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Sensory modality affects the spatiotemporal dynamics of alpha and theta oscillations associated with prospective memory

This research investigates the neurophysiological activity associated with intention maintenance during a Prospective Memory task, analyzing the differences associated with the presentation of the task in different sensory modalities (Auditory vs. Visual). In the Alpha band, the neural markers

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United we stand, divided we fall: intertwining as evidence of joint actions in pea plants

Bonato, B., Wang, Q., Guerra, S., Simonetti, V., Bulgheroni, M., Quaggiotti, S., Ruperti, B. & Castiello, U. (2023). “United we stand, divided we fall”: Intertwining as evidence of joint actions in pea plants. AoB PLANTS, plad088.ABSTRACT: In life, it is common for almost every kind of organism

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Emotion Regulation, Hope, and Optimism During the Third Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of Age and Personality

The present study, recently published by PlosOne, confirmed that older adults were more able than younger adults to cope with the emotional and psychological experience of the COVID-19 pandemic also during the third wave of contagions. Moreover, personality traits, and in particular emotional

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Luca Menghini

 I am a work and organizational psychologist, and I got my PhD in applied psychophysiology at the University of Padova, with a project on work stress assessment through wearable and mobile technologies. Since I was a student, I have been mainly interested in how psychology can be applied to improve

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Prolonged neural encoding of visual information in autism

The present study represents the first attempt to use multivariate pattern analysis of EEG data in order to make inferences about the flow of visual information processing under different attentional conditions in autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Such innovative approach allowed us to describe how

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