Università di Padova

BRAINS meet DIGITAL ENTERPRISES

HIT-DIGITAL MEET YOUNG RESEARCHER AWARD
22nd October 2019 - ORTO BOTANICO DI PADOVA, PRATO DELLA VALLE 57/C, PADOVA

Neurofind: using deep learning technology to make individualized inferences in brain disorders

Andrea Mechelli - 22 October 2019 | 14:00 | "Cesare Musatti" Room, Psychology Building 1, via Venezia 8, Padova

A precise organisation of forms: Exploring the aesthetics of photography

Very few empirical studies of aesthetics use Fechner’s Method of Production, where participants actually create aesthetic objects, mostly because of practical difficulties. Photography provides a solution to that problem, most people taking photos, recognising that some are better than others, and often having views on composition.
Chris McManus - 24 October 2019 | 08:30 – 10:00 AM | 4P Room, Psychology Building 2, via Venezia 8, Padova

People differ: Individual differences in aesthetics

Perhaps the most quoted maxim about aesthetics is the Latin phrase, De gustibus non est disputandum. The implication is that tastes differ so much between people that there is no point in arguing about them. For experimental aesthetics, however, the impression is sometimes that the precise opposite applies.
Chris McManus - 25 October 2019 | 10:30 – 12:00 AM | 4P Room, Psychology Building 2, via Venezia 8, Padova

Prominent German neuroscientist committed misconduct in ‘brain-reading’ research

German funding agency imposes strict sanctions on Niels Birbaumer, whose studies it says contained incomplete data — but Birbaumer stands by his results.