s Degree in marketing and communication at Ateneo Impresa Plc Insitute, Rome, Italy.

2006    

Master’s degree in Mandarin Chinese Language and Culture at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy. 

Research interests

• Tonal acquisition and perception
• Music to language transfer effect in L2 acquisition
  
• Chinese phonetics and phonology
• Dyslexia

Publications

Marie, C., Delogu, F., Lampis, G., Olivetti Belardinelli, M., Besson, M. (in preparation). Influence of musical expertise on tonal language processing: Behavioural and Electrophysiological study.

Delogu, F., Lampis, G., Olivetti Belardinelli, M. (in press)
From melody to lexical tone: Musical ability enhances specific aspects
of foreign language perception. European Journal of Cognitive
Psychology.

Delogu, F., Lampis, G., Olivetti Belardinelli, M.
(2007) From Melody to Prosody: Music Transfer Effect in Mandarin
Chinese Lexical Tone Detection. Proceedings of the XVth Conference of
the European Society for Cognitive Psychology. August 29th - September
1st 2007 Marseille, France.

Delogu, F., Lampis, G., Olivetti
Belardinelli, M. (2006) Music-to-language transfer effect: may melodic
abilities improve learning of tonal languages by native nontonal
speakers, Cognitive Processing, 7: 203-207.

Delogu, F., Lampis,G., Olivetti Belardinelli, M. (2006) Does musical melodic intelligence
enhance the perception of mandarin lexical tones? In M. Baroni, A. R.
Addessi, R. Caterina, M. Costa Proceedings of the 9th International
Conference on Music Perception & Cognition, Bologna/Italy, August
22nd - 26th 2006.

Scientific Memberships

Member of ECONA (Interuniversity Centre for Research on Cognitive Processing in Natural and Artificial Systems).