Mindfulness interventions were shown to be effective in improving well-being and reducing perceived stress several conditions. These effects also found online mindfulness-based training, especially employees organizational environments. The aim of this study was test the effectiveness an mindfulness intervention on healthy employees, after first Italian Covid-19 lockdown. Participants group underwent 8-week training program based Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) protocol compared a...

Abstract Perception of social stimuli (faces and bodies) relies on “holistic” (i.e., global) mechanisms, as supported by picture-plane inversion: perceiving inverted faces/bodies is harder than their upright counterpart. Albeit neuroimaging evidence suggested involvement face-specific brain areas in holistic processing, spatiotemporal dynamics selectivity for still debated. Here, we investigate the processing faces, bodies houses (adopted control non-social category), applying deep learning...

Biases toward treating robots as intentional agents or mechanical artifacts show a distinct neural activation pattern at rest.

Eye contact established by a human partner has been shown to affect various cognitive processes of the receiver. However, little is known about humans' responses eye humanoid robot. Here, we aimed at examining oscillatory brain response with (or lack thereof) was embedded in gaze-cueing task and preceded phase gaze-related attentional orienting. In addition effect on recipient, also tested its impact effects (GCEs). Results showed that participants rated as more engaging responded higher...

Abstract Pareidolia refers to the perception of ambiguous sensory patterns as carrying a specific meaning. In its most common form, pareidolia involves human-like facial features, where random objects or are illusionary recognized faces. The current study investigated neurophysiological correlates face via transcranial alternating stimulation (tACS). tACS was delivered at gamma (40 Hz) frequency over critical nodes “face perception” network (i.e., right lateral occipito-temporal and left...

Face and body perception is mediated by configural mechanisms, which allow the of these stimuli as a whole, rather than sum individual parts. Indirect measures processing in visual cognition are face inversion effects (FIE BIE), refer to drop performance when perceived upside-down. Albeit FIE BIE have been well characterized at behavioral level, much still needs be understood terms neurophysiological correlates effects. Thus, current study, brain's electrical activity has recorded 128...

This study is one of the first aiming at investigating mental health in post-lockdown period an Italian adult population and detecting demographic psychological predictors for a worse outcome. 1401 participants answered web-based survey including Emotional Reaction Questionnaire (ERQ), Positive Affect Negative Scale (PANAS), Impact Event Scale-Revised (IES-R), General Health (GHQ), Depression, Anxiety Stress (DASS-21), Dutch Work Addiction (DUWAS). Simple slope analyses highlighted that...

We investigated whether the type of stimulus (pictures static faces vs. body motion) contributes differently to recognition emotions. The performance (accuracy and response times) 25 Low Autistic Traits (LAT group) young adults (21 males) 20 (16 with either High (HAT or Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorder was compared in four emotions (Happiness, Anger, Fear Sadness) shown conveyed by moving bodies (patch-light displays, PLDs). Overall, HAT individuals were as accurate LAT ones perceiving...

The presence of artificial agents in our everyday lives is continuously increasing. Hence, the question how human social cognition mechanisms are activated interactions with agents, such as humanoid robots, frequently being asked. One interesting whether humans perceive robots mere artifacts (interpreting their behavior reference to function, thereby adopting design stance) or intentional mental states, stance). Due humanlike appearance, might be capable evoking stance. On other hand,...

. This study presents a novel methodological approach for incorporating information related to the peripheral sympathetic response into investigation of neural dynamics. Particularly, we explore how hedonic contextual olfactory stimuli influence processing neutral faces in terms response, event-related potentials and effective connectivity analysis. The objective is investigate emotional valence odors influences cortical underlying face role face-induced arousal this visual-olfactory...

Assessing mobility in daily life can provide significant insights into several clinical conditions, such as Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). In this paper, we present a comprehensive analysis of wearable devices' performance gait speed estimation and explore optimal device combinations for everyday use. Using data collected from smartphones, smartwatches, smart shoes, evaluated the individual capabilities each explored their synergistic effects when combined, thereby...

Faces and bodies provide critical cues for social interaction communication. Their structural encoding depends on configural processing, as suggested by the detrimental effect of stimulus inversion both faces (i.e., face - FIE) (body BIE). An occipito-temporal negative event-related potential (ERP) component peaking around 170 ms after onset (N170) is consistently elicited human affected these stimuli. Albeit it known that emotional expressions can boost (resulting in larger N170 components...

Black people are widely negatively stereotyped. The presence of unconscious stereotypes can be effectively assessed with the administration "racial priming tasks." An ethnically diverse group was subjected to a paradigm test whether racial cues could bias identification target objects. Participants were asked categorize objects (either as dangerous or nondangerous) after presentation Black/White faces primes. Results show that both and White participants faster in categorizing when primed...

Abstract Human-robot interaction research could benefit from knowing how various parameters of robotic eye movement control affect specific cognitive mechanisms the user, such as attention or perception. In present study, we systematically teased apart Trajectory Time robot movements (rTT) between two joint positions and Fixation Duration (rFD) on each these iCub robot. We showed recordings behaviors to participants asked them rate video human-like robot’s behavior appeared. Additionally,...

Neuromodulation techniques such as tDCS have provided important insight into the neurophysiological mechanisms that mediate cognition. Albeit anodal (a-tDCS) often enhances cognitive skills, role of cathodal (c-tDCS) in visual cognition is largely unexplored and inconclusive. Here, a single-blind, sham-controlled study, we investigated offline effects 1.5 mA c-tDCS over right occipital cortex 86 participants on four tasks assessing perception memory both faces objects. Results demonstrated...

Social exclusion is a painful experience that felt as threat to the human need belong and can lead increased aggressive anti-social behaviours, results in emotional cognitive numbness. Excluded individuals also seem show an automatic tuning positivity: they tend increase their selective attention towards social acceptance signals. Despite these effects known literature, consequences of on information processing still be explored depth. The aim this study was investigate two features are...

Typical face perception is mediated by holistic processing (i.e., the simultaneous integration of parts into a whole representation). People with Acquired Prosopagnosia (AP), who have lost ability to recognise faces after brain lesion, should thus show atypical coding. Our aim use composite-face effect (CFE) as measure in ST, 48-year-old woman AP but normal recognition facial expressions emotions, and matched healthy control participants. Two experiments examining CFE for identity...

In the contemporary age of human-centered computing, smartphones, smartwatches, and IoT devices are currently being used in medical sector for continuous monitoring patients. Existing clinical applications generally rely on a single type device, while adoption multi-modal data collection where multiple heterogeneous employed is still not adequately explored. this paper, we present approach European project TOLIFE, which proposed to monitor health status Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease...

Emotion classification using electroencephalographic (EEG) data is a challenging task in the field of Artificial Intelligence. While many researchers have focused on finding best model or feature extraction technique to achieve optimal results, few attempted select methodological steps for working with dataset. In this study, we applied two different theoretical approaches based noise dataset: curriculum learning and confident learning. Curriculum involves presenting training examples...

The accurate recognition of others' facial expressions is a core skill for social interactions. left Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex (L-DLPFC) represents key node in the network emotion recognition. However, its specific role still under debate. As such, aim current neuromodulation study was to assess causal L-DLPFC humans' rating emotions and implicit attitudes toward other races. In this sham-controlled single-blind between-subject experiment, we offline administered transcranial direct...

As the use of humanoid robots proliferates, an increasing amount people may find themselves face-to-“face” with a robot in everyday life. Although there is plethora information available on facial social cues and how we interpret them field human-human interaction, cannot assume that these findings flawlessly transfer to human-robot interaction. Therefore, more research interaction required. This study investigated deception context, focusing effect eye contact has honesty toward this robot....

Eye contact established by a human partner has been shown to affect various cognitive processes of the receiver. However, little is known about humans’ responses eye humanoid robot. Here, we aimed at examining oscillatory brain response with (or lack thereof) was embedded in gaze cueing task and preceded phase gaze-related attentional orienting. In addition effect on recipient, also tested its impact effects. Results showed that participants rated as more engaging responded higher...

Internal mobility often depends on predicting future job satisfaction, for such employees subject to internal programs. In this study, we compared the predictive power of different classes models, i.e., (i) traditional Structural Equation Modeling (SEM), with two families Machine Learning algorithms: (ii) regressors, specifically least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (Lasso) feature (iii) classifiers, Bagging meta-model k -nearest neighbors algorithm ( -NN) as a base estimator. Our...

Several countries imposed nationwide or partial lockdowns to limit the spread of COVID-19 and avoid overwhelming hospitals intensive care units. Lockdown may involve restriction movement, stay-at-home orders self-isolation, which have dramatic consequences on mental health. Recent studies demonstrated that negative impact lockdown restrictions depends a wide range psychological socio-demographic factors.This longitudinal study aimed understand how internal factors such as personality...