Madalina obtained her MS degree in Clinical, Developmental Psychology, and Neuropsychology at the University of Milano-Bicocca, working on masked priming and embodied cognition with Davide and Roberto Bottini. She came back to the lab after a while as a Research Assistant, working on word meaning and masked priming, although in a less embodied way. Quite notably, her Master work took the form of a JEP:G paper.
Madalina moved on to become a PhD student at CIMeC, Trento, under the supervision of Costanza Papagno.