Alice Guerrini

Alice Guerrini is a Research Fellow at the Interdepartmental Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMEC) at the University of Trento, specializing in infant cognitive development and neural mechanisms of social cognition.

Her research focuses on infant social cognition, particularly examining how infants process communicative signals, attribute mental states, and develop theory of mind. Key methodologies include electrophysiological recordings (ERPs, theta oscillations) to investigate neural correlates of belief attribution and agent recognition in infants as young as 4 months. Her work consistently explores false belief correction, non-human agency perception, and communicative information transfer during early development.

Analysis of her 2025 publications reveals a cohesive research trajectory centered on neural anticipation mechanisms in infant social cognition. All seven papers investigate how infants process communicative cues through electrophysiological markers, with particular emphasis on theta oscillations for mental state attribution and N170 responses for agent recognition. The research spans multiple international conferences including Dubrovnik Cognitive Science, CogEvo, and Lancaster Infant Development conferences.

Guerrini collaborates extensively with Eugenio Parise and Giulia Mazzi, forming a core research team at CIMEC. Her work demonstrates strong integration between developmental psychology and cognitive neuroscience methodologies to uncover foundational mechanisms of human social cognition.