ALESSANDRO ANGRILLI
- Psychophysiological effects of spatial environment and countermeasures: role of sensory deprivation, isolation and muscle deconditioning
- Study of alterations induced by simulated microgravity on the human brain and cognition
- Psychophysiology of emotions with ecological stimulation (E-MOVIE database validation)
- Spontaneous blink rate as an ecological index of emotion, attention and fatigue
- Emotion and empathy alterations in personality disorders (Narcissism, Psychopathy, BPD, Stalking)
ANDREY CHETVERIKOV
- computational modeling of perception and memory (with a focus on normative or Bayesian models)
- probabilistic representations in the brain
- biases in decision-making (e.g., serial dependence, contextual biases in working memory, decoy effects)
BARBARA ARFÈ
- Addressing the cognitive and language learning needs of children with hearing loss.
-Text simplification for readers with special needs.
-Learning and rehabilitative tools for children with frontal brain deficits.
GIANLUCA CAMPANA
- Serial effects in perception: priming and adaptation
- Improving sensory/perceptual functions with practice
- Modulation of cortical excitability with non-invasive brain stimulation techniques: tES and TMS
- Visual motion perception (and neural bases)
- Improvement of perceptual and cognitive functions with training coupled with transcranial electrical stimulation (tES) in different types of patients
SABRINA CIPOLLETTA
- Health Psychology with a focus on illness experience, caregiving, interactions, healthcare system, and eHealth
- Psycho-social perspective on experiences (e.g. birth, death, and illness) that motivate the use of medical treatment or lead to hospitalization
- Use of electronic communication and information technologies in the health sector.
GERARDO BOSCO
- Respiratory mechanics and cardiovascular adaptations in diving, metabolic disorders and environmental stress on exercise-induced oxygen toxicity
- Safety of human performance in extreme environments and peri-operative quality of care in orthopedic, vascular and surgical patients
- Link among oxygen reactive species, ischemia, and bone remodeling in cells, animals, volunteers during exercise, and patients.
SILVIA GABRIELLI (FBK)
- Digital Therapeutics for mental health and well-being
- Behavioral Intervention Technologies for disease prevention and care
- Pre-clinical validation of behavioral interventions for health
ANDREA FACOETTI
- Sensory, perceptual and attentional functioning and their disorders in specific learning disabilities (e.g., developmental dyslexia and dyscalculia), language impairment, autism spectrum disorder, Down syndrome and ADHD
- Neuropsychological rehabilitation by using perceptual learning, action video games and transcranial electrical stimulation
- Genetic bases of specific learning disabilities.
LUCIANO GAMBERINI
- Human-computer interaction, interaction design, ergonomics
- Work psychology, distributed cognition and user studies
- Smart city and communities
- Symbiotic systems
- Persuasive technology
MASSIMO GRASSI
- Auditory and audiovisual perception
- Improving sensory performance and ensuing improvements in cognitive performance
- Benefits of the musical training to people with poor auditory performance (e.g., hearing-impaired listeners, cochlear implantees) or specific cognitive impairments.
IRENE LEO
- Infant perceptual and motor behaviors as predictors of subsequent cognitive and language development;
- Emotional intelligence, proprioception and awareness in the development of motor skills in daily life activities and sports;
- Sport psychology and Psychological wellbeing
DANIELA MAPELLI
- Neuropsychology
- Neuropsychological rehabilitation
- Cognitive neuroscience, aging, executive functions, decision-making,
- Non-invasive brain stimulation (TMS, tdcs)
MARINA MISCIOSCIA
- Transition to parenthood in traditional and non-traditional families;
- Developmental Psychopathology (ex. Self-harm and NSSI in Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Inpatients, pediatric psychiatric emergency) ;
- Parental Burnout and parenting stress;
- Gender dysphoria in children and adolescents;
- A multi-method and multi-informant approach in the study of neuropsychological, affective-relational, and psychophysiological functioning in children with pediatric conditions (preterms, IUGR, SGA, TSC, Epilepsy).
SARA MONDINI
- Cognitive processing issues in pathological populations (neurodegenerative disorders, oncologic patients, vascular patients, patients in pre- and post-transplantation of organs, patients with respiratory disorders)
- Identifying neuropsychological tests predicting cognitive profile and detecting mild cognitive impairment
- How cognitive/brain reserve interacts with executive functions and how it could predict the outcomes of neuro-rehabilitation or neuro-surgery
- Computerized tools to measure different patterns of cognitive abilities, for example, those needed to drive competently and in safety
TATIANA MORO
- Exercise and nutrition in older adults
- Skeletal muscle adaptation to exercise
- Intermittent fasting on health and performance
CATERINA NOVARA (external expert)
- Emotional reactivity and Hoarding Disorder
- CBT interventions in anxiety disorders and OCD spectrum
- Reinforcement contingencies and internet addiction
MASSIMO NUCCI
- Fake Data Analysis
- Standardized measure of Cognitive Reserve
- Bayesian modeling
ANTONIO PAOLI
- Interaction between diet and exercise on metabolism and skeletal muscle
- Fasting, ketogenic diet and health
- Molecular basis of exercise training adaptation
- Biomechanics of physical exercise and sport
PATRIK PLUCHINO
- Work & Organisational Psychology with a focus on human-centered design, development, and evaluation of technologies (hardware and software) in the context of Industry 4.0/5.0 with a focus on senior workers
- Human-Computer Interaction, interaction design, ergonomics
- Eye Tracking/Psychophysiology/Electroencephalography methodologies and wearable devices to assess mental and physical stress and cognitive workload
- Design, development, and assessment of IoT for smart technological solutions for accessible, inclusive, and safe living and working environments for All, with a focus on older individuals and people with disabilities
KONSTANTINOS PRIFTIS
- Relations between the mental representation of space and the representation of various types of quantities/magnitudes (number, time, pitch, etc.)
- Design and standardization of sensitive and specific neuropsychological tests for assessing spatial disorders (such as spatial neglect) following right-hemisphere brain damage
- Disorders of object, space, and numerical processing
PAOLA RIGO
- Biological and psychodynamic bases of parenting
- Maternal Emotion Regulation
- Environmental Factors that can modulate maternal responsiveness to infant signals identified through an integrated approach, including psychological measures, behaviours and neuroimaging (fNIRS, fMRI)
SILVIA SALCUNI
- Aggression, Self Control, internalizing/externalizing symptoms in Adolescence
- Therapeutic alliance in the case of specific personality (e.g. depressive; narcissistic; dependent…) disorders
- Efficacy of specific communicative patterns emerged during psychotherapeutic interventions
- Therapeutic process within a standard vs. on-line setting.
ALESSANDRA SIMONELLI
- Models and study methods of the parental function: biological and psychological aspects
- Psychopathology of the developmental age
- Evaluation methods
ANNA SPAGNOLLI
- Usable privacy and transparency design
- Conversation analysis applied to digital interaction
- Telepresence and virtual reality to enhance prosocial behavior
- Personalization and ethics in system design
FRANCA STABLUM
- Assessment and rehabilitation of executive functions in traumatic brain injury patients
- Assessment and rehabilitation of prospective memory in the aging population
- Assessment tools to detect mild cognitive impairment in the aging population
- Time perception in normal and clinical populations (traumatic brain injury and Parkinson's disease patients)
ELOISA VALENZA
- Units of attention in early infancy and their cascading effects on typical and atypical development
- From action to cognition: how motor experience influences perceptual and cognitive abilities during the development
- The early effect of individual and environmental vulnerabilities on language acquisition
ALBERTO TESTOLIN
- Cognitive modeling using neural networks, deep learning and neuro-symbolic systems
- Cognitive aspects of Artificial Intelligence and large language models
- Numerical cognition and mathematical reasoning in AI systems
- Behavioral analysis of AI systems
- Applications of AI to environmental monitoring
GESUALDO ZUCCO
- Perception and memory for odors
- Environmental odors
- Neuropsychology of olfaction
- Olfaction in Neurodegenerative disorders
- Memory
- Mental retardation