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Personal views of aging and quality of life in midlife and older age: the role of cognitive reserve

This study investigated the relationship between personal views of aging—such as felt age, attitudes toward one’s own aging, and awareness of age-related change—and quality of life in midlife and older adults, exploring the extent to which cognitive reserve proxies may act as a mechanism mediating

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“Voci di Scienza, Voci di Donna 2026” Award to Bianca Bonato

Bianca Bonato has been awarded the recognition “Voci di Scienza, Voci di Donna 2026”, granted by Radio Parlamentare – Percorso Consapevole and the Intergruppo parlamentare per la Conoscenza e la Ricerca Scientifica.Bianca Bonato, RTDa researcher at the Department of General Psychology Unipd and

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Brain Awareness Week 2026

On March 16 and 17, 2026, the international week dedicated to neuroscience findings, returns to the Sala Paladin at Palazzo Moroni in Padua.Young researchers discuss neuroscience: on March 16 and 17, 2026, the traditional seminar series of Brain Awareness Week will take place, held at the Sala

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Sensing Time Summer School

EDIT: Second call for applications open from April 15 to May 15, 2026. Info: https://www.unipd.it/en/sensing-time6th - 10 th July 2026 - Explore time perception through the lenses of psychology, neuroscience, and cutting-edge technologyCurious about how humans perceive and process time? Join our

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Fire safety training for workers

An investigation into how learning modalities in VR relate to performance and self-evaluationsThe study, carried out in collaboration with the e-learning company Piazza Copernico, started from a very concrete question: do we really learn better when we are immersed in a simulation compared to when

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