Dr Martina De Lillo BSc, MA, PhD

School of Psychology
Postdoctoral Researcher

Contact details

Email: m.delillo@bham.ac.uk
Twitter: @MartyDL87

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Dr Martina De Lillo main current research interest concerns how anxiety and sleep deprivation affect social cognition.

Qualifications

PhD in Cognitive Psychology

Biography

Dr Martina De Lillo completed her PhD at the University of Kent where she explored the possibility of enhancing social cognitive abilities by training Executive Functions. During her PhD she used also different techniques (e.g., eye-tracking, EEG) to explore how social cognitive abilities evolve across the lifespan.

Research

Dr Martina De Lillo's research interests include social cognition, executive functions, anxiety and sleep deprivation.

Publications

De Lillo, M., Foley, R., Fysh, M., Stimson, A., Bradford, E., & Ferguson, H. (2021). Tracking developmental differences in real-world social attention across adolescence, young adulthood and older adulthood. Nature Human Behaviour. doi:10.1038/s41562-021-01113-9

De Lillo, M., Brunsdon, V., Bradford, E., Gasking, F., & Ferguson, H. (2021). Training executive functions using an adaptive procedure over 21 days (10 training sessions) and an active control group. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. doi:10.1177/17470218211002509

Pizzamiglio, S., De Lillo, M., Naeem, U., Abdalla, H., & Turner, D.L. (2017) High-Frequency Intermuscular Coherence between Arm Muscles during Robot-Mediated Motor Adaptation Frontiers in Physiology. 2016; 7: 668.

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