Psychologist, Ph.D. in Psychological Sciences (University of Padova), expert in psychology of aging (Second-Level Short-Specialization degree in Gerontological Psychology, University of Padova), member of the Psychology of Aging Service (Centro di Ateneo dei Servizi Clinici Universitari Psicologici-
I am a comparative psychologist interested in studying cognitive and perceptual systems in vertebrates and their ontogeny through a multidisciplinary approach that combines behavioural analyses, neural imaging and molecular genetic techniques in zebrafish as model species. I got a Master degree with
This study explores how an everyday life event like the free vertical fall of an object is represented by our cognitive system. We test two opposing hypotheses, namely that either our representations of physical events are consistent with the corresponding physical laws or that they are based on
I have been an assistant professor (RtdB) with tenure track at the department of General Psychology since November 2021.I graduated in 2011 at University of Padova with a thesis titled: “the extrapolation of occluded motion”. Motion perception is a topic that I continued to investigate during my
Study published by Gian Marco Duma, Mariagrazia Di Bono and Giovanni Mento in the journal "Brain Sciences". Is it possible to predict how a person will adapt his motor behavior and neural activity in a cognitive task simply by recording his EEG activity at rest?In short, it's a bit like figuring
