International guests Archive

  VISITING PROFESSORS

Selina Wriessnegger - selinachristin.wriessnegger@unipd.it
Assistant professor | Institute of Neural Engineering, Laboratory of Brain-Computer Interfaces | Graz University of Technology | Austria 
MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience and Clinical Neuropsychology 
Course unit: New Trends in Neuroscience
2nd semester 2018/2019

Edward Taylor - edward.taylor@unipd.it
Professor | Penn State University-Harrisburg | USA
Bachelor’s in Psychological Science
Course unit: Cross-cultural perspectives on anthropology
2nd semester 2018/2019

Katya de Giovanni
 - katya.degiovanni@unipd.it
Senior lecturer | Department of Family Studies and Department of Psychology | University of Malta | Malta
Bachelor’s in Psychological Science
Course unit: Work and Organisational Psychology
2nd semester 2018/2019

Michel Thiebaut de Schotten
(Associate professor, Head of the Brain Connectivity and Behaviour group | Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière - Paris| France)
michel.thiebautdeschotten@unipd.it
MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience and Clinical Neuropsychology
Course unit: Principles of Cognitive Neuroscience (Mod. A)
1st semester 2018/2019

Konstantinos I. Arvanitakis - konstantinos.arvanitakis@unipd.it
(Emeritus | Department of Psychiatry | McGill University | Canada)
Bachelor's in Psychological Science
Course unit: Principles of Psychodynamic Psychology
2nd semester 2017/2018

Juan Lupiáñez Castillo - jlupiane@ugr.es
(Professor | Department of Experimental Psychology and Physiology of Behaviour | University of Granada | Spain)
MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience and Clinical Neuropsychology
Course unit: New Trend In Neuroscience
2nd semester 2017/2018

Gareth Anthony Hall
garethanthony.hall@unipd.it
Senior Lecturer in Social Psychology| Department of Psychology| Aberystwyth University | UK)
Bachelor's in Psychological Science
Course unit: Social Psychology and Health
1st semester 2017/2018

Tomáš Paus
tomas.paus@unipd.it
(Professor | Department of Psychiatry | University of Toronto | Canada)
Master's in Cognitive Neuroscience and Clinical Neuropsychology
Course unit:  New Trends in Neuroscience
2nd semester 2016/2017

Konstantinos I. Arvanitakis - konstantinos.arvanitakis@unipd.it
(Emeritus | Department of Psychiatry | McGill University | Canada)
Bachelor's in Psychologycal Science
Course unit:  Principles of Psychodynamic Psychology
2nd semester 2016/2017

  VISITING SCIENTISTS

Massimiliano De Zambotti - massimiliano.dezambotti@sri.com
(Research scientist | Human Sleep Research Program, Center for Health Sciences at the SRI International | USA)
Research interests: Psychophysiology of Sleep, Cardiovascular Psychophysiology, development and validation of novel technologies to improve health and wellbeing
Visiting period: May 6 – June 6, 2019 

Silvia Sara Canetto - silvia.canetto@gmail.com
(PhD, Professor | Department of Psychology | Colorado State University | USA)
Research interests: Gender studies and suicide
Visiting period: May 20 – July 9, 2019

Brian Butterworth - b.butterworth@ucl.ac.uk
(Full Professor | University College London | UK)
Research interests: Numerical cognition, educational neuroscience, dyscalculia
Visiting period: October 1 – December 31 2018

Evie Vergauwe - evie.vergauwe@unige.ch
(SNSF Ambizione Research Fellow | University of Geneva | Switzerland)
Research interests: cognitive psychology, cognitive development, cognitive neuroscience, introductory psychology and research methods
Visiting period: October 1 – 31 2018

Valerie Gyselinck - valerie.gyselinck@ifsttar.fr
(Research Director| Mobility and Behavior Psychology Lab, Department of Planning, Mobilities & Environment | French Institute of Science and Technology for Transport, Development and Networks (IFSTTAR, Paris) | France)
Research interests: Spatial memory, navigation and individual differences. Transport, safety and health systems. Mobility planning
Visiting period: April 15 – May 15 2018

Gonia Jarema - gonia.jarema@umontreal.ca
(Professor | Department of Linguistics | University of Montreal | Canada)
Research interests: Cognitive reserve and linguistic abilities in individuals with cognitive decline
Visiting period: March 14 – April 14 2018

Nicky Edelstyn
(Professor | School of Psychology | Keele University | UK)
Research interests: Cognitive Neuropsychology and Rehabilitation
Visiting period: May 15 – August 15, 2017

  ACADEMIC VISITORS

2019

Silvia Sara Canetto - silvia.canetto@gmail.com
(PhD, Professor | Department of Psychology | Colorado State University | USA)
Research interests: Gender studies and suicide

Lecture: “Women, men and gender: theories and evidence” 
20 May 2019 | 03:30 pm | 3L Room, Psychology Building 2, via Venezia 12, Padova 

Lecture: “Women, men and suicidality: why culture matters” 
28 May 2019 | 03:00 pm | "Cesare Musatti" Room, Psychology Building 1, via Venezia 8, Padova

 

2018

Marc Potenza - marc.potenza@yale.edu 
Professor of Psychiatry, Neuroscience and Child Study | Yale University School of Medicine | USA) 
Lecture: Similarities and differences in the neuroscience of behavioral and drug addictions 
13 May 2019 | 3:00 pm | "Cesare Musatti" Room, Psychology Building 1, via Venezia 8, Padova

Laura Hokkanen - Laura.Hokkanen@helsinki.fi
(Head of Department | Department of Psychology and Logopedics | University of Helsinki | Finland)
Lecture: "Specialist education and competences for the European neuropsychologist"
24 October 2018 | 3:30 pm | Room: 3L | Psychology Building 2, Via Venezia 12, Padova

Ruth Green
(MA | UK)
Lecture: "Studying in English, when not a native-speaker"
2 October 2018 | 3:30 pm | Room: 2D | Psychology Building 2, Via Venezia 12, Padova
Lecture: "English pronunciation for native Italian speakers"
3 October 2018 | 3:30 pm | Room: 2D | Psychology Building 2, Via Venezia 12, Padova

Giandomenico Iannetti 
(Full professor | Department of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology | University College London | UK)
Lecture: “From pain to defensive actions: saliency detection as a reactive process”
16 July 2018 | 12:30 pm | Room: DPG-1 Meeting Room | Psychology Building 1, Via Venezia 8, Padova

Anna Wilkinson
(Reader| School of Life Sciences, College of Science| University of Lincoln | UK)
Lecture: “Cold-blooded cognition” 
13 July 2018 |12:00 pm | Room: Aula Magna Cesare Musatti | Psychology Building 1, Via Venezia 8, Padova

Elizabeth M. Brannon
(Full professor | Department of Psychology | University of Pennsylvania | U.S.A.)
Lecture: "Foundations for symbolic mathematics: development and evolution of the approximate number system"
21 June 2018 | 11:00 am - 12:30 pm | Room: Aula Magna Cesare Musatti | Psychology Building 1, Via Venezia 8, Padova

Manuel Schabus 
(Full professor | Lab for "Sleep and Consciousness Research", Department of Psychology | University of Salzburg | Austria)
Lecture: "Sleep and Cognition: from information processing in sleep to 'offline' memory consolidation
1 June 2018 | 10:00 am - 14:00 pm | Room: Aula Magna Cesare Musatti | Psychology Building 1, Via Venezia 8, Padova

Selina Christin Wriessnegger - s.wriessnegger@tugraz.at
(Dr. PhD | Neural Engineering/BCI-Lab | Graz University of Technology | Austria)
Lecture: “ Brain-Computer Interfaces: From Vision to Reality
17 April 2018 | 2:30 – 6:00 pm | Room T1, CLA (University Language Center) Building | Via Venezia 16
18 April 2018 | 2:30 – 6:00 pm | | Room T1, CLA (University Language Center) Building | Via Venezia 16

Alexandra Lamont - a.m.lamont@keele.ac.uk
(Senior Lecturer in Psychology of Music | Lead of Psychology of Health & Wellbeing research group| Keele University | UK)
9-13 April 2018 | Psico 1 Building

Marcel Van Den Hoot
(Full Professor | Department of Clinical Psychology, Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences | Utrecht University)
Lecture: “EMDR: experimental and clinical notes
12 April 2018 | 3:00 pm | Room T4 | Via Venezia 16

Kristin Flegal - Kristin.Flegal@glasgow.ac.uk
(Full Professor | Institute of Neuroscience & Psychology| Glasgow University | UK)
Lecture: “Mechanisms of successful cognitive training interventions
11 April 2018 | 12:30 – 1:30 pm | Room 2D | Via Venezia 12

Ana Rosa Alcázar
(Associate professor | Departamento de Personalidad, Evaluación y Tratamiento Psicológico | Universidad de Murcia | Spain)
26-30 March 2018 | Psico 1 Building

Carlos J. Gómez-Ariza
(Associate professor | Department of Psychology | Universidad de Jaén | Spain)
Lecture: “The Power of Memory Inhibition: Far and Beyond Explicit Memory tests.”
28 March 2018 | 12:30-13:30 | Room: Aula Magna Cesare Musatti | Psico 1 Building

Árni Kristjánsson - ak@hi.is
(Professor of Psychology | School of Health Sciences | University of Iceland | Iceland)
12 -23 March | Psico1 Building

Sunčica Zdravković (Professor of Perception | Department of Psychology, Faculty of Philosophy and Faculty of Electrical Engineering | University of Novi Sad | Serbia)

Ian M. Thornton
(Professor of Cognitive Science | Department of Cognitive Science | University of Malta | Malta)
Lecture: “Attention and Illusory Motion”
19 March 2018 | 11:30 | Psico 1 Building - INFO

Andrey Chetverikov - a.chetverikov@donders.ru.nl
(Postdoctoral researcher | Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging | Radboud University | The Netherlands)
Lecture: "Learning distributions of features in an uncertain environment"
14 March |14:00 pm | Room: Aula Magna Cesare Musatti | Psico 1 Building - INFO


2017

Idit Katz
(Senior Lecturer | Department of Education | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev | Israel)
Lecture: Need Support and motivation: Is this what it is all about?
Wednesday, 6 December 2017 | 12:30 p.m. | Room: Aula Magna Cesare Musatti | Psico 1 Building

Ervins Cukurs
(Lecturer | Department of Health Psychology and Pedagogy, Faculty of Public Health and Social Welfare| Rīga Stradiņš University | Latvia)
Lecture: Effectiveness of psychological interventions: role of psychologists/psychotherapists personality and creativity in association with changes in symptoms of clients
Tuesday, 5 December | 12:30-2:30 p.m. | Room: Aula EF9 | EX FIAT Building, via Venezia 13

Jelena Harlamova
(Lecturer | Department of Health Psychology and Pedagogy, Faculty of Public Health and Social Welfare| Rīga Stradiņš University | Latvia)
Lecture: Therapeutic approach for chronic pain treatment
Monday, 4 December | 12:30-2:30 p.m. | Room: Aula CLA 2T | University Language Centre (CLA)

Nicky Edelstyn
(Director | Psychology Research Centre | Keele University | UK)
Research interests: Cognitive Neuropsychology and Rehabilitation
Lecture: Neurogenesis, memory disorder and depression in Parkinson's disease: The case for selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors for managing Major depressive disorder in Parkinson's disease”
29 November | 4:30 p.m. | Room: Aula CLA 2T | University Language Centre (CLA)

Nicky Edelstyn
(Director | Psychology Research Centre | Keele University | UK)
Research interests: Cognitive Neuropsychology and Rehabilitation
Lecture: “Reasons for and implications of the knowledge to treatment gap in managing Major depressive disorder in Parkinson's disease”
22 November | 4:30 pm | Room: Aula CLA 2T | University Language Centre (CLA)

Marie T. Banich
(Executive Director | Intermountain Neuroimaging Consortium Institute of Cognitive Science, Dept. of Psychology & Neuroscience | University of Colorado | USA)
Lecture: “Individual differences in the neural substrates that support factors underlying executive functions”
3 October | 2:30 pm | Room: Aula Magna Cesare Musatti | Psico 1 Building

Marie T. Banich
(Executive Director | Intermountain Neuroimaging Consortium Institute of Cognitive Science, Dept. of Psychology & Neuroscience | University of Colorado | USA)
Lecture: “The development of executive abilities: perspectives from behavior and neuroimaging”
2 October | 2:30 pm | Room: Aula 2A | Psico 2 Building

Maria C. Norton
(Emeritus | Department of Family, Consumer, and Human Development | Utah State University | USA)
Research interests: Aging and Adult Development
Conference "Health Related Lifestyle Behavior Change Facilitated by Mobile Technology"
24 May | 09:30-12:00am | Room: Aula Magna Cesare Musatti | Psico 1 Building

Jodene G. Fine
(Associate Professor | Department of Counseling, Educational Psychology and Special Education| Michigan State University | USA)
Research interests: Cognitive and neuropsychological assessment, Neuroimaging and neuropsychology of children with developmental disorders
Lecture: Neurological evidences and social difficulties in NLD in "Giornata di studi su Disturbo nonverbale e difficoltà visuospaziali"
19 May | 10:10-10:40am | Room: Aula T3 | via Venezia 16

Virginie Crollen
(Research assistant |CIMeC - Center for Mind/Brain Sciences | University of Trento | Italy)
Research interests: Numerical cognition, Spatial representation, Visuospatial difficulties
Lecture: Mathematic skills in NLD in "Giornata di studi su Disturbo nonverbale e difficoltà visuospaziali"
19 May | 11:40-12:20 am | Room: Aula T3 | via Venezia 16

David Giofrè
(Researcher | Natural Sciences and Psychology | Liverpool John Moores University | UK)
Research interests: Educational Psychology, Visuospatial attention
Lecture: The relationship between visuospatial working memory and geometry in children with typical development and NLD in "Giornata di studi su Disturbo nonverbale e difficoltà visuospaziali"
19 May | 12:20-01:00 pm | Room: Aula T3 | via Venezia 16

David González Muñoz
(Member | Equipo de Orientación Educativa y Psicopedagógica de Ciudad Lineal, San Blas, Vicálvaro | Spain)
Lecture: Intervention guidelines in NLD in "Giornata di studi su Disturbo nonverbale e difficoltà visuospaziali"
19 May | 2:00-02:40 pm | Room: Aula T3 | via Venezia 16

Aimee Spector
(Researcher| Research Department of Clinical, Educational & Health Psychology | University College London | UK)
Research interests: Cognitive Stimulation Therapy
Conference "Cognitive Stimulation Therapy (CST) for people with mild to moderate dementia: research and practice"
16 May | 11:00-13:00am | Room: Aula Magna Cesare Musatti | Psico 1 Building

Natalie Sebanz
(Professor | Department of Cognitive Neuroscience| Central European University | Hungary)
Research interests: Cognitive Neurosciences
Conference "Planning and perception in joint action" | 16 February | 11:00am

Günther Knoblich
(Professor | Department of Cognitive Neuroscience| Central European University | Hungary)
Research interests: Cognitive Neurosciences
Conference "Planning and perception in joint action" | 16 February | 11:00am

Simon Grondin
(Researcher | École de psychologie | Université Laval | Canada)
Research interests: Timing and time perception, Auditory and visual perception, Cognitive Neurosciences
Visiting period: January – April 2017
Conference "Time perception" | 8 February | 11:30am