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Showing 1 to 20 of 54 for “"M-PSI/01 Psicologia generale"”.
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Language and Embodiment: sensory-motor and linguistic-social experience. Evidence on sentence comprehension
In this work I address the study of language comprehension in an “embodied” framework. Firstly I show behavioral evidence supporting the idea that language modulates the motor system in a specific way, both at a proximal level (sensibility to the effectors) and at the distal level (sensibility to …
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Emotional engagement and orienting: the effects of picture size on affective response
For their survival, humans and animals can rely on motivational systems which are specialized in assessing the valence and imminence of dangers and appetitive cues. The Orienting Response (OR) is a fundamental response pattern that an organism executes whenever a novel or significant stimulus is …
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Il rapporto tra percezione e previsione in compiti di compatibilità spaziale
The aim of this work is to investigate whether the actual position of a stimulus is more relevant than intuitive knowledge about the direction of an object's movement and the participants’ intention (Michaels 1988; Hommel, 1993; Proctor, Van Zandt, Lu and Weeks, 1993; Ansorge, 2000). To investigate …
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L'influenza del sonno sull'andamento temporale della consolidazione delle abilità procedurali
Background: It is well known, since the pioneristic observation by Jenkins and Dallenbach (Am J Psychol 1924;35:605-12), that a period of sleep provides a specific advantage for the consolidation of newly acquired informations. Recent research about the possible enhancing effect of sleep on memory …
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Presa di decisione in situazioni rischiose: effetto della rabbia
… and risk decision-making in adolescents. 101 subjects completed specific tasks, measuring risk decision-making, assessed using hypothetical choice scenarios, and anger, evaluated through the STAXI-CA and the MSAI-R. Results showed that adolescents higher on hostility, anger experience and …
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Effetto crowding e dislessia evolutiva: un confronto inter e intra-linguistico
Crowding is defined as the negative effect obtained by adding visual distractors around a central target which has to be identified. Some studies have suggested the presence of a marked crowding effect in developmental dyslexia (e.g. Atkinson, 1991; Spinelli et al., 2002). Inspired by Spinelli’s …
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Scene di violenza, esperienze emotive e condotte aggressive
The aim of this research is to estimate the impact of violent film excerpts on university students (30 f, 30 m) in two different sequences, a “justified” violent scene followed by an “unjustified” one, or vice versa, as follows: 1) before-after sequences, using Aggressive behaviour I-R …
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Componenti spaziali della rappresentazione cognitiva della grandezza del numero
The humans process the numbers in a similar way to animals. There are countless studies in which similar performance between animals and humans (adults and/or children) are reported. Three models have been developed to explain the cognitive mechanisms underlying the number processing. The …
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SELF-REPRESENTATIONS IN BREAST CANCER PATIENTS AND SURVIVORS: BODY IMAGE, INJURED SELF, AND AVAILABLE PSYCHOLOGICAL INTERVENTIONS
In recent years, research on the Self has burgeoned in the psychological field; however, knowledge gaps still exist because most studies have failed to acknowledge the multidimensional nature of self-representations in breast cancer patients and survivors. My Ph.D. thesis focuses on the impact of …
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