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Irene C. Mammarella

Irene C. Mammarella

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Neuroscience

D-Index
47
Citations
7415
World Ranking
6490
National Ranking
332

Social Sciences and Humanities

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47
Citations
7453
World Ranking
3448
National Ranking
38

Overview

Irene C. Mammarella is affiliated with the University of Padua in Italy and has contributed extensively to research in psychology, particularly within developmental and educational psychology, cognitive neuroscience, education, clinical psychology, and statistics and probability. Their body of work reflects a strong focus on cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills, autism spectrum disorder research, education and achievement, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, reading and literacy development, early childhood education and development, and child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development.

Their recent publications include studies on a diverse range of topics:

  • Parental experiences of homeschooling during the COVID-19 pandemic: differences between seven European countries and between children with and without mental health conditions (2021, European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry)
  • Math Performance and Academic Anxiety Forms, from Sociodemographic to Cognitive Aspects: a Meta-analysis on 906,311 Participants (2021, Educational Psychology Review)
  • Executive Functions in Neurodevelopmental Disorders: Comorbidity Overlaps Between Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder and Specific Learning Disorders (2021, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience)
  • Research Review: Language and specific learning disorders in children and their co-occurrence with internalizing and externalizing problems: a systematic review and meta-analysis (2021, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry)
  • Predictors of mathematics in primary school: Magnitude comparison, verbal and spatial working memory measures (2020, Developmental Science)

Mammarella collaborates frequently with several researchers, including Ramona Cardillo, Sara Caviola, Rachele Lievore, David Giofrè, and Giulia Crisci, reflecting multidisciplinary cooperation in overlapping fields of study.

Their articles have been published repeatedly in venues such as:

  • Research in Developmental Disabilities
  • Current Psychology
  • Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
  • Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
  • Autism Research

Mammarella's research contributions primarily address the complexity of developmental processes and educational outcomes, including the interplay of cognitive skills and emotional factors influencing learning and behavior across childhood and adolescence. Through systematic reviews, meta-analyses, and empirical studies, they explore neurodevelopmental disorders, learning disabilities, and factors affecting academic performance.

Best Publications

  • Mathematics Anxiety, Working Memory, and Mathematics Performance in Secondary-School Children.

    Maria Chiara Passolunghi;Sara Caviola;Ruggero De Agostini;Chiara Perin

  • Maths anxiety in primary and secondary school students: Gender differences, developmental changes and anxiety specificity

    Francesca Hill;Irene C. Mammarella;Amy Devine;Sara Caviola

  • Imagery and spatial processes in blindness and visual impairment.

    Zaira Cattaneo;Tomaso Vecchi;Cesare Cornoldi;Irene Mammarella

  • Parental experiences of homeschooling during the COVID-19 pandemic: differences between seven European countries and between children with and without mental health conditions.

    Lisa B. Thorell;Charlotte Skoglund;Almudena Giménez de la Peña;Dieter Baeyens

  • Cognitive abilities as precursors of the early acquisition of mathematical skills during first through second grades.

    M Chiara Passolunghi;Irene C Mammarella;Gianmarco Altoe

  • Anxiety and Depression in Children With Nonverbal Learning Disabilities, Reading Disabilities, or Typical Development

    Irene Cristina Mammarella;Marta Ghisi;Monica Bomba;Gioia Bottesi

  • Selective Spatial Working Memory Impairment in a Group of Children With Mathematics Learning Disabilities and Poor Problem-Solving Skills

    Maria Chiara Passolunghi;Irene Cristina Mammarella

  • Spatial Working Memory and Arithmetic Deficits in Children With Nonverbal Learning Difficulties

    Irene Cristina Mammarella;Daniela Lucangeli;Cesare Cornoldi

  • Math Performance and Academic Anxiety Forms, from Sociodemographic to Cognitive Aspects: a Meta-analysis on 906,311 Participants

    Sara Caviola;Sara Caviola;Enrico Toffalini;David Giofrè;Jessica Mercader Ruiz

  • Spatial and visual working memory ability in children with difficulties in arithmetic word problem solving

    Maria Chiara Passolunghi;Irene C. Mammarella

  • The structure of working memory and how it relates to intelligence in children

    David Giofrè;Irene C. Mammarella;Cesare Cornoldi

  • Evidence for a double dissociation between spatial-simultaneous and spatial-sequential working memory in visuospatial (nonverbal) learning disabled children.

    Irene C. Mammarella;Cesare Cornoldi;Francesca Pazzaglia;Cristina Toso

  • Evidence for Different Components in Children's Visuospatial Working Memory.

    Irene C. Mammarella;Francesca Pazzaglia;Cesare Cornoldi

  • The involvement of working memory in children's exact and approximate mental addition.

    Sara Caviola;Irene C. Mammarella;Cesare Cornoldi;Daniela Lucangeli

  • The underlying structure of visuospatial working memory in children with mathematical learning disability

    Irene C. Mammarella;Sara Caviola;David Giofrè;Dénes Szűcs

  • Socioemotional features and resilience in Italian university students with and without dyslexia

    Marta Ghisi;Gioia Bottesi;Anna Maria Re;Silvia Cerea

  • An analysis of the criteria used to diagnose children with Nonverbal Learning Disability (NLD)

    Irene Cristina Mammarella;Cesare Cornoldi

  • Math anxiety and developmental dyscalculia: A study on working memory processes.

    Irene C Mammarella;Francesca Hill;Amy Devine;Sara Caviola

  • Sequence and space: The critical role of a backward spatial span in the working memory deficit of visuospatial learning disabled children

    Irene Cristina Mammarella;Cesare Cornoldi

  • Stress, Time Pressure, Strategy Selection and Math Anxiety in Mathematics: A Review of the Literature.

    Sara Caviola;Emma Carey;Irene C. Mammarella;Denes Szucs

  • The relationship among geometry, working memory, and intelligence in children.

    David Giofrè;Irene Cristina Mammarella;Cesare Cornoldi

Frequent Co-Authors

Cesare Cornoldi
Cesare Cornoldi University of Padua
Barbara Carretti
Barbara Carretti University of Padua
Erika Borella
Erika Borella University of Padua
Francesca Pazzaglia
Francesca Pazzaglia University of Padua
Marta Ghisi
Marta Ghisi University of Padua
John E. Lochman
John E. Lochman University of Alabama
Rossana De Beni
Rossana De Beni University of Padua
Anselm B. M. Fuermaier
Anselm B. M. Fuermaier University of Groningen
Marjolein Luman
Marjolein Luman Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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