Psycho Club Program
26.05.2022
Psycho Club is a cycle of seminars, organized jointly by all Psychology departments and laboratories. It comprises a variety of seminar formats.
For information or proposals: seminari.psicologia.psicoclub@unipd.it
Psycho Club Program
20th June 2025, h 11:10, room 2B (PSICO 2 building)
GUEST LECTURE hosted by Prof. Sara Mondini
Prof. Ana Inés Ansaldo (School of Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology, Université de Montréal)
Title: Well-being and emotional communication in advanced dementia
20th June 2025, h 10:30, room 2B (PSICO 2 building)
GUEST LECTURE hosted by Prof. Sara Mondini
Prof. Professor Yves Joanette (Faculty of Medicine and Director, Digital Health Consortium, University of Montréal)
Title: Normal Aging and the Distinctive Evolution of the Cognitive Domains
4th June 2025, h 11:30, room 2C (PSICO 2 building)
Dr. Giorgio Piazza (DPSS, University of Padova)
Title: Adapting to Speakers and Integrating Visual Cues: How Predictive Processing Shapes Speech Comprehension
14th May 2025, h 14:30, room 2C (PSICO 2 building)
GUEST LECTURE hosted by Prof. Elisa di Rosa
Prof. Brigita Mieziene (Vilnius University)
Title: The Relationship Among Health-Related Behaviors, Mental Health, and Social Capital
14th May 2025, h 8:30, room 2C (PSICO 2 building)
GUEST LECTURE hosted by Prof. Elisa di Rosa
Prof. Charles Bombardier (University of Washington)
Title: Depression in Traumatic Brain Injury
29th April 2025, h 14:30, room 2A (PSICO 2 building)
GUEST LECTURE hosted by Dr. Federica Angelini and Prof. Gianluca Gini
Prof. Silje Steinsbekk (Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social and Educational Sciences, Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
Title: Social media use in adolescents. Prospective relations with self-esteem, mental health, social skills and time with friends. Findings from the Trondheim Early Secure Study (TESS).
14th April 2025, h 14:30, room 2B (PSICO 2 building)
GUEST LECTURE hosted by Prof. Michelangelo Vianello
Prof. Brian O'Shea (Department of Psychology, Harvard University, The Centre for the Experimental-Philosophical Study of Discrimination, Aarhus University)
Title: The impact of regional infectious disease prevalence on pre-political beliefs, partisan preference and intergroup tensions
8th April 2025, h 14:30, room 2C (PSICO 2 building)
SEMINAR
Dr. Giada Viviani (Università degli Studi di Padova; DPSS)
Title: Cognitive stability and beyond: expanding the boundaries of cognitive control
25th March 2025, h 10:30, room 2A (PSICO 2 building)
GUEST LECTURE hosted by Prof. Gianluca Campana
Prof. John Greenwood (UCL Experimental Psychology)
Title: A common basis for crowding in typical & atypical vision
20th February 2025, h 14:30, room 2E (PSICO 2 building)
GUEST LECTURE
Dr. Dario Nardini (DiSSGeA, University of Padova)
Title: Sport (and the body) through the lens of cultural anthropology
11th February 2025, h 14:30, room 2C (PSICO 2 building)
GUEST LECTURE hosted by Prof. Francesco Vespignani
Dr. Nicoletta Biondo (Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language)
Title: Sentence comprehension and its neural basis: A lesion-symptom mapping perspective
29th January 2025, h 14:30, room 2D (PSICO 2 building)
GUEST LECTURE
Prof. Andrey Chetverikov (University of Bergen)
Title: The Puzzle of Contextual Biases: Why Can’t We Ignore Irrelevant Information?
23rd January 2025, h 14:30, room 2E (PSICO 2 building)
WELCOME
Prof. Alessio Fracasso (Università degli Studi di Padova; DPG)
Title: Mapping Motor and Visual Space in Human Cortex and Midbrain at High Field
19th December 2024, h 14:30, room 3G (PSICO 2 building)
WELCOME
Dr. Luca Menghini (Università degli Studi di Padova; DPG)
Title: Workaholics' experiences and experiences of workaholism: Investigating work addiction with intensive longitudinal designs
13th November 2024, h 14:30, room 3F (PSICO 2 building)
GUEST LECTURE hosted by Prof. Lucia Regolin
Dr. Orsola Rosa-Salva (CIMeC, Università di Trento)
Title: Early attention to the motion of living agents in domestic chicks: a comparative approach to study (a)typical development of social cognition and its neural bases
10th October 2024, h 14:30, room 2C (PSICO 2 building)
GUEST LECTURE hosted by Prof. Silvia Benavides Varela
Prof. Diana Laurillard, UCL Knowledge Lab, London
Title: Giving teachers control over digital learning
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21st May 2024, h 14:30, room 2A (PSICO 2 building)
GUEST LECTURE hosted by Prof. Eduardo Navarrete
Prof. Clara Martin, Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language, San Sebastián (Spain)
Title: How to optimize foreign accent in speech sound and word production
30th April 2024, h 14:30, room 3F (PSICO 2 building)
GUEST LECTURE hosted by Prof. Mario Bonato
Prof. Hirokazu Doi, AI and Data Science Research Promotion Center, Shiga University (Japan)
Title: Elucidation and AI-based Prediction of Individual Differences in Development of Human Social Behavior
16th April 2024, h 14:30, room 3F (PSICO 2 building)
GUEST LECTURE hosted by Prof. Peter Jonason
Prof. Jon Gruda, Católica Porto Business School
Title: From Coast to Coast, Country to Country: How population-level dark triad traits predict workplace Harassment
10th April 2024, h 9:30, room DPSS1 (PSICO 1 building)
GUEST LECTURE hosted by Prof. Judit Gervain
Prof. Csaba Pléh, CEU Dept of Cognitive Science, Budapest
Title: Alternative explanations in history psychology. The complementary role of intellectual, social and personal contexts
9th April 2024, h 14:30, room 3F (PSICO 2 building)
GUEST LECTURE hosted by Prof. Francesca Peressotti
Prof. Janet Geipel, University of Exeter Business School, England
Title: To Read or To Listen: How Language Modality Influences Thinking
27th March 2024, h 11:30, room 3I (PSICO 2 building)
WELCOME
Dr. Margherita Bianchi, Department of General Psychology, University of Padova
Title: Plants in cognitive science and philosophy of mind
28th February 2024, h 11:30, room 3I (PSICO 2 building)
GUEST LECTURE hosted by Prof. Angelo Bisazza
Prof. Dario Maestripieri, Institute for Mind and Biology, University of Chicago, US
Title: Explaining financial and prosocial biases in favor of attractive people: interdisciplinary perspectives from behavioral economics, social psychology, and evolutionary biology
17th January 2024, h 14:30, room 3F (PSICO 2 building)
GUEST LECTURE
Dr. Luigi Baciadonna, Institute of Biology Paris Seine (IBPS) Department of Neuroscience Paris Seine, Sorbonne University, France
Title: Multi-sensory individual recognition in African penguin
20th December 2023, h 12:30, room 3H (PSICO 2 building)
GUEST LECTURE
Dr. Stefano Noventa, Methods Center of the University of Tübingen, Germany
Title: Toward a unified perspective on assessment models, a perspective on KST, CDA, and IRT?
22nd November 2023, h 12:30, room 3H (PSICO 2 building)
WELCOME
Dr. Veronica Muffato, RTDa - DPG, University of Padova
Title: Exploring spatial cognition: What factors relate to our navigation ability?
26th October 2023, h 16:30, room DPG1 (CLA building)
GUEST LECTURE hosted by Prof. Mario Bonato
Prof. Michael Andres, Psychological Sciences Research Institute, UCLouvain, Belgium
Title: Does the brain see double?
17th October 2023, h 14:30, room 2A (PSICO 2 building)
GUEST LECTURE hosted by Prof. Gianluca Campana
Prof. Andrey Chetverikov, Department of Psychosocial Science, Faculty of Psychology, University of Bergen
Title: The puzzle of contextual biases: Why can’t we ignore irrelevant information?
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1st March 2023, h 16:30, room 2C (PSICO 2 building)
GUEST LECTURE/LECTIO MAGISTRALIS hosted by Prof. Marco Zorzi
Prof. Bert Reynvoet, KU Lueven
Title: Symbolic number ordering and its relation with math achievement
14th March 2023, h 13, room 3L (PSICO 2 building)
WELCOME
Dr. Maria Devita (RTDa), DPG
Title: Are we looking in the right place? The Cerebellum as early marker of neurodegenerative disorders
21st March 2023, h 13, room 3L (PSICO 2 building)
WELCOME
Dr. Tudor Popescu, DPG
Title: Music as an evolved bio-psycho-socio-cultural phenomenon
4th April 2023, h 13, room 3L (PSICO 2 building)
WELCOME
Dr. Flavia Gheller (RTDa), DPSS
Title: Noise effects on children’s cognitive performance and pupillometry as a measure of cognitive effort in children with normal and impaired hearing
12th April 2023, h 16:00, room 3H (PSICO 2 building)
GUEST LECTURE hosted by Dr. Giovanna Mioni
Prof. Malgorzata Sobol, Department of Psychology, University of Warsaw
Title: Time perspective and pain
18th April 2023, h 13.00, room 3L (PSICO 2 building)
GUEST LECTURE/LECTIO MAGISTRALIS hosted by Prof. Mario Bonato
Prof. Nicky Edelstyn – Keele University
Title: Disordered Emotional Regulation, Maladaptive Coping Styles and Impulsivity: Risk factors for pathological gambling, hypersexuality, pathological buying and emotional eating.
26th April 2023, h 15:30, room 3H (PSICO 2 building)
LECTIO MAGISTRALIS hosted by Prof. Francesco Vespignani
Prof. Adrian Staub, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Title: The reliability of individual differences in experimental effects: The case of eye movements in reading
9th May 2023, h 13, room 3L (PSICO 2 building)
WELCOME
Dr. Johann Kleinbub (RTDb), FISPPA
Title: Physiological Synchronization in the Clinical Relationship
6th June 2023, h 13, room DPSS1 (PSICO 1 building)
Prof. Anne Schüler, Leibnitz-Institute für Wissensmedien (Knowledge Media Research Center), Tübingen, Germany
GUEST LECTURE hosted by Prof. Lucia Mason
Title: Specifying the Cognitive Processes Underlying the Processing of Multimedia Materials
15 June 2023, h 15:00, room 2C (PSICO 2 building)
GUEST LECTURE hosted by Prof. Massimo Grassi
Prof. Stefan Koelsch, University of Bergen (Norway)
Title: Good Vibrations -- Neurobiological and Therapeutic Effects of Music
20th June 2023, h 12, room 3H (PSICO 2 building)
Prof. Arne Lervåg (Department of Education, University of Oslo) & Prof. Monica Melby-Lervåg (Department of Special needs education, University of Oslo)
GUEST LECTURE hosted by Prof. Irene Mammarella e Dr. Sara Caviola
Title: Early math and reading skills: A meta-analysis and random intercept cross-lagged panel models
7th July 2023, h 11:30, room 3I (PSICO 2 building)
Dr. Ilaria Berteletti (Gallaudet University, Washington, US)
GUEST LECTURE hosted by Dr. Mariagrazia Ranzini
Title: The role of language modality on the neuro-cognitive processes supporting number acquisition and arithmetic processing
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23rd February 2022, 4:30 pm.
PSYCHO CLUB INTRODUCTION - WELCOME – MEET THE LAB
Dr. Luca Battaglini – RTDb – DPG
Title: Psychophysics, Vision and Training
2nd March 2022, 4:30 pm.
LECTIO MAGISTRALIS
Prof. Daniel Lakens – Department of Industrial Engineering & Innovation Sciences, Eindhoven University of Technology
Title: The New Heuristics, and Good Statistics
30thMarch 2022, 4:30 pm.
WELCOME
Dr. Sara Santilli – RTDb – FISPPA
Dr. Cristina Ginevra – RTDa – FISPPA
Title: The Psychology of Sustainability and Inclusion: Advancing decent work, wellbeing, social justice and equity
6th April 2022, 4:30 pm.
MEET THE LAB
Prof. Judit Gervain – DPSS
Title: Mechanism of early speech perception and language acquisition
27th April 2022, 4:30 pm.
RESEARCH HIGHLIGHT
Dr. Silvia Benavides Varela – RTDb – DPSS
Title: IN-MIND - INfant Memory IN Development: a window for understanding constraints and brain plasticity from birth.
4th May 2022, 4:30 pm.
LECTIO MAGISTRALIS
Prof. Nicky Edelstyn – Keele University
Title: Motor impulsivity: A clinically relevant marker of impulsive compulsive behaviours in Parkinson' disease?
25th May 2022, 4:30 pm.
TOPIC
Prof. Ines Testoni – FISPPA
Title: From the nightmare of war to the dream that heals: the experience of psychological intervention with Ukrainian refugee children
12th October 2022, h13
SPECIAL SEMINAR
AIP 2022
The organizing committee of the AIP conference will present some data and pictures concerning the latest meeting in Padova
9th November 2022, h13
MEET THE LAB
Prof. Claudio Gentili (DPG) + Dr. Cinzia Cecchetto (DPG)
Title: Human chemosignals and affective disorders: how individuals with depressive and social anxiety symptoms perceive social olfactory cues
30th November 2022, h15.30 room 4P
GUEST LECTURE hosted by Prof. Chiara Meneghetti
Prof. Samuel Greiff, Université du Luxembourg
Title: How to Enhance Testing & Learning: Technology-Based Assessment in the 21st Century
14th December 2022, h13
SEMINAR
Laurence Fedrigo, University of Lausanne
Title: Social and professional integration of refugee persons in Switzerland
11th January 2023, h13
WELCOME
TBA
8th February 2023, h13
GUEST SEMINAR
Dr. Michele Scaltritti, Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science, University of Trento
Title: From Decision to Action: Decisional Components in Motor Response Execution
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Psycho Club Seminar Formats
WELCOME
Informal presentation by new researchers, who will introduce themselves and talk about their present and/or future research projects.
GUEST LECTURE/LECTIO MAGISTRALIS
Keynote lecture by a national or an international scholar, on a specific topic for a broad Psychology audience.
TOPIC
Presentation on a topic of particular interest in the form of a debate or round table.
RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS
Presentation of a research project before submission, to gather feedback from colleagues, or presentation of a funded project to share with colleagues the experience that led to the positive outcome.
MEET THE LAB
Presentation of a research laboratory, the team, its lines of research, objectives and achievements.
