Profile
Position: Professoressa Associata
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
2025-present Associate professor, Department of Translational Research and New Technologies in Medicine and Surgery, University of Pisa, Italy
2023-2025 Researcher, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship, Italian Institute of Technology, Neuroscience of Perception and Action Lab, Rome, Italy
2022-2023- Postdoctoral researcher, Advisor: G. Novembre, Italian Institute of Technology, Neuroscience of Perception and Action Lab, Rome, Italy
2017-2021- Postdoctoral researcher (Research Associate), Advisor: M. Chait, UCL Ear Institute, University College London, London, United Kingdom
2016-2017- Visiting doctoral fellow, Advisor: V. Penhune, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
EDUCATION
- 2017 PhD cum Laude in Cognitive Neuroscience
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
Supervisors: D. Sammler, A. Villringer. Date of defence: 06/07/2017
- 2011 BA in Music (9/10) (diploma in flute at the Conservatory of Music).
Supervisor: P. Fre
Istituto Superiore di Studi Musicali F. Vittadini, Pavia, Italy
- 2011 Master 110/110 cum laude in Neurobiology
Supervisor: E. DAngelo
Università degli Studi di Pavia, Italy
- 2008 BS 110/110 cum Laude in Medical Biotechnologies
Supervisor: S. Caccia
Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
RESEARCH FUNDING
- Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship (PI)
Project: Neural encoding of novel and familiar proto-musical patterns in humans and
monkeys, PHYLOMUSIC, 101064334)
- Alzheimers Research UK, ECR Bridging Grant (PI)
Project: Developing an auditory memory-based diagnostic test for Alzheimers disease.
- 2016 2012 Mobility Fellowship, Erasmus Mundus Exchange Network in Auditory Cognitive
Neuroscience (PI)
Project: Prediction and reward in music: how to maximize movement sequence
learning?
- 4-year PhD studentship within the IMPRS Neuroscience of Communication PhD program
at the Max Planck Institute CBS, Leipzig (DE)
Unit: Dipartimento di Ricerca Traslazionale e delle Nuove Tecnologie in Medicina e Chirurgia
Scientific-disciplinary sector: Fisiologia BIOS-06/A
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
2025-present Associate professor, Department of Translational Research and New Technologies in Medicine and Surgery, University of Pisa, Italy
2023-2025 Researcher, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship, Italian Institute of Technology, Neuroscience of Perception and Action Lab, Rome, Italy
2022-2023- Postdoctoral researcher, Advisor: G. Novembre, Italian Institute of Technology, Neuroscience of Perception and Action Lab, Rome, Italy
2017-2021- Postdoctoral researcher (Research Associate), Advisor: M. Chait, UCL Ear Institute, University College London, London, United Kingdom
2016-2017- Visiting doctoral fellow, Advisor: V. Penhune, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
EDUCATION
- 2017 PhD cum Laude in Cognitive Neuroscience
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
Supervisors: D. Sammler, A. Villringer. Date of defence: 06/07/2017
- 2011 BA in Music (9/10) (diploma in flute at the Conservatory of Music).
Supervisor: P. Fre
Istituto Superiore di Studi Musicali F. Vittadini, Pavia, Italy
- 2011 Master 110/110 cum laude in Neurobiology
Supervisor: E. DAngelo
Università degli Studi di Pavia, Italy
- 2008 BS 110/110 cum Laude in Medical Biotechnologies
Supervisor: S. Caccia
Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
RESEARCH FUNDING
- Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship (PI)
Project: Neural encoding of novel and familiar proto-musical patterns in humans and
monkeys, PHYLOMUSIC, 101064334)
- Alzheimers Research UK, ECR Bridging Grant (PI)
Project: Developing an auditory memory-based diagnostic test for Alzheimers disease.
- 2016 2012 Mobility Fellowship, Erasmus Mundus Exchange Network in Auditory Cognitive
Neuroscience (PI)
Project: Prediction and reward in music: how to maximize movement sequence
learning?
- 4-year PhD studentship within the IMPRS Neuroscience of Communication PhD program
at the Max Planck Institute CBS, Leipzig (DE)
Teaching
Teaching activity
Teaching responsibility for modules/courses
- Fisiologia umana ii b - corso accademia ( modulo dell'insegnamento fisiologia umana ii cod. 055ee) per Laurea Magistrale Ciclo Unico 6 anni in Medicina e chirurgia
- Fisiologia umana ii - corso accademia ( modulo dell'insegnamento fisiologia umana ii cod. 055ee) per Laurea Magistrale Ciclo Unico 6 anni in Medicina e chirurgia
Incarichi di co-docenza in moduli/insegnamenti
- Fisiologia (Cod. 241EE) per Laurea Magistrale Ciclo Unico 6 anni in Odontoiatria e protesi dentaria
Student consultation hours
Location:
Time: da concordare per richieste scrivere a roberta.bianco@unipi.it
Research
Publications
- Acquisition and Utilization of Recursive Rules in Motor Sequence Generation (Martins, Maurício D; Bergmann, Zoe; Leonova, Elena; Bianco, Roberta; Sammler, Daniela; Villringer, Arno - 2025 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)
- EEG of the Dancing Brain: Decoding Sensory, Motor, and Social Processes during Dyadic Dance (Bigand, F; Bianco, R; Abalde, S F; Nguyen, T; Novembre, G - 2025 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)
- Development of Auditory and Spontaneous Movement Responses to Music over the First Year of Life (Nguyen, T; Bigand, F; Reisner, S; Koul, A; Bianco, R; Markova, G; Hoehl, S; Novembre, G - 2025 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)
- The geometry of interpersonal synchrony in human dance (Bigand, F; Bianco, R; Abalde S, F.; Novembre, G - 2024 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)
- Concurrent encoding of sequence predictability and event-evoked prediction error in unfolding auditory patterns (Hu, M; Bianco, R; Hidalgo, A R; Chait, M - 2024 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)
- Neural encoding of musical expectations in a non-human primate (Bianco, R; Zuk, N J; Bigand, F; Quarta, E; Grasso, S; Arnese, F; Ravignani, A; Battaglia-Mayer, A; Novembre, G - 2024 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)
- Context changes judgments of liking and predictability for melodies (Albury A, W.; Bianco, R; Gold B, P.; Penhune V, B. - 2023 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)
- Sociality and Timing: Correlation or Causation? Comment on ‘The evolution of social timing’ by Verga L., Kotz S. & Ravignani A (Novembre, G; Nguyen, T; Bigand, F; Tucci, V; Papaleo, F; Bianco, R; Koul, A - 2023 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)
- Implicit auditory memory in older listeners: From encoding to 6-month retention (Bianco, R; Hall, E T R; Pearce Marcus, T.; Chait, M - 2023 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)
- No Link Between Speech-in-Noise Perception and Auditory Sensory Memory – Evidence From a Large Cohort of Older and Younger Listeners (Bianco, R; Chait, M - 2023 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)