A5088515052- Deception detection and forensic psychology
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- Memory Processes and Influences
- Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending
- Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
- Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias
- Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
- Reading and Literacy Development
- ECG Monitoring and Analysis
- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- User Authentication and Security Systems
- Educational and Social Studies
- Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Face Recognition and Perception
- Advanced Malware Detection Techniques
- Social and Intergroup Psychology
- EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
- Cognitive Functions and Memory
- Traumatic Brain Injury Research
- Cardiac Arrhythmias and Treatments
- Free Will and Agency
- Identity, Memory, and Therapy
- Child and Animal Learning Development
- Cardiac pacing and defibrillation studies
University of Padua
2016-2025
Maastricht University
2023
University of Pisa
2023
Ospedale Policlinico San Martino
2001-2006
University of Trieste
2003
Regione del Veneto
1984
Gruppo CLAS (Italy)
1980
Many methods for reducing implicit prejudice have been identified, but little is known about their relative effectiveness. We held a research contest to experimentally compare interventions the expression of racial prejudice. Teams submitted 17 that were tested an average 3.70 times each in 4 studies (total N = 17,021), with rules revising between studies. Eight effective at preferences Whites compared Blacks, particularly ones provided experience counterstereotypical exemplars, used...
Abstract In this paper we report an investigation conducted on a brain-damaged patient who presents selective impairment in processing elements of some semantic categories, particular animals, fruit, and vegetables. His difficulties appear mainly when naming pictures, but are also present to definition retrieving visual attributes concepts from memory. The pattern the patient's performance is compatible with explanation which posits locus at level structural description, considered as...
Recent controversies about the level of replicability behavioral research analyzed using statistical inference have cast interest in developing more efficient techniques for analyzing results psychological experiments. Here we claim that complementing analytical workflow experiments with Machine Learning-based analysis will both maximize accuracy and minimize issues. As compared to inference, ML experimental data is model agnostic primarily focused on prediction rather than inference. We...
In the present study, startle responses during resting states as well presentation of a set emotive slides were recorded from 32-year-old male patient with rare localized lesion right amygdala. The reflex is response modulated by affective states: it has been reliably used in literature to measure aversiveness stimuli. animal shown that circuit this directly influenced amygdala projections. compared those eight age-matched normal subjects. patient's amplitudes showed an overall impaired and...
Lies are intentional distortions of event knowledge. No experimental data available on manipulating lying processes. To address this issue, we stimulated the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) using transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS). Fifteen healthy volunteers were tested before and after tDCS (anodal, cathodal, sham). Two types truthful (truthful selected: TS; unselected: TU) deceptive (lie LS; lie LU) responses evaluated a computer-controlled task. Reaction times (RTs)...
We describe a new method, based on indirect measures of implicit autobiographical memory, that allows evaluation which two contrasting events (e.g., crimes) is true for given individual. Participants were requested to classify sentences describing possible by pressing one response keys. Responses faster when related truly shared the same key with other reporting and slower false events. This method has application in forensic settings as lie-detection technique.
The feeling of being in control one's own actions is a strong subjective experience. However, discoveries psychology and neuroscience challenge the validity this experience suggest that free will just an illusion. This raises question: What would happen if people started to disbelieve will? Previous research has shown low beliefs affect performance motivation. Recently, it been undermining free-will influences social behavior. In study reported here, we investigated whether affects brain...
Whether differences in personality among populations really exist and, if so, whether they are only due to cultural and linguistic or have a genetically selected adaptive value, is controversial issue. In this research, we compared three Italian living on small archipelagos the Tyrrhenian Sea (n = 993), with their corresponding neighbouring mainlanders 598), i.e. sharing same geographical origin, culture language. We used an adjective‐based Big Five questionnaire order measure traits four...
Decision often implies a utilitarian choice based on personal gain, even at the expense of damaging others. Despite social implications behavior, its neurophysiological bases remain largely unknown. To assess how human brain controls we delivered transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) over ventral prefrontal cortex (VPC) and occipital (OC) in 78 healthy subjects. Utilitarian judgment was assessed with moral task before after tDCS. At baseline, females provided fewer answers than...
Implicit preferences are malleable, but does that change last? We tested 9 interventions (8 real and 1 sham) to reduce implicit racial over time. In 2 studies with a total of 6,321 participants, all immediately reduced preferences. However, none were effective after delay several hours days. also found these did not explicit reliably moderated by motivations respond without prejudice. Short-term malleability in necessarily lead long-term change, raising new questions about the flexibility stability
Semantic features are of different importance in concept representation. The elephant may be more easily identified from the feature <trunk> than <four legs>. We propose a new model semantic memory to measure relevance for and use this investigate controversial issue category specificity. Category-specific patients have an impairment one domain knowledge (e.g., living), whereas other nonliving) is relatively spared. show that categories differ level that, when concepts belonging living...