Benedetta got her BS in Psychology at the University of Trieste in 2017. During her internship in the lab, she was involved in behavioural and eye-tracking experiments on the processing of written language in developing readers. She's also quite intrigued by the role of sleep in the consolidation of newly acquired information and the effects of bilingualism on cognitive function, which became Benedetta's main themes of research in her subsequent post, as a PhD student at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK, under the mentorship of Kathy Rastle.