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Brainhack Diversity. Inter-individual variability in cognitive and clinical neuroscience: signal or noise?
Brainhack Global “in Padova” 2020Title: Brainhack Diversity. Inter-individual variability in cognitive and clinical neuroscience: signal or noise?When: December 14th to 16th, 2020Where: the internet, wherever it liesOrganizers: Patrizia Bisiacchi, Giorgia Cona, Davide Poggiali, Antonino VallesiInfo:
End-of-life care after the legal introduction of advance directives (AD) in Italy
Advance care planning and advance directives (AD) play a key role in the care of life-threatening illnesses such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Professor Cipolletta from the Department of General Psychology of the University of Padua (Italy) has conducted a study to explore how the introduction
#everythingisgonnabealright; character, psychological distress and self-efficacy during Covid-19 lockdown
Which personal characteristics have helped people coping with lockdown? Character strengths are positive individual traits that have been associated to a host of mental health indicators, qualifying as protective factors against mental disorders. In the present research, we studied the association
Numerical magnitude, rather than individual bias, explains spatial numerical association in newborn chicks
We associate small numbers with the left and large numbers with the right side of space. Recent evidence from human newborns and non-human animals has challenged the primary role assigned to culture, in determining this spatial numerical association (SNA). Nevertheless, the effect of individual
