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Faculty members and their research interests

 

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thematic area

area of research interest

Lorenzo AVANZI
  • Psychology of Work, Organizations and Human Resources
  • Work addiction (workaholism and overcommitment) and their impact on health
    Organizational identification: positive and negative effects on work behavior and employees well-being
  • Human resources management

Nicolao BONINI

  • Decision, Judgment and Reasoning in the economic, legal and medical domains
  • Decision making: behavioral and biological aspects

  • Choice in the absence and presence of risk and uncertainty

  • Evaluation of environmental-cultural assets and related public policies

Luisa CANAL

  • Statistical and psychometric techniques for complex data
  • Statistical models for Cognitive Sciences
Marco CHIERICI
  • Interaction with Big Data and human-machine decision-making models
  • Bioinformatics solutions for the analysis of high-throughput biological data
  • Scientific programming in R and Python
  • Statistical analysis
  • Machine learning an deep learning methods applied to computational biology

Roberto CUBELLI

  • Cognitive psychology
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Cognitive Neuropsychology- Learning disabilities
  • Oral e written language

  • Grammatica gender

  • Dyslexia and dysgraphia

  • Unilateral Spatial neglect

  • Memory and amnesia

Simona DE FALCO

  • Typical and atypical Developmental Psychology
  • Biological and environmental influences on parenting behaviors
  • Parenting and child development in at-risk families

  • Social affective development and attachment in children with developmental disorders

  • Behavioral and neurobiological correlates of human responsiveness to infant cues. 

Sara DELLANTONIO

  • Philosophy of Psychology and of Cognitive Sciences 
  • Philosophy of Mind and Language 
  • Applied and Experimental Philosophy
  • Concepts and meanings

  • Internal perception

  • Emotions

  • Abstract concepts

Gianluca ESPOSITO

  • Biological Basis and Environmental Influences of Parental Behavior: Social Cognition and Intergroup Relations
  • Typical and atypical Developmental Psychology 
  • Social neuroscience and neuroimaging

  • Gene x Environment interactions

  • Psychophysiological correlates of Social Interaction (fNIRS, fMRI, EEG, ECG)

Chiara FINOCCHIARO

  • Psychology of Language, Linguistics and Neurolinguistics

  • Language Production

  • Grammatical classes: behavioral and neuroimaging studies

  • The impact of poetry on the development of metalinguistic abilities and creative thinking

Franco FRACCAROLI

  • Work and organizational psychology
  • Organizational well being and quality of working life

  • Older worker and transition to retirement

  • Work and unemployment

Laura FRANCHIN
  • Developmental psychology
  • Emotional development

  • Cognitive development (attention, theory of mind, creativity)

  • Developmental disorders

Silvia GABRIELLI
  • Cognitive ergonomics and interaction with intelligent systems
  • Interaction modes based on embodied Cognition
  • Design and evaluation of multimedia interfaces and Human-Computer Interaction systems
  • Design and evaluation of socio technical systems and decision support systems for healthcare 

Patrizia GHISLANDI

  • Media, eLearning and Learning Communities in Educational Processes
  • Qualitative Research Methodology in Education
  • eLearning
  • Quality of higher education
  • MOOC
  • Open Data
  • Qualitative research methodologies in Education
Alessandro GRECUCCI
  • Affective neuroscience, experimental psychopathology, emotions and emotion regulation
  • Cerebral bases of emotions and emotion regulation (fMRI, EEG, tDCS)
  • Processing of emotions in brain lesioned patients
  • Experimental psychopathology (cognitive, affective and cerebral bases of psychological disorders)

Konstantinos HADJICHRISTIDIS

 

  • Decision, Judgment and Reasoning in the economic, legal and medical domains
  • Judgment and decision making (subjective probability judgment, moral judgment)

  • Inductive inference

  • Categorization

Remo JOB

  • Cognitive Process
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Bilingualism
  • Neuropsychology of Language
  • Lexical access, semantics, sentence processing

  • Bilingualism and L2 learning

  • Dyslexia, aphasia, semantic memory imparments

  • Relationship between emotion and cognition

Luigi LOMBARDI

  • Psychometrics
  • Mathematical psychology
  • Cognitive modelling
  • Big Data and complex data
  • Cognitive modeling

  • Bayesian statistics

  • Psychometric models of faking

  • Measurement models of cognitive processes

Claudio MULATTI
  • Behavior Analysis and Modification
  • Relational Frame Theory
  • Transfer of stimulus function
  • Shaping and behavior modification
  • Nudge
  • Precision teaching
  • Reading and dyslexia
  • Control processes
  • Concepts, beliefs, and creativity
  • Learning strategies
  • Tic disorders and other repetitive behavior disorders

Maria Paola PALADINO

  • Social cognition and intergroup relations
  • Differences and Gender Relationship
  • Emotional regulation
  • The interplay between body multisensory representation and social cognition (possibile applications, peri-personal space representation, enfacement, etc.)

  • Causes and consequences of dehumanization

  • Social exclusion and emotional regulation in migration context

  • Social categorization, stereotyping and prejudice

  • Role models and career transition

Michele SCALTRITTI

  • Psychology of Language, Linguistics and Neurolinguistics
  • Neurophysiological interplay between language and motor processes

  • Visual word recognition and letter identification

  • Neurophysiological indexes of monitoring and semantic access

  • Semantic and lexical access in spoken and written language production

Luca SURIAN

  • Typical and atypical Developmental Psychology
  • Cognitive development

  • Theory of mind

  • Developmental disorders

  • Socio-moral judgment

  • Pragmatics

  • Bilingualism

Barbara TRECCANI
  • Attention and executive functions
  • Cognitive ergonomics and interaction with intelligent systems
  • Behavior Analysis and Modification
  • Selection of the response: activation and inhibition processes, stimulus-response compatibility, sequential effects
  • Spatial attention 
  • Magnitude representation
  • Cognitive neuropsychology 
  • Human factors
  • Joint action
  • Implicit processing and consciousness
  • Contingency learning; feedback, reinforcement and behavior; relational frame theory

Jeroen VAES

  • Social cognition and intergroup relations
  • Differences and Gender Relationship
  • Social Psychology:

  • Dehumanization in intergroup relations

  • Sexual objectification and the relation between dehumanizing and empathic processes

Paola VENUTI

  • Biological Basis and Environmental Influences of Parental Behavior
  • Typical and atypical Developmental Psychology
  • Quality of Didactics and Training Processes
  • Clinical Developmental Psychology

  • Parenting: behavioral and neuroimaging studies

Michela VIGNOLI
  • Work, Organizational and Personnel Psychology
  • Stress and well-being in organisations
  • Age in the workplace
  • Vocational Psychology
  • Training and organisational intervention effectiveness

Massimo ZANCANARO

  • Cognitive ergonomics and interaction with intelligent systems
  • Interaction modes based on embodied CognitioN
  • Human-Computer Interaction

  • Design and Evaluation of Socio-technical systems

  • Quantitative and qualitative approaches to evaluation of technological artefacts

Contatti 

Doctoral course in Cognitive Science

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Tel. 
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Doctoral course in Cognitive Science
corso Bettini, 84 - 36068 Rovereto (TN)
Tel.:
+39 0464 808457
phd.dipsco@unitn.it
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