Research Interests
From January 2022 I will be working in the newly developed Birkbeck ToddlerLab as a Leverhulme Trust Fellow to investigate the development of empathy in preschoolers using fNIRS and virtual-reality.
Education
PhD Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, Birkbeck College, London
2015 - 2019
MSc Clinical Psychology
Vita-Salute San Raffaele University - Milan (Italy)
2011 - 2013
BSc Psychology Science
Università degli Studi di Parma - Parma (Italy)
2008 - 2011
Research Posts
Research Fellow
Department of Neuropsychiatric Science, Scientific Institute San Raffaele Hospital and University Milan (Italy)
2014 - 2015
Visiting Scholar
University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Brain and Creativity Institute, Dana and David Dornsife Cognitive Neuroscience Imaging Center
Jan 2014 - April 2014
Post-Lauream Internship
Department of Neuropsychiatry, Scientific Institute San Raffaele Hospital and University– Milan (Italy)
2013 - 2014
Selected Publications
Collins-Jones, L.H., Cooper, R.J., Bulgarelli, C., Blasi, A., Katus, L, … Elwell, C.E. and the BRIGHT Study Team. (2021) Longitudinal infant fNIRS channel-space analyses are robust to variability parameters at the group-level: an image reconstruction investigation. NeuroImage 237, 118068
Bulgarelli, C., Blasi, A., Pollonini, L., Lloyd-Fox, S., Pirazzoli, L., Perdue, K.L., Nelson, C.A., Elwell, C.E. Standardising an infant fNIRS analysis pipeline to investigate neurodevelopment in global health, in Biophotonics Congress: Biomedical Optics 2020 (Translational, Microscopy, OCT, OTS, BRAIN), OSA Technical Digest (Optical Society of America, 2020), paper BM2C.2.
Bulgarelli, C., de Klerk, C.C.J.M., Richards, J.E., Southgate, V., Hamilton, A., Blasi, A. The developmental trajectory of fronto‐temporoparietal connectivity as a proxy of the default mode network: a longitudinal fNIRS investigation. Human Brain Mapping. March 2020:hbm.24974. doi:10.1002/hbm.24974
Di Lorenzo R, Pirazzoli L, Blasi A, Bulgarelli, C., et al. (2019). Recommendations for motion correction of infant fNIRS data applicable to multiple data sets and acquisition systems. Neuroimage. 200(4):511-527.
Bulgarelli, C., Blasi, de Klerk, C., Richards, J.E, Hamilton, A. Southgate, V. (2019). Fronto-temporoparietal connectivity and self-awareness in 18-month-olds: A resting state fNIRS study, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 100676.
de Klerk, C., Bulgarelli, C. Hamilton, A., Southgate, V., (2019). Selective facial mimicry of linguistic in-group over out-group members in preverbal infants. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 183, 33-47.
Di Lorenzo R, Pirazzoli L, Blasi A, Bulgarelli, C., et al. Recommendations for motion correction of infant fNIRS data applicable to multiple data sets and acquisition systems. Neuroimage. 2019;200(4):511-527.
Bulgarelli, C., Blasi, A., Arridge, S., Powell, S., Brigadoi, S., de Klerk, C., Southgate, V., Penny, W., Tak, S., Hamilton, A. (2018). Dynamic Causal Modelling on infant fNIRS data: a validation study on a simultaneously recorded fNIRS-fMRI dataset. NeuroImage. 175, 413-424.