I am a postdoc affiliated with UniGE and the NCCR evolving language. I am interested in the neural and cognitive correlates underlying individual differences in language development and language learning, with a particular focus on multilingualism and dyslexia, both as isolated and interacting phenomena. I also investigate the interactions and dissociation between language-specific and domain-general cognitive skills. When I am not exploring language, I work, together with pedagogists and teachers, on the neural correlates of screen and media exposure and competence in the first six years of life. Email: Irene [dot] Balboni [at] unige [dot] ch
Previous education:
2020-2024 PhD in Linguistics and Neuroscience, University of Fribourg/Lemanic Neuroscience Doctoral School
2018 – 2020 MSc Research Master in Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience, specialization Neuropsychology (Maastricht University, The Netherlands)
2019-2020 Research intern M-BIC Brain & Language (Maastricht University)
2015 – 2018 BA Psychological Science (Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy)