A5064463514- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
- Action Observation and Synchronization
- Motor Control and Adaptation
- Urban Green Space and Health
- Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies
- Visual perception and processing mechanisms
- EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
- Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies
- Memory and Neural Mechanisms
- Vestibular and auditory disorders
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
- Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Face Recognition and Perception
- Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
- LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy
- Neurological disorders and treatments
- Noise Effects and Management
- Diverse Music Education Insights
- Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
- Neuroscience and Music Perception
- Cerebrovascular and genetic disorders
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
University of Florence
2016-2024
John Wiley & Sons (United States)
2023
SDN Istituto di Ricerca Diagnostica e Nucleare
2018-2022
Istituti di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico
2018-2022
Meyer Children's Hospital
2017
Italian Institute of Technology
2013
The prolonged lockdown imposed to contain the COrona VIrus Disease 19 COVID-19 pandemic prevented many people from direct contact with nature and greenspaces, raising alarms for a possible worsening of mental health. This study investigated effectiveness simple affordable remedy improving psychological well-being, based on audio-visual stimuli brought by short computer video showing forest environments, an urban as control. Randomly selected participants were assigned or video, look at...
Several studies have shown that the observation of a rapidly moving stimulus dilates our perception time. However, this effect appears to be at odds with fact interactions both environment and each other are temporally accurate. This work exploits paradox investigate whether temporal accuracy visual motion uses motor representations actions. To aim, stimuli were dot kinematics belonging or not human repertoire displayed different velocities. Participants had replicate its duration two tasks...
The prolonged lockdown imposed to contain the COVID-19 pandemic prevented many people from direct contact with nature and greenspaces, raising alarms for a possible worsening of mental health. This study investigates effectiveness simple affordable remedy improving psychological well-being, based on audio-visual stimuli brought by short computer video showing forest environments, an urban as control. Randomly selected participants were assigned or video, look at listen early in morning,...
Measuring emotional responses to tastes and foods, using both self-reports also implicit physiological measurements is gaining attention. Among measurements, skin conductance response (SCR) one the most commonly used indicators of activation but it has been rarely applied taste other oral stimuli its interpretation not yet clear. Furthermore, effect individual differences in SCR taken into account. To address these issues, bitter, astringent, sweet samples presented at weak/moderate...
Abstract The ability to flexibly regulate our behavior is a fundamental feature of human cognition and requires efficient functioning cognitive control. During movement preparation, proactive inhibitory control plays crucial role in regulating the excitatory activity carried out by alertness. balance between alertness inhibition could be altered people with motor impulsivity trait, determining typical failure prepotent responses. To test this hypothesis, 36 young adults were administered...
To date, MRI studies focused on brain sexual dimorphism have not explored the presence of specific neural patterns in gender dysphoria (GD) using discrimination tasks. Considering central role body image GD, present study aims to evaluate activation with 3T-scanner functional (fMRI) during face task a sample 20 hormone-naïve transgender and cisgender individuals. Additionally, participants were asked complete psychometric measures. The between-group analysis average blood oxygenation level...
Response inhibition relies on both proactive and reactive mechanisms that exert a synergic control goal-directed actions. It is typically evaluated by the go/no-go (GNG) stop signal task (SST) with response recording based key-press method. However, analysis of discrete variables (i.e., present or absent responses) registered could be insufficient to capture dynamic aspects inhibitory control. Trying overcome this limitation, in study we used mouse tracking procedure characterize movement...
Abstract Deficient voluntary control of behaviour and impulsivity are key aspects impulse disorders. The objective the present study was to evaluate relationship between behavioural measures awareness action. Seventy‐four healthy volunteers completed Barratt Impulsiveness Scale ( BIS ), a questionnaire used measure impulsive personality traits, go/no‐go task. Moreover, all participants performed task based on Libet's clock paradigm in which they were requested report time self‐initiated...
This research aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the key demographic, psychosocial, and lifestyle-related characteristics forest therapy participants in Italy. A survey was conducted among 1070 adults who had engaged standardized experiences between June 2021 October 2022. The findings indicate that most Italy share certain distinctive traits. They are primarily female, aged 45 54 years, employed, unmarried. Moreover, they possess high level education, predominantly reside urban...
This study aimed to investigate the effect of different sport environments (open-and closed-skill sports) on proactive and reactive inhibitory processes as two distinct components motor inhibition. A mouse-tracking procedure was employed compare behavioral performance among three groups participants (tennis players, swimmers non-athletes) in non-sport-specific cued Go/No-Go (GNG) Stop Signal Task (SST), which mainly engage control, respectively. Reaction times (RTs), failures, Times (SSRTs)...
Virtual reality (VR) can be a promising tool to simulate in various settings but the real impact of this technology on human mental system is still unclear as how VR might (if at all) interfere with cognitive functioning. Using computer, we concentrate, enter state flow, and maintain control over our surrounding world. Differently, very immersive experience which could challenge for ability allocate divided attention environment perform executive functioning tasks. This may also have...
Right‐IFG and pre‐SMA are associated with inhibitory responses. We used functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging to explore whether the contralateral homotopic regions can functionally replace them. An adolescent, an extensive traumatic lesion of right cerebral hemisphere having occurred 5 years earlier, performed a motor response inhibition task (Go/Nogo), which was properly accomplished activations in left‐IFC, precuneus occipital cortex. Such remodelling is line theory ‘near...
Background and Purpose- Small-vessel damage in cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts leukoencephalopathy (CADASIL) is associated impaired vascular constriction dilation. We used a functional magnetic resonance imaging task an event-related design of stimulus to explore the anticipated abnormally decreased blood oxygen level dependent effect CADASIL. Methods- Twenty-one CADASIL patients 16 healthy controls performed Go/No-go exploring reactive proactive phases...
Exposure to natural green environments, whether through visual media or in person, can bring numerous benefits physical and mental health. Given the restorative effects that forest environments have on human mind, it is plausible assume these also extend cognitive processes, such as control, which are fundamental higher-level function. In this study, we investigated viewing videos of urban would an impact inhibitory control attention people with without a past COVID-19 infection. To...
The contribution of brain regions to visuospatial abilities according sex differences and gender identity is inconsistently described. One potential explaining factor may be the different tasks employed requiring a variable load working memory other cognitive resources. Here we asked 20 cis transgender participants undergo functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging during performance judgement line orientation test that was adapted explore basic processing while minimizing load. We show V1...