Call for Expression of Interests from scholars with academic positions in Psychology or related disciplines in a foreign country for faculty positions at the Department of General Psychology, University of Padova (Italy)

Dal 26.05.2023 al 11.06.2023

The Department of General Psychology at University of Padova in Italy is inviting expressions of interest for faculty positions. Scholars with tenure or tenure-track academic positions in Psychology or related disciplines in a foreign country and a research and teaching profile that fits the

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The human voice preactivates the neural circuits of face perception already at 4 months of life

This study published in «Scientific Reports» demonstrates the ability of 4-month-old infants to anticipate an event according to the sound heard. In particular, the authors showed that a voice is able to pre-activate the neural circuits involved in the visual perception of faces about a second

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The Experience project

EXPERIENCE is a project funded by the European community and guided by prof Gaetano Valenza (University of Pisa). Prof Claudio Gentili and his team are partners in this project. The project makes real the complex interplay between multisensory perception, emotional responses, past experiences, and

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Why Stradivari are preferred sound over other violins

 A study published by The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America has identified the sound qualities that make the Stradivari violin preferable over others violins.The experiment evaluated the sound qualities of violins in the attempt to find the distinct qualities that make a violin timbre

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Evidence of weight-based representations of gravitational motion

This study explores how an everyday life event like the free vertical fall of an object is represented by our cognitive system. We test two opposing hypotheses, namely that either our representations of physical events are consistent with the corresponding physical laws or that they are based on

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