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Pulling the lever in a hurry: the influence of impulsivity and sensitivity to reward on moral decision-making under time pressure

Making timely moral decisions can be crucial. Just think of physicians and health care professionals, who are often called upon to make quick decisions about the lives of their patients. Nevertheless, experimental studies that have investigated the effects of time pressure on moral decisions (i.e.,

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The Department welcomes Cinzia Cecchetto as RTDA from June 2024

I obtained my PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience in January 2017 from the International School of Advanced Studies (SISSA) in Trieste. Since the beginning of my doctoral studies, I have been particularly drawn to research topics at the intersection of social neuroscience and olfactory perception. During

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The Benefits of Playing Action-Like Video Games on Salience Processing

Franceschini, S., Puccio, G., Bertoni, S., Gori, S., Mascheretti, S., Fusina, F., Angrilli, A., Facoetti, A. (2024). The Benefits of Playing Action-Like Video Games on Salience Processing. International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1080/10447318.2024.2346693LINK:

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How do we construct emotions?

How do we construct emotions? In this Chapter of the Routledge Handbook of Embodied Cognition, 2nd ed., Fiorella Del Popolo Cristaldi, Suzanne Oosterwijk, and Lisa Feldman Barrett show how our emotion concepts arise from predictive processes. Within a collection of chapters dedicated to presenting a

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Action video games and neuromodulation of the posterior parietal cortex improve both attention and reading in adults with developmental dyslexia

Bertoni, S., Franceschini, S., Mancarella, M., Puccio, G., Ronconi, L., Marsicano, G., Gori, S., Campana, G., & Facoetti, A. (2024). Action video games and posterior parietal cortex neuromodulation enhance both attention and reading in adults with developmental dyslexia. Cerebral Cortex, 34(4).

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