The Department welcomes Valentina Simonetti
as RTDA from October 2025
The Department welcomes Fabio Masina
as RTDA from February 2025
The Department welcomes Stefano Noventa
as RTT from February 2025
The Department welcomes Carola Dell'Acqua
as RTDA from February 2025
The Department welcomes Giorgio Arcara
as Associate Professor from April 2025
DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY
NEWS AND EVENTS
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Do musicians really have better memory than nonmusicians?
Global Collaboration Redefines How Cognitive Research Is Done33 labs across 15 countries join forces to study musicians’ memory in one of the first multilab projects in psychology and neurosciencePADUA and INNSBRUCK (Italy and Austria) — November 10, 2025
Do musicians really have better memory than n
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Personal Views of Aging among Informal Caregivers of People with Dementia and Non-Caregivers
Does caring for a relative with dementia affect how family caregivers view their own aging process?
A recent study published in Healthcare explored this question by involving a sample of family (informal) caregivers of people with dementia and a comparison group of adults who had never taken this rol
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Examining subjective views of the aging process in older adults: a systematic review following the COSMIN methodology
How can we identify and assess views on aging in older adults?
Subjective Views of Aging (VoA) have attracted increasing attention in the literature, as their VoA components have a significant impact on various health well-being outcomes, and longevity in older adults. This systematic review, publish
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Revealing synchrony in pea plants using wavelet coherence analysis
For the first time, Wavelet Transform Coherence (WTC), a powerful method widely used to study brain oscillations, human coordination, and animal synchrony, has been applied to plants. In their new article published in Scientific Reports by Nature, Bianca Bonato and colleagues reveal that pea plants
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Curious Jellyfish Open New Avenues for Nervous System Research
A team of researchers from the University of Padua and the University of Trieste has observed surprising behaviors in jellyfish of the species Aurelia (moon jellyfish). The study, published in «Behavioral and Brain Sciences», explores the origin of curiosity and the possibility of cognition without
