Arianna Rebecca Longo

Completed a B.Sc. in Psychology at Sigmund Freud University in 2020, followed by an M.Sc. in Clinical Psychology at the same institution in 2023. The master’s thesis focused on the role of executive functions impariments in youth with Neurodevelopmental Disorders.
During the master’s program, I completed an internship at the Medical Center Welcomed (2021–2022), where the thesis project was conducted. Activities included the administration and scoring of neuropsychological tests for the diagnosis of Neurodevelopmental Disorders.
From 2022 to 2023, I worked as a guest researcher at Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, within the Experimental and Clinical Research Center, participating in the project “Prefrontal control of emotion regulation and alternative reward in tobacco use disorder” under the supervision of Prof. George Winterer.
Between 2023 and 2024, I completed the postgraduate traineeship and obtained the professional license to practice as a psychologist (Albo A) in November 2024.
In 2024, I was awarded a research scholarship at the University of Milano-Bicocca for the project “Experimental monitoring of a robotic assistant for patients with Autism Spectrum Disorder,” supervised by Prof. Edoardo Datteri.
Subsequently, I began a research fellowship at the University of Bologna, working on the project “Innovative Worker-Centric Assessment Method for Cognitive Workload in Human-Robot Collaborative Systems in Manufacturing (ProMentoHR)”, under the supervision of Marco De Angelis.
Since November 2024, I have been enrolled as a Ph.D. Fellow in Clinical Neuroscience at the University of Milano-Bicocca, under the supervision of Prof. Nadia Bolognini and in collaboration with the IRCCS Istituto Auxologico Italiano in Milan (Italy). The ongoing doctoral research focuses on implementing new trainings for neurorehabilitation, particularly involving sensory stimulation and gamma wave entrainment for the recovery of cognitive functions.

PhD research project

Multisensory Stimulation: Exploring Audiovisual Training and Gamma Entrainment for Cognitive Health

Recent studies show that sensory deficits are closely linked to cognitive decline, especially in older adults.
Non-invasive sensory stimulation has been found to improve key cognitive functions such as attention, executive control, and working memory. At the same time, research suggests that external stimulation can enhance gamma-frequency brain activity, which plays a key role in perception and cognition. However, these approaches still lack standardized protocols and sufficient neurophysiological validation. This project aims to develop and test two interventions—cognitive multisensory training and multisensory gamma entrainment—using the AVDesk device (with CE mark, by Linari srl.), to evaluate their feasibility, effectiveness, and neural effects in both healthy older adults and individuals with neurological conditions

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