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The Experience project

EXPERIENCE is a project funded by the European community and guided by prof Gaetano Valenza (University of Pisa). Prof Claudio Gentili and his team are partners in this project. The project makes real the complex interplay between multisensory perception, emotional responses, past experiences, and

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Mariagrazia Ranzini

 I am an experimental psychologist, and my research focuses mainly on the mental representation of numbers and quantities, within the theoretical framework of embodied cognition accounts. I study numerical processing in relation to attention, memory, and action. During my PhD (Psychology, University

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Why Stradivari are preferred sound over other violins

 A study published by The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America has identified the sound qualities that make the Stradivari violin preferable over others violins.The experiment evaluated the sound qualities of violins in the attempt to find the distinct qualities that make a violin timbre

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Veronica Muffato

 I am a psychologist, I received my Master’s degree in Experimental Psychology and Cognitive Sciences from the University of Padua and a Ph.D. in Cognitive Sciences from the same university.My research interests are in the field of spatial cognition, which investigates how people acquire and use

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Alberto Testolin

 I am a cognitive scientist with a strong interdisciplinary background: I obtained an M.Sc. in Computer Science (curriculum Artificial Intelligence) and a Ph.D. in Psychological Sciences, both from the University of Padova. During my Ph.D. I had the pleasure to spend a research period at Stanford

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