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GPS Use and Navigation Ability: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

Is the use of GPS (Global Positioning System) changing our ability to orient and navigate in the environment?GPS localization systems support us in both familiar and unfamiliar environments and, undoubtedly, allow us to quickly reach our desired destination. Although this technology is widely used,

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Human brain imaging with high‐density electroencephalography: Techniques and applications

Electroencephalography (EEG) is a technique for non-invasively measuring neuronal activity in the human brain using electrodes placed on the participant's scalp. With the advancement of digital technologies, EEG analysis has evolved from the qualitative analysis of amplitude and frequency

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The Department welcomes Giovanni Bruno as RTDA from August 2024

My university and academic journey began and developed at the Department of General Psychology, where I arrived in 2013 as an undergraduate student and then continued step by step as a master's student, post-graduate intern, research fellow, PhD student and post-doc researcher. At the DPG  I

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The Department welcomes Tommaso Feraco as RTDA from August 2024

I am a passionate psychologist and researcher, primarily focused on individual differences. My research career began with a project in collaboration with a start-up, which sparked my interest in soft skills, their measurement, and development, especially in secondary school students. The innovation,

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The Department welcomes Giulio Contemori as RTDA from August 2024

"We see the world not as it is, but as we are." (Edmund Husserl). The phenomenal world does not correspond to the physical world but results from a series of physical, physiological, and psychological mediations. The relationship between the phenomenal and physical world has always fascinated me and

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