Specific learning disabilities (SLDs) are increasingly being addressed by researchers, schools, and institutions, as shown by the increasing number of publications, guidelines, and incidence statistics. Although SLDs are becoming a major topic in education with the final goal of inclusive schools,
16 December 2019 | 10:30 | "Cesare Musatti" Room, Psychology Building 1, via Venezia 8, Padova
16.12.2019
Mental health problems are highly prevalent in college students, have profound impact on their quality of life, study success and later career. The “World Health Organization World Mental Health International College Student initiative” (WMH-ICS) is aimed at developing and implementing a system for
14:30 – 16:00 | ‘Cesare Musatti’ Room | Psychology Building 1 | via Venezia 8, Padova
16.12.2019
Mirrors are familiar objects in our environment, we use mirrors effectively, and we recognise ourselves without effort. Yet many simple aspects of mirror reflections are surprising for a large number of children and adults. This difficulty in understanding how mirrors work leads to prediction errors.
29 November 2019 | 14:30 | DPSS 1 Meeting Room Psychology Building 1, via Venezia 8, Padova
29.11.2019
It is widely acknowledged that the mental representation of numbers is closely associated with spatial processing. One of the most commonly used tasks to demonstrate this link is parity judgement. In this task, people with left-to-right reading habits typically respond faster with their left hand to small numbers and with their right hand to large numbers, i.e. the SNARC effect. More recently, a similar observation was made in serial order verbal working memory: responses to begin items are faster with the left hand and to end items with the right hand, i.e. the Ordinal Position Effect (OPE). From a theoretical point of view, it can be predicted that both effects are related to mathematical proficiency. So far however, the available results are inconsistent, mainly because an “experimental psychology” approach rather than a “differential psychology” approach was used (i.e. having different ideas about “measurement reliability” and the importance of between-participant variability).
DPG1 classroom - Department of General Psychology - via Venezia 8 Padova
18.11.2019
Luca Menghini (PhD student DPG)
