Simona Ghetti

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Simona Ghetti
Alma materUniversità di Padova; University of California, Davis
Occupation(s)Professor, University of California, Davis

Simona Ghetti is Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Davis, where she is affiliated with the University of California Davis Center for Mind and Brain. She is known for her research on the development of episodic memory, reconstructive memory, and metamemory in youth, with a specific focus on individuals who have had traumatic experiences.

Ghetti was the recipient of multiple awards commending her work, including the Early Career Research Achievement Award from the Society for Research in Child Development in 2007, the Boyd McCandless Early Career Award from the American Psychological Association (Division 7, Developmental Psychology) in 2009,[1] and the Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology from the American Psychological Association in 2010.[2]

Ghetti co-edited, with Anna Mestitz, a volume titled Victim-Offender Mediation with Youth Offenders in Europe: An Overview and Comparison of 15 Countries.[3] This volume provides a cross-cultural perspective on the process of victim-offender mediation, also called restorative justice conferencing,[4] which provides victims with opportunities to meet with their offenders in safe and structured settings.[5] Ghetti co-edited the volume Origins and Development of Recollection: Perspectives from Psychology and Neuroscience with Patricia Bauer. This book summarizes research on the development of the ability to recollect or recall personal events, which provides the basis for developing a sense of life history or autobiographical memory.[6]

Biography[edit]

Simona Ghetti received her B.S. degree in Psychology (Summa Cum Laude) at the Università di Padova, Italy in 1995. She attended graduate school at the University of California, Davis where she obtained her Ph.D. in psychology in 2002. Upon graduation, Ghetti worked as a researcher at the National Research Council, Bologna, Italy. She returned to University of California Davis as a faculty member in 2005 and was promoted to Full Professor in 2013.

Ghetti's research has been supported through grants from the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation.[7][8] She was recipient of a 21st Century Science Initiative Award from the James F. McDonnell Foundation (2010),[9] and a Science of Prospection Scholar Award through the University of Pennsylvania and the John Templeton Foundation (2014).[10]

Research[edit]

Simona Ghetti uses behavioral and neuroimaging methods to study the development of memory in children. Her lab has conducted numerous studies of neural basis of the development episodic memory, with a specific focus on the hippocampus.[11][12][13] Ghetti is perhaps best known for her research on early memories of traumatic events, which has implications for the eyewitness testimony as well as clinical implications.[14][15] In one of her collaborative studies indicating the negative effects of long-term memories of childhood sexual abuse, victims who had more accurate memories were more likely to experience post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).[16]

Representative Publications[edit]

  • Goodman, G. S., Ghetti, S., Quas, J. A., Edelstein, R. S., Alexander, K. W., Redlich, A. D., ... & Jones, D. P. (2003). A prospective study of memory for child sexual abuse: New findings relevant to the repressed-memory controversy. Psychological Science, 14(2), 113–118.
  • Ghetti, S., & Lee, J. (2011). Children's episodic memory. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, 2(4), 365–373.
  • Ghetti, S., Qin, J., & Goodman, G. S. (2002). False memories in children and adults: Age, distinctiveness, and subjective experience. Developmental Psychology, 38(5), 705–718.
  • Ghetti, S., & Angelini, L. (2008). The development of recollection and familiarity in childhood and adolescence: Evidence from the dual‐process signal detection model. Child Development, 79(2), 339–358.

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Boyd McCandless Award". APA. Retrieved 2017-11-29.
  2. ^ "APA Distinguished Scientific Awards for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology". APA. Retrieved 2017-11-29.
  3. ^ Mestitz, Anna; Ghetti, Simona (2006-01-16). Victim-Offender Mediation with Youth Offenders in Europe: An Overview and Comparison of 15 Countries. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 9781402038792.
  4. ^ Suzuki, Masahiro; Wood, William (2018). "Is restorative justice conferencing appropriate for youth offenders?". Criminology & Criminal Justice. 18 (4): 450–467. doi:10.1177/1748895817722188. hdl:10072/369918. S2CID 55835742.
  5. ^ "Victim-Offender Mediation | National Institute of Justice". National Institute of Justice. Retrieved 2017-11-29.
  6. ^ Origins and development of recollection : perspectives from psychology and neuroscience. Ghetti, Simona., Bauer, Patricia J. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2011. ISBN 978-0195340792. OCLC 744297057.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  7. ^ "NSF Award Search: Award#0241125 - False-memory rejection: The role of the memorability-based strategy". www.nsf.gov. Retrieved 2017-11-29.
  8. ^ "NSF Award Search: Award#0843428 - Development of Uncertainty Monitoring During the Preschool Years". www.nsf.gov. Retrieved 2017-11-29.
  9. ^ "McDonnell Foundation Announces 2010 Grants for The 21st Century Science Initiative Awards" (PDF).
  10. ^ "Researchers | Prospective Psychology". www.prospectivepsych.org. Retrieved 2017-11-29.
  11. ^ DeMaster, Dana M.; Ghetti, Simona (2013-06-01). "Developmental differences in hippocampal and cortical contributions to episodic retrieval". Cortex. 49 (6): 1482–1493. doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2012.08.004. PMID 22981810. S2CID 33664328.
  12. ^ DeMaster, Dana; Pathman, Thanujeni; Lee, Joshua K.; Ghetti, Simona (2014-11-01). "Structural Development of the Hippocampus and Episodic Memory: Developmental Differences Along the Anterior/Posterior Axis". Cerebral Cortex. 24 (11): 3036–3045. doi:10.1093/cercor/bht160. ISSN 1047-3211. PMID 23800722.
  13. ^ Ghetti, Simona; Bunge, Silvia A. (2012). "Neural changes underlying the development of episodic memory during middle childhood". Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. 2 (4): 381–395. doi:10.1016/j.dcn.2012.05.002. PMC 3545705. PMID 22770728.
  14. ^ Goodman, Gail S.; Ghetti, Simona; Quas, Jodi A.; Edelstein, Robin S.; Alexander, Kristen Weede; Redlich, Allison D.; Cordon, Ingrid M.; Jones, David P.H. (2003-03-01). "A Prospective Study of Memory for Child Sexual Abuse: New Findings Relevant to the Repressed-Memory Controversy". Psychological Science. 14 (2): 113–118. doi:10.1111/1467-9280.01428. ISSN 0956-7976. PMID 12661671. S2CID 9110623.
  15. ^ B., Myers, John E. (2007). Myers on evidence in child, domestic and elder abuse cases, 2007 cumulative supplement : successor edition to Evidence in child abuse and neglect cases, 3rd ed. New York, NY: Aspen Pub. ISBN 978-0735567030. OCLC 229140462.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  16. ^ Alexander, Kristen Weede; Quas, Jodi A.; Goodman, Gail S.; Ghetti, Simona; Edelstein, Robin S.; Redlich, Allison D.; Cordon, Ingrid M.; Jones, David P.H. (2005-01-01). "Traumatic Impact Predicts Long-Term Memory for Documented Child Sexual Abuse". Psychological Science. 16 (1): 33–40. doi:10.1111/j.0956-7976.2005.00777.x. ISSN 0956-7976. PMID 15660849. S2CID 8750819.

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