Researcher profile · Rome
Alessia Bocchi
Research keywords: travel planning; gender differences; neuropsychology; executive functions; human navigation; neurological disorders; neuropsychological testing
Planning the route: the Minefield Task and spatial navigation
Alessia Bocchi, PhD, works in neuropsychology with a fellowship at the new Neuropsychology Clinical Service of Sapienza University of Rome. She lectures in Educational Psychology at the DISIM Department of the University of L'Aquila and works at IRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia in Rome with children and adults with cognitive deficits due to neurological disorders.
Her research addresses travel planning and the individual factors that affect spatial navigation. During her doctoral studies she developed the Minefield Task (MFT), a tool for assessing travel planning, and she continues to investigate this ability across the lifespan.
Award in aerospace medicine
In 2016 she won the Guidoniani Prize of the Italian Association of Aeronautical and Space Medicine for young graduates, with the study "Prismatic adaptation does not affect spatial map retrieval: possible implications for aero-space flight experts".