Amedeo joined the Carleton University faculty in 2007. He held the Canada Research Chair - Early Intervention/Child Development from 2004-2007 as Director of the Centre for Early Education and Development at Thomspon Rivers University. Post-Doctoral research began with a post-graduate fellowship and then a teaching fellowship University of British Columbia. Amedeo received a Ph.D. in Psychology at Northeastern University in Boston. His undergraduate degreee, an Honors BSc, was completed at the University of Padua, in Padua, Italy.

• 1) Determinants of good literacy, numeracy and social skills development as they apply to longitudinal school settings (Kindergarten to grade 12)
• 2) Special populations of children (i.e., Low-Socioeconomic status [SES], Aboriginal, Learning Disabled, FASD, Rural);
• 3) cognitive markers of  suboptimal environment and stimulation;
• 4) Linked database analyses examining the relationships between  SES, health and school outcomes in children;
• 5) stress, cognition and school achievement, family and community context effects;
• 6) neurocognitive and behavioural correlates of stress and development of self-regulation and executive skills in children;
• 7) the relationship between SES and chronic stress in children;
• 8) salivary cortisol and development of school-related cognitive basic skills (selective attention and episodic memory);
• 9) Self-regulation, sleep and self-medication in adolescents and how these affect their schooling.

 

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

D’Angiulli, A., Herdman, A., Stapells, D., & Hertzman, C. et al. (in press). Children’s event-related potentials of auditory selective attention vary with their socioeconomic background. Neuropsychology.

D’Angiulli, A., Miller, C., Callaghan, K. (in press). Structural equivalences are essential, learned conventions are not: evidence from haptic drawing development in children born totally blind: Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts.

D’Angiulli, A. (in press). Norms and human development: A critical essay. Educational Psychology.

D’Angiulli, A., & Reeves A. (2007). The relationship between self-reported vividness and latency during mental size-scaling of everyday items: Phenomenological evidence of different types of imagery. American Journal of Psychology.

McBurnie, K., Kwiatkowska, M., Matthews, L., and D'Angiulli, A.  (2007). A Multi-factor Model for the Assessment of Depression Associated with Obstructive Sleep Apnea: A Fuzzy Logic Approach (PDF). Proceedings of the International NAFIPS’2007 Conference, June 24-27, San Diego, Florida (NAFIPS).

D’Angiulli, A. (2007). Raised-lined pictures, blindness and tactile beliefs: An observational case-study. Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, 10 (3 March),172-177.

Li J, D’Angiulli , A., Kendall G. (2007). The Early Development Index and children from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. Early Years, 27 (3, October), 221-235.