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Merylin Monaro

 I graduated with honors in Clinical Psychology from the University of Padova. In 2018, I received my Ph.D. in Brain, Mind a Computer Science from the same university. Thanks to the interdisciplinarity nature of the Ph.D. program and the collaborations that I have established, I developed several

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Silvia Cerea

 I am a licensed clinical psychologist and a psychotherapist, my main research interest is body image. I obtained my PhD in Psychological Sciences at the University of Padova. My PhD mainly dealt with the study of psychological risk factors for body dissatisfaction and Body Image Disorders (BIDs),

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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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