Margaret Addabbo

Biographic Data

ID8525556
NAMEMargaret Addabbo
GIVEN NAMESMargaret
FAMILY NAMEAddabbo
SIGNATUREADDABBO M
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Milano-Bicocca
ORCID0000-0002-8414-6853
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS5
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR5
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX0

  • Newborns' perception of approach and withdrawal from biological movement

    Open AccessElisa Roberti, Margaret Addabbo et al.ARTICLEInfancy2024

    Since birth, infants discriminate the biological motion (BM) revealed by point‐light displays (PLDs). To date, no studies have explored whether newborns differentiate BM that approaches rather than withdraws from them. Yet, approach and withdrawal are two fundamental motivations in the socio‐emotional world, key to developing empathy and prosocial behavior. Through a looking‐behavior paradigm, we demonstrated that a few hours after birth, a human…

  • Infants' facial electromyographic responses to the sight of emotional interpersonal touch

    Open AccessMargaret Addabbo, Victoria Licht et al.ARTICLEInfancy2024

    Adult studies have shown that observed interpersonal touch provides crucial information about others' emotional states. Yet, despite the unique communicative function of touch during development, very little is known about infants' sensitivity to the emotional valence of observed touches. To investigate this issue, we measured facial electromyographic (EMG) activity in response to positive (caress) and negative (scratches) observed touches in a s…

  • Learning and generalization of repetition-based rules in autism

    Open AccessRoberta Bettoni, Margaret Addabbo et al.ARTICLEPsychological Research2023

    Rule Learning (RL) allows us to extract and generalize high-order rules from a sequence of elements. Despite the critical role of RL in the acquisition of linguistic and social abilities, no study has investigated RL processes in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Here, we investigated RL in high-functioning autistic adolescents with ASD, examining whether their ability to extract and generalize rules from a sequence of visual elements is affected b…

  • Electrophysiological Evidence of Space-Number Associations in 9-Month-Old Infants

    Open AccessRoberta Bettoni, Margaret Addabbo et al.ARTICLEChild Development2021

    Infant research is providing accumulating evidence that number-space mappings appear early in development. Here, a Posner cueing paradigm was used to investigate the neural mechanisms underpinning the attentional bias induced by nonsymbolic numerical cues in 9-month-old infants (N = 32). Event-related potentials and saccadic reaction time were measured to the onset of a peripheral target flashing right after the offset of a centered small or larg…

  • Infants' Visual Recognition of Pincer Grip Emerges Between 9 and 12 Months of Age

    Open AccessIrene Senna, Margaret Addabbo et al.ARTICLEInfancy2017

    The development of the ability to recognize the whole human body shape has long been investigated in infants, while less is known about their ability to recognize the shape of single body parts, and in particular their biomechanical constraints. This study aimed to explore whether 9‐ and 12‐month‐old infants have knowledge of a hand‐grasping movement (i.e., pincer grip), being able to recognize violations of the hand's anatomical constraints duri…