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
I have been an assistant professor (RtdB) with tenure track at the department of General Psychology since November 2021.I graduated in 2011 at University of Padova with a thesis titled: “the extrapolation of occluded motion”. Motion perception is a topic that I continued to investigate during my
Study published by Gian Marco Duma, Mariagrazia Di Bono and Giovanni Mento in the journal "Brain Sciences". Is it possible to predict how a person will adapt his motor behavior and neural activity in a cognitive task simply by recording his EEG activity at rest?In short, it's a bit like figuring
Georg Northoff is Professor in the Departments of Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Philosophy at the University of Ottawa Institute of Mental Health Research, Canada. He is one of the globally leading neuroscientists who made seminal contributions to our understanding of higher order cognitive phenomena
Dementia is a major cause of disability in older adults, with a tremendous negative impact on the quality of life (QoL) of people with dementia (PWD). Non-pharmacological treatments have proved helpful in counteracting dementia-related symptoms and promoting QoL in PWD, such as gardening therapy and
